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A team of four plan a charity bike ride in memory of a close family member who died from the incurable condition in 2020

The scheme is ideal if you do not want a long term commitment but still want to help out

Readers share their experiences of being members of local clubs for retirees, of which there are hundreds in France, and tell how they manage the language barrier

Petits Frères des Pauvres, a leading charity for the elderly, said its studies found 530,000 people affected, the equivalent of a city like Lyon

Connexion reader Helen Beaney tells of how volunteering just a few hours here and there can help improve your French and become ‘part of the local grapevine’

The money generated – €2,000 more than in 2019 – will benefit a number of French children’s charities

The association is part of UK-based charity RAFA, and has 157 members (French and British) spread over a vast area in south west France

The charity deals mainly with missing persons, but also helps victims of any type of serious crime abroad

'In two days I had rehomed 400 hens' says Heidi Carneau, on discovering there was a battery farm nearby when she moved from the UK to the Gers in 2019

People of all ages and abilities are invited to express themselves in a new writing competition organised by English-speakers in France