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Lovely feeling forwarding letters received via the penpal scheme to the lads and to witness it working. Amazing to find how some of the pairings share things in common, which shows age is merely a number! .One of our boys Great Grandfathers, it transpires, served on...

VERY proud of two of our LND ambassador boys, Martti and Manny, who this evening carried out an on-line lockdown cook off, cooking a spaghetti bolognaise from scratch for their families under the careful guidance of their mentor, Brett. Brilliant work! 💪 Extra...

So proud of all they are individually achieving with the lads and proud of the boys resilience during this lockdown. 👍 many of our boys are taking up cooking and baking during lockdown proving our come dine with me sessions were useful indeed! Check out these...

One of our lads wants to be a chef, so his mentor set him a goal of cooking a meal for his family. We booked him on a Level 2 on-line food safety course. Mentor sourced food and arranged delivery. LND boy made home-made burgers and even made his own burger sauce!...

Tune in today as we speak at around 11:10am about our new penfriend initiative, set up in response to the corona virus in conjunction with fans network, matching our boys to elderly gents in care homes. 😁

Great to see the pen-friend initiative working. 😍 This is one of our lads reading a reply to his first letter to an elderly gent in a local care home 😁

Peter Richards, a long standing mentor with Lads Need Dads has set himself a goal of “SkiErging" (simulated Cross-country/Nordic Skiing) 250 miles in 18 days, (equivalent to half a marathon a day!) to raise funds for Lads Need Dads. To find out more and/or to make a...

It’s important the boys and mentors keep up communication during this testing time. Unfortunately we cannot accept external referrals onto this scheme, as all boys on our programmes undergo an assessment prior to being accepted which understandably cannot take place...