Volunteer Befrienders – Lunch & Learn

Let’s Care Together- Supporting those who look after others

A Lunch and Learn session about the volunteer Befriender role in the Let’s Care Together programme.

Business in the Community (BITC) and leading healthcare provider Simplyhealth, have come together to co-create the Let’s Care Together programme to support the wellbeing of carers through a series of virtual befriending sessions.

1 in 7 people in the workplace are juggling a caring responsibility and over 5 million people in England and Wales have a caring responsibility. Caring can impact on someone’s mental, physical and financial health as they deal with a lot emotionally and have multiple responsibilities to juggle.

How does the programme support?

Employees volunteers are trained to become befrienders.

• Businesses support the programme by offering employee volunteers the opportunity to become befrienders.
• Employee volunteers receive comprehensive training on being a befriender and are provided with all the required tools and resources*.
• Befrienders and carers join the programme and create a profile.
• The carer then chooses a befriender and sends a match request.
• Befrienders and their partnered carer meet virtually for six sessions of 60 minutes over two to four months.

*Guidance and support will be provided throughout the programme.

This Lunch and Learn session will tell you about the role of a Befriender and how to get involved.

Booking, contact details and further information

• Contact john.riddell@bitc.org.uk if you have any questions about this session.

• Full joining instructions will be sent before the event.

• Find out more about BITC’s Let’s Care Together programme.