Intergenerational England: Strategic Partnership & System Change
The UK is changing but our systems haven’t kept up.
Intergenerational approaches are essential to tackling loneliness, workforce pressure and social division, now and for the long term.
Embedding an intergenerational lens across organisations, places and systems
Intergenerational England partners with organisations across health, housing, education, the workforce, culture and local government to help them respond to one of the biggest shifts facing the UK: a rapidly changing, ageing and increasingly divided society.
We work with you to embed an intergenerational lens into how your organisation designs services, supports its workforce, invests in communities and plans for the future so that connection, resilience and fairness between generations become part of your core infrastructure, not an optional add-on.
Our approach is bespoke and system-led. Whether you are at an early stage of exploring intergenerational practice or ready to embed it across an entire place or organisation, we meet you where you are and build from there.
Our work is grounded in deep local, national and international insight into:
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Demographic change across the life course
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Rising loneliness and social fragmentation
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Workforce and service pressures
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Place, belonging and civic participation
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The wider social, economic and environmental determinants of wellbeing
Taken together, this allows us to help organisations and places move beyond short-term fixes, addressing immediate pressures while building long-term social capital, productivity and intergenerational fairness.
Andy Burnham
Mayor of Manchester
“We’re living in increasingly divided times – including division by age. This new report from Intergenerational England sets out a hopeful vision. We need a different way of living, where people contribute together and are valued, and it must be intergenerational.”
Our approach
We work with organisations and places through a structured but flexible journey, taking you from understanding where you are now, to embedding intergenerational practice as part of how your system operates.
EXPLORE
Understand where you are now
We begin by building a clear picture of your current position, drawing on:
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Organisational and workforce insights
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Listening sessions across generations and roles
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A review of culture, communications and representation
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A baseline Connection & Inclusion Scorecard
This gives you a shared understanding of strengths, gaps and risks.
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Identify your intergenerational priorities
Using insight from the Explore phase, we help you identify the specific challenges and opportunities relevant to your context, whether related to service design, workforce sustainability, community engagement or system integration.
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Facilitated co-design or challenge-framing labs
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Development of an Intergenerational Vision
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A Theory of Change linking action to outcomes
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Training and workshops to build shared understanding
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Design solutionsthat work in practice
Together, we co-design tailored solutions aligned to your organisation or place, such as:
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Inclusive policy and practice frameworks
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Intergenerational leadership, mentoring or learning models
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Creative and participatory approaches that deepen connection
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Alignment with national campaigns and wider system priorities
GROW
Embed
intergenerational practice
We support you to move from strategy to delivery through:
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Pilot programmes and phased implementation
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Training and capacity-building sessions
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Intergenerational champions or ambassador models
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Engagement and visibility activity
CHAMPION
Sustain and scale
long-term impact
To support long-term change, we help embed learning and accountability through:
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An Intergenerational Impact Dashboard
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Regular reviews using our Intergenerational Maturity Model
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Storytelling, learning capture and case studies
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Access to national networks, taskforces and policy forums
Wherever you are starting from, we work with you to build a sustainable, intergenerational plan that strengthens your workforce, your communities and your long-term resilience.
The Sliding Scale of Intergenerationality: Multiple entry points, one shared purpose: connection, care, and community across generations.
The Intergenerational Maturity Model & Outcomes Framework - where are you on the scale?
We have developed an Intergenerational Maturity Model and Outcomes Framework to help organisations and policymakers:
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Diagnose where they currently sit in their integration of intergenerational principles
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Identify achievable next steps to deepen impact
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Align investment, governance and delivery around shared intergenerational outcomes
The model recognises that policy and organisational contexts vary, from local authorities piloting community programmes to national bodies shaping regulation. It offers a sliding scale of maturity, from age-segregated approaches through to full intergenerational integration, where connection across generations is treated as core infrastructure, not a discretionary add-on.
Crucially, the framework is grounded in measurable outcomes, including:
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Stronger intergenerational social support systems
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Reduced pressure on public services through prevention
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More efficient use of investment by breaking down silos
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Improved equity and inclusion across the life course
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Greater resilience to demographic, economic and environmental change
A practical, determinants-led approach
Taken together, our support enables organisations and policymakers to adopt a determinants model addressing immediate challenges such as loneliness, workforce shortages and stretched budgets, while building long-term resilience through social capital, adaptability and intergenerational fairness.
HOW MATURE IS YOUR ORGANISATION? GET IN TOUCH TODAY TO UNDERSTAND AT WHAT STAGE YOUR BUSINESS IS AT AND WHAT YOU CAN DO TO SUPPORT PRODUCTIVITY AND YOUR WORKFORCE.
Bobby Duffy, Professor of Public Policy and Director
of the Policy Institute, King’s College London
"The UK is facing a stark level of age segregation, in where we live and how we connect online. This deepening divide fuels mistrust between generations and means we risk losing the well-evidenced benefits of intergenerational connection. Now is the time to act for our health, communities, and shared future.”
Ready to explore what this could look like for you?
Develop a partnership
If you’re interested in exploring strategic partnerships, sponsorship, or long-term collaboration:
📩 Email: alicia@intergenerationalengland.org
Contribute to research & evidence
To collaborate on research, evaluation, evidence-building or insight development across local, national or international work:
📩 Email: ingrid@intergenerationalengland.org
Get in touch to discuss how Intergenerational England can support your organisation, place or system to embed intergenerational practice, now and for the future.
How to get involved
There are several ways to work with Intergenerational England, depending on your role, interests and priorities:
Join the Intergenerational Workplace Taskforce
For organisations interested in intergenerational workplace practice, leadership, recruitment, retention and culture change:
👉 Get involved in our Intergenerational Workplace Taskforce and workplace initiatives
Engage with the APPG on Tackling Loneliness
Stay informed about parliamentary events, the inquiry, calls for evidence and engagement opportunities:
Deliver projects and pilot in your area
If you’re interested in delivering intergenerational programmes, setting up pilots, or embedding practice locally:
📩 Get in touch to explore place-based delivery and support: info@intergenerationalengland.org
