Looking for a fulfilling and rewarding experience? Join our team at our care homes for the elderly as a volunteer and make a difference in the lives of our residents. Whether its befriending and chatting with our residents or organising and participating in leisure and social activities, your contribution will have a significant impact on their well-being and quality of life. As a volunteer, you will have the opportunity to develop new skills, meet new people and create meaningful connections with our residents. Join us today and be a part of a community that values and appreciates the importance of companionship and human connection. Opportunities are available for weekdays or weekends, day time or early evening at: Glenfairn House Care Home-Sanctuary Care, 28 Racecourse Road, Ayr KA7 2UX Queens Care Home, 34 Ardayre Road, Prestwick KA9 1QL. We are a not-for-profit organisation specialising in care homes for the elderly and currently have over 110 care homes across England and Scotland. For more info, please go to https://www.sanctuary-care.co.uk/jobs/volunteering/how-apply-be-sanctuary-care-volunteer If you would like to help our care homes through volunteering, opportunities are available for weekdays or weekends, daytime or early evening. We are currently looking to recruit volunteer leisure and activities volunteers to facilitate experiences for our residents. Do you have skills or interests that you could share with our residents on either individual or group basis? Are you artistic, crafty or musical? Do you have a knowledge of local history? Could you facilitate leisure or activities sessions within our care home? We would love to hear from you! For more info, please go to https://www.sanctuary-care.co.uk/jobs/volunteering/how-apply-be-sanctuary-care-volunteer to learn more and apply online.

Our collection at Glenesk Folk Museum has been amassed over almost 70 years. It now requires an updated inventory. This means undertaking a stock take of all our objects, ensuring the records we hold on them are correctly updated and that we can locate objects easily within our stores. If you enjoy detail conscious work, are a good team worker and can cope with the repetitive nature of this type of work in a Museum store environment, we would love to hear from you.

Location: Home-based Duration: Flexible, minimum 6 months commitment preferred Position Overview: You will play a pivotal role in sourcing and curating engaging and informative content for our new ‘Settled Culture website’. We’re looking for people to help with either of these two aspects (ideally both!) 1. To assist in finding “what's on” content to ensure our audience stays up-to-date with cultural events and experiences in Wales (grassroots music, comedy, theatre, food, festivals etc); and inputting to a user-friendly website template including brief summary of where, what, when, booking links, why we like, etc 2. To create captivating short pieces relating to some of these events, exploring various aspects of European cultures with artists involved. Key Responsibilities: • Stay informed about current cultural events to compile timely "what's on" listings. • Collaborate with the editorial team to brainstorm, pitch, and develop content ideas. • Conduct interviews and gather firsthand accounts to provide unique perspectives on European cultural events in Wales • Research and write compelling articles on diverse cultural topics, ensuring accuracy, professionalism, and cultural sensitivity. • Work closely with staff to meet publication deadlines and maintain a consistent schedule. Person Specification (desirable, dependent on aspect(s) above): • Strong passion for exploring and sharing insights about European cultures. • Good writing skills with an ability to adapt to different writing styles and tones • Research-oriented mindset with an eye for detail and accuracy. • Ability to work independently and meet deadlines in a remote setting. • Previous writing experience, preferably in a cultural or lifestyle context. • Familiarity with digital content creation tools (though training will of course be provided) Background of Settled / Settled Culture Settled is a UK-wide charity set up in 2019 to help EU citizens living in the UK whose rights were affected by Brexit. Settled worked hard to ensure as many as possible secured their immigration status before the deadline in June 2021, so that their lives here could continue. We now continue to provide free, accredited information, advice and support to EU citizens, including people who are late applying to the EU Settlement Scheme (EUSS), or who have had their application refused. We also help when people are struggling to prove their immigration status or access rights and services. Since March 2022, Settled also now provides advice on the Ukraine Family Scheme and Homes for Ukraine Scheme. This service is for Ukrainians in the UK or overseas, and hosts. We cover immigration rights and broader rights of housing, education, etc. ‘Settled Culture’ is a new development to promote grassroots cultural events by or for European citizens here, starting in Wales as a pilot. The new project will celebrate the cultural contributions of EU citizens and Ukrainians in the UK – both first generation migrants to UK, and second/older generations to express diversity of multiple identities. We also aim to help British people access, and delight in, the cultures of their European neighbours; and to improve local community cohesion. We are currently working with a developer to build a new website for 'Settled Culture', which will go alongside and complement Setttled's core advice work and existing website. Events, articles and videos will be promoted through this new site and social media. Could this be you, or someone you know? You may be an aspiring journalist, looking to build your portfolio? Or a researcher? Or involved in ‘culture’ yourself as a musician, comic, cafe owner, magician! You may be an EU/EEA or Ukrainian citizen living in Wales or the wider UK, or from a different migrant background, or sympathetic to our vision. If any of this resonates, and you meet relevant aspects of the person specification, please don’t hesitate to get in touch by emailing volunteer.manager@settled.org.uk We look forward to hearing from you!

To help staff the desk during opening hours, and provide helpful information to visitors to enhance their experience. Also, if wished to help maintain and upkeep the Museum, during visiting hours quiet periods, with a little light cleaning, or weeding etc. When we are closed, a group of volunteers come in and clean top to bottom and rearrange displays under the guidance of our head curator. People can volunteer for one of (or a combination) the following: welcoming visitors, stocktaking, cataloguing/research, cleaning and maintenance, gardening, outreach to the community. We are currently open Monday to Saturday, from 31st March till the end of October, and occasional evenings.