Donate Search Phone icon Call our Helpline: 0800 12 44 222

We use cookies to give you the best experience of our website. By clicking 'accept cookies', you're agreeing to our use of cookies. You can change this at any time.

AcceptDecline

Best Working Partnership Award 2025

https://youtu.be/ootoWHDNz4g

A thriving intergenerational project between Oakwood Primary school in Easterhouse and the Daffodil Club charity for older people has won this year’s Age Scotland award for best working partnership.

For ten years the pupils and members of the Daffodil club have worked side by side community projects, breaking down age-related stereotypes and overcoming stigma wrongly associated with the Easterhouse area. 

The partnership has gone from strength to strength since that first meeting when the children attended a club lunch to sing Christmas carols. Friendships have developed, both groups have learned from one another and now children regularly attend activities at the club, exercise classes and sometimes even bingo sessions. 

Last year when the Daffodil Club was at risk of closure, the Oakwood pupils immediately set about fund raising to keep it open. Together with the Daffodil Club, families and local businesses, the pupils helped organise a Spring Fair that raised more than £4,700. 

To the 60 members of the Daffodil Club, the club itself and the meaningful partnership with the school pupils is a lifeline, providing social connection, meals, transport, social events and access to health and wellbeing support.  

Danielle McKendry, principal teacher at Oakwood Primary, said: 

“Oakwood Primary are over the moon to win the Age Scotland Community Partnership Award. Our link with the Daffodil Club has been really special for the past 10 years and means a lot to our pupils and the older people too. 

“The best thing about the partnership has been seeing the friendships grow between the children and the older people. The pupils don’t just meet for events – they join in with exercise classes, art activities, gardening, and even a game of bingo! The pupils have learned so much about empathy, kindness, and responsibility, and the members of the Daffodil Club have told us how valued and connected they feel. 

“This award is such a lovely way to celebrate the power of intergenerational work, showing what can happen when different generations come together." 

Lynda O’Neill, project manager at the Daffodil Club, said: 

“We are delighted at winning the partnership award from Age Scotland. Our older people look forward to the visits and have formed meaningful friendships with the children. The partnership with the children from Oakwood Primary started when pupils visited our pensioners to sing Christmas carols. They were invited the following year for lunch and the visits grew from there. The children brighten up the pensioners day, they remind them of their own grandchildren.”