Befriend a Child

at befriend a child we support children and young people growing up in difficult life circumstances across aberdeen and aberdeenshire to achieve their full potential and develop into confident and competent adults. befriend a child are also scotland’s oldest befriending service. the children that befriend a child supports are all aged 4-16 and often come from troubled family backgrounds of parental drug and alcohol abuse, neglect and inconsistent parenting. many have never travelled in a car, have no concept of how to eat with a knife and fork and have no idea what lies beyond the city boundaries. the charity’s motto is to ‘turn a frown upside down’ and their core service is a 1:1 befriending scheme whereby the children it supports are provided with a positive adult role model – the volunteer befriender – who meets with them on a fortnightly basis to engage in a range of fun, everyday activities which most people would take for granted but which family and home circumstances mean