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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...
Befriender
Staying Put Kensington and Chelsea and Furnish
Befriending elderly and vulnerable people by developing lasting friendships. What's involved: Befrienders provide regular companionship and support to help empower elderly people who are isolated in their homes. Befrienders: >Visit elderly/vulnerable people on a weekly or fortnightly basis. >Make friends - with elderly and vulnerable people. >Promote their independence - through friendship and s...
Befriending
A2Dominion Group
Becoming a befriender is a very rewarding experience for both volunteers and the tenants they befriend. Volunteers visit tenants of the Association who have become isolated for a range of different reasons such as old age, ill health, disability or language barriers and subsequently are in need of support. Tenants are visited on a weekly or fortnightly basis for a minimum of two hours and are offe...
Befriending
Vitalise
Volunteer befrienders are being recruited now. The role would include: 1 Visiting an older person or young person with support needs. 2 Proving companionship and social interaction for the isolated person. This role would complement the support provided by a live-in volunteer and / or paid staff.
Befriending / Practical
Rain Trust
Befrienders are needed to join RAIN's team, providing practical support to people in the community living with HIV/AIDS. This will involve performing tasks such as shopping, domestic, food preparation and laundry. You may also assist by escorting clients to hospital appointments and social visits. Hours can be arranged. Through this valuable support role you will have the opportunity to gain an un...
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 ...
CARE Volunteer
Leukaemia CARE
CARE Volunteers provide emotional support to those affected by leukaemia, lymphoma, myeloma and the allied blood disorders. You will be a listening ear, someone they can open up to in times of need; you will help to empower them and their carers to get through difficult times. Sometimes your support will be provided by telephone; sometimes it may be on a face to face basis in the patient's home o...
Home Sharers
Vitalise
Live-in volunteers are being recruited now. You will live in the home of an older person or young person with support needs or disabled needs and provide companionship, be a reassuring presence and provide practical help. This could include cooking and sharing meals, helping with the gardening or shopping etc. Full training and support is provided, making t...
Mentor children and make a difference in their lives
Chance UK
Support young children with behavioral challenges >Meet them once a week for year >Play sports in the park >Visit museums >Create scrapbooks and other activities. Through mentoring you will: >Improving the child's self esteem >Find out what they're good at >Help them find out how much fun life can be It's life changing stuff. You can be a part of it.
Project Organiser WRVS Befriending Service
WRVS Charity
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 to promote the Befriendin...
