Providing practical and emotional support to help clients recovering from ill health or facing isolation gain independence and re-engage in their community. Provide tailored support and encouragement to individual clients to support recovery, reduce isolation, improve health and wellbeing and reduce likelihood of hospital admission. This varies by individual and can include: - phone-calls, visits, accompanied walks/visits/shopping including driving or public transport - mobility practice, seated exercise, practicing domestic tasks in any hospital reablement plan - encourage healthy eating and hydration - offer practical support e.g. prescription collection, dog walking, household paperwork, IT support - guide clients to other sources of support and activities

This role provides short term telephone support to individuals in our communities who are at risk of loneliness, and will benefit from this service.

This role involves collecting shopping, medication or other essential supplies for others in our community who will benefit from this help and support.

What a Digital Champion is: Digital Champions help people who get devices through Connecting Scotland to do things online like: - connecting a device to the internet using the Wi-Fi settings, and putting in the password when they need to - sharing documents by attaching them to an email - understanding that not all online information and content that they see is reliable - The aim is that, with support from Digital Champions, learners will be able to use the internet safely, confidently and effectively. You do not need to be a technology expert to be a Digital Champion. But you do need to be confident in your own digital skills. You also need patience, enthusiasm and a desire to help others. FULL TRAINING AND SUPPORT IS PROVIDED! What Digital Champions do The kinds of things that Digital Champions might help learners to do include: - setting up their device - setting up an email address - showing them how to use video calling - showing them how to shop online

Do you have spare time that you would like to do something worthwhile? If you love driving you can volunteer your wheels and give people who can’t get out and about on their own some much-needed freedom. The RVS are recruiting volunteers for our Community transport Service. Could you offer your time to help older people get to their appointments (it may be the doctor or just the grocery store)? If you would like to take up this opportunity or would just like more information please contact us, we are happy to chat with you about the way you can support your local community.

Volunteers will have the satisfaction of enabling a diverse range of community groups and also Tweeddale residents with a disability to access social and recreational activities, attend meetings and appointments etc. Volunteers can benefit themselves from the outings and may choose to get further involved with groups for whom they drivet. Drivers also benefit from MIDAS (minibus Driver Awareness Scheme) training which is recognised throughout the UK as the standard course for volunteer drivers involved in community transport.

Our volunteers offer informal companionship to older people in Berwickshire and Kelso. They help to make their lives more interesting, help them to do activities, and help them to keep up with their friends and family. What do volunteer befrienders do? Volunteers keep older people company in Berwickshire and Kelso. They help to make their lives more interesting and help them to do activities and keep up with their friends and family. Where does it happen? Usually in the older people’s own homes. Sometimes they might go to somewhere like a garden centre or a community centre if the volunteer is happy to do that. How much time does it take? As much time as you have to spare! Most volunteers do it for about 2 hours a week. Will it cost me anything? We will pay you back for any petrol you use or bus fares or cups of coffee you buy when you are volunteering. What will we do? Volunteers: Visit people in their homes. If you have the time, you might visit more than one person. Keep the person company. Help people to decide if they want to do something new. Help people to go to any clubs, societies, drop-in sessions, outings, and so on, that the person would like to go to but only if you are able to do these things. Take a note of visits and tell the co-ordinator if there are any problems. Come to training. Come to supervision sessions and team meetings. Follow the rules of BeFriend.

Volunteers help older people in Berwickshire and Kelso who come to our befriending groups. The groups meet in Coldstream and Eyemouth. What do volunteer group befrienders do? Take part in activities at the groups. Chat to the older people attending the group. Help the BeFriend Project Worker to get activities set Help to clear up after the group. Come to training. Come to supervision sessions and team meetings. Follow the rules of BeFriend. Where does it happen? Berwickshire and Kelso Will it cost me anything? We will pay you back for any petrol you use getting to the group or any bus fares.

Our volunteers offer informal companionship to older people in Berwickshire and Kelso. They help to make their lives more interesting, help them to do activities, and help them to keep up with their friends and family. What do volunteer befrienders do? Volunteers keep older people company in Berwickshire and Kelso. They help to make their lives more interesting and help them to do activities and keep up with their friends and family. Where does it happen? Usually in the older people’s own homes. Sometimes they might go to somewhere like a garden centre or a community centre if the volunteer is happy to do that. How much time does it take? As much time as you have to spare! Most volunteers do it for about 2 hours a week. Will it cost me anything? We will pay you back for any petrol you use or bus fares or cups of coffee you buy when you are volunteering. What will we do? Volunteers: Visit people in their homes. If you have the time, you might visit more than one person. Keep the person company. Help people to decide if they want to do something new. Help people to go to any clubs, societies, drop-in sessions, outings, and so on, that the person would like to go to but only if you are able to do these things. Take a note of visits and tell the co-ordinator if there are any problems. Come to training. Come to supervision sessions and team meetings. Follow the rules of BeFriend.

Volunteers help older people in Berwickshire and Kelso who come to our befriending groups. The groups meet in Coldstream and Eyemouth. What do volunteer group befrienders do? Take part in activities at the groups. Chat to the older people attending the group. Help the BeFriend Project Worker to get activities set Help to clear up after the group. Come to training. Come to supervision sessions and team meetings. Follow the rules of BeFriend. Where does it happen? Coldstream and Eyemouth How much time does it take? The groups meet every two weeks on a Tuesday afternoon, from 2pm till 4pm. Will it cost me anything? We will pay you back for any petrol you use getting to the group or any bus fares.