Subscribe to website RSS feeds

RSS feeds What is RSS?

RSS (Really Simple Syndication) provides an easy way for you to see when our website has added new content. You can get the latest headlines‚ audio and video in one place‚ as soon as its published‚ without having to visit the websites you have taken the feed from.

Choose a feed

• Press releases and press responses
  Keep up to date with all the latest news from our Media Centre.
• Job vacancies
  Find out about all new Age Concern England job vacancies.
• Podcasts
  Listen to our audio podcasts about what we do for older people as well as intesting stories‚ poems and reviews.
• Products & services
  Products aimed at the over 50s including insurance‚ energy services‚ funeral plans and will-writing.

How do use RSS feeds?

You need something called a news reader. This is a piece of software that checks RSS feeds and lets you read any new articles that have been added to them. There is a range of different news readers available and new versions are appearing all the time. Different news readers work on different operating systems‚ so you will need to choose one that will work with your computer.

There are many different versions‚ some of which are accessed using a browser‚ and some of which are downloadable applications. Browser-based readers let you catch up with your RSS feed subscriptions from any computer‚ whereas downloadable applications let you store them on your main computer.

Once you have chosen a reader‚ all you have to do is to decide what content you want to receive in your news reader‚ by clicking on one of the RSS feeds above.

Alternatively just look for the orange symbol as you navigate the site.

When you click on the link‚ you can subscribe to the feed in various ways‚ including by dragging the URL of the RSS feed into your news reader or by cutting and pasting the same URL into a new feed in your news reader.

Most sites that offer RSS feeds use a similar orange RSS button but some may just have a normal web link to the feed.

RSS readers

Here's a selection of RSS readers to get you started:

On the web

• Bloglines
• My Yahoo!
• NewsGator
• Google

For Windows

• Newz Crawler
• FeedDemon
• Awasu

For Mac OS X

• Newsfire
• NetNewsWire