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Free To Be supports particularly vulnerable children to begin to change their stories about who they are, and who they...

Residential Project Kitchen Crew

This opportunity is ongoing, with no end date.

Our residential Kitchen Crew volunteers volunteer for 1 week at a time, staying on-site overnight, and ensure that our adventures are possible by creating nutritious meals for the children, running cooking workshops for the young people and you also have the option to go out on the activities too! You’ll spend your days singing along to the radio whilst you food prep with the other Kitchen Crew team members, going for walks to pick flowers to decorate the tables or just generally helping out with things around the site. Once the young people get back from their activities, they’ll be ready to devour biscuits as they tell you all about their day and try to convince you to go for a quick bounce on the bouncy castle with them… You’re also the project fairies who organise little treats for the other volunteers (like hidden chocolates or a sneaky portion of brownies for the evening) - you’ll be given a budget for this and can decide what you want to do with your Kitchen Crew teammates.

Free To Be supports particularly vulnerable children to begin to change their stories about who they are, and who they can be. We help children who have often grown up with significant adversity or hardship to more often feel proud of themselves and to experience feeling brave, adventurous, included and successful - often for the first time in a long time. We do this via overnight adventures and nature based residentials; weekend groups; and mentoring support. We work using the inherent power of the outdoors, animals, nature and self-expression - all of which are integral to the programmes we run. Children experience meeting animals at the farm, building dens in the forest, building rafts in teams to paddle across a lake, standing on the beach for the first time, cooking together in groups, camping out under the stars and a wide range of other activities all carefully designed to both broaden horizons, but also to scaffold the building of self-confidence, resilience, and trust in others.

Benefits to self

We help children who have often grown up with significant adversity or hardship to more often feel proud of themselves and to experience feeling brave, adventurous, included and successful - often for the first time in a long time.

Benefits to others

Children experience meeting animals at the farm, building dens in the forest, building rafts in teams to paddle across a lake, standing on the beach for the first time, cooking together in groups, camping out under the stars and a wide range of other activities.

Location

Various locations around London and Sussex

Training available

Food, board and activities during your time volunteering is covered by us. Full safeguarding training (online) and induction training with team and other new volunteers (online). Additional food hygiene and allergens training (level 2- online), with cost covered by us. Training takes place online as an interactive session with 2 members of the free to be team.

DBS required?

Yes

Transport details

Unfortunately, we cannot cover travel costs to and from our project site (usually within an hour of London), however, we can provide car parking and, if you are coming by train, we can usually collect you from the nearest station.

Contact Name

Amy Nagle

Contact email address

recruitment@freetobekids.org.uk

Contact phone number

02037780323
  • EducationSchools, Literacy, Numeracy
  • Culture & SportSport, Art & Creativity
  • Crisis & PovertyPoverty
  • CommunitiesDisabilities, Families, Young People & Children
  • LocationOff Campus
  • ProfessionsHealth
  • 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

Employability skills

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  • Communications Skills: Non- Verbal 0
  • Interpersonal Skills 0
  • Leadership 0