If so that’s understandable as the world of dating has been changing recently.

The online dating sector has received a huge amount of bad publicity, with the BBC’s Panorama having highlighted all sorts of issues about dating online. There has also been ongoing bad publicity in the heavyweight press such as the Financial Times and other national newspapers which has created lots of doubts and worries over the level of personal risk involved and also whether or not peoples highly personal and sensitive data and photographs are secure online.

If these doubts apply to you, Avenues have been providing an elite dating and personal introductions service to the over 50s in Oxfordshire since 1997, so you can be assured we are a highly respected and well established name in dating. Our service is a traditional personal matchmaking service, where all clients have been personally interviewed, ID checked and thoroughly vetted before we would accept them as members, so you can be very sure that who you are meeting is exactly who they say they are and our known to us.

There is also no need for any sort of very public and high profile online profile, carrying your personal details and photographs, as with Avenues that is all stored securely offline, with only your Personal Matchmaker having access to it and with a promise that it would never be shared with others without your permission.

The first step is an interview by telephone or face to face with one of our Personal Matchmaking team, we will then produce your complimentary profile for you and upload your photographs and then the process of searching for your compatible matches, according to your personal preferences can begin. We will offer you profiles of other members with a view to having a face to face meeting or date with them. Afterwards your dynamic feedback is how we deepen our knowledge of you and will help us refine and improve your profile as your membership develops on an introduction by introduction basis.