EastBank Seniors evolved from Up Your Street, a free online sharing of information service to seniors around the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park. It was set up in 2007 to encourage seniors to access the Internet, to email and share events and also to counteract negativity about London 2012. We have aged together and come from many boroughs increasing in numbers every year. We are not funded.

It is free to join, the only two requirements are being senior and being able to provide an email address. Other enterprises try to get my email list to no avail.

I use email to share free events and activities to that subscribed group of older persons who in turn share what they think is relevant to 60-year-olds and better.

EastBank Seniors takes its name from the local East Bank being developed in E20 with the new V&A museum. We are always welcome at the V&A, likewise the Tates in London and the British Museum, all landmarks from where we source free tickets for major exhibitions.

We tea dance, join art classes, Zumba, join and even set up reading groups and discussions, and are a Museum of London Focus Group. We support the East End Women’s Museum in Barking, interact in theatre productions, brunch together, dine at rock bottom prices, throw clay, group together for pub quizzes, go cooking, computing and do so much more.

EastBank Seniors is at Facebook and Twitter.

Communication is mainly by email.

Email: gillianamuir@aol.co.uk

Gillian Lawrence is founder and owner, Eastbank Seniors

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