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E-befriender
National Autistic Society
The e-befriending scheme offers people with autism the chance to build friendships with a trained volunteer through email. E-befriending takes on average 1 hour a week and can be done from home or from anywhere that you have internet access. This new service is a supplement to the befriending service and will provide people with autism the opportunity to learn social and communication skills in a way that may be more suitable to them.
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Healthy Lifestyles Project Volunteer
YMCA Warrington
To assist the furniture help project, whose aim is to collect unwanted furniture, recycle and provide furniture and household items to people on low income.The tasks to be undertaken are1. Help with healthy lifestyle sessions2. Prepare information, quizzes etc3. Research ideas and ways to improve life on a low income4. Talking and listening
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16-25? Facebook user? Interested in reading? Are you Bored in Swale and have Time2Give? - vinvolved team
Libraries (Swale)
If you are creative, imaginative and fancy setting up a virtual reading group on facebook then this could be the opportunity you have been looking for! Swale libraries (Time2Give) are looking for a group of dynamic and motivated young people aged between 16-19 who would like to play a key role in launching this exciting new project. Give up 1 hour per month for a group meeting and the rest is up to you! If you would like a challenge get in touch asap. Do yourself and your community a favour... call Rachel (07939933815) for more info or apply below!
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Telephone Support Befriender
ACE, Alzheimer's Concern (Ealing)
You can undertake this volunteering opportunity from your home when you have completed your training. If you enjoy chatting on the phone - and helping someone at the same time - this might be the volunteering role for you! The 'Listening Ear' Volunteer Telephone Support Service provides telephone support to people with dementia and their carers. This will involve a regular session in our office, calling people with dementia and carers and having a chat about how they are. People with dementia and their carers can become very socially isolated and this service aims to help them feel less alone.
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Inclusion Group Facilitator
Norwich & Central Norfolk MIND
Volunteers are needed to facilitate a group of 5 to 10 Black and Minority Ethnic people with common interests, background or experiences, who meet at least every other month to share experiences, support and help empower each other. Volunteers will work within the wider Inclusion Team.
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Non-Uniformed Police Volunteer
Volunteer Centre Hartlepool
The role of a volunteer is designed to enhance the work of the police and provide additional support in the area where the volunteer lives or works. All volunteers assist police and staff who are then able to concentrate on policing duties. As a result there are more officers on the streets and improved community support. If you have 3-4 hours a week to spare, are possibly considering a career in the police, got skills you think we can use or want to give something back to make your community a safer place to live and work then we would like to hear from you.Group Ref : CPol
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E-Befriender
NAS Befriending (National Autistic Society)
The NAS new e-befriending scheme offers people with autism the chance to build friendships with a trained volunteer through email. E-befriending takes on average 1 hour per week and can be done from home or from anywhere that you have internet access. This new service is a supplement to the befriending service and will provide people with autism the opportunity to learn social and communication skills in a way that may be more suitable to them - this is particularly useful when an individual lives somewhere remote and is otherwise unable to access other services or when a volunteer has very limited time. The National Autistic Society matches volunteers to families and individuals who have something in common. By giving some of your time you could really open up this world and support their inclusion in society. You could really make a difference.
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Telephone Helpline Volunteer
First Steps to Freedom
Volunteers are needed to run Self-Help groups on the telephone, these groups are specifically structured to aid anxiety sufferers. If preferred one-to-one 1 week courses, also over an 8 week period and this would involve one-to-one with sufferers.Trainee voluntees undergo 8 week training programme by phone and once trained they are closely supervised and monitored for the first three months.Volunteers attend monthly Volunteer Support Group Meeting (on the phone).The 0845 helpline is from 10am to 10pm and volunteers work one 4 hour shift per week when the helpline is switched over to each volunteer's home telephone.
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Front line volunteers in Victim Support and witness service
Victim Support Devon
Volunteers support people who have been affected by crime. This includes calling them and offering practical support such as help with an insurance claim. You achieve great emotional support in just listening. You may visit people in their homes or elsewhere to talk things through.One you have volunteered for about six months, there's an option of specialising with further training in, for example, domestic violence, sexual violence, young victims or supporting young people bereaved by crime.
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Drivers
Burntwood Pathway
To provide transport for women and children who suffer domestic violence.
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