Project Info
Project Description
- Award-winning Befriending Service
- Befriending is a service provided with empathy by former colleagues. It is about looking after our own.
- Our befriending service offers confidential help for those who are lonely, or who feel isolated or in need of support.
- The service is provided by trained befrienders, coordinated in a structured way.
- We can help visiting those who may be lonely at home or in hospital, who need to get to hospital appointments or just need to get out for a short time.
- If you need befriending, or know someone else who might, then contact Margo Hetherington or Richard Scott by phone or using the Contact Page. (shown at the top right on this webpage.)
- Drop-in Service
- We offer a popular drop-in service at our Omagh hub. Take time to sit down and relax in a secure, comfortable location with those who also served. Have a cup of tea then check out our small museum area. Use your visit as the opportunity to find out what we offer and how we and our professional partners can support you.
- Our popular coffee morning is on the second Wednesday each month, from 10.30 hours – call in and return to that sense of camaraderie!
- Welfare and Advice Service
- After a confidential in-house initial consultation we then have full use of a trusted welfare adviser, either in the MAPS office or in your home.
- For those more complicated issues we may refer on to our trusted professional partners.
- Issues can range from dealing with arduous daily issues to providing advice on benefits, housing, pensions, PIP assessments etc.
- Wellness Support Service
- Each day can raise its own challenges, and provide reminders of past events. Come and talk to someone who can provide a ‘listening ear’ and the support that may be needed further down the line.
- For many, talking is all that is needed. For other issues we will support you in your own time to seek whatever additional help may be needed.
- Signposting Service
- We work with partner organisations for the good of the ex-service community. Many know nothing about these partners or do not know how to contact them.
- Combat Stress www.combatstress.org.uk
- UDR & R Irish (HS) Aftercare www.aftercareservice.org
- RUCGC – PSNI Benevolent Fund www.policebenevolentfund.com
- NI Retired Police Officers Association www.nirpoa.org
- The Royal British Legion www.britishlegion.org.uk
- We are proud of our associations with these long-established organisations and charities, which are here to assist you.
- Let them ‘take the strain’.
- Confidential consultations can take place in our secure MAPS offices.
- Note: Signposting simply means we help our members to receive the service that best meets their needs and/or contact the agency or organization which is best qualified to deal with their issue.
- Complimentary Therapies
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- We have a dedicated complimentary therapy room. Therapies are available to members on a needs basis.
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- Respite
- MAPS is proud of the fact that, to us, respite means just that. Our trips offer relief to those who are lonely, isolated, suffering from illness or injury or have had a bereavement.
- To us respite is more a healing process than a holiday.
- We also provide day trips suitable for the less-mobile or those who can’t spend several days away.
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- Courses – we offer a variety of courses on an ‘as and when’ basis to meet member’s needs. Such courses can include:
- Computer ( and Tablet) courses – from the basics upwards.
- First Aid
- Food Hygiene
- Craft
- And other courses that are requested.
- Computer suite
- Need to book a flight?
- Want research your family tree?
- We have laptop computers in the MAPS office, with printing facilities.”