Welcome to episode 58 of The Highloat, the weekly news and pop culture podcast brought to

you by journalist Dolly Alderton and Pandora Scythes.

A thank you on behalf of Pandora who really wanted the mailbag to stick in the highloat,

common parlance and are now receiving email after email in the highloat's inbox.

This is one for the mailbag.

Thanks very much everyone for supporting me on that.

So in the blue Peter mailbag this week, we received a message from the Joe Cox Foundation.

Joe Sister Kim has been leading on some amazing work on combating loneliness on behalf of the

foundation, which we feel very passionately about. So we wanted to flag it up.

The foundation follows Joe's philosophy that closer communities where you know your

neighbours and how strong local connections are best equipped to tackle loneliness.

Over the weekend of the 22nd to the 24th of June, which would have been Joe's 44th birthday,

the foundation of running the great get together for the second year running.

It's a nationwide celebration of communities inspired by Joe's maiden speech quote,

we have more in common than things that divide us.

Thousands of events have been planned up and down the country and millions are expected to take part.

All events bring communities together to have fun from dog walks in Bristol to

picnics in the grounds of stately homes in Yorkshire.

As I said, it's of course Pandora and I feel very passionately about.

And to find out more, you can visit www.greattogetogether.org

And on the subject of loneliness, we received a tweet from the Minister for Loneliness, Tracy Crouch,

who said a friend introduced her to the highloat and she's now an avid listener.

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