- Organisations can: - Foster climates of trust and connection - Set up spaces where people can come together - Help individuals to feel included - Build a strategy for intervention, with benchmark KPIs - Develop partnerships with community groups, charities, and families. - Embed social connection in internal policies, practices, programmes and evaluations. - Organisational leaders can: - Understand the forms that loneliness can take (see 1.2 above) - Talk openly about loneliness to address the stigma - Universities and educational institutions can: - Build loneliness into the curricula - Develop inclusive pedagogies, such as group learning - Develop peer-support groups - Community groups can broadly make three types of intervention: - Put on activities that encourage friendship (social interaction) through arts, culture, music and social activities etc. - Give people the skills to be better at making friends (social support) through befriending, mentoring and peer-support programmes. - Therapy and psychological interventions, such as counselling. - Community groups can also: - Develop public education and awareness efforts - Provide education, resources and support programmes for beneficiaries - Create opportunities for spaces and inclusive social connection - Create a culture of inclusion across a broader partnership of community institutions.