Loneliness Awareness Week 2025 takes place from 9 – 15 June, presenting a valuable opportunity to address the growing concern of loneliness. This year’s theme, “Meeting Loneliness Together,” emphasises reducing the stigma around this natural human emotion and encourages collective efforts to foster connections.
We’re all affected by loneliness at times in our lives. We can feel lonely in a busy city or rural location, on social media or spending time on our own or with others. Try not to feel embarrassed or ashamed if you do. Sometimes admitting we feel lonely can be hard but it’s important to remember that many others experience similar feelings of loneliness too, and that this feeling can pass.
Severe or prolonged loneliness can significantly impact both physical and mental health, increasing the risk of conditions like dementia, stress, anxiety, low mood and depression.
If you are feeling lonely, or know someone else who is, there are plenty of simple, affordable
actions you can take, such as:
- going for a walk with someone;
- inviting someone out for a coffee and a chat;
- finding out about affordable events nearby;
- going along to a gym class or playing in a sports team;
- joining a society or local community group to meet like-minded people; and
- reaching out to those around you so you can both feel the benefits of in-person social
- connection.
Find more support and advice on the Better Health – Every Mind Matters Loneliness web
page to help yourself or others who might be feeling lonely, or search ‘Loneliness Every Mind
Matters’ for more support and advice.