Our befriending service provides support to help students who might otherwise feel lonely. Trained volunteer befrienders visit people near their homes to go for a walk, a bike ride, a coffee, do some shopping or just have a chat.
Our befrienders are carefully matched to students with similar interests, regularly offering support and friendship.
How does befriending help?
- It encourages communication, helping students to improve their social skills and feel more self-confident.
- It motivates students to get more exercise by getting out in the fresh air to explore their communities.
- It helps our students to feel less lonely; they make friends and have someone trusted to talk to.
The service is available to anyone who attends Share.
Activities are chosen by students and meetings are typically once a week for one to two hours.
All volunteers are DBS and reference checked.
Share is a member of Befriending Networks, a charity providing support, training and guidance to hundreds of befriending projects across the UK. Befriending Networks envisages a society that values befriending, recognises its importance, and provides befriending support to everyone who needs it.
Where to next?
Be a befriender
Core daily sessions at Share
