Want New Friends
Meet new people. Make real friends.
Small groups who meet regularly, near you. No name tags, no icebreakers, nothing to swipe. Just good company, often enough that it turns into something.
How it works
The same handful of people, on a regular schedule, doing something easy together. Seeing each other more than once is the whole idea, because that is the part that turns people you have met into people you know.
Small groups
Six or eight people, so everyone actually gets talked to. Not a room full of strangers wearing name tags.
The same people
On a regular schedule, so you are not starting over every time. This is the part that turns an introduction into a friendship.
Easy to say yes to
Coffee, a walk, a board game, something cooked badly. Low effort, low pressure, and genuinely good fun.
Who it is for
Anyone who would like more people in their life and has not found the obvious way to go about it. New to the area, settled here for years, quiet, chatty, all of it welcome. You do not need to arrive with anything except a willingness to turn up more than once.
Come along
Nothing is running yet. Leave your details and you will hear from us when there is something to come to near you. The more people nearby who do the same, the sooner that happens.
Your details
When you sign up we keep what you put in the form: your name, your email, and, if you give them, roughly where you are and what you would enjoy doing. We use them for one thing, which is putting groups together and telling you when there is one near you.
We do not sell your details or share them with anyone. They are kept on our own server, with a nightly backup. This site sets no cookies and runs no analytics or tracking. To stop spam, the server remembers your connection's address for up to an hour, in memory only, and never writes it down.
Every email we send will include a way to stop them. To see what we hold about you, change it, or have it deleted, write to hello@wantnewfriends.com.