# Age Concern's online community

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2001/05/13/age-concern039s-online-community/
- Published: 2001-05-13T23:00:00+01:00
- Author: Howard Lake

Building an online community should be a core objective of any charity’s Web presence,
whether they are serving clients or donors and supporters. 
Building an online community
should be a core objective of any charity’s Web presence, whether they are serving
clients or donors and supporters. It is, however, a significant undertaking. Age
Concern created such a community in 1999 in the form of the Baby Boomer Bistro, “
the first chat site in the UK developed specifically for the over 50s.”

Visit Age Concern’s Baby Boomer Bistro.

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