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Befriending Networks publishes befriending-specific resources - We add to our list each year. All prices quoted below include postage & packing.

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Net Gain Autumn 2011

Author: Befriending Networks

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Common Ground Meeting Notes Autumn 2011

How do you feel about dealing with feelings …?
You do not need us to tell you that being a befriending coordinator can be hard on the emotions...

Author: Befriending Networks

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Net Gain Summer 2011

BNS quarterly newsletter with articles on befriending and the new Scottish Parliament, intergenerational & distance befriending initiatives, what’s happening with the new PVG system, details of new research, and more...

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Common Ground Notes May 2011

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People of Influence: Conference 2010

Author: Befriending Networks

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Quality of the Moment: Working 1:1 With People With Dementia - A Training Toolkit

This is a 120-page Toolkit in a photocopyable, ring binder format produced by Befriending Network Scotland in partnership with Alzheimer Scotland...

Author: Befriending Network Scotland and Alzheimer Scotland

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Quality of the Moment: Working 1:1 with People with Dementia - Good Practice Guidelines

Befriending Network Scotland and Alzheimer Scotland were commissioned by the Scottish Government to put together a set of good practice guidelines to guide the work of befriending projects working with people with dementia...

Author: Befriending Network Scotland and Alzheimer Scotland

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The Befriending Code of Practice (electronic version)

Befriending service clients are among the most vulnerable people in our society...

Author: Befriending Network Scotland

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Befriending Code of Practice (hard copy)

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Befriending and Wellbeing: BNS Conference & AGM 2009 Presentations

This 67-page PDF document contains the five presentations featured at BNS’ conference held on 8 October 2009...

Author: BNS

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Annual Report 2008/9

Author: Befriending Network Scotland

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Befriending and Resilience

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Changing Lives - DVD Training Resource

Changing Lives is a 15-minute dvd training resource which follows the progress of three very different befriending relationships in projects working with young people, adults and the elderly...

Author: Befriending Network Scotland

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Friendship and Befriending

An 8-page conference presentation exploring the role of friendship in befriending...

Author: Professor Lynn Jamieson, University of Edinburgh

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Child Protection - Recommendations for Befriending Projects

An electronic document of recommendations which arose from the recognition that there was a need to develop good practice guidelines on Child Protection...

Author: Befriending Network Scotland

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The Training Toolkit: Improving Training in Befriending

This bestselling training e-resource is for any project which has to train its volunteer befrienders...

Author: Befriending Network Scotland

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The Distance Training Pack: How to Train Your Home-Based Volunteers

This innovative training resource offers a very useful alternative to face-to-face training...

Author: Befrienders Highland

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Square One - Developing a New Project

An electronic publication outlining essential issues to consider in developing a new befriending project...

Author: Befriending Network Scotland

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The Befriending and Mentoring Evaluation Toolkit

Evaluation can be a turn-off, a worry or just a confusion for many people but befriending projects now have a resource to help them in establishing evaluation systems that will help them show the impact of befriending...

Author: Befriending Network Scotland

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Changing Lives - Video Training Resource

Changing Lives is a 15-minute video training resource which follows the progress of three very different befriending relationships in projects working with young people, adults and the elderly...

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What Do Mentoring and Befriending Mean To You: A DVD Training Resource

This 20-minute film presents the views of 5 matched pairs and brings to life the unique relationships that lie at the heart of mentoring and befriending...

Author: Befriending Network Scotland and Scottish Mentoring Network

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