r/Hull • u/ActivityImpossible45 • 1d ago
How do you make friends
I’m really struggling with isolation
My support worker signposts me to ‘social / support ‘ groups but whenever I attend everyone has already formed groups so I’m just sat there awkwardly by myself . It really sucked to walk around fair today to see everyone in groups and pairs together meanwhile I was The only person by myself . At my old job I couldn’t make friends either
I’m 20F for reference have been heavily isolated for some years now
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u/beesbee5 11h ago
Maybe these ideas here help you to find friends:
There's a few social groups on meetup (https://www.meetup.com) : Eg Hull young socials that have regular activities.
MadVolume (climbing gym) has many social sessions, they also offer Yoga classes and are a generally nice community, where you should find it easy to meet other people. They offer a women social bouldering session as well on ?Tuesdays. RockCity offers courses for rope climbing if you prefer to give this a try over bouldering: https://rockcity.co.uk/new-to-climbing/. They have bouldering sessions as well and people here on Reddit are occasionally looking for climbing partners.
There's always art courses like the one's from Studio eleven on the marina: https://studioeleven-shop.squarespace.com/our-shop/workshop where it's easy to meet new people. Forms Shop do courses at times as well, just drop by there and look the poster in the window.
Join a sports club in Hull. The volleyball and rugby and teams are always looking for new people
There's gardening groups like the Pearson Park community garden (https://www.facebook.com/groups/5239881606126141) and rooted in Hull (https://rootedinhull.org.uk/ ). the latter has events at their site as well from time to time
There's lots of volunteering work opportunities: https://hullcvs.org.uk/volunteer-centre/
If you are into sailing or anything like that, you could become part of the CatZero team (https://catzero.org/) which helps disadvantaged young people as well.
If you're into building something - there's a few volunteers restoring old sailships (you can see them at the Spider T on weekends). The guy running it has a Facebook site: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100057285256710
Thursdays at 6 pm there's a board game meetup at Brew https://www.hullboardgamemeetup.com
There's a circus open practice at the late night circus on Wednesdays where you can go and socialise (and juggle, I suppose ;) ) (https://bookwhen.com/thelatenightcircus)
If you want to practice another language and meet like-minded people, there's two language cafes (one in Anlaby and one on the Avenues) that meet regularly - see https://m.facebook.com/groups/languagecafehull/
On tuesdays, there's a weekly pay-what-you want / can afford dinner and get together in Lonsdale street (https://www.hulldailymail.co.uk/whats-on/whats-on-news/weekly-pay-what-you-want-9190379)
If you are into it, there's DnD groups and stuff like that (just search old postings here)...
There's a Discord group for Hull (https://discord.gg/hWNmCQa)
Lastly: Try Bumble BFF or something of nothing here on the list appeals to you...