Author: Rebecca Billington

I have the pleasure of being matched with a very chatty befriendee – he’s currently on holiday with his wife and we agreed to still have our calls whilst he’s away. Our conversations cover all sorts of subjects from music and politics to sport and gardening…

Liam is a great help to me, not least as he is great with technology. He’s been able to recommend products that might be helpful to me in my workplace and also some tech around the house. I would never know about some of these things had I not reached out to Sightline so I’m very glad I did…

The difference the Sightline service makes to me is priceless really. I would feel down in the dumps if my calls with Maggie didn’t happen. They say time flies when you’re having fun, and it certainly does for our calls…

I really feel my calls with Mike help him massively. He is out of work just now and in his late thirties like me. I offer him my advice on how I gained employment and told him how explaining what steps my employer can take to make role accessible for me; has been mutually beneficial…

I have been chatting with Kate for 12 months now and I really don’t know what I’d do if we didn’t have our weekly calls. I class her as my closest friend now even though I’ve never met her in person and know I never will. I’m 81 and a lot of my friends have passed away now sadly…

My Sightline befriender is lovely, and we are approaching our 3-year befriending anniversary in August! We chat about what we’ve been up to each week. She’ll always ask me what theatre show I’ve been to and if I enjoyed it…

Volunteering with Sightline has massively impacted my life for the better. I lost my job due to illness and needed to continue giving back so that’s when I decided to volunteer as a telephone befriender. It has given me hope back that I had lost. I look forward to my phone calls and organise things around when they take place; I hate to miss them…..

When he was 7 years old, he lost sight in one of his eyes. As he grew up, he went to a mainstream school and was bullied a lot. He was told by teachers that he wouldn’t amount to anything and this understandably affected him a lot…

I chose to volunteer having seen an advert in my place of work, and I had been looking to take on something for me, whereby I could make a difference to someone else as well hoping I would enjoy the experience too…