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FAMILY BEFRIENDING & MENTORING 0-16 YEARS KENSINGTON & CHELSEA, HAMMERSMITH & FULHAM AND SOUTH EAST BRENT Referrals Family Friends’ services are initiated only with the consent of the family. The most important criteria for receiving Family Friends’ support is that the family really does want to make positive changes. If you are a family that would like support or know of a family who would benefit from it, please call the office on 020 8960 9099 or complete the referral form on our website and email it to us. Contact Us Family Friends 73 St Charles Square, London W10 6EJ 020 8960 9099 [email protected] www.familyfriends.uk.com How To Find Us Underground: Nearest station (15 minute walk) is Ladbroke Grove (Circle and Hammersmith & City lines) Buses: 52, 7, 295, 228, 23, 70, 316 and 452 Family Friends is an Approved Provider of NCVO Mentoring & Befriending. Family Friends is a charity registered with the Charity Commission under the charity number 1028214, and a company limited by guarantee and registered in England and Wales under company number 2863464. Registered office: 73 St. Charles Square, London W10 6EJ. help ing f a mi l i es to help t h e mselves Our Volunteers Family Friends’ volunteers come from a wide range of backgrounds and are selected for their qualities of warmth, understanding and practicality. They use our training and their commitment and life experiences to become a supportive friend to a family. Our volunteers recognise the importance of confidentiality and trust. All Volunteers: . Are interviewed . Provide suitable references . Are police-checked . Are trained . Receive weekly supervision from Family Friends’ staff.
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FAMILY BEFRIENDING & MENTORING 0-16 YEARS
KENSINGTON & CHELSEA, HAMMERSMITH & FULHAMAND SOUTH EAST BRENT
ReferralsFamily Friends’ services are initiated only with the consentof the family. The most important criteria for receiving FamilyFriends’ support is that the family really does want to makepositive changes. If you are a family that would like supportor know of a family who would benefit from it, please callthe office on 020 8960 9099 or complete the referral formon our website and email it to us.
Contact UsFamily Friends73 St Charles Square, London W10 6EJ
020 8960 [email protected]
How To Find UsUnderground: Nearest station (15 minute walk) isLadbroke Grove (Circle and Hammersmith & City lines)
Buses: 52, 7, 295, 228, 23, 70, 316 and 452
Family Friends is an Approved Provider of NCVO Mentoring& Befriending.Family Friends is a charity registered with the Charity Commission underthe charity number 1028214, and a company limited by guaranteeand registered in England and Wales under company number 2863464.Registered office: 73 St. Charles Square, London W10 6EJ.
helping families to help themselves
Our VolunteersFamily Friends’ volunteers come from a wide range ofbackgrounds and are selected for their qualities of warmth,understanding and practicality. They use our training andtheir commitment and life experiences to become a supportivefriend to a family. Our volunteers recognise the importanceof confidentiality and trust.
All Volunteers:. Are interviewed. Provide suitable references. Are police-checked. Are trained. Receive weekly supervision
from Family Friends’ staff.
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What Is Befriendingand Mentoring?Through respect, encouragement and support, we aim tohelp families to discover their strengths, build confidence andresolve difficulties. We help families on both an emotional anda practical level. A Family Friends’ befriender may introducea parent to community resources, help to find out aboutrelevant social benefits, give support around parenting andwork towards better health and nutrition. Mentors may doactivities with children such as sport, art, reading, visiting parks,libraries and museums, giving academic support or justhaving a chat. Volunteers do not offer home-help or baby-sitting services.
How Do We Work? At Family Friends we carefully recruit, train and matchvolunteers to families. Volunteers meet their family in thehome, once a week, for two hours. We offer long-term helpbased on each family’s unique needs and potential. Volunteerspledge a minimum six month commitment and Family Friends’staff back up their work with on-going supervision andfamily feedback interviews.
What Have Families Gained?Since Family Friends was set up in 1993, we have assistedhundreds of families. Parents grow in confidence and buildbetter lives for their children. Many start using local facilitieslike nurseries and parenting groups. Parents return to education,go back to work or take up volunteering opportunities. Somebecome representatives on local community programmes.Children socialise, play and learn. They take up new interests,improve behaviour and get on better at school.
“I find it difficult to trust people, but I have been able to open up to Mark. He really
UNDERSTANDS ME”
“I am now
EXCITEDabout the future and have
stopped thinking about the past so much”
What Do We Do?Family Friends provides practical and emotional help tofamilies-in-need through befriending and mentoring services.Trained volunteers offer dependable support on a weeklybasis to families. The services are provided to families livingin Kensington & Chelsea, Hammersmith & Fulham and SouthEast Brent (Dollis Hill, Mapesbury, Harlseden, Willesden Green,Brondesbury Park, Kensal Green, Queens Park and Kilburn) withchildren under the age of 16, for a minimum of six months.
Why Might You Want A Family Friend?Life is full of pressures and challenges. Whether you’re feelinglow, vulnerable, unable to cope, lacking in confidence, notgetting out enough, confused about how to move forward orswamped by responsibilities, we can help. Our friendshipis unconditional - all we ask of you is the wish to makechanges for the better.
Our Services:. Parent befriending
(families with a child under 16 years). Child/adolescent mentoring(children aged 5-16 years)
“Diane is such a
GOODLISTENERand she helps me remember
how much I have rather
than what I am
missing”
“Susan
brings a
SMILEto all
our faces”
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