We are looking for a volunteer to be an Independent Visitor who will befriend a young person who is in care. You will spend a couple of hours a month with your match doing an activity such as cinema, bowling, walks, arts and craft and many more.
Many children who grow up in the care system face a chaotic and challenging time. Social Workers may change, foster placements can break down and they can be moved from school to school. This would be difficult for any child to handle, but for children who have already been seriously failed and harmed by adults, it creates a downward spiral which progressively erodes their trust in adults, their confidence in the world around them - and their future life chances. Studies have shown that having just one consistent, trustworthy, supportive adult in their life can change that trajectory completely. Someone the child can look up to, rely on, depend on and turn to for advice, for comfort, and even to share a joke or celebrate an achievement. Someone who knows them well, and remains in their life unflinchingly through good times and bad. That single, stable presence in their life could be their Independent Visitor.