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.

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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
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"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!

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"That was a good lesson, Miss" - Education, by Catherine Ross at Museumand

The first day I walked into my classroom as a Further Education Lecturer of Business Studies, I had to pinch myself. Racism was still rife in society in the late 70s and many memories of my school days and growing up in the 50s were still raw. I remember the outrage of my parents at the Government report that said Black children were educationally subnormal, and all because they spoke “patois”, apparently! 60 years later patois is spoken not just by the Windrush Generation but by Caribbeans born in the UK. 

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Together TV is stepping up to Freeview 87! [2020]

**PLEASE NOTE THIS BLOG WAS WRITTEN IN 2020, TOGETHER TV IS ON FREEVIEW CHANNEL 83 (29.09.2022)**

We are pleased to announce that from Thursday 17th September, we will be stepping up to channel 87 on Freeview! 

Together TV currently sits on channel 88 on Freeview, but from 17th September 2020, channel 88 will become the home of TogetherTV+1, the perfect place to catch your favourite shows that you might have just missed. Meanwhile you can watch TogetherTV, as normal, on channel 87. 

 

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