Youngsters from LFC Foundation’s Kicks Inclusion and Kicks Girls sessions have written letters and drawn pictures to send to local care home residents who are unable to receive visitors throughout the period of lockdown.
Local residential care home Saint Jude’s received the first batch of children’s letters, with LFC Foundation now looking to expand the initiative to involve elderly people across the city.
Terri Ritchie, LFC Foundation’s inclusion manager, said: “We recently spoke to the staff at Saint Jude’s, who told us that the residents were missing their family and friends and the local school children who regularly visit.