A Mature Dating Agency aimed at those of us over 50.
The Avenues Dating Way
Since the early 1990s, we've been offering personalized, face-to-face matchmaking by highly trained and experienced professionals.
We prioritize your safety with personal interviews, stringent ID checks, and thorough vetting of every member, ensuring that your dates are always known to us and 100% genuine.
Combining time-honored matchmaking with cutting-edge technology, we offer a unique experience far beyond online dating or apps, available across mainland UK.
Enjoy unparalleled client care with free initial advice, courtesy, honesty, and transparency. Our UK-based team is ready to assist you daily from 9am to 9pm, including weekends.
Our members love telling our matchmakers about their great experiences. It's like they're not just our clients, but also our friends. These stories really highlight the success they've found through their membership and the close bonds we build along the way.
What a lovely surprise to hear from you, Kerry! Dennis and I so often think of you and are so grateful to you for introducing us.
As you will gather, we are very happy together and our relationship grows ever deeper. We divide our time between our respective houses - at the moment I’m with him in Northamptonshire.
Den’s wonderful family have given me such a warm welcome and another dimension to my life; weather permitting, this evening we are even going to watch his grandson playing cricket!!!
So, again, Kerry, a heartfelt “thank you” from both of us.
PS: Den sends his love!
Hi Hayley
Sorry I haven’t been in touch, I’ve been too busy spending time with Steve!!! It’s going very well. We’ve been on quite a few dates and we get on really well.
He’s on holiday sailing at the moment but he contacts me every day even from the middle of the ocean!
He is great company and full of energy and probably one of the funniest people I have met!
So it’s so good, so far! Thanks for your help and input!
Jo xx
Hi Charlotte
This is one of the best first dates I have ever had in a very long time. Honestly I don't know what to say; other than
THANK YOU SO MUCH Charlotte!
I hope and pray this goes well. Fingers crossed. Charlotte, Stuart is such a gentleman ... he is so kind and
respectful. He gave me a lovely bunch of flowers at the end of the date. Couldn't have asked for more really. We're meeting up for coffee again next Friday.
Many thanks - Idy
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Stuart proposed and I said ’YES’!
Good evening Hayley
Thanks for your email. Happy New year to you.
I can never thank you enough for introducing Idy to me.
It has been a life changing experience for me in a positive way.
I feel like the luckiest man alive and it’s all down to you, Hayley. You persuaded and encouraged me to give it a go with Idy. I’m glad I listened to you.
Hello my dear Emma,
How sad to think I shan’t be talking to you anymore (albeit in silence!).
Yes I have seen quite a bit of David who is very kind and appears to be a genuinely good person.
Thanks so much for all of your time and effort you have spent on my behalf.
Cheers for now
Trudi xxx
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Hello Lynda and Karen
2 years ago today we had our first date and we are still talking! We are very happy and want to
thank you both for making this happen - we will never forget!
Hope you’ve both been well in all of this, as have we. Take care xx
Cathy & Mike
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Morning Kerry
Just wanted to thank you for all your time and attention over the last very difficult/strange year.
Thank you for your very kind words in your last email. I too have become fond of yourself and will miss your emails in my inbox !
You have done your job over the last year with great integrity, attention, love and professionalism.
I have very much appreciated your friendship too.
As I am too matching people to their potential homes (which is hard enough)I know that keeping enthusiasm for fussy people is not always easy. I have always felt that you had by best interests at heart and I really appreciate your hard work.
I wish you every happiness for the future Thank you again Kerry x
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It was lovely to catch up the other day. Lovely to talk to you. If I don't write this now, yet another day will be gone!
I joined Avenues introduction agency almost two years ago.
I was introduced to Avenues by a friend of my daughters, who met her Mr Right on the first introduction, married and has lived happily ever after.
I had been on my own for five years, but missed the feeling of being loved and being special to someone. Well a gentleman to go out to dinner with, the theatre, a friend and then see what happened.
I was nervous and when I spoke to my matchmaker but was reassured understood and made to feel very comfortable by her. She understood what a huge step it was for me to phone. She encouraged me to widen my horizons when I received a profile. Yes, I got disheartened when time passed,
but she was always there to listen and advise. I have now met a lovely gentleman who was outside of my perimeters but am so pleased that I listened to her advice.
I would recommend Avenues for an introduction, it might not happen straightaway but this team of woman are passionate about there role in our lives as matchmakers and I would say trust them, they have your best interests at heart.
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As you know I joined Avenues earlier in the year ...You brought common sense, humour and intelligence into my relationship with Avenues; you took the trouble to speak to me at length, you became aware of what type of man I was hoping to meet and I believe you went to great trouble to select the right people for me.
Thanks to you I have met the man that has already changed my life and as you know it’s Steve, also a client of Avenues. Your understanding of your business and my needs already has had a huge impact on both our lives. Who knows what the future may hold for us, but thanks to you we at least have a chance of happiness.
Thank you so much Jane; you are a delight so speak to and an amazing ambassador for Avenues...
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Just a note to say Steve and I move forward (with baby steps) but life is good and exciting. We’re planning a holiday in May in the French Alps and possibly a South African safari towards the end of the year.
Life is so different for us both and we have you to thank for that.
Take care my lovely.
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Hi Karen, Mike here.
Had another lovely date with Cathy on Saturday Fingers crossed she is great.
Please pass on the following to whom it may concern.
I have just completed a year with Karen Hyde as my matchmaker. l would like to say how fantastic it was dealing with her apart from being very good at her job she was always bright cheerful helpful and very professional
It was a lovely experience she is a great asset to your firm and deserves a pay rise!!
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I would like to give a feedback on the fantastic service that I have received from Avenues Dating.
My Matchmaker Kim Shaw has matched me with many potential matches. Kim and her colleagues have alway's been very helpful and acted in a professional manner and have gone the extra mile to assist me.
I would highly recommend Avenues Dating.
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... the decision to renew my membership has been influenced by the helpfulness and support I have received from the team at Avenues.
In particular from Jane Robinson who has proven to be an extremely, personable individual.
Jane has been understanding, encouraging, caring, industrious and always has a cheerful disposition.
A big thank you to the team at Avenues.
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Our team of friendly membership advisers and matchmakers are here to help you take the next step in finding a new partner.
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Our membership advisers will guide you through your membership choice.
We get to know more about you and what you’re looking for in a partner.
Your matchmaker will begin headhunting and send you relevant matches.
Veronica is in her early fifties and had been alone for many years, living in a well known Cornish fishing village. She is an artist and has a small gallery for selling her work and lives in an apartment above. She has two grown up sons but her husband walked out in 1998 and as she had not been in a serious relationship since, she felt that her life was now passing by. Tom is a self employed boat builder and is also based in Cornwall. He is 59 and feels that he would like to retire in the not too distant future. He had lost his wife Patricia in 2007 and felt it was time to move on once more and to build a new life with someone to enjoy his retirement. For Veronica, Tom was her 4th introduction and for Tom it was his second. Says Tom “I felt comfortable with Veronica straight away and that was important for me. We are both business people and consequently know all about life’s peaks and troughs. We have been together now for 18 months and are planning to get married, which delights us both. I’d recommend Avenues to all of you over 50s out there”.
Edward and Patricia’s story is a triumph for persistence, as we didn’t hear back from Edward straight away when their details were exchanged to each of them by Alex our Matchmaker and Patricia was disappointed and was ready to move on. Fate intervened though when Linda John, our Matchmaking Manager felt it was too good a match to give up on easily. She chased Edward, he agreed to a date with Patricia and the rest is history, they were married in March 2016, less than 1 year after they joined Avenues, which is a complete turnaround in both lives and to say that they are blissfully happy is an understatement. Which delights us – we are always so pleased with our successes for over 50s and to contradict those statistics that say, if you are divorced or widowed when you’re over 50 then you’re 95% certain to stay single for the rest of your life. Not if we have anything to do with it!!
