News and events

We are working hard to maintain our services to families across the Winchester district during this difficult time. Our staff are working from home but please do get in touch via email [...]

We would like to give a very warm welcome to our newest trustee, Chris Bale MBE, who has joined our board of trustees this month. Chris has a wealth of experience in the charity sector and has [...]

Our Support for Dads service has received a £2,500 grant from Winchester Rotary which will enable our Counsellor, Charlie Wright, to continue his work counselling and mentoring prisoners at HMP [...]

On Friday 3rd January, 42 children parents and volunteers were treated to a wonderful pantomime of Dick Whittington at The Theatre Royal Winchester. The tickets had been generously provided by a [...]

Both children and adults from our 5s to 13s Befriending service were invited to participate in Christmas craft activities this week. Both sessions were facilitated by ex 5s to13s befriending [...]

Our AGM, on 4th November, marked the retirement of Viv Wheeler as Chair of Trustees, after eight years of dedicated service. We are thrilled that Viv will remain a trustee of Friends of the [...]

Thank you to everyone who supported our two most recent fundraising events. We are thrilled to report that our table-top sale raised just over £600 and our Quiz Night raised a whopping £2,430! A [...]

We would like to give a warm welcome to our new volunteers, Sarah, Carmel, Peter, Ian and Fern, who all completed our 5s to 13s Befriender training course this month and passed with flying [...]

Tickets are now on sale for our annual Quiz Night! Come and test your general knowledge at our biggest fundraising event of the year. With questions set by Quiz Master Richard Morse, food, a [...]

A big thank you to all the Waitrose customers in Winchester, who placed their Community Matters green tokens in Friends of the Family’s box during the month of August.  Their support [...]