About the Network

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Membership

Befriending Network Scotland has an annual membership of around 250 projects and organisations, of which 75% are based in Scotland. The remaining 25% are found throughout England, Wales and Northern Ireland. They represent befriending projects working with a wide range of people, with the highest proportion being children and young people and people with mental health problems. However, many other projects, such as those working with older people, people with learning disabilities and people with physical disabilities are also represented in the membership.

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Benefits of Membership

Our members gain essential contacts and information as part of the network:

  • FREE – Code of Practice. Good practice recommendations produced by befriending projects.
  • FREE – Net Gain. Our quarterly newsletter for befriending organisations, including members' experiences and topical issues in befriending. Previous articles include: 'Befriending Teenagers with Asperger's', 'Moving Beyond One-to-One Befriending', 'Culturally Appropriate Befriending', 'Emotional Intelligence', and 'Time-limited Befriending'.
  • FREE – The Befriender. Our quarterly newsletter for befrienders – for you to copy for your volunteers to encourage them to feel part of a national scene.
  • FREE – New Members CD. Packed with archive material from networking meetings and newsletters.
  • FREE – Evaluation Toolkit. A 120-page one-stop shop guiding projects through the evaluation process.
  • FREE or discounted publications, training courses & events.
  • FREE – Access to members-only content on our website, www.befriending.co.uk.
  • FREE – Access to our vast online library of project documentation to give you examples of material on which to base your own policies and procedures.
  • Access to our consultancy and evaluation service or 1:1 telephone support, to discuss any issues of your practice with our trained staff.
  • FREE – Directory listing. Get your project into the Scottish Befriending Projects Directory, the largest database of befriending organisations in the UK.

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