CHARITIES across Reading are helping combat loneliness alongside an organisation set up in memory of murdered MP Jo Cox.
Eight charities have joined forces with the police and borough council to help people understand loneliness.
The Jo Cox Commission to end loneliness was set up after she was murdered in June last year in her Birstall constituency.
Now local and national charities will send researchers across the town with a survey designed to help the 30 per cent of young people living with loneliness.
GP surgeries, libraries and the hospital will also host the survey which is available online here.
If you submit the survey electronically or via a number of postboxes throughout the town you will be entered into a raffle to win £50 of high street vouchers.
Readibus, The Mustard Tree Foundation, Berkshire Carers’ Hub, Reading Voluntary Action along with branches of Alzheimers UK, Age UK, Sue Ryder and MacMillan alongside Reading Borough Council and the police, worked together to create the survey.
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