# Link

## Details

- **Country:** Scotland
- **Charity number:** SC027493
- **Known as:** Link Befriending Project East Fife
- **Status:** Active
- **Legal form:** Unincorporated association
- **Registered:** Jan. 28, 1998
- **Register:** https://www.oscr.org.uk/about-charities/search-the-register/charity-details?number=SC027493


## Contact

- **Address:** c/o Thorntons Law LLP, 49 Bonnygate, Cupar
- **Postcode:** KY15 4BY
- **Website:** www.linkbefriending.org.uk



## Activities

**Activities:** &#x27;It carries out activities or services itself&#x27;

**Purposes:** &#x27;the advancement of health&#x27;,&#x27;the relief of those in need by reason of age, ill-health, disability, financial hardship or other disadvantage&#x27;

**What the charity does:** LINK provides befriending support to adults and adolescents who have or have had mental health problems and are identified as being socially or rurally isolated.  Referrals come from external parties such as social services and CAMHS.  The charity is split into two projects, one to support adults and one to support young people under the age of 18.  LINK employs a Project Manager and a Project Co-ordinator for each project.  The staff recruit, train. match and support volunteers in befriending service users, as well as organising social events, well being events and, most recently, a peer support group for adults.  LINK has a hugely positive impact on the lives of its service users, some of whom go on to become volunteers themselves. The funding required to support the work of LINK primarily comes from grants.

**Beneficiaries:** &#x27;Children or young people&#x27;,&#x27;People with disabilities or health problems&#x27;

**Objectives:** The aims of the group shall be to relieve the poverty, suffering and distress , advance the education of and promote the welfare of the inhabitants of the East Fife area who have or have had mental health problems and are identified as being socially and rurally isolated by the provision of a befriending service to encourage them to  participate more fully in the life of the community.





## Geography

- **Main operating location:** Fife
- **Geographical spread:** Wider, but within one local authority area






