Buddies. Our helping hands

For: Young people that wish to volunteer (age 14-18)

Buddies work alongside our Special Needs staff team to aid those young people attending the sessions. They form friendships with these young people and help them engage in various different activities encouraging interaction with their peers and therefore improving social skills.

Our buddies are mostly young people from our main stream youth activities, but the scheme is open to all those interested in working with those with special needs. All our buddies receive an induction as well as on-going training.

In 2005 our Buddies were North-west finalists in the Nationwide Award for Voluntary Endeavour, and one of our Buddies went to the National Finals in London.