From April 2015 the TCDT has had a team of Community Builders working throughout the
30 neighbourhoods of Torbay. Funded through the Ageing Well Programme the Builders are
working with just under 1,000 isolated older people reconnecting them to the people and places around them. To do this, TCDT relies on the local knowledge, enthusiasm, energy and good will of over 1,000 other residents who TCDT calls connectors. They are the ‘go to’ people in the area – the people who naturally know what is going on in their community, they are often running activities themselves, they talk to everyone, they link people up and they celebrate what their community has to give.