Are you passionate Gardening or have horticultural knowledge? In this role of Community Gardens Ambassador, you'll play a key part in helping to find gardens to open in your local area. You will be a key ambassador for the charity and a link to the gardens. Key Responsibilities: Community Building: • Inspire individuals to open their gardens to the public, creating a unique opportunity for community engagement. • create connections among community gardens, encouraging the exchange of ideas and collaboration. Event planning and coordination: • help to organise and coordinate Community Garden events that showcase the gardens in your area. • Provide support for garden hosts (you will be provided with resources and support for this), ensuring their success in attracting visitors and generating income. Promotion and marketing: • Use your local knowledge to promote Open Garden opportunities and events, and explain why this is important for Muscular Dystrophy UK • Support the open gardens in their fundraising endeavours.

Muscular Dystrophy UK (MDUK) is the only charity in the UK that provides vital support to the more than 60 types of muscle-wasting conditions. With 110,000 children and adults affected by this life-limiting condition, it is essential to raise awareness with fundraising groups being a key representative in the community. Are you passionate Gardening or have horticultural knowledge? In this role of Community Gardens Ambassador, you'll play a key part in helping to find gardens to open in your local area. You will be a key ambassador for the charity and a link to the gardens. Relevant guidance and excellent support is provided to all volunteers. Includes volunteer induction, relevant training to give confidence in presenting on behalf of Muscular Dystrophy UK. All help makes a real difference and is greatly appreciated. For more information please contact Jodie Whitham, Regional Development Manager at email j.whitham@musculardystrophyuk.org or telephone 07771374839.

We are looking to build Fundraising Groups across the UK, these groups will consist of 3-8 people who will help us extend our reach by fundraising, attending talks and presentations, creating local networks, building awareness of the charity and understanding how we can help people living with a muscle wasting condition all within their community. The role of the FG Co-ordinator is to work with the Regional Development team to help us get this project off the ground, you will often have catch ups with the team on a one-to-one basis and support with admin tasks to help us gather and collate information needed to ask people to join a group. Along with other staff and volunteers you'll be a core part of the local MDUK community, meeting new people and making a difference to those living with a muscle wasting condition.

Muscular Dystrophy UK (MDUK) is the only charity in the UK that provides vital support to the more than 60 types of muscle-wasting conditions. With 110,000 children and adults affected by this life-limiting condition, it is essential to raise awareness with fundraising groups being a key representative in the community. We are looking to build Fundraising Groups across the UK, these groups will consist of 3-8 people who will help us extend our reach by fundraising, attending talks and presentations, creating local networks, building awareness of the charity and understanding how we can help people living with a muscle wasting condition all within their community. The role of the Fundraising Group Coordinator is to work with the Regional Development team to help us get this project off the ground, you will often have catch ups with the team on a one-to-one basis and support with admin tasks to help us gather and collate information needed to ask people to join a group. Along with other staff and volunteers you'll be a core part of the local MDUK community, meeting new people and making a difference to those living with a muscle wasting condition. *As the Fundraising Group Coordinator, you would have the opportunity to: • Meet new people, make new friends and work as part of our skilled and friendly fundraising team. • Do something meaningful for people affected by a muscle wasting condition. • Learn and develop valuable leadership, teamwork, fundraising, organisational skills and communication and people skills. • Make a valuable contribution to the success of the project. • Enjoy a flexible volunteering opportunity that you can fit around your lifestyle. • To take part in relevant training by MDUK. *What you’ll be doing: • Researching communities identified by the Regional Development manager that look good to start a group. • Helping us to get a better understanding of the area by- o Looking at fundraising that already happened in the community. o What community groups are active such as Rotary, WI, church, young farmers etc. o What local opportunities are there such as car shows, fetes, festivals etc. • Collating your research and compiling this for each group that we set up. • Work with your Regional Development managers and the Senior Regional Development manager to discuss findings and next steps. • Make calls/emails to prospective group members to invite them to the initial meeting to find out more about the group opportunities. • Keeping up to date about the news and developments of MDUK. • Be an enthusiastic MDUK ambassador for the project. All help makes a real difference and is greatly appreciated. For more information please contact Jodie Whitham, Regional Development Manager at email j.whitham@musculardystrophyuk.org or telephone 07771374839.

Event Makers Co. are a group of four final year RGU students who are fundraising for Erskine Veterans Charity. We are putting on a large makers market and workshop event and require a few volunteers to help the day run more smoothly! It is a pop-up event that aims to raise as much money as possible for Erskine, and raise awareness of the charity and their Forres Activity Centre project, which will support the large number of Veterans across the North East. The North East has a large number of Veterans, and the new activity centre will provide life-changing, and likely life-saving, support for our Veterans. Their existing activity centre in the Erskine's Veterans Village (near Paisley) has proven this. Erskine have been supporting our Veterans since 1916, and support over 1,000 Veterans across Scotland every year. Roles include: - Refreshment stand - Fundraising stand - Car parking attendants / giving directions - General assistants (floating) - Wearing the Erskine mascot costume! Similar events have attracted a few hundred people in the past. We're also happy to provide verification of volunteering hours if required for personal development, CV and so on. We are so grateful for any help in ensuring this event runs smoothly and helps us raise as much as we can for Erskine Veterans! We are fully backed by Erskine and RGU to host the event.

Sight Action’s Western Isles Sensory Centre, based in Stornoway, is on the lookout for volunteers to help with several vital services. The charity currently offers both practical and emotional support to around 235 adults and children throughout the Western Isles. The centre, which plays a crucial role in providing lifeline services, has several volunteering opportunities on offer. Volunteers are required to work within the centre to give advice and practical support with hearing aids, as well as other aids and equipment. They are also needed to help offer befriending services, or aid service users with driving them to appointments, help with shopping etc. Full training will be given to volunteers.

Cycling Without Age Scotland is a transformational project which brings the elderly population closer to the outdoor environment through the power of Cycling. It offers the elderly or less able bodied, the chance to hitch a ride on a trishaw and enjoy the outdoors in a relaxing and invigorating way. Based on the national model, the Lewis and Harris Chapter has formed a core local committee and are keen to recruit volunteers to help establish and run the project. Our first aim is to raise enough money to purchase two trishaws, one for Stornoway and one for Tarbert. We then plan to link up (initially) with local care homes and organise to take elderly residents out on trishaws. Volunteers The project would offer considerable opportunities for volunteers and taking part would increase confidence and social skills in all age groups. For those who volunteer with the project, it is a chance to be part of something that makes a real difference to the lives of those in their community. They will form friendships and, from the stories they hear on the rides, learn more about their local community. They will develop important social skills and their own health will benefit from the exercise and fresh air.

Would you like to support people who have served in the Armed Forces? You don’t need a military background, just the ability to listen, some basic I.T skills and good written and spoken English. If so, this could be the role for you. What is a caseworker? Caseworkers work with clients to figure out what type of help they need. Next, they find the right sources of support and arrange for clients to access it. This might be funds for special equipment for someone with a disability, adaptions to a property so an older client can remain at home or funds for a rental deposit. Caseworkers also sign-post clients onto specialist local services for advice on benefits, housing, mental health, debt, finding work etc. Why do we need you? Volunteer Caseworkers are the lifeblood of SSAFA, supporting a growing number of people in need of financial, practical and emotional support. Clients come from all backgrounds and age groups and may have served in WW2 or in a more recent conflict like Iraq or Afghanistan. Our trained volunteers listen without judgement to assess and provide tailored support to help people navigate life in and beyond military service. We need you to join your local SSAFA team to help us achieve this.

The Stornoway PHAB Club is a social club for adults with learning difficulties. We meet on Monday evenings during term time in various venues. Volunteers are asked to join in activities could be a team, small group or with an individual. Activities cover a range from sports in the Nicolson Gym, arts, crafts, board games in the High Church Hall or outdoor walking and gardening at the Golf Club. Members are encouraged to choose activities and so we offer a range each evening. Each year we hold a Halloween party on a club night and a Christmas Party in the Golf Club.

Fife Headway exists to provide support, information and referrals for people with an acquired brain injury (ABI). They aim to reduce social isolation increase access to information and referral information and empower people with an ABI to have more control over their lives. The Fife group meets monthly in Kirkcaldy and they are looking for volunteers! This is a great opportunity to build on your skills and experience to help the work of a small charity in Fife. Duties: -To arrange appropriate food and beverages in advance of the group (specifics will be provided) -Setting up and clearing away for the group -Arrange activities for the group and source materials -To distribute literature from Headway UK to members including competitions and information -Liaise with other volunteers to produce quarterly newsletter