Lead Volunteer - Mobility Aids
Commitment: 2-3 days per week between Monday-Friday

We provide people in your community with wheelchairs on a short-term basis.

Your time will help people in your community stay independent by accessing a wheelchair.

Activities include:

• Meeting and supporting new volunteers and assisting the volunteering coordinator to deliver induction
• Supporting volunteers through coaching / mentoring
• Engaging with Mobility Aids Volunteers and coordinating their activity
• Tasks in keeping with the core volunteer role

We Offer:

• The opportunity to meet new people and be part of a dynamic and inclusive team
• Free training and ongoing upskilling.
• Reimbursement of out of pocket expenses
• The chance to truly make a difference to local lives.

Click Apply Online to register your interest and we will be in touch to arrange a phone call with you.

Contact
For further information, please email: or call 01227 864712
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CARAS runs a women’s drop in every Tuesday and Thursday (10.30 - 1.30), giving refugee and asylum seeking women an opportunity to make new friends in a safe women-only space, engage in positive activities and improve their English – we promote skills and confidence development that support women to gain more power in their lives.

As part of the drop in, we offer a crèche facility to ensure that the women who come can get the most out of the sessions. The crèche is open to children 0  - 3 years old and there are typically around 3 - 4 children at any session. 

As a crèche volunteer you need to:

• Have experience working with this age group of children
• Be able to plan and lead suitable activities
• Be reliable and punctual
• Commit to attending the drop-in regularly

Through volunteering with us you will:

• Meet new members of your local community
• Learn about different cultures
• Learn about issues relating to refugee and asylum seekers
• Work as part of a friendly, welcoming team
• develop your skills and competencies
• Be able to access relevant training, including safeguarding

You can apply for one of the 2 above days - either Tuesday or Thursday or both.

About Home Farm Trust (Hft)

Hft is one of the country's leading charities that has been supporting people with learning disabilities since 1962. The organisation was founded by a group of families who passionately believed that with the right support their relatives who had learning disabilities, could live the best life possible.

Today at Hft, they still hold that belief and their purpose is to ensure that they give the 2,600 people they support, either through residential care, supported living, daycare or domiciliary care, the best life possible. People with learning disabilities face obstacles that are hard to imagine. and their challenges are complex and lifelong. Hft believes that everyone with a learning disability can find more enjoyment, comfort and satisfaction in life with the right care, support and encouragement.

Who they're looking for

Hft are looking for peope who want to actively engage in guiding the success and future direction of the charity. They're interested in recruiting two new Trustees who have experience in social care commissioning, and generalist legal expertise:

• Clinical professional preferably in Learning Disability: ideally with a national reputation and capable of leading policy discussions, and or:
• Knowledge of social care/commissioning: forward looking and understanding the changing social care and commissioning environment and, ideally, how to influence it.

Legal:

• A generalist who has either operated in-house as a senior lawyer or as an advisor to large scale organisations (Hft has access to particular expertise, so about guidance rather than advice) e.g. a corporate lawyer with broad legal experience.
• Experience in such areas as human rights and equality, employment law, the Care Act and outcome based contracts would be desirable. Possibly some experience in high level strategic advice on property management.

In any instance the Hft board is seeking people who share their belief that specialist care and support helps people to live with as much independence, choice, dignity and control as possible, and to continue support for the most complex and challenging needs going into the future.

Interested?

If you have the skills and determination that would be useful in this role we're lookimg forward to hearing from you!

Role

A Peer Supporter is someone who has had personal experience of domestic and/or sexual violence, and after a period of training and assessment, will provide one-to-one support to women accessing Solace Women’s Aid services. They will work independently but with support from the Training and Development Coordinator to:

• Provide one-to-one support to female survivors of domestic/sexual abuse

This may include:

• Listening
• Help with linking into internal activities in Solace Women’s Aid and activities with external organisations or in the local community
• Accompany and support women to appointments, e.g., attending the GP, Hospital, Court or Job Centre appointments
• Help in setting personal goals or objectives and working towards achieving them

Skills and Qualifications Required

• Lived experience of domestic and/or sexual abuse however you must have been without your own support from services for a period of two years so the volunteering doesn’t negatively affect your own recovery journey
• Excellent personal and professional boundaries
• Feel that they are in a position (emotionally/psychologically) to support others (Please note this will be deemed by the woman herself but final decision will be down to the Training and development Coordinator)
• Good listening skills
• Non-judgmental
• Resilient
• Keen to support other survivors and help empower them
• Be willing to learn
• Be comfortable working on your own independently
• Be able to communicate well with others
• To have an understanding and awareness of the issues faced by the women accessing Solace Women’s Aid’s services

Training Opportunities

Volunteers will be able to access Solace Women’s Aid’s induction and internal volunteer training programme. Full support will be given to help volunteers understand and carry out any aspect of the role as appropriate.

You will have the option of studying towards an OCN Level 2 or 3 accredited qualification entitled “Tackling and Preventing Domestic and Sexual Violence/Abuse."

Commitment

We ask for a minimum commitment of 6 months post training.

You will be required to attend 3 ½ days of mandatory training on:

17th Jan (9.30pm – 1pm)

24th Jan, 31st Jan and 7th Feb 2020 (10am – 4pm).

How to Apply

For the full volunteer role description and the application forms please visit Solace Women's Aid website.

Please note that our volunteer opportunities are open to women only (exempt under the Equality Act 2010, Schedule 9, Part 1), and that these volunteer roles are exempt from the rehabilitation of offenders act 1974 and subject to enhanced DBS checks.

Age UK Norfolk’s befriending service offers a lifeline to many older people who would otherwise feel lonely and isolated across Norfolk. Telephone befriending is a chatty, friendly call. It’s the building of relationships with an older person and passing on requests for other support. It sounds simple, but it makes a significant impact.

One older person said about their befriender "We get on so well even though I’m 91 and she is in her 20’s. I make her laugh and she makes me laugh too. We talk about all sorts of things; houses, TV, gardens. I think she’s lovely and I do look forward to our chats”.

Telephone befriending provides a vital lifeline to many older people who would otherwise feel lonely and isolated. Even if you have only half an hour a week you could support an older person by enjoying a joke, sharing an experience or completing a quiz together.

Benefit Outreach Volunteers visit older people in their own homes and help them to complete forms for attendance allowance and the blue badge parking permits. 

About the opportunity

The Youth Adventure Trust is a youth development charity providing a programme of outdoor and adventurous activities for vulnerable young people from Wiltshire and Swindon. As a volunteer you will be supporting young people aged 11 to 16 years old, helping them face challenges and build resilience, experience success, learn to go beyond their expectations and grow in confidence. As part of the Youth Adventure Trust programme, running alongside the three camps there are single day activities which take place in Swindon or Wiltshire.

In between the Mountain and Coastal Camps we run some Activity Days in the October half term, February half term and Easter holidays. There’ll be things like art, set design and film production, animation, music technology, team challenge events or woodland adventures that the young people get to choose from.

These activities will all take place in Wiltshire and we’ll provide or organise transport to make sure you can get there, if you cannot make your own way there.

An annual training day takes place towards the end of January in Marlborough and we encourage all new volunteers to attend wherever possible.

Your role will be to support the young people, assist with their welfare and ensure they gain maximum benefit from their experience on these days. Previous experience of working with young people would be beneficial, but is not essential.

About Youth Adventure Trust

The Youth Adventure Trust is a registered youth development charity working with vulnerable young people aged 11 to 14 years old from across Wiltshire and Swindon. We run a developmental programme based around outdoor activities. Our Youth Adventure Programme is a series of residential adventure camps and day activities over two years, where young people have the chance to take part in a range of activities, work in a team, experience group living and challenge themselves in a new environment. The programme is provided completely free of charge to all the young people who take part and gives young people the chance to try new things, learn about teamwork, communication, social skills and start to take responsibility for themselves. The programme enables them to experience success, learn to go beyond their own expectations and grow in confidence. These are the essential building blocks to help young people grow into individuals who are able to make a positive contribution to society.

What are we looking for

Some experience of working with 11 - 16 year olds would be useful, as would previous experience of outdoor activities, but is not essential

Our volunteers are role models to the vulnerable young people we work with and as such, should be responsible, resilient, good at communicating, patient and enthusiastic.

A commitment to attend volunteer training, which will form part of the selection process

You must be aged over 21 years old

You will need to undertake an enhanced Disclosure & Barring Service check

You will be required to provide two references

Practical Considerations

The Activity Days are based in Swindon and around Wiltshire. We are looking for local volunteers from in and around the county and provide travel to the activities from the Wiltshire area. We will endeavour to help you with travel arrangements where possible.

Travel expenses covered where applicable.

Induction and training given.

Support is offered from a dedicated Volunteer Manager and other permanent staff. New volunteers also work alongside people who have previous experience of volunteering with the Youth Adventure Trust.

Customer Service Volunteer - Mobility Aids
Commitment: Monday 10am-12pm
Tuesday 10am - 2pm
Wednesday 10am - 2pm
Thursday 10am-12pm
Friday 10am-2pm

We provide people in your community with wheelchairs on a short-term basis.

Activities include:

• Issuing and receiving wheelchairs (or other mobility aids equipment) using a computer based stock control system.
• Demonstrating how to use and look after our wheelchairs (and other equipment).
• Dealing with enquiries from people wanting to borrow a wheelchair (or other equipment) by telephone, face to face and online.

We Offer:

• The opportunity to meet new people and be part of a dynamic and inclusive team
• Free training and ongoing upskilling.
• Reimbursement of out of pocket expenses
• The chance to truly make a difference to local lives.

Contact

Connecting human kindness with human crisis

Customer Service Volunteer - Mobility Aids

We provide people in your community with wheelchairs on a short-term basis.

Activities include:

• Issuing and receiving wheelchairs (or other mobility aids equipment) using a computer based stock control system.
• Demonstrating how to use and look after our wheelchairs (and other equipment).
• Dealing with enquiries from people wanting to borrow a wheelchair (or other equipment) by telephone, face to face and online.

We Offer:

• The opportunity to meet new people and be part of a dynamic and inclusive team
• Free training and ongoing upskilling.
• Reimbursement of out of pocket expenses
• The chance to truly make a difference to local lives.

Contact

Connecting human kindness with human crisis

Customer Service Volunteer - Mobility Aids

We provide people in your community with wheelchairs on a short-term basis.

Activities include:

• Issuing and receiving wheelchairs (or other mobility aids equipment) using a computer based stock control system.
• Demonstrating how to use and look after our wheelchairs (and other equipment).
• Dealing with enquiries from people wanting to borrow a wheelchair (or other equipment) by telephone, face to face and online.

We Offer:

• The opportunity to meet new people and be part of a dynamic and inclusive team
• Free training and ongoing upskilling.
• Reimbursement of out of pocket expenses
• The chance to truly make a difference to local lives.

Contact

Connecting human kindness with human crisis

Customer Service Volunteer - Mobility Aids

We provide people in your community with wheelchairs on a short-term basis.

Activities include:

• Issuing and receiving wheelchairs (or other mobility aids equipment) using a computer based stock control system.
• Demonstrating how to use and look after our wheelchairs (and other equipment).
• Dealing with enquiries from people wanting to borrow a wheelchair (or other equipment) by telephone, face to face and online.

We Offer:

• The opportunity to meet new people and be part of a dynamic and inclusive team
• Free training and ongoing upskilling.
• Reimbursement of out of pocket expenses
• The chance to truly make a difference to local lives.

Contact

Connecting human kindness with human crisis

Customer Service Volunteer - Mobility Aids

We provide people in your community with wheelchairs on a short-term basis.

Activities include:

• Issuing and receiving wheelchairs (or other mobility aids equipment) using a computer based stock control system.
• Demonstrating how to use and look after our wheelchairs (and other equipment).
• Dealing with enquiries from people wanting to borrow a wheelchair (or other equipment) by telephone, face to face and online.

We Offer:

• The opportunity to meet new people and be part of a dynamic and inclusive team
• Free training and ongoing upskilling.
• Reimbursement of out of pocket expenses
• The chance to truly make a difference to local lives.

Contact

Connecting human kindness with human crisis

Customer Service Volunteer - Mobility Aids

We provide people in your community with wheelchairs on a short-term basis.

Activities include:

• Issuing and receiving wheelchairs (or other mobility aids equipment) using a computer based stock control system.
• Demonstrating how to use and look after our wheelchairs (and other equipment).
• Dealing with enquiries from people wanting to borrow a wheelchair (or other equipment) by telephone, face to face and online.

We Offer:

• The opportunity to meet new people and be part of a dynamic and inclusive team
• Free training and ongoing upskilling.
• Reimbursement of out of pocket expenses
• The chance to truly make a difference to local lives.

Contact

Connecting human kindness with human crisis