Show You Care with this Act of Kindness Calendar
We have explored saying thanks and reaching out as ways to bring everyone together this winter with the Great Winter Get Together, and the next theme is showing that you care
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FUN activities to reconnect during lockdown
The second theme of the Great Winter Get Together this year is ‘Reach Out’. The number of people who identify as being lonely has gone from one in ten to one in four since the UK lockdown. What better way to reconnect and tackle loneliness than by reaching out.
Together TV to broadcast Christmas Day show to connect people and tackle isolation this Christmas
● Christmas Together premieres on TV and online at 1pm on Christmas Day.
● Hosted by Ria Hebden and featuring Danny John-Jules and more, the show will offer companionship, connection and warmth to viewers.
● Bringing chat, top tips, songs and festive joy to viewers to create a sense of sharing and connection for people isolating, shielding and alone this Christmas.
● Christmas Together features two of six new films celebrating the great work of mutual aid groups across the UK.
5 Easy Ways to Show Your Thanks This Christmas
2020 has been a hard and peculiar year, but it has taught us how important it is to show how thankful we are. Thankful to the key workers who we rely on and put themselves on the line. Thankful to our relations, neighbours, friends and the friendly faces we know that bring smiles to our faces when they check in. Showing our thanks is something that we sometimes forget to do. In support of Jo Cox Foundations’ Great Winter Get Together, Together TV has put together some easy ways you can show your thanks this Christmas and spread smiles where you go.
Christmas Together: a virtual Christmas Lunch for everyone to tackle social isolation at Christmas
Together TV launches Christmas Together, the campaign to tackle loneliness at Christmas that includes a festive “journey” and a virtual Christmas Lunch. Free and open to for everyone, from everywhere in the UK. Together TV celebrates tireless work of mutual aid community heroes this Christmas with award winning Director Thomas Martin filming across the UK. The TV channel joins Jo Cox Foundation’s campaign Great Winter Get Together to tackle loneliness at Christmas.
Fast-growing Together TV confirmed as the channel inspiring positive social change
National survey confirms that Together TV helps viewers learn something new (34%), think differently (31%) and take up a new action or interest (26%) (Opinium, November 2020)
Together TV releases today its Annual Report 2019-20 with remarkable figures: 150%+ viewing share growth year on year with with 4m viewers watching Together TV every month
Together TV’s “You Are Not Alone” campaign used TV to directly support 20,000+ viewers during lockdown
"Mento has been described as ‘Jamaica’s original foundation music, the father of them all’" - Music, by Catherine Ross at Museumand
Mento is a style of Jamaican folk music recognisable by its acoustic sounds. It became a feature of Caribbean music in the 1920s, but the golden years of this genre, were in the 1940s and 50s. Mento is a fusion of African and European rhythms and musical traditions reflecting many centuries of history. It was originally played on homemade, makeshift instruments including natural gourds, pieces of iron, empty sardine cans, forks and graters!
'My cultural cuisine is more than comfort food, it’s my history on a plate' Food, Glorious Food by Catherine Ross at Museumand
My cultural cuisine is more than comfort food, it’s my history on a plate. When I sit down to a plate of chicken, rice and peas I think of my ancestors’ village life where chickens roamed in family yards and wandered freely around the village.
"Caribbeans are enterprising and resilient people" - Paraffin Heater, by Catherine Ross at Museumand
Just seeing a photograph, never mind when I can actually see and get up close to a paraffin heater floods my soul with emotion. This household item has achieved iconic status in the minds not just of the Windrush Generation but descendants 2 or 3 generations on.
"You can still tell when its Sunday, well you could up to the arrival of the Covid-19 virus" - Religion, by Catherine Ross at Museumand
White people in local neighbourhoods used to say: "You can tell it’s Sunday because you see more Caribbeans out and about", and they would be dressed in their Sunday Best on their way to Church.
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