Hi,
Welcome to the November edition of
the
If you are still not sure what type
of volunteering you would like to do and want to find out more please come to
our volunteer’s
fair. Click below for all the details. Some of the
team will be there along with over 20 organisations who are looking for
volunteers.
Click on the links below to jump
straight to the
The
Laura – laura.owen@volunteercentrewestminster.org.uk
Nisha – nisha@WVSDA.org.uk
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IN THIS
ISSUE
Volunteering
Opportunities
Marketing
and Events Volunteer
Volunteer
at Somerstown Community Centre
Volunteer
with Youth Vision Enterprise
Journey of Understanding –
Encompass
Youth
Arts Leadership Volunteers
Our
youth action team – male volunteers
Christmas
wrapping for St Luke’s Hospice
International
Collective Production
vcashpoint funding
available!
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WHY
I VOLUNTEER………..
Each month we will feature a
different volunteer telling us about what they do and why they think
volunteering is so worthwhile. If you would like to shout about your
volunteering experiences please let us know and you can be featured in one of
our future bulletins! Contact your advisor or Laura (laura.owen@volunteercentrewestminster.org.uk)
Claudine
Bryan, 17,
Volunteering with the
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VOLUNTEERING
OPPORTUNITIES
Marketing
and Events Volunteer
Media
Trust
The Media Trust is always
on the look out for volunteers to work within the Events Department. We are
currently looking for volunteers who have just completed a University degree and
who are looking for some marketing events experience. If you are interested in
events, marketing and the third sector then Media Trust volunteering could be
just what you are looking for. We offer a 3-6 month placements where you will
gain hands on events experience.
Interested? Visit www.mediatrust.org/jobs/volunteer-marketing-events-administrator
or contact Laura (laura.owen@volunteercentrewestminster.org.uk
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Arthritis
Care
Are you a young person
living with arthritis? Arthritis Care are looking to recruit people with
arthritis of any age from all over the
People Bank volunteers
support Arthritis Care in a variety of ways from reviewing products in our
magazine Arthritis News, being interviewed for features or talking to the press
about what it's like to live with arthritis.
You can do as much or as little as
you like and most of the work takes place over the phone or by post so it's
really flexible to join.
Interested?
Visit www.arthritiscare.org.uk/peoplebank
or contact Laura (laura.owen@volunteercentrewestminster.org.uk)
There are so many ways you can
volunteer for Somerstown Community Centre. We are currently looking for
people for the following volunteer roles:
·
Under 5’s Breakfast Club
volunteer
·
Older People’s Lunch Club
volunteer
·
ESOL volunteer class
assistant
·
Personal Budget Advisors
·
Website Manager and IT
Administrator
·
Teaching older people to use
computers
Interested? For more
information on these
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Youth
Vision Coaching Group
We are a group that works with
children of all ages: 3-19 yrs and we provide workshops and training
for children and young people. We are based in
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Fundraising
·
Organising Events
·
Filling in grant / funding applications
·
Marketing: Designing leaflets to tell others who we
are and what we do.
·
Web design
·
Administration including making telephone calls,
creating a basic database, and some letter writing.
Interested?
–
contact Laura (laura.owen@volunteercentrewestminster.org.uk)
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International
Horse Show Volunteers
WellChild
Do you have time to
spare to help us at the London International Horse Show, held at
We will provide you with a WellChild T-Shirt to wear when volunteering and
you will also get to explore the fantastic event and maybe watch a show after
you have finished your shift.
Interested? Contact Laura (laura.owen@volunteercentrewestminster.org.uk)
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COSMIC (Children of
St Mary’s Intensive Care Unit)
Use your design skills to help
produce our children’s charity newsletter! We are seeking a talented
designer who is able to volunteer their time to layout and create “COSMIC News”
every four months, in consultation with the staff and volunteers at
COSMIC. Ideally you will have access to your own design software and be
able to volunteer from home or your workplace, liaising with COSMIC via
meetings, email and telephone. There may however be the opportunity for
you to come into the office to use the charity’s own “In Design” package during
standard office hours. Our next target publication dates are: February,
June and October 2009
Interested?
Contact Laura (laura.owen@volunteercentrewestminster.org.uk)
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Encompass
Trust
In February 2009 Encompass will be
teaming up with Westminster Metropolitan Police to give 8 young people from
In partnership with Westminster
Police, Encompass will be running a recruitment weekend from 5th-7th December
2008 for 24 young people from
Interested?
Contact Nisha – Nisha@WVSDA.org.uk
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WORLDwrite
London Behind
the Scenes delivers alternative on-foot, on film and online
virtual tours of
WORLDwrite is now
offering an exciting opportunity to 16 to 25 year olds, interested in
volunteering on London Behind the
Scenes to take part in developing more tours and films and becoming
professional accredited tour guides. We are now enrolling volunteers
wishing to opt for accreditation for their work where they will receive the
Institute of Tourist Guiding Level 2 certificate, and be fully qualified to
conduct tours to the public. The
training programme
for new tour guide volunteers includes receiving professional
training from Blue Badge tour guides, working on new tour development as part of
a team of young volunteers, participating in organised public discussions and
debates on the issues of each tour, researching archived material, learning film
and camera work, designing web based virtual tours and a lot more besides.
Volunteers wishing to
take part in this exciting opportunity will need to attend inductions and
informal interviews.
The training will begin in the New
Year.
Interested?
Contact Laura (laura.owen@volunteercentrewestminster.org.uk)
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DREAM
ARTS
Dreamarts are looking for young
people to take part in our Youth Arts Leadership Scheme. You
will:
·
Attend 2 days of FREE training in planning, management and leadership on Sat 29 & Sun 30 Nov
9.30am – 5pm.
·
Experience leading your own
workshop for young people
·
Put skills into practice becoming an assistant workshop leader working
alongside an experienced professional on DreamArts
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Chance to be part of the production team on a
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You can get AQA
certificate as well as working towards your Silver Youth Arts Award
qualification.
Interested? Contact Laura (laura.owen@volunteercentrewestminster.org.uk)
Photographers
and Exhibition Volunteers
Photographer:
Exhibition
Assistant: You will be
preparing the exhibition, including researching, writing texts and
helping to put on exhibitions at the museum - normally 5 to 6 held every
year.
Interested? Contact Laura laura.owen@volunteercentrewestminster.org.uk
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Peckham
Shed
Youth
Theatre Volunteer and Youth Ambassadors
Youth Theatre:
As a Youth Volunteer you will be supporting our youth
theatre group of 12-17 year olds. You will be working to help our participants
develop their creativity and understanding of performance. Helping support the
individual needs of members, helping to lead group work in devising, rehearsing
and performing alongside our youth theatre members. Helping to evaluate our
work, to plan sessions and to manage our activities. Supporting additional
activities, including trips and performances. Note this is available to
start from Jan 2009 onwards
Youth
Ambassador: You will be:
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Helping to lead the promotion and marketing of
Peckham Shed to children and young people.
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Helping to manage online
marketing
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Developing strategies to promote our work to young
people
·
Visiting schools and youth groups to help promote our
work
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Participating in our youth committee to make
decisions for Peckham Shed
·
Helping to create and distribute print for our
activities
Interested? Contact Laura (laura.owen@volunteercentrewestminster.org.uk)
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Provide support to the Youth
Volunteer Development Manager for the
vinvolved Team, based at Islington
Volunteer Centre. This will include data entry, researching volunteering
Interested? Contact Nigel – nigel@islingtonvolunteer.org.uk
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Platform
2
Fully funded
overseas volunteering programme
Platform 2 provides a unique
opportunity for 18 – 25 year olds to volunteer overseas and then come back and
share their experience in their community. It’s for people who would not
otherwise get the opportunity to help in a developing country so it’s fully
funded by the Department for International Development. Trips are currently
running to
Interested? contact
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KLS
Refugee Project
The Katherine Low
Settlement is desperately seeking web design geniuses to help us develop and
regularly update our website!
Developing and
maintaining our website is of great importance to KLS as it enables us to reach
a larger proportion of the community and provide information about the many
different services that we provide within our organization. This opportunity
will involve using a lot of creativity and using your own initiative. This
opportunity is best suited to committed and capable volunteers with website and
IT skills that you want to put into practice. This is a fantastic opportunity
for volunteers that want to add value to their CV and to enhance their
portfolio.
At KLS we are extremely
flexible, we can arrange your volunteering hours around your availability. We
are open seven days a week and volunteers are welcome throughout the
week.
Interested?
Contact Nisha –
nisha@WVSDA.org.uk
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Youth
Action Team Members Required
(16 – 21 years olds
only)
A great opportunity exists to join a
team of young people who will inform policy and provide advice to the British
Transport Police. Help create a police service that takes account of young
people's views, which does not discriminate against young people and understands
young people concerns. Have your voice heard and challenge the negative
perceptions society can have of young people.
You will need to attend weekly
meetings and after training bi-weekly meetings in
Full Disability
Access
Interested? For Further Details
contact gary.wells@londonyouth.org.uk
0207 549 8817
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ACTIVENTURE
Activenture is a great organisation
that arranges outward bound activity weeks for young people with disabilities,
Activenture are urgently looking to recruit male volunteers to buddy up with a
disabled young person throughout this exciting week. You will get to do all the
activities including; archery, climbing wall, zip wires etc and enjoy evening
entertainment. This is a great opportunity to widen your perspectives. All
volunteers must be 13+, older volunteers will have more of a leadership role.
Many have found this to be a life changing experience and have gone on to
develop careers in this area.
Dates:
27 Dec – 2 Jan: We need 9 male
volunteers
15-21 Feb: We need 10 male
volunteers
Interested? Visit http://www.londonyouth.org.uk/activenture/index.html
for more information and contact
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Male
Youth Action Team members needed
The central
Interested? contact gary.wells@londonyouth.org.uk
tel 0207 549 8817
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CHRISTMAS
VOLUNTEERING
St
Luke’s Hospice
Time again to start thinking about
Christmas gift wrapping. We need your help to fill nearly 80 hours of
wrapping this year!! This will be taking place in
We need
volunteers to cover the following times:
Saturday 13th Dec
12 -
6pm
Wednesday 17th Dec
11am-7pm
Thursday 18th
Dec
11am- 8pm
Friday 19th Dec
11am-
7pm
Sunday 21st Dec
10am – 7pm
Monday 22nd Dec
10am – 7pm
Tuesday 23rd
Dec
9am –
7pm
Interested?
Contact
Laura – laura.owen@volunteercentrewestminster.org.uk
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Christmas
Day Lunch
Economic
Development Office
We need your help at the Christmas
Day Lunch for the Elderly of Wandsworth.
Every year the Rotary Club of
Battersea Park hosts a Christmas Lunch in a marquee for 400 elderly and isolated
people of Wandsworth. We provide transport to/from the venue; a very nice lunch,
entertainment (including bingo and a visit from Father Christmas) and a “goody”
bag for our guests to take home with them.
Looking after 400 guests needs
helpers and it would be great for as many volunteers
as
possible.
The main day we need volunteers is
on Christmas Day itself. You can volunteer for the
full day or just a couple of hours -
there is always something to do !
Interested?
Contact Nisha – nisha@WVSDA.org.uk
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INTERNSHIP
International
Collective Productions
We are looking for a
general office Intern for innovative
Details:
8 weeks unpaid, 2-3 days
per week.
There are employment
prospects for after this period.
All applicants must be
between 18 - 21 years old.
Working hours: 10.30 –
18.30
Interns will also be
required to attend and work at all events outside of these hours as a part of
their placement.
Interested? Contact
Laura – laura.owen@volunteercentrewestminster.org.uk
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Volunteer’s
Fair
Volunteer Centre
Westminster are hosting a volunteer and organisation fair in
Location: Churchill Hall,
Interested: Please email Laura laura.owen@volunteercentrewestminster.org.uk
to reserve a place, so we can ensure there is enough lunch for everyone.
Please bring friends or family….the more the merrier, and this event is for
everyone!
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OTHER
NEWS
To
find out about other volunteering
Direct Dial 0208 871
2188 | Switchboard 020
8870 4319 |
Mobile
07501227793 | Email
Nisha@wvsda.org.uk
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Volunteer Centre
Wandsworth |
