Programme progress and updates, as reported by your team.
Where each programme is in its plan, with the figures your programme teams report.
Started Sep 2024
Trained volunteer buddies walk alongside people from diagnosis through recovery — practical help, a listening ear, and someone who knows the route.
Phase 2 of 3 · Match and support 120 participants
Reported by your programme team
Started Jan 2025
A weekly walk-in house in Zwolle where patients and family get answers, peer contact and a plan — no appointment needed.
Phase 2 of 3 · A full year of programming
Reported by your programme team
Started Mar 2025
Workshops that help partners and children find their own footing when illness enters the family.
Phase 2 of 4 · 30 workshops across the region
Reported by your programme team
Feb 2024 – Mar 2026
A guided walking programme that helped people rebuild strength and confidence after treatment — handed over to independent local walking groups in March 2026.
Phase 3 of 3 · Handover to local partners
Reported by your programme team
What the programmes have shared — as reported by your team.
The regional-expansion phase started in Deventer, funded by the Meridian Group allocation routed via OpenCharities.
Family Compass Workshops
Open on all Tuesday and Thursday mornings through the summer.
Kompaslicht House Drop-in Centre
PhotoFourteen new volunteers completed the two-day buddy training in Zwolle.
Wayfinder Buddy Programme
Three-evening series starts in September; registration open.
Family Compass Workshops
Matching reached 96 of the 120-participant goal — 80% of the way there.
Wayfinder Buddy Programme
PhotoThe facilitator pool doubled, unlocking the regional series.
Family Compass Workshops
PhotoFifteen months after opening, the house welcomed its 2.000th visit.
Kompaslicht House Drop-in Centre
PhotoRecovery Routes closed as planned; local groups now carry it forward.
Recovery Routes
PhotoA participant and buddy look back on a year of appointments, setbacks and small wins.
Wayfinder Buddy Programme
Three partners on what the workshops changed at their kitchen tables.
Family Compass Workshops
The last guided series drew 40 walkers despite the cold.
Recovery Routes
PhotoA morning in the life of the drop-in centre, told by the volunteers who run it.
Kompaslicht House Drop-in Centre
First intake outside Zwolle: eight candidates started the screening process.
Wayfinder Buddy Programme
PhotoTwo years of Recovery Routes, told in numbers and in one walker's words.
Recovery Routes
My buddy didn't have the answers — she had time. That turned out to be what I needed.
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