We are looking for an enthusiastic volunteer to help provide an opportunity for all in our community to take part in our wellbeing groups and activities. You will engage with members of our family group within our wellbeing centre. As a group leader you will be required to take on administrative tasks for example taking a register as well as assist with planning and delivering the family sessions. Our family group meet weekly on a Thursday 11-12:30pm. Be being one of the leaders of this group you are giving people in our local community the chance to participate in groups and activities whist encouraging a healthier lifstlye and social interaction with others. There are many benefits to be gained from this volunteering opportunity, such as relevant work experience, meeting future contacts, learning new organisational and group leader skills.

We are looking for an enthusiastic volunteer to help provide an opportunity for all in our community to take part in our wellbeing groups and activities. You will engage with members of our craft group within our wellbeing centre. As a group leader you will be required to take on administrative tasks for example taking a register as well as assist with planning and delivering the craft sessions. Our craft group meet weekly on a Thursday 1.30-3pm. Be being one of the leaders of this group you are giving people in our local community the chance to participate in groups and activities whist encouraging a healthier lifstlye and social interaction with others. There are many benefits to be gained from this volunteering opportunity, such as relevant work experience, meeting future contacts, learning new organisational and group leader skills.

We are looking for an enthusiastic volunteer to help provide an opportunity for all in our community to take part in our wellbeing groups and activities. You will engage with members of our womens group within our wellbeing centre. As a group leader you will be required to take on administrative tasks for example taking a register as well as assist with planning and delivering the activitiy sessions. Our womens group meet weekly on a Friday 1-3pm. Be being one of the leaders of this group you are giving people in our local community the chance to participate in groups and activities whist encouraging a healthier lifstlye and social interaction with others. There are many benefits to be gained from this volunteering opportunity, such as relevant work experience, meeting future contacts, learning new organisational and group leader skills.

Join our friendly group of sewing volunteers, making items for our Market Place shops. Our team make products such as envelope cushions, aprons, tote bags and we are always looking for new ideas. Join our team, share your skills and learn some new ones too!

Pushing Out the Boat magazine (North-east Scotland’s Biennial Magazine of New Writing and the Visual Arts) is looking for a new treasurer to join our team of (unpaid) volunteers. We are a registered charity (SCIO No SC044919) with annual income and spending in the low thousands. Our main income derives from magazine sales and events. Apart from administrative expenses, our main cost is printing the magazine. We will provide interested candidates with a summary of our accounts for the last three years. You will: 1. manage our receipts/payments accounting system to include monies received and paid during each financial year via our bank and PayPal accounts and in cash, along with a statement of balances at year end 2. take overall responsibility for operating our bank and PayPal accounts 3. prepare annual accounts, for our Annual General Meeting, obtaining our external auditor’s approval and lodging them with the Office of the Scottish Charity Regulator (OSCR) 4. advise the management committee on future financial issues, e.g. potential fundraising and upgrading of our technology to accept payments for magazines and events 5. become a charity trustee, a member of our managing committee (to which you will make a regular treasurer’s report), and one of five office-bearers, including our chair, editor, co-ordinator, and secretary. 6. you must be able to demonstrate experience and competence in the technical aspects of the role, and provide us with a referee who can confirm that. While not essential, you may get more out of the opportunity if you have a general interest in the arts. We are a friendly group of volunteers whose meetings and occasional events are held in or near Aberdeen. You can find OSCR’s detailed guidance on operating charity accounts at https://www.oscr.org.uk/media/3532/a-guide-to-charity-accounting.pdf Please also browse our website at https://www.pushingouttheboat.co.uk/ to get a feel for what we do. Contact us at info@pushingouttheboat.co.uk to discuss this opportunity or lodge your interest in it. We recruit new team members through a discussion between any interested and qualified candidate and a small group of trustees to confirm that we’re suited for each other (in current circumstances by Zoom or face-to-face).

Volunteering Matters, the UK’s largest volunteering charity, believe that everyone in the UK should have the opportunity to thrive. We bring people together to overcome some of society’s most complex issues through the power of volunteering. Our Retired and Senior Volunteer Programme (RSVP) encourages those aged 50+ to volunteer and be active in their communities. RSVP projects can take many forms, from school support, to driving schemes, all having an incredible impact both on the wider community, and our volunteers. In Aberdeen, we are looking for a passionate, friendly individual to re-establish RSVP knitting groups in the Aberdeen area as a Group Volunteer Organiser. As our RSVP Knitting Group Volunteer Organiser, you will engage other adults aged 50+ in the local community who enjoy knitting, bring them together as knitting volunteers, but also providing a social forum for the knitters to chat and spark friendships. Activity will also happen in between, with knitters completing items at home too. In addition to setting up groups and arranging for them to come together (if they would like to), the Organiser will collect items created, and ensure they are donated to local organisations that can benefit from them. Previously, this has included clothes for the local neonatal unit, trauma teddies, and others. This will involve networking in the Aberdeen area to establish relationships with organisations and agree how donations will work. You don’t have to be an avid knitter yourself, this role is more to organise knitting activity, and be the point of contact for knitters and partners in the local area. However, if you would like to be involved in the knitting activity, that would be most welcome. *Tasks involved: - Engaging with keen knitters in the local area to form groups, and on-going contact with knitters - Promoting knitting opportunities/encouraging wider involvement via local press, social media etc. - Working with organisations to create partnerships for the knitting to be donated to - Ensuring quality control of items - Applying for small grants/funding/some fundraising activity would be beneficial - Gathering items from knitters and arranging collection/delivery - Ensuring social opportunities for knitters to come together (if they wish to) - Inputting to the wider RSVP network as and when appropriate *You will be: - Honest, reliable, and friendly volunteer aged 50+ - Regular commitment - An interest in networking/building relationships - Good communication, organisational, and people skills - Ability to volunteer independently, taking initiative to grow the groups, with minimum support - Able to lift/move bags of knitting donations and transport them – being a driver would be useful *We will provide: - A fun, enjoyable and worthwhile voluntary experience - Sense of achievement - Relevant training and support - All travel expenses - Relevant insurance for activities - Opportunity to engage with the wider RSVP and Volunteering Matters Network A fantastic opportunity to help and make a real difference for people and the community. For further details please contact Louise Orr, Delivery Leader at email: louise.orr@volunteeringmatters.org.uk or tel.: 07534 108 842.

Linlithgow Museum needs you! Become a Welcome Host at our volunteer run five-star visitor attraction. Volunteering with us is a chance to be part of this fantastic wee museum and bring local history to life for visitors. We are looking for enthusiastic & friendly volunteers to support our volunteer run museum. We have reopened and are looking for volunteers who can regularly give us three hours of their time a week to be Welcome Hosts. This role is incredibly important to the museum as the Welcome Host is the first person that visitors meet and can reassure visitors that they can safely visit the museum in a Covid secure manner. You’ll learn about the museum, meet new people, learn new skills and support your local small independent museum. Volunteers do not need any experience as we will provide full training and a mentor who will offer support and advice. The role would involve: • Welcoming visitors and answering questions • Opening/Closing the museum • Operating the retail Space • Collecting visitor information for Test and Trace purposes • Cleaning the museum public areas. We are looking individuals who have: • Good people skills • Good listening skills • Willing to accept and follow instruction and ask if in doubt • Have an interest in Linlithgow's history

We are looking for stewards to join us for an Active Travel Parade event at Easter Carmuirs Park in Camelon on 24th October 2021, 2.30-4pm. Location: Meet at the large red gazebo in the centre of Easter carmuirs park for the fun in the park event. Calling all parents, carers and active travel enthusiasts… we need you! Join us in stewarding an active travel parade around the park. Whether you fancy getting your own pair of wheels out and joining the parade itself (bicycles, rollerblades, skateboards, scooters, wheelchairs – all welcome) or helping us demarcate the route around the park, we would love for you to get involved. Send us an email at camelonarts@artlinkcentral.org with your name and your chosen stewarding activity and we will be in touch with details soon.

Mearns FM is continually on the look out for some fresh new voluntary talent. What do you get? Some real hands on experience of working in a professional environment. You’ll be taught the art of radio presentation. You’ll see every aspect of how a radio station is operated. We’ll also help you get a foot into the industry, and you’ll get the opportunity to be a part of a hardworking and committed team of volunteers. The whole variety of tasks involved in running a totally volunteer based Community Radio Station with established studios in Stonehaven and Portlethen. Further permanent or temporary studios could be established anywhere in K & M with internet access if volunteers in that location wish to organise one. No previous Broadcasting experience is required and training is provided. We transmit programmes made by other community organisations. They must however meet Ofcom guidelines.

Mearns FM is continually on the look out for some fresh new voluntary talent. . What do you get? Some real hands on experience of working in a professional environment. You’ll see every aspect of how a radio station is operated. We’ll also help you get a foot into the industry, and you’ll get the opportunity to be a part of a hardworking and committed team of volunteers. Further permanent or temporary studios could be established anywhere in K & M with internet access if volunteers in that location wish to organise one. No previous Broadcasting experience is required and training is provided. We transmit programmes made by other community organisations. They must however meet Ofcom guidelines.