Support that meets you where you are.

A warm welcome, every week.

Monday & Friday Meeting Places

Our Monday and Friday Meeting Places bring isolated older adults together for social contact, activities, and wellbeing support. Running since December 2022, both sessions run 11am–2pm and together support around 40 people each week — many of whom receive no formal home care and for whom this is their only regular contact with others.

• Monday Meeting Place: 11am–2pm — Weybourne Road, Aldershot, Hampshire, GU11 3NE
• Friday Meeting Place: 11am–2pm — Anstey Park, Anstey Lane, Alton, Hampshire, GU34 2NB
• Activities include: Know Your Numbers blood pressure monitoring, seated exercise, and laughter yoga
• Social activities, wellbeing support, and friendship
• Open to isolated older adults — no referral needed
• A donation to attend is requested — helping us keep the doors open for everyone
• Transport assistance available on request* — a donation contribution is appreciated

* Transport subject to availability.

Friendship and a warm start to the week.

Befriending Brunch

We visit two sheltered housing schemes weekly, offering befriending alongside a hot brunch for residents who are significantly isolated and financially insecure. These sessions provide a vital lifeline for people who are, in the words of one of our partners, 'one step up from homeless.'

• Tuesday: Orchard House, Orchard Lane, Alton, Hampshire, GU34 1DZ
• Thursday: Bourne Court, Manor Road, Aldershot, Hampshire, GU11 3DL
• Hot brunch included at every session
• Activities include: Know Your Numbers blood pressure monitoring, seated exercise, and laughter yoga
• Focused on the most financially insecure and isolated residents

A friend at the end of the line.

Telephone Befriending

Our free telephone befriending service supports lonely and isolated people at home across England and Wales. Delivered entirely by trained volunteers we recruit, train, and manage, it provides a regular, caring phone call for people who may otherwise have no one to talk to. We have supported people through telephone befriending until the very end of their lives, so no one faces that time alone.

• Free of charge — funded by donations and grants
• Available across England and Wales
• NHS referrals welcomed
• Delivered by trained, supported volunteers

Support in your own home and community.

Companion Home Visiting & Wellbeing Partnerships

Our companion home visiting service provides light housework, friendship, shopping, and home support for vulnerable people in their own homes — helping them stay connected, comfortable, and cared for.

• Companion visiting: friendship, shopping, light housework
• Cost: £20 per hour* — may include a contribution to the companion's travel costs depending on area
• Run in partnership with national health initiatives

* £20 per hour rate may include a contribution to the companion's travel costs depending on area.