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Aberdeen Climate Action (ACA) is seeking Social Media Lead volunteers to help with the crucial work in our Social Media team. Our website and social media provide information on climate change, sustainable living, and relevant events. The purpose of social media team is to guide the creation of new posts, to unify the organisation’s social media presence.
ACA is a volunteer led organisation, which focuses on educating and prompting action on climate change in the North East of Scotland.
As a Social Media Lead Volunteer, you’ll find yourself helping with
• Primarily promoting the climate café each month.
• Managing the messages to social media accounts.
• Promoting events.
• Creating graphics.
• Making relevant content.
• Creating Facebook events for the café.
• Promoting sustainability articles/ideas via our social media platforms while liaising with other groups such as XR and Friends Of the Earth.
You’ll be working alongside a diverse collection of individuals; from students to retirees; lawyers to oil and gas professionals; local Aberdonians to peoples from across the globe.
ACA wants to offer you an interesting and valuable opportunity that can help bolster your CV, develop or gain skills; make new friends; or just do your part to help the environment. No matter what, your time and the work you do helps ACA complete its valuable work in the North East.
For more information or any queries, please email our volunteer support team: recruit@aberdeenclimateaction.org
As a CHSS Community Connector you can support CHSS any time or anywhere, giving as much or as little time to the tasks as you wish. As long as you have access to a smartphone, tablet or computer you can get involved to ensure No Life is Half Lived.
*Why we want you
You’ll support us by carrying out smalls tasks online or in your community which will make a massive difference to people living with our conditions.
*What you will be doing
• Liking and sharing posts on social media to help us spread our work
• Completing online surveys
• Signing campaigns or petitions
*The skills you need
• Able to share posts on social media channels
• Access to a computer, tablet or smartphone
*What's in it for you
• A flexible opportunity to volunteer around your busy life
• Make a real difference to people with our conditions
• Improve your own health and wellbeing
• Use, learn and develop new skills
*For more information
For more details and to register your interest in volunteering please visit: https://volunteer.chss.org.uk/opportunities/51700-chss-community-connector or email the CHSS Volunteering Team at volunteering@chss.org.uk
Lochlan’s Legacy is a charity which raises awareness and understanding of type 1 diabetes, reducing stigma, breaking down barriers, promoting youth voice and building a strong community. Lochlan’s Legacy is led by our founder, Lochlan Murdoch BCyA, who is fourteen years old. The charity has been working since 2020 and our work includes raising awareness of Type 1 diabetes in sport, and setting up our youth group 'T1D and ME - Giving Youth a Voice'. Come and be part of something incredible, driven by our iWill Ambassador Lochlan.
We are currently looking for Social Media Content Volunteers. Tasks will include:
- Developing engaging social media posts
- Day to day running of the organisation's various social media channels
Avenue is looking for someone who has extensive expertise with our CRM system Charitylog, to help us navigate some improvements to data capturing processes, and crucially, help produce accurate reports.
If you know your way around Charitylog like you designed it, and you're a black-belt in Excel - We want to hear from you!!
A fantastic opportunity to help and make a real difference.
For more information please contact Cliff Watt, CEO at email: c.watt@avenuecharity.org or telephone: 01224 587571.
Social media/ photographer volunteer - Can you use Facebook and Instagram? Do you enjoy taking digital photos? We want to develop our social media page and would like volunteers to develop this area of work. If you have a couple of hours spare a week, could you photograph our stock and put onto social media for us? Get in touch!
Tayside Re-users uses databases to record and manage the sales of goods and stock movements from collection to sale as well as calculating the savings in weight and CO2 of items which would otherwise be thrown into landfill. This role will involve transferring information from accompanying documentation to the database and then filing the documentation. This role will give you the skills and experience you need to work in many organisations.
SSCC Falkirk is seeking an additional Volunteer IT Tutor to help support our over-50 learners with computing devices and to extend their knowledge of what can be achieved with the available technology.
Skills and Attitudes
Volunteer tutors should have practical experience in one or more of: Using laptops, iPad / Android tablets and smartphones; Windows operating systems and applications; Mobile device applications; Using email and browsers; Social media; Security / keeping safe online; Digital photography.
Volunteers should have good communication skills and be able to demonstrate patience and empathy with learner members, and commitment to their role as a volunteer tutor. Due to the nature of our service and the importance of consistency for our older learners volunteers must be able to commit to regular attendance at the Club, and to notify others at the Club in advance if they will be unable to attend, for example for illness, holidays or other commitments.
Duties
The duties of club volunteer tutors are:
• Help to set up and take down furniture / equipment at the meeting venue
• Provide advice and support to learner members with technical problems and questions.
• Suggest to learner members other uses of their computers that may help them; give guidance to help members to use this correctly if required.
*Infectious Disease Policy*
• Hand hygiene measures should be observed using sanitizing gels provided or members’ own;
• Tables and other touch point and surface areas shall be cleaned prior to and after use;
• Social distancing measures are not mandated but members may choose to do so if they wish, with the Club Leader ensuring the room is not overcrowded;
• The room should be well ventilated.
SSCC will endeavour to assure the safety of members, however attendance is at member’s own risk.
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Home-based volunteering, Board/trustee role
Role Title: Trustee/Treasurer
Role description of volunteering opportunity:
The Club runs its own powerchair football training sessions on Tuesdays between 7pm and 10pm at the Citadel in Ayr. Sessions specifically designed for wheelchair users across the Ayrshire region.
Ayrshire Tigers PFC is a community-based Scottish Charitable Incorporated Organisation (SCIO) based in Ayr which works in partnership with the Scottish Powerchair Football Association (SPFA) to provide equal opportunities for powerchair users in Ayrshire to engage in team sport. The Club is an independent organisation run by its own board of trustees which is elected by its members.
The club is focused on providing opportunities to play, coach and support powerchair football and is open to everyone. The team is currently playing in the Scottish Powerchair Football Championship. The Club was formed to benefit wheelchair users living in Ayrshire to engage in team sport and prevent isolation by offering a place for people to come and feel welcome, have fun and be part of a team.
Would you like to give a little back to your local community? Would you like to gain invaluable experience in Project Management, Committee Meetings and Teamwork?
Do you have some spare time to help a local charity involved in helping people with disabilities to engage in sport?
We are currently seeking committee members with life skills or business experience to assist with the continuous improvement of our work.
Benefits of being a board member with Ayrshire Tigers PFC include • Supporting the work of organisation. • Meeting new people. • Being part of a team. • Developing new and existing skills.
We are looking for a Treasurer to join our committee and help guide our organisation as it moves forward into what we see as a new and exciting phase. Our Treasurer will work as part of the Board providing financial oversight and preparing regular finance reports to ensure financial rigour across our organisation.
We are looking to recruit enthusiastic and dynamic individual(s) with accounting and finance experience to assist with the continuous improvement of our work.
The committee meets once every three months for two hours.
If you are new to community work, support and training will be provided.
A full UK driving license is desirable but not essential.
To apply for this role, please upload a CV to info@ayrshiretigers.co.uk. Interviews will take place, via video conference and will be conducted by a trustee.
We are looking for volunteers with good IT skills to support Databanks in branch libraries. A databank is like a food bank, but for mobile data – it provides free mobile SIM cards for people who need internet connectivity.
Your role will be to:
Assist customers with inserting sim cards into their devices and topping up by voucher
Assisting with online registration and monitoring
Advising on budgeting data and answering any queries customers may have
You will also be an ambassador for databanks in libraries, assisting with promotion to key partners in the community to ensure we are reaching those who will benefit.
All across the UK our 350+ volunteers support older and/or disabled people at home to offer one-to-one support with their technology, whether that’s a computer, laptop, smartphone or tablet.
Our volunteers:
• Troubleshoot technical issues;
• Offer impartial advice on technology;
• Set up new tech and install hardware and software;
• Show people how to use their tech at home e.g. shop online, send and receive emails and video call with family and friends;
• Make adaptations to support a disabled person’s specific technology needs.
Key activities include:
• Contacting clients to arrange a date/time to support (home visits, supporting them remotely online or attending group sessions).
• Carrying out tech support for the clients you have accepted.
• Feeding back on progress via our online ticketing system.
• Supporting your local Coordinator with promoting the volunteer service in the local area.
• Getting together with other tech volunteers at team meetings and wider company events.
• Attending training on technology, particularly adaptive technology.
• Supporting other volunteers through our online chat facility.
What could an AbilityNet Tech Volunteer gain from the experience:
• Change the lives of disabled and older people.
• Benefit from technology and disability training.
• Network with a nationwide team of other Tech volunteers.
• Be flexible with your volunteering and plan it around your other work and home commitments.