News and events

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 [...]

Our 5s to 13s Befriending Service had an amazing day at Calshot Activity Centre on 12 August. The day was organised by Befriending Manager Sam Hunt, who, along with five volunteer befrienders, [...]

We are delighted to announce that we are one of three local charities taking part in the Green Token Scheme throughout August at Waitrose in Weeke (SO22 6EL). If this is your local branch, then [...]