Fife Older Persons’ Service – Volunteer Befriending

The Older Persons' Service recruits, supports, and trains people as volunteer befrienders.  By enabling older people to be connected, the volunteers help to improve their quality of life, and this can delay or avoid the need for more intensive support.

The service matches trained volunteers with older people to provide person-centred befriending support in people’s homes and in their communities.

How we can help you

The befriending service provides a regular volunteer befriender to support alongside an older person to rebuild their confidence, decrease social isolation through regular visits, or by putting them in touch with other specialist agencies if needed.  These visits could be weekly or fortnightly face-to-face visits. 

I had not been out of the house in years before I got support from a befriender.

Someone supported by our Older Persons' Service

How can you get support

Unfortunately, our waiting list is currently closed.

We are not accepting any new referrals at this time. We will update our website as soon as the waiting list reopens and referrals can be accepted again.

Thank you for your understanding and patience.

Thank you to our funders

This service is funded by the Fife Health and Social Care Partnership.