answer:Perhaps you have to become the lynch pin @Jude? Organise a BBQ or something similar to get you all together every few months. Perhaps organise them around people’s birthdays and at least once over the ********* period. And put the next date for a get together in place at the meeting before. Don’t leave it as “we will have to do this again”. Rather, make it “we will do this again on xxx, does that suit everyone’s diary?”. I hope it works out for you. If people don’t want to get together en masse, perhaps make sure you visit one of them each month. We get so busy that meeting each of them every month might be too difficult but one a month could be achievable. In saying all this, none of my family speak to each other pretty well @Jude so I hope you can keep these connections open.