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# Befriending Service consultation from Switchboard and Lunch Positive
- URL: https://www.scenemag.co.uk/befriending-service-consultation-from-switchboard-and-lunch-positive/
- Published: 2020-04-26T12:13:54.000Z
- Updated: 2020-04-25T12:10:08.000Z
- Description: Befriending Service consultation from Switchboard and Lunch Positive
- Author: Contributor

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Switchboard and Lunch Positive are asking if you think there’s a need for a local Befriending Service for LGBTQ people and people living with HIV.

Befriending is a mutually rewarding friendship between a volunteer befriender and a person who requests befriending. Befriending can help ease loneliness and social isolation.

Switchboard and Lunch Positive – supported by the Rainbow Fund – are keen to find out your views on whether an LGBTQ and HIV Befriending Service is needed and what it could look like. They are asking people to complete a quick survey.

If there is a positive response, Switchboard and Lunch Positive aim to seek funding to set up the service. They’ll work with Together Co – the Loneliness Charity which has been running a Befriending Service in Brighton & Hove for 20 years.

You can [access the Befriending Survey here](https://eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.surveymonkey.co.uk%2Fr%2FB2VQHT6&data=02%7C01%7C%7C72e641b690c8427b008308d7e5e04a94%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C637230623794064508&sdata=68ZSCel0gKi66XVbNpMeicsdDBZSJOosORJ6OXDD20g%3D&reserved=0&ref=scenemag.co.uk).

By taking part, you can opt in to enter a prize draw for a £50 supermarket voucher. The survey closes on **15 May**.