Today is Just Giving Tuesday. It is a day of global giving, a chance when everyone can do something to support the good causes that mean so much to us all. At West Norfolk Befriending we value all our supporters and volunteers and realise that without them the charity wouldn’t function. However, in order to provide our befriending service to the socially isolated, elderly, local community it is essential that we receive donations. The service itself is free to the client but we rely on grants and donations to offer this service. We are a small team, and your money will directly impact the people we support.

£15 funds one face to face befriending visit

£40 funds a client attending one of our social events

£150 funds birthdahy cards for all our clients each year

£300 funds telephone befriending support for an older person for a year.

There are a number of ways you can donate. We welcome cash or cheque donations sent to our office. Or you can donate online through a number of portals. You can also set up a monthly donation to help us even more.

🔹Just Giving https://www.justgiving.com/wnbefriending

🔸WN Wins https://www.westnorfolkwins.co.uk/…/west-norfolk…

🔹Amazon Smile https://smile.amazon.co.uk/gp/chpf/homepage?orig=%2F

🔸 easyfundraising https://www.easyfundraising.org.uk/causes/wnbefriending/

🔹Please get in touch if you are interested in fundraising for us. Maybe you would like to organise a coffee morning or set yourself a challenge to support our work. Get in touch and we can support you in your fundraising efforts.

Alternatively, you can donate your time and become a valued volunteer and enable us to increase the number of isolated people we could help.

Last week we celebrated our 20th Anniversary with an event at Thaxter’s Coffee Shop. We invited our volunteers and clients to celebrate with us along with members from our board of Trustees. Our guest of honour was the Deputy Lieutenant of Norfolk, Kathryn Buscall who stepped in to represent our Patron, Lady Dannat, Lord Lieutenant of Norfolk. She made a speech about the importance of combating loneliness and commented ““I had a wonderful time on Tuesday and couldn’t have been more pleased to meet you all”. Our chairman stated in his speech that over the 20 years West Norfolk Befriending has been offering the befriending service we have helped over 2000 isolated older people.

Thaxter’s Coffee Shop did a wonderful job of providing sandwiches, cakes, scones and refreshments to everyone. We also had a special commemorative cake made by Val Gooding of King’s Lynn Sugar Craft group which the Deputy Lieutenant kindly agreed to cut with the help of one of our past clients.

It was an afternoon spent with much warmth and conversation. It was good to see so many of our volunteers and clients having fun.

We are seeking a new Treasurer to join our Board of Trustees to help oversee and guide everything that West Norfolk Befriending does.

The Treasurer plays a major role in terms of organisational decision-making and developments.

Whilst experience of managing budgets and analysing financial data is not essential it would be helpful in the role of Treasurer.

Please download the role description for full details and instructions of how to apply.