Email service
You can contact us by email at
************@oxfordfriend.co.uk.
(click on the email address to reveal it)
You will receive an automatic reply acknowledging your message. Then within around a week one of our volunteers should send you a considered response to your message.
We would be grateful if you could tell us in your email where you heard of Oxford Friend (internet search, leaflet, poster, ...). This will help us to improve our service to you.
As with our telephone service we take the issue of your confidentiality very seriously. We will do all we can to ensure that emails sent to us are not disclosed to anyone outside Oxford Friend. It can help us if you put as much information in your email as possible. You can tell us whether you consider yourself to be gay, lesbian or straight or are not that sure. You could mention what age you are. And of course as much as possible information about the issue you would like to discuss with us.
To help maintain your confidentiality you could set up a free anonymous email address and use it to correspond with us. That way nobody is able to trace the email back to you if it is intercepted. And nobody at Oxford Friend will be able to identify you either. Many companies will supply free email addresses e.g. Yahoo or Hotmail.
Unfortunately we cannot guarantee to get back to you any sooner than a week after you send your email. This is because we are a relatively small organisation and our service is provided by a limited number of volunteers. If you need a more rapid response then you could try phoning us. Regrettably it is not possible for us to ensure that the same person will reply if you email us more than once. For this reason you might like to include previous correspondence with us in the text of your email.
Don't forget that you can also contact us by telephone.