Team London Bridge hosts Love Lunch 2020 to tackle loneliness

Love Lunch 2020 has been launched by Team London Bridge aiming at tackling work time loneliness by providing free creative lunchtime activities for employees.

A new campaign Love Lunch 2020 has been launched by Team London Bridge in the City of London aiming at tackling work time loneliness by providing free creative activities for employees to attend during their lunch hours.

Hip pop, techno, house… These might not be your top music choices during the lunch hours. But some city workers are choosing to experience something fun and different to have a break from their nine to five in the office.

Hip pop dancing class as part of the varied events offered at Love Lunch 2020. Credit: Sophia Wang for City News.

Alone with physical activities such as the hip pop dancing class, the wellness campaign Love Lunch 2020 provides free lunchtime activities to office workers around the City of London. The project hosted by Team London Bridge hopes to tackle the issue of lunch time loneliness and social isolation at the workplace.

Loneliness is an issue affecting around nine million people in the UK. A recent survey by Spare Room shows that many meals in the UK are still eaten alone, with a third of those respondents admitting they don’t eat together at all. Specifically at the workplace, there is a growing culture of office based lunchtimes, with many employees spending their lunch hours eating alone at their desks.

Love Lunch 2020 is a wellness campaign launched by Team London Bridge for local office workers. Credit: Team London Bridge.

The responsible business and events manager at Team London Bridge Sofia Alexamdrache said that the campaign hopes to help people suffering from work time loneliness by providing an opportunity to explore and create a sense of community.

The Love Lunch campaign was launched this year with plans to extend the project so that there are events which run throughout the year rather than just in January and September, as is the case right now.

Originally for CityNews (City University of London)