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Be an IT TUTOR at the Venture Centre
Venture Community Association
Do you have IT skills? Share them around in your own community! The VENTURE CENTRE has an up to date fully equipped IT suite. As one of their IT Tutors you will give the users the technical help and encouragement they need to make the most of their IT capabilities. Your responsibilities will include: > welcoming them and carrying out a basic assessment of their competence; > aiding and assis...
End Loneliness amongst Older People: young volunteers wanted!
Team v
Nobody deserves to be on their own at such a vulnerable time of life. Team v's campaign is about raising awareness and helping to end loneliness and isolation amongst older people. Are you between 18 and 25? You can help in a variety of ways including: > meeting up with older people in their community; > helping organise social activities to bring people together; > raising the issue widely in ...
Volunteer Travel Mentor
Volunteer Centre Kensington and Chelsea - Stepping Stones
The Stepping Stones Travel Mentoring scheme exists to empower individuals with supported needs to gain the skills they need enabling them to travel more independently and access their volunteering in a work placement. Through your travel mentoring training, support and encouragement you will enable the mentee volunteer to: >Improve their self-esteem and confidence in undertaking activities such ...
Next Steps Community Volunteer
British Red Cross
Could you spare the time to pop around to someone's house and brighten up their day? The BRITISH RED CROSS are looking for volunteers to work alongside a beneficiary who needs extra support to get back to their daily routine after facing a personal crisis or a stay in hospital. You can help by offering practical and emotional support to people who need settling securely and comfortably back in...
E Mail Befriending
Deafblind UK
Put your e mailing to really good use! Here's the chance to make a great difference to a person's quality of life. Send regular e mails to a deafblind person (s) and engage in conversations of mutual interest, offering support and friendship to each deafblind person with whom you communicate. This is really valuable in helping to reduce the sense of isolation that can arise for deafblind peopl...
Tele Befriender
Deafblind UK
Are you comfortable using the telephone? Here's the chance to make a great difference to a person's quality of life. Make regular phone calls to a deafblind person (s) and engage in conversations of mutual interest, offering support and friendship to each deafblind person with whom you speak. This is really valuable in helping to reduce the sense of isolation that can arise for deafblind people...
Befriending Volunteer
WRVS Charity
WVRS is a volunteer befriending service based in Kensington and Chelsea. Our volunteers provide possibilities for social contact and interaction with older, isolated people in their homes. Home visits can be arranged on a flexible basis with an understanding of the needs of that person. We can assist these people with shopping, prescription/post office collections, as well as accompanying them on ...
Project Organiser WRVS Befriending Service
WRVS Charity
This Opportunity involves managing the volunteer rota, making sure that older housebound people receive a reliable service from WRVS - allocating volunteers as befrienders to older housebound people - making visits to service users and assess new referrals - meeting new volunteers to interview them and process their applications - reporting service statistics to WRVS and working together with WRVS...
Association Visitor
Motor Neurone Disease Association
Association Visitors act as the main contact for people living with MND (this includes the person with MND, their family and carer) on behalf of the Association. They keep in regular contact offering confidential emotional support and accurate information to enable people with MND to make informed choices. Key tasks: > To make and maintain contact regularly by phone, email or face to face visits...
Fancy being a buddy?
Volunteer Centre Kensington and Chelsea - Stepping Stones
Stepping Stones Buddying is a service providing an additional level of support to volunteers with a learning disability or a mental health need. The buddying scheme exists in the land between befriending and mentoring, which means the focus is to encourage social interaction and to enhance greater independence. You as a 'Buddy Volunteer' will give one-to-one support to a 'Buddee volunteer' with a ...
