Quality Standards

Learn more about the Approved Provider Standard for befriending and mentoring schemes, including how to apply:

The APS Database

Approved Providers

Scottish Befriending Schemes which are currently Approved Providers:

organisationreaccreditation
Aberlour Childcare Trust – Unit 2May 2009
Alcohol & Drug Support, South West Scotland – Befriending & Peer Support ServiceMay 2010
Barnardo's – Hopscotch ProjectJuly 2009
Befriend a ChildFebruary 2010
BefriendersJune 2009
Broomhouse Elderly Befriending ServiceJuly 2011
Broomhouse Youth Befriending ProjectJanuary 2010
Children 1st – bfriendsMay 2009
Church in the Mount Befriending ServiceMarch 2010
COVEY (Community Volunteers Enabling Youth)August 2009
Dumfries & Galloway Befriending ProjectMarch 2011
Falkirk & Clackmannanshire Central Carers Association – Adult Carers Befriending ProjectMarch 2010
Falkirk & Clackmannanshire Central Carers Association – Young Carers' Befriending ProjectJuly 2009
Falkirk & District Association for Mental Health Befriending SchemeMay 2010
Home Link Family SupportAugust 2009
Interest Link BordersMarch 2010
Kincardine & Deeside BefriendingMarch 2010
National Schizophrenia Fellowship – Companions Befriending SchemeMarch 2010
Shetland Befriending SchemeMay 2009
SOLVE Befriending ProjectMarch 2010
South Ayrshire Befriending ProjectOctober 2009
Stirling & District Association for Mental Health – Young Person's Befriending ServiceOctober 2009
Volunteer Centre Glasgow – Young Persons Befriending SchemeJune 2009
West Lothian Youth Action Project – Integr8 Befriending ServiceAugust 2009
WRVS – East Lothian Call in TimeJuly 2011

Organisations 'Working Towards APS'

Scottish Befriending Schemes which are currently registered as 'Working Towards APS':

organisationexpires
Befriend in BellshillMarch 2009
Befrienders HighlandMay 2009
Break-a-Way Befriending ProjectFebruary 2009
Brighter HorizonsMarch 2009
Clydesdale Befriending GroupMarch 2009
Connect – Mental Health Befriending SchemeJanuary 2009
Cowal Elderly BefriendersAugust 20009
DAMH – Two's Company Befriending ServiceAugust 2009
DAMH – 4 Ever Friends – Older Adults' Befriending ServiceAugust 2009
Dumfries & Galloway Association for the Blind Home Visiting ProjectMarch 2009
East Dunbartonshire Council Befriending ProjectMarch 2009
ECAS Befriending ProjectMarch 2009
Epilepsy Connections Befriending ProjectJanuary 2009
Families First Befriending ProjectFebruary 2009
firsthand – Resilience ProjectMarch 2009
GEAAP's Befriending ServiceMarch 2009
GRDSS BefriendingJuly 2009
Health in Mind – re:discoverAugust 2009
Heart Failure Support Service (Lothian)March 2009
Larkhall and District Volunteer GroupApril 2009
Midlothian BefriendersMarch 2009
Parkinson's Self Help Group (North Lanarkshire) – P.A.L.S. Befriending ServiceApril 2009
Skillsharers Befriending Project, Gordon Rural ActionMarch 2009
Tayside Council on Alcohol – Link-Up Mentoring ServiceMarch 2009
Volunteer Centre South Ayrshire – 60+ Befriending ServiceMarch 2009
West Dunbartonshire CVS – VC BefriendMarch 2009
West Lothian Befriending SchemeJuly 2009