The purpose of this role is to support Borders Services to raise funds to enhance Alzheimer Scotland’s support to people with dementia and their carers. This may include participating in and/or supporting activities such as fundraising collections, motivating our event participants as part of a Cheer Squad, researching possible opportunities for our charity and/or raining awareness about our service(s), staffing stands at memory walks and other planned events. These roles may at times require lone working. Role Description: 1. To participate in and assist with cash collection and coordinating of monies raised at events and activities. 2. To participate in event set up, coordination and de-rigging where required. 3. To signpost queries relating to Dementia as required. 4. To help with licencing and liaising with proprietors for collection dates. 5. To be an inspirational and motivations voice for our supporters. 6. To document potential ideas that the charity could adopt. 7. To attend training to be informed about dementia and to attend any other necessary training relevant to volunteering role. 8. To carry out any other reasonable duties requested of the volunteer. 9. To be an ambassador for our charity.

First Home Care is a health and social care company with services located throughout Scotland. We offer Care at Home to support people within our care to live their lives as full as possible. We are also a part of the Real Life Options family as they have other types of services which include supported living accommodation, day centres and care homes for individuals with disabilities Loneliness at this time is heightened and the current social distancing measures are particularly difficult for some people. With the help of a volunteer to support our business objectives it will ensure that service users have that extra bit of communication with our company. We hope to get the volunteer involved within our social media and recruitment campaign to gain some new ideas about how we can improve our social media presence. In terms of the recruitment aspect we would love volunteers to be able to support in organising job packs and other admin tasks that may come up if the volunteer is happy to assist with them. The best gift you can give someone is your time. Main tasks These will include; providing admins related tasks, working closely with the service manager, providing social media support, providing daily tasks such as preparing job packs and phoning service users/arranging appointments. To help organise events/trips for staff and service users to ensure that the First Home Care are going out their way for their staff and service users. Required skills, qualities and experience. Be able to make time, once or twice a week, to support the business objectives alongside the service manager for up to a period of three months. Must be a Good listener and empathetic ,Honest and reliable ,Friendly and calm. It is a benefit to enjoy making phone calls and be confident speaking to new people as we have a lot of people we speak to on a daily basis within the company such as service users/ staff. Can maintain confidentiality. Good IT skills and admin skills would be beneficial. A knowledge of social media (However not essential). Finally, a happy and positive approach to learning as any volunteer that comes on board will have to learn how our company operates. Where and when will volunteering take place This can be agreed with the service manager in terms of times and days. We aim to be as flexible as possible. Commitment required. For continuity and routine we look for at least 2 hours per week for the benefit of the services and the volunteer the opportunity to build and develop relationships within the company.

Safer Ageing Volunteers may carry out the following roles: • Promoting the work of Hourglass Scotland and raising awareness of issues around safer ageing and abuse of older people • Hosting (or assisting with) interest/activity groups for older people • Hosting (or assisting with) coffee mornings/social events • Hosting information stands at events/venues • Making regular Safer Ageing phone calls or visits to older people • Acting as an advocate on behalf of an older person • Providing information and advice via our Helpline, including casework support for those who require more in-depth support • Other tasks may be undertaken in line with volunteer’s skills and interests, and the needs of the charity and those we serve Further information: Please contact Colin Scott, Community Response Co-ordinator, Hourglass Scotland: Tel: 07496 323 801 E-mail: colinscott@wearehourglass.org Applying for this position: If you’d like to apply for this position, please complete and return the enclosed application form to: Carralanne Bradley Hourglass Scotland PO Box 29244 Dunfermline, KY12 2EG Or email completed applications to: Carralannebradley@wearehourglass.org

To raise awareness of the effects of climate change and support the local community to move to a lower carbon lifestyle. We require a volunteer(s) to help with the organisation and running of our local level community events. This role is best suited to those who are flexible, enthusiastic about protecting the environment and friendly. This could involve, but is not limited to, designing, printing and hanging of posters, creating social media graphics to advertise events, setting up Facebook or Eventbrite Event pages, and helping on the day of any event to set up at the venue, talk to the public about our project, and provide any service central to the event itself such as ticketing attendees or manning a tea and coffee stand. During the Covid-19 Pandemic, many of our activities have shifted to being online, so your volunteering time may be spent making up sewing packs or cooking packs, then delivered to participants. Our Sustainable Kirriemuir events, activities and campaigns are extremely dynamic and no two events or activities are ever the same. This will give you an opportunity to help with something joyful and engaging for yourself and the community, whilst gaining a broad range of events experience and never being bored. Let’s get people caring about our planet by having fun!