Care Home Friends
We recruit and train volunteers to offer friendship and support elderly residents in care homes. Research suggests that older people in care homes are twice as likely to feel lonely as older people living in the community. We have over 60 volunteers across all the care homes in the London Borough of Richmond, and have started to expand nationally to the Isle of Wight, Belfast, Liverpool, Hampshire, Billinghurst and beyond.
Click here to find out more about our national care home friends project.
Support for care home residents includes befriending, helping older people with their digital skills to enable them stay connected with their family, reading aloud to the visually impaired, going for a walk with a resident, playing board games and so on. The list is endless and volunteers are trained to respond to the individual needs of residents, in liaison with care home staff and relatives.
We are always looking for new volunteers. If this is something you are interested to know more about please click here for more information.
If you have a friend or relative in a care home in the Borough of Richmond who you think would benefit from this service, or if you are interested in helping us spread Care Home Friends across the UK and would like to start a project in your area, please do get in contact.
Here's what some of our existing volunteers say:
Click here to find out more about our national care home friends project.
Support for care home residents includes befriending, helping older people with their digital skills to enable them stay connected with their family, reading aloud to the visually impaired, going for a walk with a resident, playing board games and so on. The list is endless and volunteers are trained to respond to the individual needs of residents, in liaison with care home staff and relatives.
We are always looking for new volunteers. If this is something you are interested to know more about please click here for more information.
If you have a friend or relative in a care home in the Borough of Richmond who you think would benefit from this service, or if you are interested in helping us spread Care Home Friends across the UK and would like to start a project in your area, please do get in contact.
Here's what some of our existing volunteers say:
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"The care home visiting is going really well; I enjoy it a lot! I've met a couple of people - my favourite is a 95 year old lady and we have such a good laugh! She is so sweet and I look forward every week to visiting the home. Everyone is friendly and I believe they love having me there!"
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"I took Mrs X out to the park today. She was ready and waiting for me and had told her son she was going out. What a joy it is to do this, how it makes me value my own mobility, my freedom - indeed, my life!"
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