Friends First

Friends First Trust aims to contribute toward: reducing long-term unemployment reducing homelessness reducing social isolation increasing the provision of safe supportive housing Friends First also works with socially minded property investors, enabling Friends First beneficiaries access to secure and affordable accommodation. The accommodation Friends First have available includes: short stay and emergency accommodation, shared housing and lodgings in the local community. Friends First provides intensive personal support for beneficiaries to assist them in gaining momentum and achieving independent living. Alongside this Friends First recruit, screen, and train volunteer mentors and befrienders to come alongside beneficiaries living in their local communities. The charity also has access to counselling referral and regularly works alongside and signposts to other like-minded agencies in the city.