COPA SUMMER BULLETIN 2025
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AGEISM AND AGE DISCRIMINATION
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
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MANIFESTO FOR OLDER PEOPLE
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
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CAMPAIGNING PRIORITIES 2025-26
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.
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COPA are recruiting new trustees
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 groups and want to make sure that older people are listened to, and their demands are acted on. We feed the views and opinions of fora and groups directly into
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RECRUITMENT OF COPA CHAIR
COPA wants to recruit a new Chair to lead the Board of Trustees from across Wales. The Board of Trustees guides the direction of COPA as it develops and implements an agenda to forge a more impactful voice for older people, working closely with 50+ Forums in local authority areas. We are looking for a
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COPA Annual Conference and AGM 2024
Cymru Older Peoples Alliance – COPA – held its Annual Conference and AGM in the Waterfront Museum in Swansea on 19 November. It was organised as a fully accessible and “hybrid” event. Apart from the Conference venue, virtual hubs for people to gather together and participate were established in Pontypridd, Anglesey, Caernarfon and Conwy, with
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