The funding will cover the cost of two Befriending Project Co-ordinators and will help continue a befriending service in Adur and Worthing for a further 3 years . The average age of their members is 83 most live alone and with at least one long-term health condition with most befriending volunteers aged 20-55. This funding will provide essential development time to go from start-up to scale-up and will put the project a robust position to secure statutory commissioning partnerships in the future.