NEW VOLUNTEERING OPPORTUNITIES

Summer Volunteering Opportunites

If you are free over the summer, we have a local organisation happy to take on short term volunteers to help run their reception area. You can volunteer for just a couple of hours a week – including weekends.

New Local Opportunity – Volunteer Mentors

Volunteer mentors will support and encourage ex-offenders to work towards gaining employment or training.

Volunteers will be eligible to access OCN accredited training. There is on-going support and supervision from staff. Out of     pocket expenses re-embursed.

No formal qualifications required – training given.

Volunteer Drivers  - needed by a number of local organisations. Time commitment varies depending on organisation.

Customer Services Volunteers - Local charities are interested in recruiting volunteers who are interested in extending their customer service skills – times are flexible.

Volunteer Support Workers -  A national charity working with Class A substance misusers and/or their families is looking to recruit volunteers to take part in a side range of activities alongside the support workers.  

• The sorts of tasks might become involved in includes:

• Helping someone find work/training/education

• Helping with basic life skills e.g. budgeting

• Providing transport

• Helping someone to access resources in the community e.g. literacy classes.

Full training is given. Agreed expenses given.

For more details on any of these opportunities & many more please contact Sharon Chan - Volunteer Centre Manager on 01268 294797 or email: sharon@bbwcvs.org.uk

Basildon, Billericay & Wickford Volunteer Centre receives funding Boost

The Basildon, Billericay & Wickford Volunteer Centre, based at the George Hurd Centre, is celebrating having received vital funds from one of the UK’s largest grant-making trusts which will ensure the centre continues to provide vital volunteer support.  The Lloyds TSB Foundation for England & Wales has donated £22,000 to the centre which will cover part of the salary costs of its Volunteer Co-Ordinator.

The money will enable the Centre to provide additional support to people suffering or recovering from mental ill health wishing to volunteer with local organisations.

Sharon Chan, Volunteer Centre Manager said “Volunteering can be an ideal way to introduce people recovering or experiencing mental illness back into the daily routine of life. It is a way of re-entering a working environment, of bringing routine and structure to the day, and of building social networks”.

For further information:

Sharon Chan – Tel: 01268 294797, email: sharon@bbwcvs.org.uk