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Welcome to Chitter Chatter Club
At every Chitter Chatter Club, someone walks in with nerves and walks out feeling part of something. It happens quickly — because empathy is contagious. It softens the shame we often carry around loneliness and turns it into connection.
Where loneliness brings us together
We’re a not‑for‑profit powered by 21 incredible volunteers who give their time and love freely. Grants, sponsorships, and donations keep our doors open and help us reach the next wave of people too lonely or anxious to leave home. If you’re able to support us, please do — we simply can’t continue without you.
Chitter Chatter Groups: A Friendly Community
Chitter Chatter, Brew Crew and Unpixel club are warm, welcoming spaces where loneliness melts away. Our brilliant volunteers bring kindness, energy, and connection. Join a CCC or Brew Crew to lift your mood, find purpose, and make new friends
Whether we chit chat in the sun, in a cafe, pub or care home, you will always feel unjudged, safe and free to be yourself.
NATURE WALKS
At Chitter Chatter, we want you out of the house and connecting.
Once a month — on the 4th Saturday — we head out for a nature walk, and everyone is welcome.
You can choose whatever feels right for you:
• Enjoy a bite to eat or a drink
• Join us for a short, easy stroll
• Or walk a little longer with the keen walkers
Just let us know if you’re running late or can’t find us — we never want to start without you.
Come and go as you please. Do what works for you.
For some people, this walk-and-talk is their only CCC activity — and that’s perfectly fine. This is your life, your pace, your choice.
If you’d like to join us or need more details, call 07986 323789.
THANK YOU SO MUCH,
Bournemouth Cherries, for funding us to start Brew Crew games clubs everywhere.
A big Thank You to Hall and Woodhouse for donating towards future outreach from January 2026
Another Big Thank You to Strategic Solutions for recognising and rewarding our amazing volunteers with a wonderful Appreciation Lunch and awards.
Anne tells you about CCC's where today thousands of new people have come to CCC for loneliness support/recovery and more are still coming. The need is great, that's why this programme is so successful.
Loneliness Together Chitter Chatter Club (LTCCC) is a Community Interest Company (CIC), operating as a not-for-profit charitable initiative regulated by Companies House. We are authorised to fundraise in support of our cause, events, and operations, but we do not generate profit. LTCCC is entirely volunteer-led, with 100% of our efforts driven by community commitment. WE are not a social statutory service. This is a heartfelt mission from the neck down.
Guests survey September 2025,
"It's a lifeline.'
“At first I felt a bit apprehensive... but now I'm rather impressed and hope-filled.”
“All I can say is that—may God bless Anne.”
I feel safe here
“The main thing is having good people to speak to. And the volunteers are amazing.”
Responses from guests on their Sense of Purpose
“I love helping”
“I come and I help the volunteers more. Good.”
Belonging & Membership
“I’m proud to be part of CCC.”
"I'm proud to be a member.”
“It's certainly 100% better than the other chat club I used to go to.”
Hope & Recovery
“I have something to look forward to.”
"At first I felt a bit apprehensive - but now I'm rather impressed and hope filled."
Stop Loneliness
The only cure for loneliness is connection.
FEBRUARY 2026 NATURE WALK
21 February 2025
We are hoping to go on the Thomas Hardy trail at Dorchester and
walk in the footsteps which inspired his writing.
Sign up with Anne by the 15th February 2026
thechitterchatterclub@gmail.com
If the weather looks bad we will do a
Mary Shelley meet up at 1pm in The Mary Shelley pub in Bournemouth
Weather announcement to be made on Thursday 19th Feb
Multi Award Winning Charitable Cause
Social Care Institute for Excellence Community Impact Award Winner -July 2025 Westminster.
Inclusive Volunteer Recruitment Award - Community Action Network March 2025
Good Neighbour Award -volunteers hearts of gold, Birmingham Community Inspiration Awards Birmingham -September 2025
Fundraising Legend - Just Giving
Community Heroes - Community Action Network - March 2025
Women Innovation Award, Women Community Impact Awards - March 2025
Dorset High Sheriff award of appreciation from the High Sheriff Callum Bremner JP, residents and community.
Commendation from National Charity Today Awards- Peterborough - October 2025
Room to Reward - excellent voluntary service- Edinburgh November 2024
Dorset Volunteers Council - Volunteer Team of the Year - Dorchester, November 2024
Our Journeys Through Loneliness shares the real stories of people who found freedom and confidence by taking one small step toward change. Thousands have contributed so you can see how close recovery really is.
Treat yourself
£10 includes postage. I'll even sign it for you.
If anyone is struggling with buying a cuppa and needs
some assistance please say to the volunteer
'I wonder if Jimmy is here today?' and we will gladly buy
you a cuppa. Do not be embarrassed. We are doing life together.
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START YOUR RECOVERY JOURNEY TODAY
This is the book that will add hope and rekindle emotions, build resilience and help you overcome and remember hope and joy.
Miracles happen every day at CCC's, read and reclaim your belief in yourself and others again.
Loneliness can overshadow your past and present. This book shares powerful stories of loneliness recovery, guiding you or your loved ones toward a brighter, connected future.
If you do not have a chitter chatter in your town, let's start one.
We all enjoy unashamed loneliness together on Nature Walks, too.
Loneliness Brings Us Together, Not Apart
Chitter Chatter Clubs: Where Friendship Begins, Our Chitter Chatter groups are warm, welcoming, and full of heart. Volunteers give their time and love selflessly, helping guests overcome loneliness and rediscover connection.
Joining a CCC isn’t just good for your mental wellbeing — it gives us all a sense of purpose, belonging, and the joy of building new friendship circles.
To keep the Connect to Thrive Loneliness Recovery Programme going strong, we need a little help. If you’re able to pop £1 in the donation pot during your club, we’ll be eternally grateful. Every pound helps us reach more people, spark more smiles, and grow this movement of hope.
The only cure for loneliness is connection.
If a smoker has relationships, he is less likely to get cancer/heart disease than a smoker who is lonely/isolated. Therefore, any lonely/isolated person has more chance of health problems escalating. Human connection insulates you from the stresses of life/against disease/and poor dietary choices.
We have had the honour of being alongside thousands of our guests as they have recovered. This has inspired me so much, with permission, I wrote Our Jouneys Through Loneliness just for you. Now you can recover too. (only available from this website)
Connect with us and you'll be connecting with millions.
For family members of loneliness sufferers:- This is your golden opportunity to keep connected to your loved ones and connect them to us from afar.
Anne knew people would change and make friends, but the daily miracles that have happened in these guests lives have totally blew her away.
A Huge Thank You goes to all our guests who have contributed towards
Our Journeys Through Loneliness, for sharing their vulnerabilites and stories with us, so others can heal too.
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Unashamed Loneliness is the norm at all our clubs.
These are the wonderful volunteers who save lives and offer hope, blend compassion with smiles, aid connection to usurp loneliness' shame and despair.
There's always a lovely welcome at
Highcliffe Chitter Chatter Club
The Oaks 2.30 Thursdays
It is great to be back hosting Highcliffe guests again. Life was cruel over lockdown and dreams were shattered. Together we all smile and know their loved ones are looking down and are happy for Chitter Chatter Club.
So many say 'It's my lifeline.'
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From Recovery to Connection
Cancer tried to take my health — but it couldn’t touch my heart for those facing loneliness.
Getting back on my bike took courage. I used to cycle 24 miles a day, but not anymore.
There’s something magical about a hand-hold or a kind word lighting up a care home resident’s day. You should try it. Give a little love, and I promise — you’ll get loads back.
Guests say - 'Chitter Chatter Club is a lifeline.'
What is a lifeline?
Some things are essential to life—air, water, warmth, shelter. And sometimes, connection is just as vital. I often ask myself why our guests call the CCC a lifeline. I believe it’s because they’re not lost in the depths of isolation. These socially mobile guests are reconnecting—with others, with themselves—and they’re not just healing together… they’re thriving.
One of my favourite stories is about Hilda and Beryl, both in their eighties. They don’t talk much during CCC meetings—not because they’re shy, but because they speak twice every single day. In the morning, Hilda rings Beryl: “You alright?” “Yes, okay. Have a nice day.” And in the evening, Beryl returns the call: “You okay?” “Yes. Night-night.” That simple rhythm of caring is more powerful than a pendant alarm that links you to a stranger. Their friendship, like so many formed here, is the heartbeat of CCC.
CCC truly is a lifeline. Without it, many elderly guests would quietly slip into isolation. Care homes may offer social outings, but at prices that many can't afford. CCC is free. It's familiar. And it's there every single day.
We need this model across the country. The sooner we grow it nationwide, the sooner we offer not just survival—but connection, dignity, and hope.
Many of our guests live in flats, so when the sun shines, it feels like a gift—we gather, stretch out, and soak up the warmth together. You can see it in their faces: this isn’t just fresh air, it’s freedom.
At CCC and Brew Crew, everyone is a stakeholder. From feedback on flyers to choosing the next nature walk, their voices shape the journey. Some even rise to lead the walks themselves—quietly stepping into new confidence, one footpath at a time.
Living by the sea, we’re not short on beauty. But what’s magical is watching long-time beachgoers become starstruck by a country lane or a café nestled in a field dotted with cow pats. The surprise on their faces! It’s priceless. We laugh—not at each other, but at ourselves. Because wonder is ageless.
And really, that’s the shift. We're no longer surviving. We're striving—for autonomy, connection, and joy. Every cuppa, every walk, every shared chuckle is a reclaiming of life.
People die. Families grieve. The dog passes, the cat fades, and life delivers heartache in its quiet, brutal way. But in CCC and Brew Crew, conversation doesn’t die—not when tragedy strikes. If anything, it deepens. Around our tables, compassion flows. It's not scripted or forced—just beautifully human.
We don’t shy away from the hard days. We do life together—side by side, heart by heart. Good days, grey ones, and all the stormy spaces in between. There’s something sacred here, a shared bond that runs deep… all the way to that shadowy corner inside us that only connection knows how to reach.
We’re all overcoming, quietly and collectively. With our volunteer hosts keeping the space safe and respectful, the result is magic: people who would never cross paths begin to flourish, together.
Visitors sometimes ask, “What is it that connects everyone here?” And when we say “loneliness,” they pause. Because it’s not obvious. There’s laughter, conversation, soul. Despite our differences, the one thing that binds us is personal growth—and it shows.
In a recent survey:
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74% of our guests shared that their confidence, self-esteem, mental health, and social mobility have truly improved.
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73% say they visit their GP less.
And it all starts with a cuppa and a chat.
Terry used to shuffle through the village, hunched over his stroller like a man who’d once hoisted Atlas—and lost the rematch. His back bent at such an angle you'd swear he’d been Britain's strongest man in another life. But the chiropractor took one look and said, "It's just a habit."
So Terry cracked, stretched, and showed up. Because in his village, CCC isn’t just a club—it’s the place where people rebuild more than posture. With mentors aplenty and cheerleaders in every corner (everyone who’s anyone goes to CCC), Terry began to straighten. And with each inch taller, his army of supporters grew.
Now wherever Terry wanders, there’s always someone from his fanbase nudging, “Shoulders back! Get your money’s worth!” And he grins, because every step forward is shared.
The lads were deep into their Brew Crew session when Sue and I swooped in like a pair of rogue comets—unknowingly crashing the galaxy of boyhood bonding. The moment reminded us of those classic get-togethers when all the girls are chinwagging and a stray husband wanders into the room, instantly realising he’s interrupted something sacred.
Truth is, boys need boys just as girls need girls.
There’s magic in those single-gender spaces—where stories flow, laughter spills, and no one feels the need to explain themselves. These moments aren’t just about coffee and chat… they’re about comfort, belonging, and the kind of connection that charges your soul.
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iF YOU HAVE READ THIS FAR.
You’re here for a reason.
Do something about it BEFORE YOUR MIND SAY'S "TOMORROW.'
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