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Volunteer Opportunity: Employability Skills Programme Lead at REMIX
About Us:
REMIX is a newly established youth charity based in London. We are dedicated to empowering young people by providing essential life skills, employability skills, personal development, mentoring, and other youth work activities. Our mission is to equip young people with the tools they need to navigate life successfully and contribute positively to their communities.
Role: Employability Skills Programme Lead
Responsibilities:
- Lead the design and delivery of our Employability Skills Programme.
- Develop and implement strategies to engage young people in the programme.
- Collaborate with other team members and stakeholders to ensure the effectiveness of the programme.
- Evaluate the impact of the programme and make necessary adjustments to improve our services.
- Provide mentoring and guidance to young people, helping them to develop essential employability skills.
Requirements:
- Passionate about youth development and empowerment.
- Previous experience in employability skills training, mentoring, or a related field.
- Strong leadership and management skills.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
- Ability to volunteer flexibly, including evenings and weekends.
Benefits:
- Opportunity to make a significant difference in the lives of young people.
- Gain valuable experience in employability skills training and charity management.
- Be part of a passionate and dedicated team.
- Training and development opportunities.
How to Apply:
If you are passionate about making a difference in the lives of young people and have the skills and experience for this role, we would love to hear from you. Please send your CV and a cover letter explaining why you are interested in this role.
REMIX is committed to equal opportunities and welcomes applications from all sections of the community.
REMIX
EMPOWER | INSPIRE | TRANSFORM
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
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Volunteer Opportunity: Treasurer on the Board of Trustees at REMIX
About Us:
REMIX is a newly established startup dynamic youth charity based in London. We are committed to empowering young people by providing essential life skills, employability skills, personal development, mentoring, and other youth work activities. Our mission is to equip young people with the tools they need to navigate life successfully and contribute positively to their communities.
Role: Treasurer on the Board of Trustees
Responsibilities:
- Set up the financial management and controls of REMIX, including budget forecasting, policies and procedures and financial management and control systems and processes.
- Oversee the financial management and reporting of REMIX.
- Develop and implement financial strategies in line with our mission and objectives.
- Ensure that our financial resources are used responsibly and effectively.
- Collaborate with other trustees and stakeholders to ensure the effectiveness of our programmes.
- Provide financial advice and guidance to the board of trustees.
- Lead on the set up and management of the REMIX's bank account, HMRC PAYE and Gift Aid and the Charity Commission Reporting.
Requirements:
- Passionate about youth development and empowerment.
- Previous experience in financial management, preferably in a non-profit setting.
- Strong leadership and management skills.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
- Ability to work flexibly, including evenings and weekends.
Benefits:
- Opportunity to make a significant difference in the lives of young people.
- Gain valuable experience in financial management and charity governance.
- Be part of a passionate and dedicated team.
- Training and development opportunities.
How to Apply:
If you are passionate about making a difference in the lives of young people and have the skills and experience for this role, we would love to hear from you. Please send your CV and a cover letter explaining why you are interested in this role.
REMIX is committed to equal opportunities and welcomes applications from all sections of the community.
REMIX
EMPOWER | INSPIRE | TRANSFORM
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
We are hiring! Trustee vacancy
- Time Commitment: typically, 4 hours per month, for a term of 3 years (initial 12-month period)
- Location: Board meetings are held 4 times per year, and we work to find times that are accessible for Board members, which could include evenings and weekends. We meet twice a year in person in Oxford, and twice a year via Teams
- Renumeration: this is a voluntary role and reasonable travel expenses will be reimbursed
About Us
An independent charity, The Centre for Sustainable Healthcare (CSH) has been leading efforts to incorporate the values of environmental sustainability into the health sector since its establishment in 2008. Our work is underpinned by CSH’s Principles of Sustainable Clinical Practice: prevention; patient empowerment; lean care systems; low carbon alternatives.
CSH has a particular focus on:
- engaging those on the front line of patient care and promoting the concept of ‘sustainable clinical practice’
- enabling the use of the natural environment at NHS settings to be used as ‘nature-based solutions’ in healthcare.
As a trustee of our charity, you will have the opportunity to make a meaningful difference in shaping our organisation's future direction. The Board culture is friendly and lively, with an openness to creative ideas and input. There is a focus on core mission and values to inform decision making processes. The meetings will be focused, effective and inspiring, and led in line with CSH’s overarching aim to transform healthcare for a sustainable future. The Board values diversity and welcomes applicants from a range of backgrounds.
About You
We particularly welcome new trustees who could bring skills and experience in financial management or legal and IP transfer. Though please do not be put off from applying if you do not have any of these skills or if you have never been a Trustee before.
How To Apply
For an informal conversation about the opportunity, please contact us.
To apply, please send an up-to-date CV (or Linkedin profile) and simple covering letter answering two questions:
- why you’re interested in supporting CSH
- what you hope to bring to the Board
Or if you prefer to record your cover letter, verbally or with video, that’s also welcomed. Please contact us if you have any other accessibility needs or if you would like help with applying.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
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Age restrictions: 18+
Why we need your help
Marie Curie recognises that the best way to understand its services is by seeing it through the
eyes of the people we support. Feedback from people we care for is critical in telling us what
we are doing well and where we can improve.
Through this exciting volunteer role, you will help us understand our services’ quality by
listening to the people we support. You will help us by contacting people while they are
receiving our services to make sure we are providing our patients and families with excellent
care, and if there are issues, to help us nip things in the bud.
This role has the scope for broader conversations with people about their experiences at the
end of life. Gaining insight and understanding allows us to ensure we’re there for all people
experiencing dying, death and bereavement.
What we need you to do
Your role will include some of, but is not restricted to, the following tasks:
• Speak with patients and families over the phone to complete surveys
about their experiences of our care and support.
• Record data accurately, capturing as much as possible in the person’s
own words.
• Input feedback data into online an online database.
• If comfortable, undertake analysis of data to help us report on themes
and trends; what we are doing well and what we can improve.
• Communicate with patients and families how we use their feedback and ideas to improve
services, where appropriate.
• Work with the Clinical Nurse Managers to highlight any issues and concerns about the care
provided in their services.
• Relay positive feedback to Marie Curie Nursing staff and volunteers.
• If comfortable, conduct semi-structured interviews to understand peoples’ lived
experiences of dying, death, and bereavement.
What skills or experience do you need?
• Good communication, listening and people skills.
• The ability to deal with people in a warm, friendly, and sensitive manner.
• Understanding the importance of confidentiality.
• Empathy and an understanding of the needs of people experiencing end of life care issues.
What we can offer you
• An excellent opportunity to build on your skills in a charity environment
• An induction, training, support and supervision in your role
• Agreed reasonable out-of-pocket expenses
What we ask of you
• To provide two references from non-family members and other relevant documents related
to the role
• To keep to all the charity’s policies and guidelines
• To complete an induction and any training related to the role
Note - weekend/evening volunteering is not available for this role, we are looking for volunteers who are able to give some time between Monday-Friday, 9am-5pm.
About Us
Every day of your life matters – from the first to the last. When you volunteer for Marie Curie, you understand that better than ever. We’re a passionate, committed and diverse team of more than 4,400 staff and 6,500 volunteers, here for people living with any terminal illness, and their families. We offer expert care, guidance and support, to help them get the most from the time they have left.
Marie Curie is committed to its values, which underpin our work. We take stringent steps to ensure that the people who join our organisation through employment or volunteering, are suitable for their roles and are committed to safeguarding all our people from harm. This includes our staff, volunteers and all those who use or come into contact with our services. We are dedicated to creating not just a safe place to work but also a supportive and rewarding one.
Marie Curie is committed to a world where everyone can thrive and fulfil their potential. We are devoted to the social justice imperatives and organisational benefits of full diversity, inclusion and equity in the workplace, and are a Stonewall champion. We actively encourage and welcome applications from candidates of diverse cultures, perspectives and lived experiences.
We reserve the right to close this vacancy early.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
KEECH HOSPICE CARE….YOU CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE.
Our Volunteers are at the heart of the day to day running of our shops. We thank you for your time given to the charity. The shops provide much needed income to provide nursing care for our patients. Our purpose is to care for our patients and to support their families and friends. Whilst aiming to provide the most efficient and provide appropriate care, both physically and emotionally in their home or at the Hospice.
TASKS
To welcome, assist and serve our customers in a warm and friendly way providing a good standard of customer service.
To ensure Gift Aid is explained clearly and promoted to all our donors, and thanking them for their valuable contribution.
To promote public understanding of our work and the importance of raising funds, including promoting Hospice events and activities to the public.
Helping sort, steam, hang and display our donated stock and rotate the stock following the Manager’s guidelines.
Dealing with customer purchases, confidently process the cash handling and the accurate operation of the till.
SKILLS & QUALITIES
Honest, trustworthy and respectful.
Enthusiastic with a positive attitude.
Good communication and numeracy skills.
Presenting and maintaining shop displays in an attractive way to help create sales.
Reliable, committed, dependable and flexible.
Enjoy interacting with the customers and working as part of team, as well as under your own initiative.
TRAINING AVAILABLE
Ongoing support, training and development opportunities.
Specific relevant courses – Health & Safety, Fire Safety and Equality and Diversity.
BENEFITS
On site training.
Develop new skills, and meet new people.
DRESS CODE
Well presented smart/casual appearance and appropriate comfortable shoes to be worn.
Volunteer badge to be worn.
AVAILABILILTY
Time, commitment and availability can be discussed and agreed by the Shop Manager.
Where possible to be able and committed to work four hours a week i.e. 9-1pm, 1-5pm
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
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This project is an affordable school for the children of the town whose parents belong to the working class. Children have access to languague education.
Volunteer's Tasks
The volunteers use their knowledge of English to help the students in group classes. The presence of native speakers evidently is very helpful to the children’s learning of the language.
Your role in the school will be proportionate to your level of Spanish and the amount of time you can volunteer for. Consequently, this program is ideal for undergraduate students of modern languages on a year abroad, particularly those interested in teaching. If your Spanish and/or time is limited, you will be able to assist classes.
Why is this project important for the community?
Although there are no professional teachers, the volunteer teachers provide a rich and cultured education. Other English schools are between three to five times more expensive than this one, therefore, parents living in nearby neighborhoods are not able to send all of their children to study English. This is why the school is important for the community; it allows all the children to have the same opportunities and access to education, and it is also a way to fight for social justice. There is a lack of infrastructure, such as running water and paved roads in this particular neighbourhood and it is also known to be “left aside” because the state does not intervene. However, the school helps the families and also the young people of the town, because it also provides a first-job opportunity to students that are more advanced. This allows students to have a disposable income with which they can travel; an almost foreign opportunity to most.
Local Coordination
Silvia, the owner and director of the school, is also the coordinator for Voluntario Global there. She has made this a place of recreation, where the children come in the late afternoon, after going to school, to study English while taking a cup of tea in a relaxed and family atmosphere.
What can you learn as a volunteer?
Learning is a two-way street because the volunteer also learns through this experience. Their official duties are to assist the teenaged teachers, help them with pronunciation or grammatical rules, correct homework, read and explain to the children the basic elements of the language. Moreover, they can also help the oldest students get ready for international exams. This work allows the volunteer to exchange with people from different cultures, mainly thanks to the mix between communities from various countries of Latin America. Furthermore, teaching is the perfect exercise to learn how to speak to an audience and to get its attention. The volunteer learns to communicate with the youngest children who don't speak English correctly, and is able to learn how to adapt quickly and use other means of communication. Above all, the volunteer is able to create relationships with their students that will go beyond the classroom.
How does your work impact on the community?
Not only does this school offer the families a chance to further their education, it also provides a center for community. It is a place of exchange and hope, based on the idea that the children are able to study and to have a good future, because their parents were not awarded with the same opportunities even if the schools and the best universities are free. Students are able to connect more intimately with the volunteers and share their cultural differences, their accents, theirs travels and more. The volunteers also symbolize hope for the students that admire them because they are role models. They make the students believe in a brighter future and instil in them the motivation and aspiration to achieve their goals, no matter how big and regardless of their current socioeconomic status.
Schedule
The school is open from March to mid-December and works Monday through Friday, 4.30 to 7.30pm. It welcomes between 80 and 90 students of all levels and ages, for two-hour lessons. They also teach on Saturday morning to adult students, but the volunteer will be able to choose if to attend on the weekends or not.
Fee includes (600 USD):
- Pre departure information.
- In country coordination.
- Tutoring, constant communication and guidance with your coordinator and Exchange Volunteer Meetings.
- Volunteer Certificate and Performance Evaluation
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Oxfordshire Breastfeeding Support (OBS) is a small charity (a charitable incorporated organisation or CIO) providing free direct breastfeeding support to the families of Oxfordshire - via a mixture of virtual one to one appointments, in-person sessions, Zoom groups, a private Facebook group, antenatal workshops and work targeted at groups that are under-represented. Although founded as an independent charity in 2018, OBS’s work is a continuation of 12 years of breastfeeding support under the Baby Café umbrella. OBS is well known and respected in the community, with strong and valuable relationships with other service providers in the NHS, Local Authority and voluntary sectors. OBS is committed to being an actively anti-racist organisation, with a focus on social justice, equality, diversity and inclusion. We welcome people of all backgrounds, gender identities and life experiences to become trustees.
OBS is seeking to recruit a trustee to act as treasurer of trustees for a period of 2-3 years. In addition to the responsibilities of a general trustee, treasurer of the trustees will:
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Provide financial leadership to the board of trustees, offering valuable insights and recommendations on financial planning, budgeting, and investment decisions.
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Oversee the development and implementation of the charity's financial policies, ensuring compliance with relevant regulations and best practices.
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Prepare and present financial reports at board meetings, providing clear and concise updates on the charity's financial performance and projections. This would include preparing an annual budget and monthly management accounts.
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Monitor and assess the charity's financial health, identifying risks and opportunities and recommending appropriate actions. This would also include ensuring restricted funds are recorded and monitored appropriately to ensure than any grant terms are complied with
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Ensure transparency and accountability in financial matters, promoting ethical practices and adherence to financial policies.
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Prepare annual financial statements in accordance with Charity Commission regulations, and ensure timely completion of annual review
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Support the fundraising team in financial planning for campaigns and initiatives, aligning financial resources with strategic objectives. This would also include assisting in the preparation of the financial information for grant applications and assisting with preparing reports at the end of the grant period to show compliance with financial restrictions of any grants
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Keep abreast of financial trends, legal requirements, and best practices in the charity sector, sharing relevant insights with the board and staff
This work is likely to involve around 10 hours per month,