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About us
Community Volunteers Enabling Youth (COVEY) is a voluntary project which recruits, trains and supports volunteer befrienders for vulnerable young people in the 7-16 age group. We also provide befriending for young people up to 18 who are involved in the Youth Justice system.
COVEY covers the geographically diverse area of urban Hamilton, Blantyre and Larkhall, and the rural Clydesdale area, and COVEY staff are based in Blantyre and Lanark.
COVEY was established in 1992 as a development of an existing Hamilton and East Kilbride Befriending project. An office was set up in Blantyre, funded through the urban aid programme until April 1997. In 1998 a successful bid was made to the National Lottery Charities Board to fund a base in Lanark to provide the same services in the Clydesdale area.
The Clydesdale project was launched in November 1998 and in 2001 we introduced Next Step Befriending, giving opportunity for young people to be involved in other projects, and Transition Befriending, where young people are supported in their volunteering by an adult befriender. These befriending innovations are funded presently by the Laidlaw Youth Project.
Our main funder for one to one befriending is South Lanarkshire Social Work Resources and additional support is received from Lloyds TSB foundation and local businesses.
In 2005 COVEY embarked on a pilot project to provide befriending services to young offenders in South Lanarkshire. This project is funded by South Lanarkshire Council Youth Justice Services and is based in our Blantye office.
The project is managed by a Board of Directors made up of local people, representatives from statutory organisations and volunteers. This Board meets on a bi-monthly basis and sets COVEY policy and is responsible for the governance of the organisation.
See also the following pages for more information about COVEY:
our structure
our aims and objectives
what we do
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