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KNA has joined The Chatty Café Scheme – getting people chatting to reduce loneliness!
Join our "Chatter and Natter Table" on Mondays from 10.30 until 11.30 at the Pavilion Café, North Sheen Recreation Ground, Dancer Road, TW9 4LB. The table is hosted by a lovely KNA volunteer or member of staff.
The Chatty Café is a great way of encouraging people to talk to others.
Who can join in?
Anyone... if you're on your own, in a couple, with a friend, if you're a carer, parents and babies, grandparents and babies, young and older and anyone in between! It's a great way to meet new people in your community.
What do I do?
When you are deciding where to sit, look for the Chatter & Natter table and sit there! Stay for five minutes while you have your drink or longer. It's just about having good old fashioned human interaction!
About the Chatty Café Scheme
The Chatty Café Scheme was set up in April 2017 by Alex Hoskyn who, a year earlier when her son was four months old, noticed how much you can be out of the house yet have no interaction with another person. On one of her usual visits to the local town centre with the pram, she sat in a café and observed an elderly lady sitting on her own looking fed up. On another table was a young man with additional needs and a carer and they were looking round the room not making conversation with each other. Then there was Alex and her baby: she was finding the experience of being a new mum a big shock to the system, and quite lonely and isolating. She thought about how nice it might be if there was a table where customers could sit if they were happy to talk to other customers. A year later The Chatty Café Scheme was created, and the Chatter & Natter tables began. The aim of the Chatter & Natter tables is to continue to help communities connect and combat loneliness by working closely with venues throughout the country to raise awareness of the scheme and encourage cafes; pubs; garden centres; libraries; Universities, to open their doors and provide spaces for members of the public to sit and chat together. The scheme's founder, Alex Hoskyn, was awarded an OBE in 2021 for services to tackling loneliness.
