What does being a speaker involve? •Identifying and sourcing opportunities to deliver talks to groups, clubs and organisations in your local area. •Talks should be natural, enthusiastic and passionate about sharing our life changing stories, highlighting the difference GD continues to make to people’s lives who are living with sight loss. •Attending cheque presentations and corporate supporters of Guide Dogs when requested by the local Guide Dogs team in order to grow their support and passing on any donations received •Encouraging local organisations and groups to support and fundraise for Guide Dogs.

Barnardo’s North Ayrshire Families Service has been supporting families in North Ayrshire for more than 13 years. We use a Relationship Approach, listening to the issues affecting you and your family and support you to break down the issues into a manageable order and manageable tasks. Our team of dedicated staff are also skilled in networking and support families to engage appropriately with other services, if required. We support you with the challenges facing you, your children and young people, including: – Parenting – Child Care – Accessing Health Care – Debt Advice – Benefits – Budgeting – Door keeping – Housework – Routines – Cooking – Education, Employment, Training – Domestic violence – Anti-social behaviour – Drugs/ alcohol issues – Engaging with other services: Education; Housing; Health; Social Work; Addiction Services

Barnardo’s North Ayrshire Families Service has been supporting families in North Ayrshire for more than 13 years. We use a Relationship Approach, listening to the issues affecting you and your family and support you to break down the issues into a manageable order and manageable tasks. Our team of dedicated staff are also skilled in networking and support families to engage appropriately with other services, if required. We support you with the challenges facing you, your children and young people, including: – Parenting – Child Care – Accessing Health Care – Debt Advice – Benefits – Budgeting – Door keeping – Housework – Routines – Cooking – Education, Employment, Training – Domestic violence – Anti-social behaviour – Drugs/ alcohol issues – Engaging with other services: Education; Housing; Health; Social Work; Addiction Services

Barnardo’s North Ayrshire Families Service has been supporting families in North Ayrshire for more than 13 years. We use a Relationship Approach, listening to the issues affecting you and your family and support you to break down the issues into a manageable order and manageable tasks. Our team of dedicated staff are also skilled in networking and support families to engage appropriately with other services, if required. We support you with the challenges facing you, your children and young people, including: – Parenting – Child Care – Accessing Health Care – Debt Advice – Benefits – Budgeting – Door keeping – Housework – Routines – Cooking – Education, Employment, Training – Domestic violence – Anti-social behaviour – Drugs/ alcohol issues – Engaging with other services: Education; Housing; Health; Social Work; Addiction Services

Help us and join Scotland’s fight against coronavirus. Volunteering as a Community Kindness Supporter means you will be helping the most vulnerable people in Scotland to stay safe and well at home. Our charity supports people with chest, heart and stroke conditions every day and right now those people are the most at risk in the country. Many are scared, worried and isolated and need our help more than ever. That is why this role as a Community Kindness Supporter is so important. Volunteering to be a Community Kindness Supporter will help people living with our conditions who may be isolated and stuck in their homes with deliveries of shopping and essential items such as medication, which they otherwise may not be able to obtain. You must have no underlying health conditions, don't get a flu jag and under 70 years old to be a Community Kindness Volunteer.

Chest Heart & Stroke Scotland Community Hubs are located in the heart of local communities, unifying our activities and presence and bringing together CHSS Retail, Services and Fundraising. In essence, they provide a ‘front door’ for everything we do. Supporting a ‘Healthy Community’ (striving to be Mentally Healthy, Physically Healthy, Financially Healthy, Socially Healthy & Nutritionally Healthy), your CHSS Hub Team will engage with and host organisations that provide local opportunities for our service users and the wider community. This whole ‘Community’ approach will ensure that CHSS service users are at the heart of everything we do in our CHSS Community Hubs. Every Hub event, meeting or activity will support a CHSS Healthy Community in one or more of these five key areas. Quite simply, we cannot operate our Community Hubs without the amazing support of our volunteers. The time, support and the work they do is vital to us and the people we help. By supporting our Community Hub, you can make a difference to people and their families in Scotland and help to create a Chest Heart & Stroke Scotland Healthy Community. About Your Role It is vital that to the success of the Community Hub that we ensure that the stakeholders who engage with us: • are welcomed • understand the resources that we have to offer • have a positive experience • have the opportunity to feedback on their experience • make suggestions for future engagement The role therefore includes: • welcoming customers/ members of the public to the Community Hub and the Coffee Corner • signposting users of the Coffee Corner and Community Spaces to other areas within the hub e.g. advice line, donation station and community rooms • assisting users with the online booking of Community Spaces and being confident in showing the Community Space available to potential users • recording customer feedback on their experience of using the Community Spaces • recording customer feedback on suggestions for future engagement • keeping the tables and shelves in the area tidy

Admin Assistant Duties: Volunteer admin support needed to help manage, maintain and organise our administration & keeping our records up to date. Volunteers must be computer literate with knowledge of Microsoft Office and relevant software packages.

This retail post brings with it the satisfaction that you are helping to make a difference to people's lives. It will also bring enjoyment of working as part of a team.

The Cab Service is independent and provides free, confidential and impartial advice to everybody regardless of race, sex, disability, sexuality or nationality. It is the largest advice-giving network in the UK, with over 3,000 outlets and 20,000 volunteers. We help people deal with nearly 6 million problems every year, in bureaux, by phone and email, at outreach sessions in places like GP surgeries and courts – even in people’s homes. Purpose of the role • To help provide an effective and efficient advice service to members of the public. • To help influence government and other organisations by informing them of the effect of their actions on the lives of clients. After training - Main duties and responsibilities include: • Interviewing clients, both face to face and on the telephone, letting the client explain their enquiry and helping the client to set priorities. • Finding, interpreting and communicating the relevant information and exploring options and implications in order that the client can come to a decision. • Acting, where necessary, on behalf of the client, negotiating, drafting or writing letters or making appropriate referrals. • Completing clear and accurate case records. • Recognising the root causes of problems and participating in taking appropriate actions. • Keeping up to date on important issues by attending the appropriate training and by essential reading. • Attending bureau meetings.

To place our iconic boxes locally as part of their daily life and every few months tally up the funds before paying them in to Guide Dogs. The time commitment for this role is flexible and would include spotting opportunities to place boxes during your daily activities. •Identifying and placing collection boxes in suitable locations •Talking to the shop owner, receptionist etc. at the location about how the boxes will help Guide Dogs and what we do •Emptying boxes every three to six months (as they get full) and banking the income through the paying in book provided. Give a receipt and letter of thanks to the hosts •Keeping a written record of the location of all boxes for your supervisor, the dates they are emptied and the dates/amounts banked •If boxes aren’t collecting much, you’ll decide to move them to a better location. Your supervisor may also ask you to remove boxes •Reporting any stolen boxes to the Local Mobility Team •Spotting the potential for further fundraising amongst the box holders for Community Fundraisers