Connecting our Communities, Sharing our Memories

我们的项目“连接我们的社区，分享我们的记忆”将人们围绕共同的兴趣，联系和活动聚集在一起，使用讲故事的方法，通过围绕共同的兴趣和背景建立友谊来减少社会孤立。它将帮助参与者以自己的方式表达他们的兴趣和激情，并促进联系和匹配，支持人们通过平台以及在真实的世界事件和活动中进行联系。它将为人们提供一个简单而安全的地方，让人们围绕“讲故事”的主题建立现有的和新的关系和联系。它将是一个安全的地方，让人们表达自己，并使用一个简单的，基于私人应用程序的环境扩展他们的友谊和友谊圈，所有人都可以访问，自我维持/可扩展。该项目将以现有成功的社会企业模式为基础，并与社会房东等合作伙伴建立简单易行的商业模式。它建立在Book of You CIC现有的优势和经验基础上，并以以人为本的设计项目为基础，研究和原型化平台，建立商业模型，并了解健康老龄化和改善老年人社会联系的好处。

Our project Connecting our Communities, Sharing our Memories, brings people together around common interests, connections and activities, using storytelling approaches to reduce social isolation through making friendships around common interests and background.It will help participants to express their interests and passions in their own way, and prompt connections and matches, supporting people to connect through the platform as well as at real world events and activities as well. It will provide a simple and safe place for people to build existing and new relationships and connections around common interests linked by a 'storytelling' theme.It will be a safe place for people to express themselves and extend their friendship and acquaintanceship circles using a simple, private app-based environment accessible to all and self-sustaining/ scalable. It will be designed to be self-directing and simple to use, with storytelling at its heart.The project will build on an existing successful social enterprise model and develop a simple and easily scalable commercial model based on partnership with, for example, social landlords. It builds on Book of You CIC's existing strengths and experience, and is based on a human-centred design project to research and prototype a platform, build a commericial model, and understand the benefits in the context of Healthy Ageing and improving social connections for older people.