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Thank you for your invitation for me to renew my subscription to Natural Friends.
In fact I will not be participating further as I have had the good fortune to meet (through Natural Friends) a delightful lady to whom I have become quite close.
Even though there were lots of adverts that did not hold any attraction for me, I guess it only takes one....
Needless to say I'm pretty pleased with the whole adventure!
Regards

Stuart

Dear Natural Friends,
I was a member of your organisation a few years ago for six months. I was looking through some correspondence recently and found your Updates, so I decided to write to you and let you know what happened during my time in Natural Friends. I did get to know one person as a friend who was rather cynical about the whole thing, but I can't believe that you run this as a business proposition only. I'm sure you must be interested in what happens to your members.
I was attracted to quite a few people and despite a couple of setbacks (one being a meeting cancelled the day before by letter, due to a romance "suddenly" occuring with another Member!) I came to the end of my 6 months membership with a couple of good friends, both of whom I had met and got on really well with, and so I was happy to leave it at that.
I then received a letter from someone who had just joined and after a couple of months of writing to each other, we met. Amazingly, to both him and me, we are still together and things are going really well. Despite the distance, we see each other alternate weekends and as we are both very independent people this is really a good arrangement for us both. We are so alike that we think we are the male/female versions of each other, and I cannot think af any other way than through Natural Friends that we could ever have met each other. I'd laways believed that there was no-one out there for me, and I was content to look for new friends through your organisation, so this was a vey unexpected but very welcome surprise!
I hope you have had many successes, and hope you continue to do so.
Kind regards,

Susan

Dear Friends,
Thanks to your organisation, I believe I have found my "Natural Friend". We have been seeing each other for 3 months and now plan to spend a holiday in the Cotswolds.
At 66 years of age I feel very lucky, but it just re-enforces what you have written about perseverence. Age need not be an unsurmountable barrier.
I have already recommended Natural Friends to several people in my Ramblers group and will continue to do so.
Thank you once again for your organisation with such an amazing range of contacts.
Yours faithfully,

Barry

Dear Natural Friends,
How can we thank you? Through your wonderful network we have become united as loving soulmates. We can hardly believe that this miracle has happened to us in midlife, when many others would have given up the quest.
Keep up the good work - and please encourage others to persevere. What has happened to us can surely happen to others.
A million thank you's!
Sincerely,

Joe and Brenda

Dear Mrs. Bradshaw,
I met many (well about twelve) Natural Friends early on in my membership and soon entered into a relationship with one of them. We are shortly going to live together and I would be grageful if you will delete my entry from your records.
You may be interested to know that I also encouraged my ex-wife to join (we are still friends). She has found a new partner and is planning to get married next year through one of her contacts. In turn, her new fiance encouraged his ex-wife to join and she also had successful introductions. It all seems quite incestuous!
Yours sincerely,

John

Dear Barbara and James,
This is to say a large 'thank you' from two very satisfied customers and to ask you to cancel our membership and remove our ads.
We contacted each other a little over six weeks ago and are now very much in love and extremely happy.
Both of us were initially reticent about joining 'Natural Friends', but we shan't hesitate to recommend your service to anyone in the future!
We'll always be very greatful that you made it possible for us to find one another.
With love and best wishes to you both,

Paul and Jane

Dear James and Barbara
This is a short note to ask you to cancel our memberships of Natural FRiends, and to say thank you for helping us to meet.
We both had a really good response from other Natural Friends to our adverts, but when we met each other in September we really seemed to get on very well. We have so many interests in common and are about as compatible as any two people can be. Our enjoyment of each other's company quickly turned to feelings of love for each other and we became engaged on New Year's Eve, We now plan to get married during this coming summer.
Once again thank you for helping to bring us together. Had it not been for Natural Friends, we would never have met and would not be experiencing the happiness that we now enjoy.
Yours sincerely.

Peter and Judy

Dear Barbara,
Although my Natural Friends membership has in fact run out, I wanted to write and let you know that I was very fortunate and did meet an extremely nice lady through making contact with the help of your organisation, and we have now formed a close relationship and are very happy. Both of us had spent years alone and couldn't quite believe we had met somone to start with, and think it is wonderful!
So thanks very much! keep up the good work, two more people you have hepled to make happy!
Yours sincerely,

Robert

Dear Barbara,
My membership of Natural Friends ran out last December but I kept meaning to write to say how much I enjoyed my year. I wrote to lots of members, and met a few, and although I didn't really expect anything serious to come of it (having very high standards where men are concerned!) - I met a wonder ful man, through you, in September - and we have been seeing each other ever since. Thank you for running such an efficient and sincere service - it is a refreshing change to find something where the main aim doesn't seem to be to make money!
Best wishes,

Lee

Dear Natural Friends,
We met on 21 March through Natural Friends and have been seeing each other regularly ever since. We have therefore decided not to renew our memberships.
Many other introduction/dating agencies are pretentious, they make a point of playing on the vanity of their clientele, charge a king's ransom for their services, and a good number of them collapse as businesses. By contrast, Natural Friends offers an affordable, no-nonsense, effective and reliable service, with a proven track record.
We would like to express our sincere thanks to Natural Friends for bringing us together.
Keep up the good work.
Best wishes,

Mark and Kathy

Dear Natural Friends,

In August 2008 I met Nick through your web site. Our first date started in a Park and Ride car park in Cambridge. I caught the bus and Nick was waiting in his car. He'd sent me his registration number, and car colour and make. We caught a park and ride bus together to the Botanic Gardens in Cambridge and spent an enjoyable few hours together. We had a cup of tea in the cafe and Nick ate a macaroon. Then Nick suggested going somewhere else and we decided to go to Wicken Fen via my house so I could change into walking shoes. I sent a text message to a friend with Nick's number plate, just in case I suddenly disappeared, never to be seen again! I'd written to Nick for a week before we met and his emails were very articulate and he sounded kind, intelligent and with a good sense of humour, all of these attributes I've since discovered that he does have.

We had a lovely time at Wicken Fen and arranged to meet again the next day and Nick took me to the Norfolk coast. This was over a year and a half ago and we've had some wonderful times together. We went to the Lake District this and last Easter, have walked up Conniston Old Man and Craig Hil, and have also been to Snowdonia and have walked up Cadyr Idris. Last Summer Nick very kindly took me, a large tent, my children and a caravan to France and the children stayed in the tent next to Nick's caravan. At New Year Nick very kindly took me to Paris and we spent New Year's Eve at the foot of the Eiffel Tower, watching lights change colour on it, in rather cold weather! Nick has also shown me Dokey Wood, where bluebells grow in profusion, and we've been to a site in the Chilterns full of wild orchids, life doesn't get any better than this! Nick has an interest in natural history, and managed to find some yellow Witches' Butter growing on a tree in Dove Dale on halloween. Nick has become a very good friend and I have very deep feelings for him. Thank you for giving us the opportunity to meet.

Kind regards,

Heather

Dear James and Barbara

In the summer of 2001 I met Pat through your magazine. Up to that period I had had several meetings with different ladies, obviously with no success. When Pat and I met we seemed to be compatible from our first meeting. We were married one year later and have both enjoyed the ensuing years together.

We should not have met had it not been for “your services” with Natural Friends. We have no hesitation in recommending your organization and have done this on several occasions.

Natural Friends was recommended to me by a lady who visited the Art Gallery where I was employed in 2001. Not long after joining the organization Neville wrote to me and, after our initial meeting, it was clear that we shared many common interests and aspirations. As Neville has said, we married one year later and have shared much happiness together. Neville has also been a wonderful step-father to my son.

Wishing Natural Friends many years of continued success.

With best wishes

Neville and Pat

Hello again after 18 years!

Nineteen years ago you found the ideal wife for me – thank you again ( I did at the time, I’m sure). I was in the Hebrides and Elizabeth was in South Dorset and we’d never have met if she hadn’t had a patch of nettles in her garden and a keen gardener friend she was discussing them and life in general with also recommended Natural Friends! We had eighteen marvellous years together but sadly a tumour in her brain took her away last March. We had various problems with money shortage, family troubles, health and so on, but between us there were absolutely no problems at all – love and happiness all the way.

Our boat brought us to Ireland, literally and metaphorically to this lovely area, and I’d like to share it with the right ‘Someone’. I’m over the worst now, I very much hope, just the loneliness to cope with. I so much liked being married to the right person that I’d now like to repeat the process again – I know I cannot ever find her double but someone with similar thinking, ideas, ideals would be great.

Thank you again for bringing Elizabeth and me together.

Q.

"But I want the grass on that side", says horse looking over the fence ---- and I did too! until I met Cliff on Natural Friends, and now we're grazing on the same meadow! And you know, he's not someone I could ever possibly have met without N.F. even though I always knew he was out there. We're both in our 50s & we've both found what we were looking for! How magical is that? Now we're busy with bringing our lives together as one.
We both send our heartfelt thanks to you for setting it up all those years ago (I was a snail-mail member once) and for keeping it going. It's the best (& only) sincere alternative dating site. It feels personal and respectful. And it works.
With love & best wishes for your health & happiness.

Marion and Cliff

Hello James and Barbara,

We thought you may like to hear of a success story regarding your NF site.

We met each other on your site back in March 2006. Both in our late 40's, Ian was a widower and I had been on my own for five years following a pretty awful divorce. We exchanged e-mails through NF; got on extremely well, eventually meeting up face to face for the first time in June 2006. After commuting between Bristol and Surrey for a few years, I moved in with him last summer. I guess the rest is history. We get married on October 17th here in Surrey which is now our home with our six children, friends and family sharing this very special day with us.

We would never have met had it not been for Natural Friends so from the
bottom of our hearts, we'd like to thank you for enabling us to meet and get to know each other in an environment where common ethics enable people like us to find each other. Had we met anywhere else; we honestly don't think we would have been initially attracted to each other, our personalities are quite different and so the close and loving relationship that evolved wouldn't really have developed. NF helped us to learn about each other's values on a far deeper level over the months which sowed the seeds for a richer closer friendship, one that will last a lifetime.

Thank you

Debs and Ian

Dear James and Barbara,

I am writing to let you know that I will not be renewing my current
subscription with you when it lapses at the end of this month as I have
been lucky enough to meet a wonderful person through your site. For the
last couple of months we have been getting to know each other and our
relationship just keeps getting stronger - we just have so much in
common. After talking fora while via email we decided to meet and I knew
I had met a very special person. We now have the beginnings of a strong
and loving relationship.

I would like you to know that I have absolutely no hesitation in
recommending your services to other people, especially over the much
larger dating sites.

Kindest Regards

Gary

Dear James and Barbara,

I have met a wonderful person through Natural Friends - I am writing to express my thanks to you both and also to let others know what a lovely site this is for meeting people that share similar values and thoughts about life.

After corresponding with some really super people on the site, I began to exchange notes with one particular member and we seemed to have so much in common - from our views on materialism, simplicity, family and ethical living to food, beliefs, dreams and sense of humour. We decided to meet for a coffee to see if we got on as well in person. We did - in fact we spent the whole day together. For the last couple of months we have been building on a strong foundation of shared values and principles for living and giving, as well as delight from sharing our time and new experiences. It feels very much like a begining of a very special partnership.

One of the things that I really valued about the Natural Friends site was that it was small, unique and focused - please stay this way for the benefit for others like me, who are ready to share their lives again.

With many thanks and best wishes for continued success,

Emma

Dear James and Barbara,
                                By the time I had composed an amendment to my profile, my access to it had been blocked. So here is what I had drafted:-
         "A big thankyou to all who got in touch - more than two dozen in six months!
          I was so 'bombarded' at times that it was hard to keep up, but my typing speed has improved, and I have learned to read between, as well as along the lines we write. Enjoyable outings ensued with eight members to further investigate 'the chemistry'. I had tried, but couldn't describe a partner I sought, but when Penny and I met, I recognised someone special. She first wrote in December, and we now meet as often as we can. A good friendship is gently developing and we are enjoying the journey wherever it leads....
          So I won't be renewing my membership, but am very grateful to Barbara and James for devising this neat and effective system. It would be even more brilliant if everyone could find four photos that speak volumes about themselves.
          I was right to use the ambiguous phrase that I was 'fit enough to chase' after all!
                            With best wishes to you both,

Peter

Hi, This website has magic powers! Inside a week I’ve met someone I find amazing through Natural Friends, and now things will take their course, so I feel more comfortable taking my details off the page, hoping never to return, that is the whole idea isn't it?! Best wishes to anyone reading. My head’s spinning which is just what I joined for! I hope you find what you’re looking for too. Zac the Amazed!

Zac

Dear James and Barbara

Thank you for your email. You will be pleased to know that ours is continuing to be a happy ending story. Helen and my relationship is very strong at present. We are in daily contact by phone and we try to to see each other at least every 2 months but often more frequently. We are also planning a holiday together in September. We are both a good support to each other.

Thank you again for running such a helpful website.

Best Wishes

Eric

Hi James and Barbara,

I was having a nostalgic look back at Natural Friends and checking the
site still existed so I could recommend it to my cousin and I felt
compelled to send you an email you.

I first met Al via your website in 2002 when we lived 100 miles apart. We
moved in together in 2003 and married in a beautiful Quaker ceremony in
2004. This year we celebrate 5 years of blissful marriage and are as
passionately in love now as we ever were ... more so. Not only do I have a
wonderful husband but my daughters have a wonderful step-dad, too.

Your website is MARVELLOUS and is the catalyst that has sparked the flame
of thousands of successful love matches -

Thanks so much!

Ruth and Al

Thank you for your lovely note. I'm besides myself with excitement because I wasn't expecting quite this result, but obviously we're trying to keep our feet on the ground! The whole experience of NF so far has been excellent, so thank you for the service you provide. My feedback would be that there are a lot of nice people on this site, and that the functioning of the website and the ease of use are really a credit to you.

For good or bad, I will let you know how we get on, but there's no point in not being confident, and you have done your bit so it's now down to us..........

Andrew

Dear James and Barbara

In November I had a bit of a moan to you about being sent matches from all over the country when I had filled in the boxes for Devon, Somerset and Dorset. I was looking initially for a walking companion, so wanted someone reasonably local. I must tell you that at the very end of my time with NF I had a match with a furniture maker in Cumbria. He sounded nice so I sent him a message to that effect - pity he was so far away but wishing him luck in finding someone. He didn’t think Cumbria to Devon was that far and we eventually met for a day out in Birmingham. Since then we have managed to get together at his home or mine every month and are now planning for me to move up there in the new year 2009. We were so lucky. We only overlapped at NF by a week and are now our lives are transformed.

Thank you so much for your part in this story.

John and Nicola

Dear James and Barbara,

Further to our last correspondence, there has been a bit of a cosmic u-turn - a girl from your site I was chatting to peripherally on and off some time ago has recently and suddenly developed into something very special. I now have a best friend, soulmate & lover thanks to natural-friends, which you may quote me on. Phew!

Thanks again - without your site this would not have been possible.

I wish you every success with your business & lives.

Rob

Dear natural Friends,
     It may be fate, providence or luck but thanks to your website we met in February 2004, fell in love the day we met and have been together, ecstatically happy, ever since. We wanted to share this joy with friends and family and got married in May this year.
     We are most grateful for your role in our finding each other. May Natural Friends continue to be a successful catalyst for true love for many years to come.
      Thank you again.

Ruth and Richard

Dear both,

We may both be the only single Quakers we know (in the right age range, location, sexuality etc), we might live only 60 miles apart, we might both be interested in the same things, we might even have been in the same building at the same time, but we might never have met but for Natural Friends. Thank you – we’re getting married next year.

Yours,

Elizabeth

I'm pleased to say that I've found this site very successful, so I'm removing my profile. I wish anyone reading this lots of luck in their search for the right person. It's not easy, but this site is more likely to put you in touch with like minded people. All the very best.

Liz

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