About Us:

The Gosport Befriending Services supports older and isolated local residents, by providing companionship on a regular basis.

During the COVID-19 pandamic, we have adapted our service to provide telephone befriending to our existing befriendees as well as supporting more than 85 additional older or vulnerable residents with a regularly friendly chat over the phone. 

Our general service includes face-to-face befriending; where a volunteer befriender visits an older person in their home once a week, telephone befriending; where a volunteer befriender phones an older person once a week and CHAT Groups; where a volunteer hosts, in their own home, a monthly meeting for our guests to enjoy an afternoon of chat, tea and cake.

Our service helps to combat loneliness in Gosport - it provides an older person with a link to the outside world and may also act as a gateway for other services and valuable support.

We need your help so we can continue to offer our service for free to the residents of Gosport. Thank you for your support and good luck!

Yours sincerely

Jean Legg