Befriending support organisations

Here are some organisations that offer befriending, wellbeing and advice services.

If you are an Oddfellows member and are looking for befriending support, please get in touch with your Branch Secretary or call the Oddfellows' Care and Welfare Helpline.

For general support

Age UK
Visit www.ageuk.org.uk/services/befriending-services

The Silver Line
Visit www.thesilverline.org.uk or call their 24-hour helpline on 0800 4 70 80 90.

Independent Age
Visit www.independentage.org/get-support or call their helpline on 0800 319 6789.

Royal Voluntary Service
Visit www.royalvoluntaryservice.org.uk/our-services/supporting-people

Reengage
Visit www.reengage.org.uk/refer. They also offer LGBT+ telephone befriending through rainbow call companions.

Talking bubble
Visit www.talkingbubble.org

Befriending Networks
Visit www.befriending.co.uk/about/find-a-befriender. They offer a directory of befriending projects across the UK.

For specialist support

MindOut
MindOut offers a telephone befriending service to LGBTQ people experiencing loneliness and isolation.
Visit www.mindout.org.uk/get-support/telephone-befriending

SIghtline
Sightline offers a telephone befriending service designed to reduce loneliness and isolation in the visually impaired community.
Visit www.sightline.org.uk/befriending-service

Sense
Sense offers a Virtual Buddying service for disabled people who are experiencing loneliness.
Visit www.sense.org.uk/our-services/meeting-people/virtual-buddying-befriending-service

Deafblind
Deafblind offers a befriending service for people living with deafblindness.
Visit www.deafblind.org.uk/get_support/befriending

The Brain Charity
The Brain Charity offers a befriending service for people living with a neurological condition.
Visit www.thebraincharity.org.uk/service/counselling/loneliness

Care for the Family
Care for the Family currently offers a befriending to three groups of adults – bereaved parents who have lost a child from stillbirth to 35 years, those widowed young (for anyone up to the age of fifty who has lost a partner, or older if you still have dependant children), and parents of children with an additional need.
Visit www.careforthefamily.org.uk/who-we-are/faq/faq-befriending

MARIE CURIE
Marie Curie offers Helper volunteer support for anyone with a terminal illness aged 18 or over and their family.
Visit www.mariecurie.org.uk/help/helper-volunteers

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