A new social network has been set up for the UK’s grandparents.

Gransnet, from the creators of Mumsnet, is a forum-based website aimed at the older gener-ations.

The site gives the country’s 14 million grandparents an online space to discuss subjects including relationships, hobbies, news, culture and grandparenting.

Justine Roberts, founder and chief executive officer of Mums-net, said: “Grandparents now provide support to a third of working mothers, so a forum to discuss the many and varied grandparenting issues that arise with other grandparents should be invaluable.

“Mumsnet has proved to be a godsend to parents by allowing them to pool advice and inform-ation to make their lives easier.

“The Mumsnet community has given a powerful collective voice to a group that was previously somewhat disenfranchised.

“We’d like to do the same for older people, who are arguably even more isolated and unheard and in need of a place for peer-to-peer support, advice and friendship.”

Gransnet editor Geraldine Bedell said: “Many grandparents are very active and vital to their families, as well as being busy, learning and full of ideas and opinions.

“Yet people in the second half of life often feel we aren’t very visible, or even expected to have much of an identity. We hope Gransnet will help change that.”