Volunteer Roles in Cumbria
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Are you a good listener? Are you able to manage group conversations and ensure people feel comfortable together and that groups run smoothly? We need you to facilitate our weekly telephone groups that offer blind and partially sighted people the opportunity to socialise with others. This is a telephone-based role that you can do from home. You will need access to a landline and/or mobile phone We ask you to commit to a minimum of 3 hours per week to facilitate 3 or more Talk and Support befriending groups per week which will be at the same day and time each week. Each group runs for an hour.
- Effective listening skills
- Good verbal communication skills
- Work with wide range of people
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Home Based: over the telephone (this role requires you to have a landline or mobile telephone)
- This role requires 2 references
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This organisation is scheduling interviews as the applications come in. Don’t miss your opportunity, apply now!
Our roaming tech volunteers provide one-to-one support to people with sight loss, visiting them in their own homes to help them get the most out of technology. They may help customers set up a new device, learn new features or trouble shoot tech problems. Roaming tech volunteers support people local to them.
- Good communication skills
- Customer focused approach
- Natural tech user
- Problem solving skills;empowering attitude
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Home visits and venues across your local area. Access to telephone and email is required.
- This role requires an enhanced criminal record check and 2 references.
Actively Interviewing
This organisation is scheduling interviews as the applications come in. Don’t miss your opportunity, apply now!
Our roaming tech volunteers provide one-to-one support to people with sight loss, visiting them in their own homes to help them get the most out of technology. They may help customers set up a new device, learn new features or trouble shoot tech problems. Roaming tech volunteers support people local to them.
- Good communication skills
- Customer focused approach
- Natural tech user
- Problem solving skills
- Empowering attitude
- This role requires an enhanced criminal record check and 2 references.
Additional location information
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We really need people in the Lincolnshire, Derby and Northampton areas. Home visits and venues across your local area. Access to telephone and email is required.
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This organisation is scheduling interviews as the applications come in. Don’t miss your opportunity, apply now!
Our roaming tech volunteers provide on-to-one support to people with sight loss, visiting them in their own homes to help them get the most out of technology. They may help customers set up a new device, learn new features or trouble shoot tech problems. Roaming tech volunteers support people local to them.
We’re particularly looking for applicants from the Scottish Borders, Midlothian, Edinburgh, Kirkcaldy and Fife, Dundee and Angus, West Coast of Scotland, Dumfries and Galloway, East Lothian, West Lothian, Highlands (AB and IV postcodes).
*Good communication skills;
*Customer focused approach
*Natural tech user
*Problem solving skills
*Empowering attitude
This role requires membership of the PVG (Protecting Vulnerable Groups) Scheme (Adults).
This role requires 2 references
Actively Interviewing
This organisation is scheduling interviews as the applications come in. Don’t miss your opportunity, apply now!
Our roaming tech volunteers provide one-to-one support to people with sight loss, visiting them in their own homes to help them get the most out of technology. They may help customers set up a new device, learn new features or trouble shoot tech problems. Roaming tech volunteers support people local to them. Opportunity available in the following postcodes: SP, SN, DT, BH, BA, EX, PL, TA, TQ and TR
*This role requires an enhanced criminal record check
*This roles requires 2 references
*Home visits and venues across your local area. Access to telephone and email is required.
Actively Interviewing
This organisation is scheduling interviews as the applications come in. Don’t miss your opportunity, apply now!
Our roaming tech volunteers provide one-to-one support to people with sight loss, visiting them in their own homes to help them get the most out of technology. They may help customers set up a new device, learn new features or trouble shoot tech problems. Roaming tech volunteers support people local to them.
- Good communication skills
- Customer focused approach
- Natural tech user
- Problem solving skills
- empowering attitude
- This role requires an enhanced criminal record check
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Home visits and venues across your local area. Access to telephone and email is required.
Actively Interviewing
This organisation is scheduling interviews as the applications come in. Don’t miss your opportunity, apply now!
Our roaming tech volunteers provide one-to-one support to people with sight loss, visiting them in their own homes to help them get the most out of technology. They may help customers set up a new device, learn new features or trouble shoot tech problems. Roaming tech volunteers support people local to them.
Currently volunteers are needed in Stockton on Tees, Middlesbrough, Redcar and Cleveland.
- Good communication skills
- Customer focused approach
- Natural tech user
- Problem solving skills
- empowering attitude
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Home visits and venues across your local area. Access to telephone and email is required.
- This role requires an enhanced criminal record check
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This organisation is scheduling interviews as the applications come in. Don’t miss your opportunity, apply now!
Join our amazing volunteer team to raise awareness of sight loss and RNIB services at local events. You will give talks in person or virtually, sharing your own story to improve understanding of sight loss to local service providers and community groups. You’ll be making a real difference to people living with sight loss by helping to improve accessibility and inclusivity, creating a world without barriers. What you’ll be doing: • Giving talks to groups of people to raise awareness of sight loss in your local community by sharing your story to audiences, for example, local businesses, community and voluntary groups. • Delivering talks to raise awareness of RNIB services as a trusted source of support for blind and partially sighted people • Representing RNIB as an Ambassador for the Community Connection service What you’ll gain from the role: • An opportunity to give something back. • A chance to build a strong community. • A sense of achievement through the difference you make. • A chance to be part of a team of like-minded people • An opportunity to develop and explore different roles with RNIB, including our internal job vacancies. In return for donating your time we will provide: • A supportive route to building your confidence in presenting and sharing your story with an audience. • A rewarding experience. • A great Induction and training. • A supportive manager. • Regular updates and catchups. • Expenses. • An opportunity to connect with other volunteers.
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This organisation is scheduling interviews as the applications come in. Don’t miss your opportunity, apply now!
Join our amazing team and make a real difference to people living with sight loss. Help create a welcoming and safe environment for people to share their experiences, ask questions and support each other and connect with a local community in a group setting via Facebook.
In this role you will be:
• Managing group membership – authorising Requests to Join.
• Creating a warm and welcoming environment.
• Supporting group conversations.
• Working with a Volunteer Moderator Team to create engaging content for the Group.
• Ensuring House Rules are followed and content is appropriate.
What you’ll gain from the role:
• An opportunity to give something back.
• A chance to build a strong community.
• A sense of achievement through the difference you make.
• A chance to be part of a team of like-minded people
• An opportunity to develop and explore different roles with RNIB, including our internal job vacancies.
In return for donating your time we will provide:
• A rewarding experience.
• A great Induction and training.
• A supportive manager.
• Regular updates and catchups.
• Expenses.
• An opportunity to connect with other volunteers.
Actively Interviewing
This organisation is scheduling interviews as the applications come in. Don’t miss your opportunity, apply now!
Are you a good listener? Do you live in the South West? We need you to facilitate one of our weekly telephone groups that offer blind and partially sighted people the opportunity to socialise with others from this region. You will contribute to the group to ensure that all participants feel comfortable and the group conversations run smoothly.
*Ability to listen
*Effective listening skills
*Good communication skills
*This role requires 2 references
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Lonlon Farms seeks to be a centre for learning and innovation in food production and agriculture in general. We aspire to be an incubator for young farmers and enthusiasts, fostering innovation in agriculture, agribusiness, and agri-tech. Lonlon Farms provide practical training, recruitment and create an incubatory environment for the agricultural value chain in Sierra Leone.
BUSINESS DEVELOPER
- Help us build a business case for investors and supporters. This role also involves researching funding sources among others for Lonlon Farms.
- Volunteer 2-3 hours per week remotely
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
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This organisation is scheduling interviews as the applications come in. Don’t miss your opportunity, apply now!
Are you a good listener? We need you to facilitate one of our weekly telephone groups that offer blind and partially sighted people the opportunity to socialise with others. You will contribute to the group to ensure that all participants feel comfortable and the group conversations run smoothly.
We are particularly looking for volunteers to support in the following;
*Craft group – someone with an active interest in any sort of craft e.g. knitting, crochet, embroidery, card making etc
*South Wales Valleys group – someone from or with knowledge /experience of the area
*Powys - someone from or with knowledge /experience of the area
Actively Interviewing
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Lonlon Farms seeks to be a centre for learning and innovation in food production and agriculture in general. We aspire to be an incubator for young farmers and enthusiasts, fostering innovation in agriculture, agribusiness, and agri-tech. Lonlon Farms provide practical training, recruitment and create an incubatory environment for the agricultural value chain in Sierra Leone.
COMMUNITY MANAGER
- We are building a community of students, supporters and clients and we like our community manager to help keep our community active, engaged and supportive of our work through workshops, trainings, videos, newsletters and other community engagement tools.
- Volunteer 2-3 hours per week remotely
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
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Noms makes daily cooking easy. They solve the question “What’s for dinner?” by automatically converting online cooking content into intuitive, easy-to-follow and step-by-step recipes. With the app, individuals can search for recipes by what’s in their fridge, customise recipes to suit their needs, swap ingredients that they do not like or have, and display quantities in intuitive measurements (handfuls, spoons, etc.). Individuals. Individuals can then cook these recipes with their easy-to-follow format that shows only essential information (no ads, long descriptions, or touching the phone). And, they can optimise their groceries to make more food with less money and zero waste.
RECIPE EDITOR
- The responsibilities for this role may change all the time but tasks you may be doing are: uploading recipe videos to our app, using our unique editor to turn cooking reels into step-by-step recipes and checking a creator's original recipes and editing the step-by-step recipe to be easy-to-use and accurate.
- Volunteer 7-9 hours per week remotely for 1-2 months.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
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Hekima is a small organization in Tanzania that promotes children rights, and youth through nurturing that enables children, families and communities in ending Violence Against Children (VAC). Hekima achieves this through community accountable where children and young youth demand their rights; strengthening child protection and participation systems and structures.
PROGRAMME SUPPORT
- We are looking for a Programme Support Volunteer to understand the organization and its programs; review the current strategic plan; prepare meetings with the team; prepare a logical framework; and, elp create a theory of change.
- Volunteer 4-6 hours per week for 3-4 weeks.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.