The above charts show how many tasks we have delivered in the first 6 months of opening.  – Covid-19 Restrictions were implemented in mid-March preventing face to face Befriending visits and Transport tasks to be undertaken after 13th March.– A Telephone Befriending service was introduced to enable volunteers and members to keep in touch as…

We have received good news about our Coop funding that we would like to share with you.  Thank you to everyone for their help and support so far!

Sadly, due to the present situation with Coronavirus, applications are temporarily closed for FREE CALLBLOCKERS. However, this is a temporary situation and applicants/carers should keep an eye on The National Trading Standards social media channel (@FriendsAgainst for FB and @AgainstScams for Twitter) for updates.   The National Trading Standards SCAM Team will be in contact with…

Following on from government advice with regards to COVID-19 (coronavirus) the National Trading Standards Scams Team has free call blockers available to the general public.   Please get your applications in soon. If you know of someone that is: Receiving scams or nuisance phone calls They are susceptible to scams due to their circumstance You have…

Volunteers from Barrow Good Neighbour Scheme and Barrow Footpaths come together for a Garden Makeover Barrow Good Neighbour Scheme received a request for help in a garden after recent poor health was preventing a family from completing work to convert a previously mature front garden into a more manageable low maintenance space.  This was a…

The above charts show how many tasks we have delivered in the first 3 months of opening Befriending and Transport tasks are the most popular We have 6 regular befriending tasks, most of which are weekly, and 2 regular transport tasks for shopping We now have 20 Volunteers that have completed the DBS checks and…

We will be launching our Scheme from 1st of December 2019

When a Co-op member buys selected products or services from the Co-op they earn a five per cent reward for themselves, with a further one per cent for local causes like ours. Co-op members can choose a cause by going online www.coop.co.uk/membership. We really hope that you will visit the website and choose to support…

In June we had the wonderful news of confirmation of our funding requests.  This has meant that our initial plans to be up and running before the end of the year can now really start to take shape!  We were able to have a table at the Street Market on 7th July which was a…

In the last few weeks we have had some wonderful news with confirmation of funding approval. This has meant that our initial plans to be up and running before the end of the year can now really start to take shape! We were able to have a table at the Street Market on 7th July…