Volunteer Researcher for High Value Items

Can you spot a high value item a mile off? Do you know your designer labels, vintage accessories and antiques market inside out? If this is you, and you want to help pets, then we need your expertise in our busy shop to identify and recommend pricing for high value items. Your contribution will help us generate vital income to help pets in need.

What you will be doing:

• Identifying potential high value items
• Researching market value of designer labels, antiques and items of value
• Recommending price points

 What we are looking for:

• Knowledge and interest in subject area
• Eye for detail and high level of accuracy
• Reliable and enthusiastic

 Benefits to you:

• Help pets to have healthy, happy lives
• Use your expertise and share your experience
• Training in customer experience and shop skills
• Have fun in an enjoyable and interesting role
• Stay healthy and active in your local community

This opportunity is available at 120 High Street, Marlborough SN8 1LZ

Time commitment is flexible to suit you.

Please apply online using the below link:

http://bttr.im/eto81

Do you want to help pets and showcase your creativity online? Blue Cross retail is looking for an individual with a creative flair to help promote Blue Cross shops and items for sale online. Your contribution will help us generate vital income to help pets in need while you develop your skills in an exciting role.

 What you will be doing:

• Communicating with the Digital Media Officer

• Helping promote Blue Cross on social media

• Produce pictures and upload items online

• Maintain and update social media pages

• Respond to customer queries online

   What we are looking for:

• Knowledge and interest in subject area

• Creative flair and ability to market items

• High level of accuracy and IT literate

• Ability to work within guidelines

• Reliable and enthusiastic

   Benefits to you

• Help pets to have healthy, happy lives

• Gain some great experience

• Showcase your creative flair and share your expertise

• Use your professional skills to help more pets

• Training in customer experience

• Have fun in an enjoyable and interesting role

• Develop your skills and enhance your CV

Time commitment is flexible to suit you.

This role is based at our Marlborough shop, 120 High Street, Marlborough SN8 1LZ.

You need to be aged 14 years or above for this role

Please apply online for this role using the link below:

http://bttr.im/l19pa

We are looking for Connect and Support Volunteers.

Are you a caring person who could visit and support an older person with early stages of dementia.

By giving just an hour a week to visit someone, you can alleviate loneliness and social isolation.

Providing companionship to someone can improve their health and wellbeing.

Could you be someone to help change and reduce the stigma of dementia, perhaps sharing interest and hobbies, or just a simple game of dominoes.

or

We are looking for new Connect and Support volunteers to visit people in their own homes, motivating and encouraging an older person who has recently been discharged from hospital.

By offering positive encouragement, you can persuade them to continue with any post-hospital exercises and therefore improving independence and mobility.

Just one hour a week can make a significant difference to an older person, it can alleviate loneliness and social isolation and can really help to improve well-being.

About the opportunity

Carers Network is a non-for-profit charity that support 5,800 unpaid carers. Our vision is that every unpaid carer in the areas in which we operate leads a healthy and fulfilling life with control of their caring role.

In order to extend our geographical reach, build partnerships and access ‘hidden carers’ (unpaid carers that are unknown to our organisation) across the boroughs that we operate, we are looking to recruit a voluntary Community Link Worker.

The Community Link Worker is an outreach based role that will work closely with our Service Managers to travel tri-borough. The role of the Community Link Worker is to build relationships with new partner organisations to increase referrals to Carers Network, and to raise awareness of our services in the wider community.

The role:

Extensive community outreach to visit healthcare providers such as general practitioners, hospitals and pharmacies

Building relationships with external stakeholders within the community, such as community centres and voluntary services to promote our services

Building relationships with faith organisations, such as churches, mosques and temples to access more typically hard to reach groups, such as those who practice or believe different religions

Accessing black and minority ethnic groups (BAME) in line with our service level agreement

Encouraging these organisations to display our up to date literature to facilitate referrals

Obtaining the contact details of the Manager for each organisation so that Carers Network can maintain further dialogue with them about joint working, and to ensure that we send them the latest version of Carers Network literature in electronic form

You will be provided with a list of different organisations to visit

About Carers Network Westminster

Carers Network is an independent charity. Our vision is that every unpaid carer is recognised and leads a healthy, fulfilling life with control over their caring role. For more than 25 years we have been working with carers to provide information, advice and support, along with social events, breaks and other services to ensure that carers are well informed, supported and healthy.

What are they looking for?

Person specification:

Extensive travel within the borough is expected and travel expenses will be reimbursed. You will be asked to provide contact details of organisations that you visit

Prior experience in community outreach work, or partnership building is desirable

Feeling confident in face to face communications, and travelling within the borough is essential

Speaking a second language is desirable, but not essential

To work autonomously

Practical Considerations

Will involve extensive travel across London and the ability to work autonomously

At Passion for Sport we use media to introduce sports fans to Jesus.

We do this by producing Planet Sport and Planet Sport Football Africa, two weekly radio programmes heard on over 60 stations in 19 countries and online. 

We also report from major sporting events such as the Olympic Games and FIFA World Cup™ producing programmes, interviews and reports for our radio station partners across the globe.

In the past, we have also supported the UK church by providing resources to introduce sport fans to Jesus.

Passion for Sport is now looking to increase the Board of Trustees as we enter the next phase of the charity's business planning and we are looking for people with the following skills:

- HR

- Finance

- Experience of chairing a charity

- Strategic change and development

 If you would like to have a chat to discuss this further, please get in touch as we would like to hear from you

Stock Processor

Are you keen to get some practical experience in retail? Our busy shop needs a productive person to help sort, select and prepare donations for sale. You’ll be involved in a retail environment and profits you help generate will help pets in need.

What you will be doing:

• Preparing stock for sale
• Sorting donations
• Steaming, tagging and hanging items
• Quality control

What we are looking for:

• Reliable and enthusiastic
• Eye for detail
• Ability to work on own initiative

Benefits to you:

• You’ll be helping pets to have healthy, happy lives
• You’ll gain some great experience in the retail sector
• You’ll be offered training in customer experience and shop skills
• Develop your knowledge and enhance your CV
• Have fun and meet new friends
• Stay healthy and active in your local community

This opportunity is available at: 120 High Street, Marlborough, Wiltshire, SN81LZ

Time commitment is flexible to suit you

Applicants must be aged 14 years or older

Please apply online for this role using this the link below:

http://bttr.im/85rrg

Fundraising Team Members – Retail

Do you love talking to people and winning them round?  Could you help organise and run events to promote Blue Cross in your local community?  Your local Blue Cross shop is looking for people to join a group of like-minded volunteers to organise a variety of local fundraising and awareness events. You’ll be helping pets in need whilst developing your skills and experience, and having fun!

What you will be doing:

• Working as part of a team to fundraise within your local community
• Organising and participating in events
• Networking with local partnerships
• Promoting awareness of Blue Cross

What we are looking for:

• Excellent people skills and a positive ‘can do’ attitude
• Previous experience of fundraising/networking
• Good communication skills
• Reliable and happy to work within our policies and procedures

Benefits to you:

• You’ll be helping Blue Cross to help pets have happy, healthy lives
• Develop skills and enhance your CV
• Participate in raising funds within your local community
• The opportunity to make a real difference in a friendly team environment
• Have fun and meet new people from a variety of backgrounds

Time commitment is flexible for this role.

This role is available at: 120 High Street, Marlborough SN8 1LZ

Please apply online for this role using the link below:

http://bttr.im/bxfun

About the opportunity

Carers Network is looking for an enthusiastic team player to support our work. Carers Network employ three teams of Caseworkers across the London boroughs of Hammersmith and Fulham, Westminster and Kensington and Chelsea.

They provide carers assessments to new carers who are either referred to Carers Network (for example by a friend, family member or social services) or they can self-refer. The carers assessments we provide are either face to face or over the telephone, and looks at the person’s emotional, physical and mental health through looking at their current circumstances and agreed long term outcomes, such as accessing work or wellbeing activities.

This new role will support our Caseworkers through maintaining telephone contact with our service users through booking carers into groups or events and conducting telephone welfare checks. We are looking for a volunteer to support us for a minimum of six months.

The role:

Supporting caseworkers with calling carers between appointments

Carrying out telephone welfare checks

Scanning and photocopying documents

Using and updating our customer relationship manager (CRM) tool, Charity Log

Signposting our service users to other local services, such as mental health services or social groups

Telephoning our service users to remind them of upcoming groups or events

Calling our service users to enquire why they did not attend groups or events; and gathering feedback on the quality of our services

Calling carers that haven’t been contacted for a long period of time to ask if they still want to be on our database in line with GDPR

About Carers Network Westminster

Carers Network is an independent charity. Our vision is that every unpaid carer is recognised and leads a healthy, fulfilling life with control over their caring role. For more than 25 years we have been working with carers to provide information, advice and support, along with social events, breaks and other services to ensure that carers are well informed, supported and healthy.

What are they looking for?

Person specification:

A team player who is not afraid to ask for support from the team if necessary

Experience using Microsoft Office

Administrative experience in an office is desirable

Polite telephone manner

Empathic to the needs and circumstances of our service users

Ideally you will be able to commit one day per week for a minimum of six months

Practical Considerations

Admin experience proffered

Must be able to commit to volunteering for six months or longer

Our vision is that by 2025 all Huddersfield students will agree that we can help them develop the life skills they need to make and shape their future; Our mission is to make student life better.

We are seeking to appoint one External Trustee to shape the future direction of the Students’ Union and have a positive impact on the lives of all our students. You will need to be able to think strategically and be prepared, alongside other Trustees, to question assumptions and working practices assertively and respectfully and be prepared to express an opinion.

More information about the role can be found in the attached recruitment pack.

Please apply by sending your CV and Cover Letter to the email address given in the recruitment pack. 

London’s Air Ambulance is the charity that delivers an advanced trauma team to London’s most seriously injured patients. Through the use of their helicopter and rapid response cars London’s Air Ambulance brings the hospital to the patient when the time is critical. Serving the 10 million people that live work and travel within the M25, London’s Air Ambulance treat an average of five patients every day and aim to give patients the best chance of survival, and best quality of life, after trauma.

Trustees

London’s Air Ambulance

Unremunerated

London’s Air Ambulance now seek new trustees to join their high performing board and provide support and governance of high quality and rigour as they continue their recent growth in size and impact.

New trustees will share the motivation and values of London’s Air Ambulance and be willing to make a strategic contribution as a learning partner to a board. You will bring a background in emergency medicine or a related clinical or academic field, digital transformation/data expertise, culture change or major donor fundraising.

London’s Air Ambulance is committed to achieve greater diversity in its board, and welcome applications regardless of sex, gender, race, age, sexuality, belief or disability.

For further details of the role, and to find out how to apply, please read the Appointment Brief attached on the Prospectus website which can be reached by clicking on the Apply button.

If you wish to have an informal and confidential conversation, please contact Jessica Stockford or Roberta Giubilini via the weblink.

Deadline for applications: 18 November

Interviews with Prospectus: w/c 25 November & w/c 2 December

Interviews with London’s Air Ambulance: w/c 16 December or w/c 13 January

Volunteer Support in a Safe House for Male Survivors of Modern Slavery and Exploitation
 

The West Midlands Anti-Slavery Network (WMASN) CIC connects the various agencies involved in tackling modern-day slavery in the West Midlands and beyond. We aim to develop an effective regional multi-agency anti-slavery network to raise awareness, reduce the threat and harm of slavery and rescue and support survivors of slavery in the West Midlands geographical area. Developing strategic partnerships and collaborations with other regional, national and international organisations to tackle modern-day slavery, including networks, partnerships, agencies and learning establishments is key to the Network achieving its aim.
 

We are recruiting passionate volunteers for our Big Lottery Funded SafePlaceWM project working with male survivors of modern slavery and human trafficking post-exploitation.
The role will involve lone working (with an on-call system) in a safe house setting, providing emotional and practical support to encourage feelings of safety and trust to enable a smooth transition into appropriate support.
 

The Place of Safety project is up to 10 days of emergency support, post-exploitation, to meet the emergency medical needs of survivors and allow time for specialist advice and information about their rights and entitlements to support. 

We are looking for volunteers who can support by:

- Committing to a regular evening or weekend shift every week
- Committing to a regular evening or weekend shift every 2 weeks
- Being listed on our database of bank volunteers who can be contacted to assist as and when needed. eg. assist a survivor to attend a medical appointment, assist with house maintenance, be on call for service users with high support needs or be additional support at the house when needed
- Being involved in one-off opportunities such as funding or sourcing furniture for the safe house.
- OISC Registered Advisors to provide pro-bono legal advice

Due to the nature of this work, all volunteers who will be working with survivors will require references, an enhanced DBS and sign a confidentiality agreement. We require volunteers to have an understanding and knowledge of modern slavery, experience and/or understanding of working with victims of trauma and are able to commit to 6 months minimum term.

Recruitment process:

Complete an application form
Informal interview to discuss the application
References and DBS check
2 x Training sessions
Shadow shift and induction

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We are looking for a Recruitment Volunteer who will support us to find more Digital Champions – volunteers who support disabled people to access the digital world.

Supporting the recruitment of volunteers for the Digital Inclusion programme across the UK, you’ll do a range of tasks including drafting volunteer recruitment adverts and copy, researching suitable places to recruit, publishing adverts, responding to enquiries, and conducting screening calls.

This role would be ideal for people looking to work in volunteer management or HR. It would also be suitable for people who want to develop their admin and communication skills. We would like a volunteer with strong interpersonal and communication skills, excellent attention to detail and experience of using MS Office. It would be ideal if you have a flair for writing and a confident phone manner.

You will gain experience working in supporting the recruitment of volunteers at one of foremost disability charities in the UK. Ongoing training and support will be provided along with expenses, as it’s important to us that our volunteers are not out of pocket because of volunteering with us.

We would like someone to volunteer for two half days (ideally afternoons) or one full day a week for an initial commitment of two to three months. We’re happy to be flexible around your schedule.

After years of sustained growth the Helen Bamber Foundation is recruiting a new Honorary Treasurer trustee.

Volunteer Role: Honorary Treasurer

Unpaid Role

The Helen Bamber Foundation (HBF) is a specialist UK charity – founded in 2005 – working tirelessly to give survivors of trafficking and torture the strength to move on. At the Helen Bamber Foundation we believe our society will be judged by how we care for those to whom we owe nothing. We are a human rights organisation that provides survivors of extreme cruelty with everything they need to make a sustained recovery.  Every year in our office in Camden, London we support hundreds of clients every year from all over the world through our Model of Integrated Care (MoIC) which includes:

• Specialist programmes of therapeutic care for individuals, families and groups;
• Detailed medical assessments & co-ordination of external healthcare services;
• Provision of expert Medico-legal Reports and other legal protection support (for asylum, immigration and welfare and housing issues);
• Welfare and housing casework and advice;
• A community creative arts, skills and activities programme and integration; and
• Referral to specialist lawyers and organisations for legal, welfare & housing advice.

The goal of the Model of Integrated Care is to build a lasting and sustained recovery for each of our clients. And building upon our direct expert experience we also: undertake research to provide evidence of best practice; work to influence policy change and introduce best practice; and support others to change their practice through training and partnerships.

As a Trustee, you will be joining a charity in a sound financial position, with an ambition to build on our success over the last few years and grow our impact upon the wider population of survivors of trafficking and torture.

We are a friendly and welcoming organisation and are passionate about what we do. You’ll be joining our Board of Trustees at an exciting time with lots of opportunities to build on our success over the next few years. If you have the time and enthusiasm to be part of something amazing, please get in touch.

HBF is an equal opportunities and Living Wage employer.  We are committed to attracting and recruiting diverse candidates as it’s important that our trustees, staff, ambassadors and volunteers reflect the communities we serve at every level within the organisation.

Closing Date and time for applications: Friday 22nd November 2019 at 5pm

Polish Psychologist's Association jest organizacją charytatywną mającą na celu zapewnienie psychologicznego wsparcia Polakom zamieszkującym Wielką Brytanię. Najwyższej jakości usługi zapewniane są przez wykwalifikowanych psychologów i psychoterapeutów. Skierowane są one do osób doświadczających problemów na tle psychologicznym, tj. depresja, konflikty rodzinne, izolacja społeczna i inne.

W związku z dynamicznym rozwojem naszej organizacji oraz działu HR, poszukujemy osoby na stanowisko:

HR Officer
 

Miejsce pracy: Londyn/praca zdalna
Rodzaj umowy: Wolontariat

Opis stanowiska:
- pomoc w prowadzeniu dokumentacji personalnej stowarzyszenia
- opracowywanie polis i procedur wewnętrznych oraz monitorowanie procesu ich wdrożenia

- wsparcie w opracowywaniu oraz przeprowadzaniu szkoleń wewnętrznych
- wsparcie w budowaniu pozytywnej kultury organizacyjnej oraz rozwój komunikacji
wewnętrznej

- zaangażowanie w dodatkowe aktywności mające na celu rozwój organizacji

Wymagania:
- bardzo dobra znajomość języka polskiego i angielskiego
- umiejętność organizacji pracy własnej
- profesjonalizm, empatia, sumienność
- mile widziane doświadczenie w pracy w dziale Human Resources, aczkolwiek nie jest to warunek konieczny
- dostępność minimum 4 godziny tygodniowo

Oferujemy:
- nabycie nowego doświadczenia i rozwój w wybranym kierunku
- merytoryczne wsparcie od naszego doświadczonego zespołu profesjonalistów
- możliwość pracy zdalnej
- elastyczne godziny pracy
- zaświadczenie o odbytej pracy na rzecz organizacji charytatywnej – na życzenie.

Termin składania podań upływa 6.11.2019r. 
Uprzejmie informujemy iż skontaktujemy się wyłącznie z wybranymi kandydatami
 

Dziękujemy!