Header.

I agree flicketyb . It is the same with cancer charities... I think i need to go off and start a thread on that actually

I used to be a volunteer with Age Concern (now Age UK) until the funding ran out for the scheme. Since then I have begun to feel more and more alienated from the charity, mainly as a result of the publicity surveys it does.

Age UK are forever publishing surveys too show how vulnerable poor and needy older people are and, yes, I do realise that many old people are poor, disabled and vulnerable, but so are many other sections of the population and many older people, particularly those in their 60s and 70s are none of these things. I think Age UK do a lot of harm to older people as a whole by constantly portraying us as needy.

I was particularly offended by a recent report suggesting that if you didnt see family members at least weekly and friends similarly you were living a lonely isolated life. I do not see my family weekly because none live anywhere near us, nor do I see close friends frequently for the same reason but DH are out and about taking part in activities involving other people almost daily while we are in daily email contact with both our children and frequently email other friends and family.

I would like to see more surveys coming out showing how much we contribute to the economy through taxes, how important the money we spend is to supporting local stores and the local economy because I am sure we are more likely to shop locally, whether we live in a rural or urban area.

While Age Concern keeps harping about how miserable it is being old and completely ignores the positives I really do not want Gransnet to be placing the Age Concern banner on the Gransnet site.

I've had the normal header all the time - I think so, anyway.

Normal one back again now.

I still have our normal header and have never had anything else.

but it's probably my age.

I dunno, one minute we're AgeUK, next we're still being policed by Mums Net HQ!

Gransnet starting hosting the Age UK forum for them a while ago, shortly after GN took over the Oldie's Borum Forum. It's all the one forum now, no matter which heading you use or which direction you come at it from.

Wtih the Age uk thing, it could be a tax dodge! (not really!)

Jess I agree that doing kind things for people much older than us is the image of AgeUK, but it's far from the reality. It's a campaigning organisation, and they also have a research branch, which came about when the smaller charity Research into Ageing was taken over by Age Concern as it then was
www.ageuk.org.uk/professional-resources-home/research/research-into-ageing/
Just up your street I would have thought
They carry out very worthwhile projects and I have supported them for the last 15 years, since my mum died with vascular dementia.
I do agree though, that the AgeUk banner seeems strangely offputting........

I think Ageuk is still associated with "Help the Aged" in people's minds. It merged with Age Concern, a few years ago to form AgeUK. To be honest I don't see myself as part of the AgeUK target age group. In my mind it is a charity aimed at doing kind things for housebound 80-90 year olds. I know I am not alone - I was talking to someone about my age (early 60s) the other day about wanting to learn a few more computer skills. I said that AgeUK locally run courses and she made a face and said there was no way she saw herself going there.
is this just agism in our minds maybe? Or is it the profile of the charity?
And what next? A strategic alliance with The People's Friend maybe?

I think there has always been some connection between age Uk and Gransnet.

oo-er. Looks like a takeover. But who has takenover who? I think an explanation would be good.

Why do/does any of us go onto Google to log in? I've got Gransnet Active Pages on my favourites bar.

you only get the AgeUK thing if you click on this google link

"Gransnet forums
Welcome to the Age UK forums powered by Gransnet. We've ..."

If you click on this one
"Grandparents website | Gransnet
www.gransnet.com/Grandparents website | Social networking and information for grandparents: discussion forums, food and recipes, gardening, child development, relationships, ..."
You get the normal header.

I'm not doing that, phoenix!
I might never get back....!

The ribbon is quite pretty. Think I'll stay here.

I've tried. #notmyfault

I'd already worked that out jing, but as soon as you click on forums you're back to age uk!
It makes it tedious as our age to this way round!
TIME IS NOTON OUR SIDE!

No need jO8 just log out, go to Google etc.

We might have to call out Geraldine!

Oh no! I'm stuck in it now!

You two must have been fiddling about.

You can actually still get to your pm' s from the age UK version.