How does the Abundant Life proposal fit with the core objectives of the Trust?
From the start, Dartington has been about supporting new ideas and practical action to meet pressing social needs. At the heart of our vision is the desire to develop a project which demonstrates a better way to support education and learning, to demonstrate new ways of tackling problems and to develop ways of thinking and acting that can spur others to make changes that benefit those most in need. With the numbers of those over 65 in the UK now exceeding the numbers of those under 16, the Trust believes it can make a positive contribution to delivering choice about good ways to live in older life. This concern for enabling older people to live fulfilled, happy and secure lives is exemplified by the work of research in practice for adults, in the range of those who share in the cultural and educational programmes of the Trust, and in its exploration of new models for living in old age through the Abundant Life initiative.
