{"id":5330,"date":"2025-10-31T13:52:16","date_gmt":"2025-10-31T13:52:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.computerfriendlystalbans.org.uk\/computer-friendly\/?p=5330"},"modified":"2025-11-01T15:05:50","modified_gmt":"2025-11-01T15:05:50","slug":"st-albans-district-age-friendly-activities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.computerfriendlystalbans.org.uk\/computer-friendly\/st-albans-district-age-friendly-activities\/","title":{"rendered":"St Albans District Age Friendly Activities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>St Albans District has recently acheived &#8220;Age Friendly&#8221; status &#8211; see <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stalbans.gov.uk\/news\/st-albans-district-achieves-age-friendly-status\">https:\/\/www.stalbans.gov.uk\/news\/<\/a> (and extract below from their website)<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The District now joins 100 other local authority areas which are also part of the growing movement.<\/p>\n<p>To be accepted as a member, the Council had to demonstrate its commitment to providing Age-friendly services and create a District where older people are well supported.<\/p>\n<p>This includes initiatives to involve older people in Council activities and act on issues such as loneliness and social isolation.<\/p>\n<p>Membership is conditional on the Council continuing to engage with older people as it has been doing by holding a series of Age-friendly events.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Computer Friendly will be supporting all three of the Age Friendly St Albans District events this autumn in Alban Arena (22nd October, 10 am to 2 pm), London Colney Caledon Centre (3rd November, 10 am to 2<span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">0<\/span>pm) and Redbourn Village Hall (13th November, 9:30 to 11:30 am) so you are welcome to come along to any of these events and have a chat with us about what we do; the courses we run etc., and how you could participate as a volunteer, a user with a problem to solve at one of our drops ins or as a student keen to improve your skills and expand your knowledge.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-5334\" src=\"http:\/\/www.computerfriendlystalbans.org.uk\/computer-friendly\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/AgeFriendly-300x179.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"358\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.computerfriendlystalbans.org.uk\/computer-friendly\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/AgeFriendly-300x179.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.computerfriendlystalbans.org.uk\/computer-friendly\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/AgeFriendly-1024x611.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.computerfriendlystalbans.org.uk\/computer-friendly\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/AgeFriendly-768x458.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.computerfriendlystalbans.org.uk\/computer-friendly\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/AgeFriendly.jpg 1387w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>St Albans District has recently acheived &#8220;Age Friendly&#8221; status &#8211; see https:\/\/www.stalbans.gov.uk\/news\/ (and extract below <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.computerfriendlystalbans.org.uk\/computer-friendly\/st-albans-district-age-friendly-activities\/\">More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5333,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"give_campaign_id":0,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-front-page","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.computerfriendlystalbans.org.uk\/computer-friendly\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/AgeFriendly1.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.computerfriendlystalbans.org.uk\/computer-friendly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5330","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.computerfriendlystalbans.org.uk\/computer-friendly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.computerfriendlystalbans.org.uk\/computer-friendly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.computerfriendlystalbans.org.uk\/computer-friendly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.computerfriendlystalbans.org.uk\/computer-friendly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5330"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.computerfriendlystalbans.org.uk\/computer-friendly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5330\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5336,"href":"https:\/\/www.computerfriendlystalbans.org.uk\/computer-friendly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5330\/revisions\/5336"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.computerfriendlystalbans.org.uk\/computer-friendly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.computerfriendlystalbans.org.uk\/computer-friendly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.computerfriendlystalbans.org.uk\/computer-friendly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.computerfriendlystalbans.org.uk\/computer-friendly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}