As a volunteer you will become a valuable member of the team delivering support through encouragement, empowerment. You will promote positive working relationships with people that experience suicidal thoughts or mental health difficulties. As a volunteer you will receive training in how to speak about thoughts a feelings associated to suicide without embarrassment or shame to the individual. You will be part of a service that is creating network links by working in partnership with other organisations. As a volunteer you will be given the opportunity to develop new skills and improve your knowledge, and by working with other agencies and organisations you will be part a multi-agency strategy that is committed to strengthening network links and challenging future economic and social changes. As a volunteer you will use technology to engage with people in innovative ways to ensure that we reach all current and future service users. By providing support to people experiencing mental health problems, you will be recognising diversity and the need for people, local communities and groups to respect the ways in which needs are addressed across the local areas. We encourage all staff and volunteers to strengthen their skills and knowledge and be open to new opportunities and challenges, to enable us to uphold the needs of the service.

SMART Denny is a small grassroots charity, which aims to reduce energy use and tackle fuel poverty in the district of Denny & Dunipace. We do this through raising awareness, and educating and empowering local families, individuals and households to make informed choices. Role Description The Energy Advisor will join our team to guide and advise on practical and affordable ways to save energy in homes and local businesses, help people understand their gas and electricity bills and tariffs, switch suppliers, advise on gas and electricity utility debt and help with Warm Home Discount. Tasks include: • Assist in developing an Energy portfolio for Smart Denny and the services provided. • Attend one to one or group meetings providing advice on energy use • Seeking out new ways to engage with new audiences locally • Contributing to the quarterly newsletter.

SMART Denny is a small grassroots charity, which aims to reduce energy use and tackle fuel poverty in the district of Denny & Dunipace. We do this through raising awareness, and educating and empowering local families, individuals and households to make informed choices. Role Description The Social Media and Marketing Volunteer will help raise the profile of Smart Denny locally and effectively communicate relevant carbon reduction messages through various media. Tasks include: • Developing Smart Denny’s social media profile • Creating and posting engaging content regularly on Facebook • Updating and maintaining and the Smart Denny website • Collating and editing articles for a quarterly e-newsletter • Building the newsletter mailing list • Seeking out new ways to engage with new audiences locally • Attending Smart Denny meetings and events

SMART Denny is a small grassroots charity, which aims to reduce energy use and tackle fuel poverty in the district of Denny & Dunipace. We do this through raising awareness, and educating and empowering local families, individuals and households to make informed choices. The Chair will provide leadership to the Board of Trustees and oversee the governance and operation of the charity. Tasks include: • Chairing quarterly board meetings (usually in the evening or at weekends) and AGM, which normally last around 2 hours. • Providing a report on the activities of the charity at the AGM. • Chairing members’ meetings • Contributing to setting the vision and overall strategic direction of the charity. • Overseeing the development and delivery of the charity’s overall aims, including monitoring and evaluation and reviewing progress against agreed activities and outcomes. • Ensuring the charity complies with its governing documents. • Ensuring the board focusses on its key tasks and regularly assess and reviews its performance. • Overseeing the recruitment, induction and development of new Trustees. • Ensuring a commitment to equalities throughout policy and practice.

SMART Denny is a small grassroots charity, which aims to reduce energy use and tackle fuel poverty in the district of Denny & Dunipace. We do this through raising awareness, and educating and empowering local families, individuals and households to make informed choices. The Treasurer will join the Board of Trustees to guide and advise them on financial concerns, maintain an overview of the charity’s affairs, oversee the coordination of all financial transactions, ensure the charity is financially viable and ensure proper financial records and procedures are maintained. Tasks include: • Attending quarterly board meetings (usually in the evening or at weekends) and AGM, which normally last around 2 hours. Providing financial reports at above • Contributing to setting the vision and overall strategic direction of the charity. • Ongoing book keeping. • Compiling the charity’s annual return for OSCR. • Ensuring good financial planning. • Monitoring and reviewing income and expenditure levels regularly and identifying and explaining variances. • Managing and safeguarding the charity’s assets. • Ensuring proper financial controls are in place. • Preparing annual accounts in accordance with OSCR regulations. • Reporting on the annual accounts at the AGM. • Acting as counter-signatory for payments. • Helping to identify risks.

Would you like to make a difference to the lives of some of Scotland’s most vulnerable babies and their families? About Us Bliss Scotland is the leading charity for premature and sick babies: our vision is that every baby born premature or sick in Scotland has the best chance of survival and quality of life. Bliss Scotland is part of the Bliss UK group of charities, and provides particular oversight of and support for our work across Scotland. The Role We are recruiting for new dedicated Bliss Scotland Trustees, based in Scotland, to join our passionate and committed Board, to support the charity’s governance and overall strategic direction. About you We need people who can help us achieve our ambitious plans, who are good at reviewing and challenging those plans to help us to improve them, and who have the time and skills to commit to this important role. In particular, we are keen to hear from applicants with background, skills and experience in the following area: • NHS Scotland / health experience, in particular from a Health Board / management / commissioning perspective. We are also keen to hear from applicants with a diversity of experiences and backgrounds to ensure our board fully reflects our beneficiaries. Previous board/trustee experience is not necessary and we welcome applications from all ages and backgrounds. Why apply? As a trustee you will join the charity at a critical time as we address the impact of COVID-19 on neonatal care while also continuing to deliver our 2019-2022 strategy. There is so much more to do for sick and tiny babies in Scotland and to provide much needed emotional and practical help for their families. Bliss Scotland is passionately committed to ensuring that all babies and their families have the best possible care wherever they are born. Join us to help us make a difference! We really value the diversity of ideas and skills that Trustees can bring, and welcome applications that can help us reflect this on our Board. For further information go to https://www.bliss.org.uk/about-us/jobs for a full recruitment pack. Applications are by CV and covering letter, to be submitted by 9am on Monday 14 December 2020 to: recruitment@bliss.org.uk with the subject ‘Trustee Recruitment Bliss Scotland’. Interviews will be held over zoom in early January 2021.

WaterAid enables the world's poorest people to gain access to safe water, sanitation and hygiene education. These basic human rights underpin health, education and livelihoods and form the first, essential step in overcoming poverty. We work with local partners who understand local issues and we provide them with skills and support. This empowers them and local communities to set up and manage practical and sustainable projects that meet communities real needs. We also campaign locally and internationally, to change policies and practice, and to ensure water and sanitation's vital role in reducing poverty is recognised. During the current COVID 19 pandemic and for the foreseeable future there will be no face-to-face WaterAid talks. Applicants will be asked to complete the Volunteer Speakers ONLINE training course and will stay at home and comply with COVID19 containment requirements until the crisis is over. However, during the crisis many schools are arranging activities for their students via Microsoft Teams, Skype and other applications to complement students’ home-schooling during COVID19. Our Speaker Network has made our PowerPoint presentations available for teachers to download. If applicants know how to use Microsoft Teams or Skype with slides and would like to deliver webinars to schools and organisations, they should let us know when they apply. Training and excellent support is provided to all volunteers. *People can express interest to volunteer at https://www.wateraid.org/uk/get-involved/volunteering/volunteer-as-a-wateraid-speaker after which they will be sent an application form to complete. *If you have any questions or for more details please email Speakers@wateraid.org .

Aberdeen in Recovery (AiR) was granted Scottish Charitable Incorporated Organisation (SCIO) charitable status in March this year. We are now looking to find talented, passionate and skilled people to fill some vacant seats on our Board of Trustees to help us grow and develop our innovative and solution focused new charity. This is a unique opportunity to help lay the foundations to ensure AiR has a long-term future as a charity with solid processes in place to ensure it meets its mission of: “To be a bridge from ‘dependence’ to ‘independence’ for the individual seeking to recover from problematic substance use and addictive behaviours”. This is such an exciting and invigorating prospect for individuals to get involved and be participant in the tsunami of change which is now gaining momentum and being driven by “Experts by Experience” and the vibrant Lived Experienced Communities which are blossoming, not only locally but are now established as a national phenomena. Since its conception, AiR and its members have worked tirelessly to establish and build collaborative relationships with professional services and third sector support agencies. We have consistently driven the message that individuals who have personal lived/living experience of active substance use, including Family members who have been affected by the addictive behaviours of a loved one, and the Recovery Communities they represent have something valid, essential and extremely beneficial to bring to described Recovery Orientated Systems of Care (ROSC). We can provide existing services and clinical structural systems with resources, skills and capabilities that they, no matter how much effort, time and money they invest, will never be able to offer or provide. So, it gives the greatest of pleasure to see this is now recognised on the highest levels that “Recoverists” can productively contribute to the design, development and delivery of truly person-centred ROSC. This being evidenced by the vision, philosophy and content of the Scottish Governments “Rights, Respect and Recovery” Drug and Alcohol Strategy. We also believe it is reaffirmed by the recent success in being granted funding from the Government’s National Development Fund, with our principle partner Alcohol and Drugs Action (ADA), for our ‘Recovery Peer Pathway’ joint two-year project. This collaborative venture will build on three years of pilot work to further establish and build proactive and productive Developmental Pathways within ADA and their Volunteer network while in synergy with AiR membership for individuals who desire to initiate change in their behaviours and outlook as they progress on their recovery journeys within, and imperatively out-with, statutory and formal support services. We believe that the blue sky thinking behind this project categorically and emphatically fits with the expectations, outcomes and concepts of the above Government policy. So, if you have lived experience, or a stakeholder interest, and a passion for recovery and are willing to give of yourself that another may learn, you will not find a better opportunity to indulge your appetite than from within Aberdeen in Recovery. For more information please contact Dermot Craig, Recovery Community Development Manager at E Mail: dermot@aberdeeninrecovery.org or tel.: 01224 638342 / Mobile: 07751 213108.

Great opportunity to develop leadership, writing, communication, management and marketing skills and to be part of the vibrant community of young theologians and to make a contribution to the enterprise that matters! We need your help in: • Maintaining effective internal communications within the organisation • Coordinating events • Planning and implementing promotional campaigns • Overseeing the social media strategy • Fundraising A fantastic opportunity to assist a brilliant group/charity. All help makes a difference and is greatly appreciated. For more details please contact Dr. Olga Sevastyanova, Chairperson at email connect@orthodoxresearchgroup.com or tel.: 07884971624.

Abertay Students’ Association has an immediate vacancy for 2 external trustees. Experience of a governance role and/or human resources and business processes would be especially desirable. Trustees have responsibility for overseeing the administration and management of the Students Association. More information about the Trustee Board can be found at: https://www.abertaysa.com/representation As a Tustee, you will be responsible for the governance of the Students Association, The Students Association’s budget, and the strategy of the Students Association. The constitutional responsibilities of the Board, based on the guidance from OSCR (with some additional duties), are set out in the Students Association Constitution