Why did we start Safe Soulmates?
Safe Soulmates carried out consultation in 2017/2018 and established that there is huge need for a not-for-profit dating and friendship organisation.
Here are some of the headline statistics that highlight the need for a friendship/dating organisation in Cambridgeshire:
- 84% of parents/carers think the person they care for is lonely;
- 93% of parents/carers said that the person they care for does not have a partner/or is in an unsuitable relationship;
- 82% of parents/carers think the person they care for would benefit from having a boyfriend/girlfriend;
- 92% of parents/carers think the person they care for would benefit from new suitable friendships;
- 67% of parents/carers said that the person they care for spends lots of their time talking about relationships and 69% of parents/carers said that the person they care for is anxious about relationships;
- Finally, 70% of parents/carers said the person they support has not been able to meet new and suitable friends/potential partner, because there is no support and no suitable dating/friendship agency.
Please read here to find out more about why we need to help neurodivergent and disabled adults to connect in freindship.
More information from our consultation is found here.