Visiting Service
Would you, or someone you know, benefit from regular trusted visitors to talk to?
Our Visiting Service is a befriending service for older people who would like more company.
Our visitor volunteers enjoy spending time with an older person for about an hour each week, enjoying a chat and shared interests and activities.
Our visitors are of different ages, from a wide variety of backgrounds. What they have in common is warmth, friendliness and a desire to make a difference in the life of an older person. They have been screened and trained, and we carefully select people to match interests, so there is plenty to talk about.
Click below to refer yourself or someone you know for this service.
Ellie and Beth
Rest assured
Our Visiting Service Co-ordinator will:
Screen and train volunteer visitors
Carefully match older people with visitors
Support visitors’ regular visits
Monitor and review each relationship on a regular basis
Provide ongoing visitor training
Link the older person to other Age Concern services, if required.
Do you know someone this service would benefit?
If you or someone you know might benefit from a visitor, fill in the referral form below and and we’ll find the right person for them.
Phone A Friend
Phone A Friend
Phone A Friend is another option to socially connect older people.
We set it up in 2020 during the first COVID lockdown, with over 50 people receiving a weekly phone call from one of our volunteers, providing a real highlight during a hard time. We still run ‘Phone a Friend’ as an option for people who’d love a regular friendly chat.
Do you want to help make a real difference?
Regular visits from someone easy to talk with can make an older person healthier and happier.
Our volunteers tell us that they really enjoy and benefit from being a visitor.
We have more than 100 volunteers currently on our ‘books’ across the Nelson Tasman region. If you would like to spend time with an older person and have an hour or so a week to spare, we would love to hear from you.