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Join our Lived Experience Advisory Group!
We host a monthly virtual meeting for young people and volunteers with experience of Independent Visitors. Come along and share your insight and experience and help guide our work!
Summer Nature Challenge
Picking up on the popularity of last year’s ‘Autumn outdoor challenge’ for IVs, children and young people, we’ve created a ‘Summer nature challenge’! We invite
Independent Visitor Provision: Legislation and Research
The NIVN Project Team have put together an overview of all of the relevant Independent Visitor legislation relating to provision across England and Wales. The
LGBT+ History Month
Hear from LGBTQ+ Independent Visitors about their experience of befriending. Over the course of February and in honour of LGBT+ History Month, we’ve been welcoming
Sayed’s Story – Wiltshire Independent Visitor Scheme
Could you be the Right Friend? Sayed came to the UK as an unaccompanied asylum seeker when he was only 13 years old, having fled