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To think this charity linking young people and elderly people sounds great but that it needs to change it's name from "Kissing it Better" ?

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Papersnowflakes · 26/12/2025 09:29

Link to that charity below. I genuinely like the sound of what they do. I am glad they are in the Times campaign. But I find the name deeply unsettling. I don't know if that's just because of an awful experience in my own life with a much older person I knew through volunteering as a teen, but I just think it's a really odd name to pick!

www.thetimes.com/uk/healthcare/article/jill-fraser-ceo-charity-kissing-better-christmas-appeal-9r27blq2j?gaa_at=eafs&gaa_n=AWEtsqfrcdKLrXZO8swzN8xZckp1GlNZ8f7E2sONmeBPADbXmS5upagTgvTNqEupMk0%3D&gaa_ts=694e579b&gaa_sig=WwUmSt_ApmV4J3kqCuseC3Ch4SDxBAD_M0NILbMedPfrWPrdTpEiL5-v3xxSL5vmRocyhKCiy3hpnt_0quDMbw%3D%3D

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ManyPigeons · 26/12/2025 09:32

I mean she recognises that she wouldn’t choose the name again if she founded the charity in 2025. In literally the first few lines.

Papersnowflakes · 26/12/2025 09:33

ManyPigeons · 26/12/2025 09:32

I mean she recognises that she wouldn’t choose the name again if she founded the charity in 2025. In literally the first few lines.

I know that. So why not just change the name?

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Papersnowflakes · 26/12/2025 09:36

And it's not like she founded the charity in 1950! It was 15 years ago.
I worked with young people long before that and we were well drilled in safeguarding. It just feels like such an unnecessarily odd name to pick

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FuzzyPuffling · 26/12/2025 09:37

Yes, odd name. And a bit of a faff but not that hard to change it.

The one I really hate is "Coppa Feel".

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