Adopt-a-Grandma is a charitable scheme that connects the generations. We aim to bring together older people without grandchildren living locally to families that live far away from their grandparents.
I designed the concept for the scheme while at Goldsmiths university as a second year project. I won an award for it, which involved mentoring and start-up funds. I commissioned a graphic designer to visually brand the scheme, and began to hand out flyers to start the scheme in Bounds Green where I live in North London. Unfortunately the project has not been yet fully realised, but I hope to reignite it in the future.
Lior Smith 
When/if you do ignite this idea, you might want to investigate if there’s any available funding from http://gulbenkian.org.uk
I am a librarian manager at a Secondary School in Havering. Due to retire soon. My grandchildren live in the USA, widowed shortly after my son, their father died I am looking to find a way to be proactive in the community and fill a gap in my life helping young people at the same time. Have you progressed with setting up the adopt-a-grandma group?
Hello. I’m sorry for this late response – as you may have guessed, we are inactive. I’m also sorry for the situation you have been in. I hope you have found an outlet for helping others.
I had my daughter when I was 42yrs old my mother died 18days later,my daughter winter rain was way to little to ever remember any time with her grandma obviously.The older she gets she seems to realise something in her life is missing besides her father whom has never ever been there or his mother who is still alive and I have tried to reach out but I will not beg I would rather and be pleased to reach out to you my daughter WINTER RAIN is going to turn 8yrs old on January 26 she is going to be the big,little,8yrs old it’s pretty much just her and I,so if you are a lonely grandma looking for a little 8yr old girl my gmail is mindee.kennedy1@gmail.com