Offers a free telephone-based befriending service designed to reduce loneliness and isolation for anyone living with a visual impairment.
Befriending
We match befrienders and befriendees based on common values and interests for telephone calls at an agreed day and time.
Regular phone-based befriending can be arranged at a convenient time for you. Our service is staffed by a team of dedicated, friendly, trained volunteers, who have close experience of sight loss.
They can provide much needed support and friendship. Many of our service users and volunteers are benefiting from the positive impact a telephone befriending relationship can offer.
Sightline does not offer counselling, mentoring or advocacy services, nor is Sightline’s telephone befriending service a suitable alternative for these services.
- How can I access this service?
- Telephone, email, referral form on the website or message via social media
- When is this service open?
- Office hours are 9am to 5pm, Monday to Thursday.
- How much will it cost me?
- 0800 numbers are free to call from BT landlines and most mobile networks.
- Social media
- What groups of people is this for?
- People with a sensory disability
- What age groups is this for?
- 18+
- What areas of the city is this for?
- People from anywhere in the city
Contacts
- All Enquiries (contact form available on the website)
- info@sightline.org.uk
- 0800 587 2252