Our true good SAMARITANS
Jan 12, 2022
3 minutes
WORDS: GILLIAN HARVEY.
‘We’re united by nature’
Lyndsey Young, 53, is CEO of The Friendly Bench CIC and lives in Leicestershire with her 16-year-old son.
Have you ever felt lonely? In 2014, while freelancing from home, I realised how rarely I spoke to anyone outside my family.
‘If feels like the world’s passing me by,’ I told my husband.
In 2015, while working with the Royal Society of Wildlife Trusts, I saw how being in nature helped people to connect. I wondered whether I could create a social outdoor space in my local community? I used
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