Sheridan Voysey

Friendship Lab

The very first non-profit empowering adults to make their friendships thrive.

Year Founded: 2024

Venture HQ: Oxford, UK

Venture Bio:

Friendship Lab empowers adults with the wisdom and skills to make their friendships thrive. We envision a day when every person has three ‘2am friends' - people they can call at 2am when everything has gone wrong. We pursue this vision through evidence-based courses, media campaigns, and research. (Nonprofit)

More Info:

  • Friendship is our most neglected relationship, causing a wellbeing crisis. People with close friends have lower levels of anxiety and depression, even longer lifespans, but more than 20% of adults don’t have them and no organisation exists for the need. We have a proven solution to this problem.

  • Our core offering is the six-week evidence-based Friendship Lab Course. Piloted in four countries in May 2023, participants not only saw their friendships transformed but their wellbeing increase. We deliver this in On Demand, Live Online, Small Group, and corporate formats.

  • We are confident of seeing over 3000 participants in our On Demand and Live Online course formats alone in our first 2 years of operation, with 300 moving on to become Small Group facilitators, creating compounding impact. We will reach thousands more through our media projects.


  • Sheridan Voysey is an author, speaker and broadcaster. His 30-year career has focused on bringing faith-inspired insights on human flourishing to mainstream society through projects of national reach. He is a presenter of Pause for Thought on BBC Radio 2 (heard by 9 million people daily), author of nine books, writer for the global devotional Our Daily Bread, and speaks at events across the world.