The grant will be used to run to run the Friendship Links project which will improve the confidence and social skills of people with learning disabilities in the throughout the Southern Health and Social Care Trust area.The project will match up groups of two to four people with learning disabilities, based on their ages, interest and where they live, & provide them with a volunteer 'Befriender' who will organise activities that they want to do such as hill walking, shopping, sports or trips to the cinema.