Helping Hands is working in partnership with local communities to enhance and expand existing befriending services or establish new befriending services in throughout the Highlands.
- Sutherland Care Forum: Friends at Home Befriending Service
- Skye and Lochalsh Council for Voluntary Organisations: Befrienders Skye and Lochalsh
- GALE's Helping Hands
- North Coast Helping Hands Befriending Service
- Beauly and Glens Helping Hands Befriending Service
- Cairdeas, Dove Centre Befriending service in Oban
- Boleskine Helping Hands service
- Other areas in Highland we are looking to work with partners to establish befriending services
Befriending Services Across the Highlands
Sutherland Care Forum: Friends at Home Befriending Service
Sutherland Care Forum (SCF) is the Hospice’s partner in central and east Sutherland, where it has offered the Friends at Home befriending service for a number of years. Their service manager and some of their volunteers have received Helping Hands training on supporting people with palliative care needs. The six month pilot of the partnership was successfully completed on 31 October 2017, and the two organisations have agreed ongoing partnership to sustain and develop the service in the future. A small grant from the Hospice is supporting this arrangement.
For more details service and volunteering information please follow link: www.sutherlandcareforum.org.uk
Skye and Lochalsh Council for Voluntary Organisations: Befrienders Skye and Lochalsh
Skye and Lochalsh Council for Voluntary Organisations (SLCVO) deliver our partner service in Skye and Lochalsh. The Hospice has supported establishment of the service and is providing ongoing support as it develops. The service co-ordinator has attended the Helping Hands training and shadowed Hospice staff. The Hospice has worked with SLCVO to train and support the volunteers for this new service as well as providing a small grant.
For more details service and volunteering information please contact Claire Nairn on 01478 612921 or visit their website www.slcvo.org.uk or Facebook page www.facebook.com/SLCVO
GALE's Helping Hands
GALE's Helping Hands service will be based in Gairloch and delivered in partnership with Gairloch and Loch Ewe Action Forum. The Hospice has supported establishment of the service and is providing ongoing support as it develops. The service co-ordinator has attended the Helping Hands training and shadowed Hospice staff. The Hospice has worked with GALE to train and support the volunteers for this new service as well as providing a small grant.
For more details service and volunteering information please contact Kelly Westrope, Volunteer Programme Assistant, on 01445 712071 or visit their website or Facebook page.
North Coast Helping Hands Befriending Service
North Coast Helping Hands service is delivered by North Coast Connection in partnership with Highland Hospice. The Hospice has supported establishment of the service and is providing ongoing support as it develops. The service co-ordinator has attended the Helping Hands training and shadowed Hospice staff. The Hospice has worked with North Coast Connection to train and support the volunteers for this new service as well as providing a small grant.
For more details service and volunteering information please contact Marion MacDougal on 01847 611392
Beauly and Glens Helping Hands Befriending Service
Beauly and Glens Helping Hands service is delivered in Beauly, Kiltarlity, Kirkhill, Kilmorack, Strathglass and Glenurquhart in partnership with Glenurquhart Care project. This new service is a 2year pilot project funded in partnership Soirbheas and Beauly & District Care Project.
The Hospice has supported establishment of the service and is providing ongoing support as it develops. The service co-ordinator has attended the Helping Hands training and shadowed Hospice staff. The Hospice has provided training and support to the volunteers for this new service.
For more details service and volunteering information please contact Gemma Anstead, service coordinator on 07748 575330 or visit their website or Facebook page.
Cairdeas, Dove Centre Befriending service in Oban
Cairdeas befriending service is delivered in Oban in partnership with Oban Hospice Limited.
The Hospice has supported establishment of the service and is providing ongoing support as it develops. The service co-ordinator has attended the Helping Hands training and has the ongoing support of Hospice staff. The Hospice has provided training and support to the volunteers for this new service.
For more details service and volunteering information please contact Lucy Hunt, Oban Hospice Community Services Co-ordinator on 01631 561315
Boleskine Helping Hands service
Boleskine Helping Hands befriending service is delivered in the area of Stratherrick and Foyers Community in partnership Boleskine Community Care.
The Hospice has supported establishment of the service and is providing ongoing support as it developes. The service co-ordinator has attended the Helping Hands training and has the ongoing support of Hospice staff. The Hospice has provided training and support to the volunteers for this new service. The service will be available for support from 1st November 2020.
For more details service and volunteering information please contact Jayne Brinkworth on 01456 486247 or 07375303187. Usual working hours Mon-Weds 9am – 5pm
Other areas in Highland we are looking to work with partners to establish befriending services
As of June 2020
Ullapool: Initial discussions regarding proposed service completed and community considering how best to progress
Befriending Caithness: Training delivered and contact maintained regarding potential future partnership service
Lochaber: Initial discussions regarding proposed service completed and await contact with project lead
Badenoch and Strathspey: Discussions with Here to Help service and NHS staff regarding potential support for befriending in the area.
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