Throughout the Care Heroes campaign, we have helped to shine a light on those that do all they can to care for others. Caring for others can be as simple as collecting shopping or doing laundry but even more importantly at the moment, it can also be just being there to lend an ear or being a constant presence in someone’s life, can be caring too. Loneliness affects more than 1 million older people nationally and around 35,000 in Worcestershire. Christmas for many is the most wonderful time of the year, but this isn’t the case for everyone. This year, Coronavirus restrictions have only heightened what for many can be an incredibly lonely time.