Enjoy the Jubilee celebrations – then be a Diamond and think about volunteering!
HEREFORD A local charity that aims to develop, enable and improve opportunities for people with learning disabilities, their families and carers, needs assistants to help with the youth club (14-18 year olds) on Thursday evenings.
A charity providing riding therapy to people with a variety of learning and or physical disabilities has an Intern post involving project management, updating budgets and providing admin support. Applicants should be educated to degree standard. Riding Support Assistants also needed.
Come and help out at the charity shop run by a hospice providing care for children with life limiting illnesses. All usual activities including sorting, steaming clothes, pricing and using till.
Stewards needed to work on a rota basis welcoming small groups of visitors to a church at Holme Lacy.
LEOMINSTER & DISTRICT A charity supporting homeless young people and young offenders by providing counselling, help with jobs and training, desperately needs helpers in its charity shop, doing window displays, DIY, preparing stock and serving in the shop.
Mobility assistants needed to help staff the Shopmobility office, give advice and issue wheelchairs and mobility aids.
KINGTON A club that aims to raise money to donate locally to make a difference to local needy causes is looking for new Club members. Two evening meetings per month plus fundraising activities.
ROSS-ON-WYE AREA A charity helping the most vulnerable children and young people transform their lives and fulfil their potential needs helpers for its shop, stock processing and serving in the shop.
Could you help a charity providing information to people in later life? Administration support including computer work, typing etc. The charity also needs volunteers for its footcare service.
COUNTY-WIDE Are you interested in working with young people in Herefordshire? Help to support a young person between 5-18 years who is in the “looked-after” system by providing a stable and positive friendship. Take them out to local places for fun and chat, helping them to build their self-confidence. NOT available to professional social care staff.
Everybody is different and some of these ideas will appeal to you and some of them won’t, but if the idea of volunteering is something you are still considering, then try logging onto the national volunteering website, www.do-it.org.uk or ring Herefordshire Volunteer Centre on its free phone number 0800 9122339 or email: volunteer@herefordshireva.org.
Aww bless – I have to say it’s around this time that I think the chicks go through a dodgy patch and look a little less than pretty! They are starting to develop feathers now and some of them are opening their eyes.
