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Pride volunteer

Staffordshire Sexual Health Charity - SSHC

This opportunity takes place between 24 Jun 2023 and 02 Sep 2023 Closing date for applications is 25 Aug.
Come and volunteer with SSHC at Pride. We will be going to four Pride events over the summer and we would love for you to join us.Volunteering at Pride can entail face painting, selling sperm keyrings and pronoun badges, and giving LGBTQ+ related advice and support. You can volunteer for a few hours or all day.
The Pride event dates are detailed: Stoke Pride - June 24th, Tamworth Pride - 15th July, Lichfield Pride - 22nd July and Chase Pride - 2nd September.

Volunteering will allow you free entry into paid Pride events.

Volunteering at Pride can help show employers that you are equality and diversity minded. You can also evidence 'people-skills', through giving advice, selling and being a friendly face on the stall.
- ProfessionsHealth, Retail
- Crisis & PovertyCrisis Support
- CommunitiesLGBT+, Older People, Young People & Children
- LocationOff Campus
- Communication Skills: Verbal
- Communications Skills: Non- Verbal
- Interpersonal Skills
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Gardening and wildlife volunteers- Wild about Brampton (Mondays)

Brampton Museum

This opportunity takes place between 05 Jun 2023 and 04 Dec 2023
Would you like to learn more about nature and help us create a wildlife haven in Newcastle-under-Lyme? Come and volunteer with Groundwork West Midlands and Brampton Museum and help rejuvenate an urban green space.
Roles and responsibilities
Dig and plant a range of plants around the Brampton Pond

Help build a bug hotel and new picnic bench

Spot wildlife and help us create a new informative sign

Go outside in wet and cold weather as well as warm, dry weather

Follow any health and safety guidance that may be in place
All abilities welcome. We are looking for up to 10 volunteers who cam commit 1 day a month on a Monday.

This opportunity would be perfect for someone looking to gain experience in the green or charity sector, or those wishing to gain experience in landscaping or using hand tools.

This project is in partnership with expert environmental charity Groundwork and the parks' team. Please note your contact details will be shared with them.
- EnvironmentalConservation, Sustainability, Wildlife
- What are your reasons for volunteering?Build my confidence, Do something positive with my spare time, Gain work experience/ improve my CV, Give something back to the community, Help others, Learn or try new things, Meet new people, Not sure, Use my skills
- Communication Skills: Verbal
- Interpersonal Skills
- Organisation
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Service Delivery Volunteer (Children and Young people and Adults)

New Era, part of Victim Support

This opportunity takes place between 10 May 2023 and 01 Sep 2023
Complete risk assessments via phone including referrals both internal and external to another appropriate service based on assessed needs. Signpost to appropriate services both internal and external to meet assessed needs and any immediate risk. Use safe contact methods with all victims respecting confidentiality, follow agreed processes for contacting victims of domestic abuse and alert a line manager to any problems that cannot be readily resolved. Record all contacts with victims securely, and in accordance with procedures for monitoring and evaluation purposes. Comply with legal, regulatory, ethical and social requirements. Ensure domestic abuse victims are empowered to achieve their own recovery from the impacts of Domestic Abuse, by offering support appropriate to their needs. Make contact to domestic abuse victims and also other agencies making referrals into New Era. Additionally, you could provide 1-1 support to children and young people who have experienced domestic abuse and prepare resource packs and information packs. Support the team to raise awareness within local communities.
To provide support to victims of crime over the telephone, online or face to face to help them recover and move beyond crime and to provide some administrative support to our teams.

This role is available within the Adults or Children and Young People’s (CYP). The role could include making outbound calls to service users and/or agencies to potential service users and completing referrals. There is also an opportunity to work 1-1 with CYP within schools to support them around Domestic Abuse.

We ask that you can volunteer for at least 3 hours a week, participate in regular 1-1 supervisions, team meetings and reviews.
- ProfessionsAdministration, Health, IT, Legal
- Crisis & PovertyCrisis Support, Homeless / Housing, Poverty
- CommunitiesCriminal Justice System, Disabilities, Faith, Families, LGBT+, Men, Older People, Race & Ethnicity, Women, Young People & Children
- LocationOff Campus
- What are your reasons for volunteering?Build my confidence, Do something positive with my spare time, Gain work experience/ improve my CV, Give something back to the community, Help others, Learn or try new things, Meet new people, Use my skills
- Communication Skills: Verbal
- Communications Skills: Non- Verbal
- Research & Planning
- Interpersonal Skills
- Organisation
- Leadership
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Community Engagement Volunteer

New Era, part of Victim Support

This opportunity takes place between 10 May 2023 and 01 Sep 2023
A varied role where you could be raising awareness to community groups, schools, colleges and universities about Domestic Abuse. Support staff to deliver professionals training to partners to raise awareness of Domestic Abuse and/or attend partner events such as careers events at university, open days, volunteer recruitment events, to raise VS profile. You could support the Engagement Officer to facilitate meetings in local communities to improve engagement and/or distribute and/or deliver leaflets, posters and information packs to selected venues/locations promoting VS.
Community Engagement Volunteers help us to engage our local communities and inform them about crime and our work. We ask for a commitment of at least 3 hours per month, to attend Supervision/Training and quarterly Team Meetings.
- ProfessionsAdministration, Health, Legal, Marketing
- Crisis & PovertyCrisis Support, Homeless / Housing, Poverty
- CommunitiesCriminal Justice System, Disabilities, Faith, Families, LGBT+, Men, Older People, Race & Ethnicity, Women, Young People & Children
- LocationOff Campus
- What are your reasons for volunteering?Build my confidence, Do something positive with my spare time, Gain work experience/ improve my CV, Give something back to the community, Help others, Learn or try new things, Meet new people, Use my skills
- Communication Skills: Verbal
- Communications Skills: Non- Verbal
- Research & Planning
- Interpersonal Skills
- Organisation
- Leadership
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Shout Volunteer

Shout 85258

This opportunity is ongoing, with no end date.
At Shout 85258, our trained Shout Volunteers are those invaluable people who chat to those in distress at any time of the day from the comfort of their own home thanks to the remote nature of the opportunity. Using a conversation model and skills in assessing, managing and navigating risk and safeguarding concerns, they provide a space for people to be heard and understood. This can help people get from a hot moment to a cool calm. You can find more details about volunteering below and on our website here.
You will need to be:
- Be over 18.
- Be resilient and mentally robust to help people in distress.
- Commit to 25 hours of online training and then fulfil 200 total hours of volunteering.
- Have empathy and be able to be objective.
- Put your own personal views to one side to help the texter.
- Have a secure web connection, laptop/computer, a UK or New Zealand phone number and access to a quiet place.
- Be able to volunteer from the UK or New Zealand.
- Provide 2 referees and consent to undergo a background check.
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Keele Sustainability Benchmark Auditors

Green Keele (previously Keele Sustainability Hub)

This opportunity takes place on 02 May 2023
Interested in gaining some auditing experience? Students are welcome to help the Keele Sustainability team to audit the progress of schools and directorates in sustainability initiatives on campus. You will be given training and till the beginning of July to complete the audit. This can be done virtually.
Interested in gaining auditing experience? Join us for the training session to help audit the Sustainability Benchmark.

The audits will be taking place over May / June to be complete by the start of July. The audits can be done online.

The Sustainability Network includes Staff Sustainability Representatives from all Schools and Directorates and gives opportunities for students to work with teams across the University to embed sustainability into their activities and operations.

The Sustainability Benchmark was introduced to ensure that university policies relating to environmental and social sustainability are being implemented, increase communication between teams and across the University, and celebrate and recognise team's achievements and hard work.
https://www.keele.ac.uk/discover/sustainability/studentandstaffsustainabilityprojects/sustainabilitynetwork/sustainabilitybenchmark/

Join the Sustainability Community and head to the Keele Sustainability Network and Benchmark channel for more information: https://teams.microsoft.com/l/channel/19%3ab8e34a2cda3a4675b7a38088ce73d308%40thread.tacv2/Keele%2520Sustainability%2520Network%2520and%2520Benchmark?groupId=ba975642-ca7f-45ae-b6ff-26c9594b37cc&tenantId=2bbbf3ee-b668-4df9-b063-598945c3d466
- ProfessionsAdministration, Legal
- EnvironmentalSustainability
- LocationOff Campus, On Campus
- What are your reasons for volunteering?Build my confidence, Do something positive with my spare time, Gain work experience/ improve my CV, Help others, Learn or try new things, Use my skills
- Communication Skills: Verbal
- Communications Skills: Non- Verbal
- Research & Planning
- Interpersonal Skills
- Organisation
- Leadership
Inhouse volunteer

ASHA

This opportunity is ongoing, with no end date.
Supporting Asylum Seeking and Refugee communities
We are looking for dedicated volunteers who can commit to a few hours a week supporting Asylum seekers / refugees at our centre in Hanley.

ASHA is a place where people seeking asylum and refugees are welcome and will receive support, advice, signposting. We provide access to activities and opportunities which lessen social isolation whilst also promoting self-confidence, wellbeing, and social integration. ASHA’s work with volunteers is underpinned by the belief that love and respect for everyone regardless of ethnicity, nationality, age, sexual orientation, or religion, is the key to a peaceful and harmonious world.

What’s involved?

As an inhouse volunteer, depending on your interests, skills and availability, your role may include some of the following:

· Welcoming and registering users and visitors

· Setting out and replenishing refreshments

· Upkeep with general cleanliness of the center

· Assisting with our food and clothes bank

· Sorting donated clothing and other items

· Teaching English to small classes or 1 to 1

· Refurbishing donated bikes

· Assisting with Women and Children clubs (sewing, crafts, painting, music, children’s play and games)

· Supporting Saturday Men’s football club

Full training will be provided. Full DBS check and references to be available on request. We can support DBS request if needed.

If you have interest in supporting ASHA by volunteering, please do not hesitate to get in contact with our volunteer coordinator:

Miriam Mamlouk- Refugee and Asylum Seeker Children, Volunteer and Befriending Coordinator

- miriam@ASHA-uk.org

- 07498928613
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Befriending volunteer

ASHA

This opportunity is ongoing, with no end date.
Supporting Asylum Seeking and Refugee communities.
We are looking for dedicated volunteers who can commit to a few hours a week supporting Asylum seekers / refugees in reducing their social isolation and promoting their general wellbeing.

Befrienders provide a warm welcome, mutual friendship and practical support to reassure a new arrival that they are not alone in an alien environment. A befriender alleviates an asylum seeker’s social isolation and increases their sense of belonging through regular social interaction. Every befriending relationship is unique, this is a flexible role that gives you an opportunity to help people in a way you feel passionate about.

What’s involved?

A befriender may meet a befriender in the centre, at his or her home, in a neutral venue or, when they are familiar with one another, in a befriender’s home, wherever feels most comfortable. Practical support may include helping someone to:

· Reducing loneliness and social isolation

· Get to know their neighbourhood, the local shops (where to buy halal food), the library, park, bus stop, mosque, church, mother and toddler group etc.

· Visit the doctor, keep a hospital appointment, collect a prescription.

· Learn English through simple conversation.

· Access English language classes at Stoke-on-Trent College.

· Understand formal communication.

· Phone the housing provider to report a repair.

· Understand bin collections.

· How to take advantage of free local events.

Full training will be provided. Full DBS check and references to be available on request. We can support DBS request if needed.

If you have interest in supporting ASHA by volunteering, please do not hesitate to get in contact with our volunteer coordinator:

Miriam Mamlouk- Refugee and Asylum Seeker Children, Volunteer and Befriending Coordinator

- miriam@asha-uk.org

- 07498928613
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School Holidays Children's Activities Volunteer (August 2023)

Caudwell Children

This opportunity takes place between 31 Jul 2023 and 31 Aug 2023 Closing date for applications is 07 Jul.
Are you a looking to gain experience supporting children during the summer holiday? Are you a creative, friendly, open minded person? Caudwell Children are looking for volunteers to help with our summer holiday project!These sessions (Holiday and Food - HAF) enable disabled children to access fun, inspirational and challenging leisure activities that build life skills and promote independence whilst providing carers with vital short break respite.Volunteer Responsibilities include:• Assist Caudwell Children staff member(s) in running the short break activity sessions• Help to ensure all children are safe during the activity sessions• Support staff members with planned activities• Participate in setting up an activity and helping with the set down• Communicate and work with the children to ensure they have fun
This role takes place during August 2023. We are looking for volunteers that can commit to 8 days for this role (2 days per week ideally) – full training and support will be provided.

Over 18’s only can apply for this role.

Current areas we are enrolling: Newcastle, Crewe and Macclesfield

To find out more, please Email volunteer@caudwellchildren.com or visit

https://www.caudwellchildren.com/volunteer/
- EducationSchools
- CommunitiesDisabilities, Families, Young People & Children
- LocationOn Campus
- ProfessionsHealth
- Culture & SportArt & Creativity
- What are your reasons for volunteering?Do something positive with my spare time, Gain work experience/ improve my CV, Give something back to the community, Help others, Meet new people, Use my skills
- Communication Skills: Verbal
- Communications Skills: Non- Verbal
- Interpersonal Skills
- Leadership
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Crafternoon Assistant

KeeleSU Activities Team

This opportunity is ongoing, with no end date.
To support our Keele SU Membership Services Coordinator facilitate the free craft and creativity session on week day afternoons in the SU building.
Crafternoons have been successful creativity and social events for students to participate in on a weekly basis.

They are run as reglular, free events to support student participation, and overall wellbeing, and have grown in their popularity.

Students report they learn lots of new skills and find the sessions fun, enjoyable and promote positive mindfulness.

The volunteer crafternoon assistant would support the set-up and down of each event, discuss new ideas with the coordinator, and support other students taking part. Required for 1 - 2 hours a week (days can vary), the ideal candidate would suit someone with an interest in arts and crafts, and with a willingness to engage with students.
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