5 to 13 year olds

After a challenging year, we were able to run a befriender training course in May and we are thrilled to welcome six super new volunteers to our 5s to 13s Befriending team. Loui, Adele, Anne, [...]

Six super new volunteers have joined Friends of the Family’s 5s to 13s Befriending team. Loui, Adele, Anne, Jane, Sarah and Tracey all successfully completed the two-day befriender training [...]

On Friday 30th April the 5s to 13s Befriending families, volunteers and trustees accepted the ‘Captain Tom 100 Challenge – Do it Your Way’ and participated in a 100 Question Quiz, with the aim of [...]

We are delighted to be taking part in the #CaptainTom100 challenge on Friday 30th April to honour Captain Tom Moore and his completion of 100 laps. Children, families and volunteers from our 5s [...]

On Friday 26th March the 5s to 13s Befriending held their 5th Family Fun Friday on Zoom. This week the focus children and volunteers were treated to four virtual duck races in which they had to [...]

Friends of the Family held their fourth Family Fun Friday on Friday 26th February with seventeen children, parents and volunteers joining in with a game of Friends of the “Family Fortunes” on [...]

Friday 12th February saw our third Family Fun Friday session for the 5s to 13 focus children, families and befrienders to have some fun playing BINGO! Everyone participating had been provided [...]

On Friday 15th January the children, families and volunteers of the 5s to 13s Befriending service enjoyed the chance to participate in a virtual quiz on Zoom for our first ever ‘Family Fun [...]

One of our 5s to 13s focus children has been donated a super second hand bike by a local not for profit, social enterprise organisation Bespoke Biking. Focus child Jack, had outgrown his bike a [...]

Winchester-based charity, Friends of the Family, is appealing for volunteers to train to become befrienders for children who live in the local area. The charity’s 5s to 13s Befriending Service [...]