RECRUITMENT OF A NEW CHAIR FOR CYMRU OLDER PEOPLES ALLIANCE COPA is a small national registered charity run by older people for older people in Wales. We are the “national voice” for local older people’s forums and want to make sure that older people are listened to and their opinions acted on in everything that …
Cymru Older People’s Alliance [COPA] are looking for Elected and Co-opted Trustees to join its Board. If the answer to these questions is ‘Yes’, please consider applying for these Trustee vacancies COPA is a small national registered charity run by older people for older people in Wales. We are the “national voice” for local older …
Introduction Our project has taken an exciting step forward, following the successful pilot project in Caerphilly. Two members of the project team now live in Rhondda Cynon Taf (RCT). With the pilot in Caerphilly successfully completed, this felt like the right moment to launch a larger programme, bringing our Virtual Reality (VR) experiences into Care …
A personal perspective by Steve Milsom, Honorary Secretary, Cymru Older People’s Alliance Paying for Care has not been resolved over 25 years despite the clear evidence of it being a major societal problem. Successive Governments of all colours have set up Commissions, produced Reports, white papers, even draft legislation but just kicked this “too difficult” …
LinkedIn Blog – British Society of Gerontology, Special Interest Group on Ageism 3 June 2025 Steve Milsom, a member of our Steering Group, has been working on ageism and age discrimination since 1997, firstly as a senior civil servant in Welsh Government and since retirement in 2013 as an older people’s representative, mainly for two …
COPA is a politically impartial Registered Charity. But we are aiming to influence the content in respect of older people in the Manifestos of all political parties standing in the Welsh Senedd/Parliament Elections in 2026. Our “Manifesto” of what COPA wants for Older People is summarised below and attached. It is being published for consultation …
That Voting Members agreed the campaigning priorities that Cymru Older People’s Alliance should pursue for 2025-26 at the AGM in November 2024. COPA Trustees and Forum Representatives discussed the issues of most relevance to the lives of older people in Wales and which of these should be identified as campaigning priorities for the next year. …
