TWO'S COMPANY KESWICK

Registered charity 1196319 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Two's Company Keswick is a befriending scheme offered to lonely and/or social isolated adults in the Keswick and wider CA12 area. Fully trained and vetted volunteer befrienders are matched up with those referred into the scheme according to personality and interests.

Objects

THE OBJECT OF THE CIO IS: TO PROMOTE SOCIAL INCLUSION FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT BY PREVENTING ADULTS RESIDENT IN THE KESWICK CA12 POSTCODE AREA FROM BECOMING SOCIALLY EXCLUDED, RELIEVING THE NEEDS OF THOSE PEOPLE WHO ARE SOCIALLY EXCLUDED AND ASSISTING THEM TO INTEGRATE INTO SOCIETY, IN PARTICULAR THROUGH: A) THE PROVISION OF A BEFRIENDING SERVICE DESIGNED TO SUPPORT AND ASSIST SUCH PERSONS. B) RECRUITING AND TRAINING VOLUNTEERS TO BE BEFRIENDERS, DEVELOPING UNDERSTANDING OF THE BEFRIENDER’S ROLE AND LIMITATIONS AND PROVIDING ONGOING SUPPORT.FOR THE PURPOSE OF THIS CLAUSE ‘SOCIALLY EXCLUDED’ MEANS BEING EXCLUDED FROM SOCIETY, OR PARTS OF SOCIETY, AS A RESULT OF LONELINESS AND/OR SOCIAL ISOLATION DUE TO AGE OR ILL HEALTH AND THE ABSENCE OR LACK OF A STRONG SOCIAL SUPPORT NETWORK.

Area of benefit: LOCAL

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

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• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
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• Volunteer management

Trustees · trustee networks

• Christine Wendy Morganchair
• John Robert Hayes · trustee of 2 other charities
• Keith Malcolm Rigg · trustee of 2 other charities
• Rev Charles Henry Hope · trustee of 13 other charities
• Sara Margaret Therese Sutton
• Steven Oldfield · trustee of 1 other charity

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Operates in: Cumbria

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