AGE Concern Swindon has been working to improve quality of life for older people for more than 50 years.
The charity believes older people should be treated as equal citizens and is campaigning to make age discrimination illegal.
Based in offices in Milton Road, the charity provides a host of services for the elderly.
Some of these include a meals on wheels service in Chiseldon, a day centre in Haydon Wick, free loan of wheelchairs and heaters in the winter as well as an advocacy and information service, which gives advice on welfare benefits.
Kath Clarke, 75, of Blunsdon, turned to the charity for help after her claim for benefits was rejected twice.
She said: "I felt like I had nowhere else to go. My husband had just gone into a home and my son had died.
"I thought I can't take any more, I just felt like I couldn't cope.
"But someone helped me fill in the forms and the third time I was successful and they told about what I was entitled to.
"Sometimes people my age find all the long forms quite confusing and it does make a difference the way you fill them out.
"Everyone should go to them for help when they need it.
"So it is great that more people will be raising money for the charity."
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