A fantastic ethnic minority charity is looking for enthusiastic volunteers (from all ethnic groups) to join the Fundraising team. You will be part of the team to raise fund to support volunteer mentoring and befriending services. You will be adding value to LINKnet by supporting the Fundraising team and maximizing the efficiency of the fund raising process through creative thinking, creating fundraising opportunities, carrying out administration duties and networking with key contacts.

LINKnet are looking for volunteers to support paid staff with the smooth running of mentoring and befriending services. This is a great opportunity to gain work experience and develop your skills in various fields of work as the roles at LINKnet will be varied. Volunteering involves once a week (5hrs per day).

Volunteers will deliver Hepatitis C education/training sessions in the community, to raise awareness of the risk of Hepatitis C infection, inform participants how to remain safe and to encourage and support individuals into testing for Hepatitis C if appropriate. Volunteers will also assist in providing social and emotional support to individuals both in house and in the community. To deliver Hepatitis C education/training to groups and individuals in the community Raising awareness of blood borne viruses To encourage and support individuals into testing for Hepatitis C if appropriate To provide hospital support and encourage clinical engagement To provide telephone support to individuals as and when required To provide social and emotional support to individuals from diagnosis through to treatment To provide moving on support and encourage engagement with partner organisations To promote Waverley Care services and encourage referrals into the service Challenge stigma

Contribute to the growth of this small charity which has the potential to expand in providing support to vulnerable, disadvantaged families in the Forth Valley region. You will take our share our vision on inclusion and aims to provide opportunities to develop empowerment in young people and families and use your experience and expertise to help lead us into our next stage of growth to increase our impact. We are looking for an enthusiastic individual who can help with the planning and execution of further opportunities as well keeping our established services thriving. The secretary will work with our existing partners and establish new ones who will share our values and bring more opportunities to our members.

The volunteer fundraiser will provide assistance at occasional fundraising events organised by or on behalf of Waverley Care. Liaising with community contacts in Glasgow based organisations and forming a small fundraising committee to organise local events. To be willing to staff stalls and take responsibility for distributing and collecting buckets. Main Duties: Bucket Shaking–Taking bucket collections on specific dates such as World Aids Day or World Hepatitis Day. Exit collections after appropriate theatre shows. Liaising with community contacts such as Colleges, Universities and workplaces around various fundraising opportunities. Cover in formation stall during fundraising events, distributing and collecting buckets. Forming a small fundraising committee to organize local events such as bake sales, bag packs, pub quizzes etc. Assisting at occasional fundraising events.

You are the face of the charity and often the first point of contact for anybody accessing Waverley Care, through telephone or in person. Thus it is vital for reception/admin volunteers to provide a positive first impression for callers by being polite, welcoming, helpful and efficient. They may also introduce new people to the service and show them around the building Main Duties: Answering the telephone and transferring calls or taking clear and concise messages as appropriate. Receiving, recording and where appropriate, responding to information and advocacy, or whoever is most appropriate. Welcoming visitors to the building and seating them, offering tea/coffee and making them feel at home. Assisting with general administrative tasks which support the work of Queens Crescent in general e.g. assisting with mail-outs, sorting post, maintaining clean reception area. Taking bookings for rooms in Queens Crescent for various groups or meetings and therapies. Being of general assistance!

We’re a new charity set up to help with the rescue and rehoming of cats. Our main aim is to build our own centre to do this and our whole team are committed to the care and welfare of cats. We work with other small charities to achieve this and our shop is raising funds to allow us to do this whilst helping rehome cats. Our volunteers work in teams of two at all times in the shop. Serving the public, maintaining stock on shop floor, sorting donations handed into us at shop, keeping shop clean and neat at all times, We do an induction at the shop with every volunteer, find suitable buddy for them, show how to sort donations ie separate, store and trash. They, if needed, will also be taught to operate the till. Our morningshift is 10-1 and afternoon is 1-4. We also need volunteer with a driving licence as we sometimes area asked to collect/deliver things from and to customer. Costs would be reimbursed Able to work with other people, Pleasant, friendly and confident attitude would be advantageous for serving the public and being first point of contact with our charity. Due to handling money and serving public we would ask for the volunteers to be over 18. Due to size of premises at the moment we can’t take someone in a wheelchair. Hopefully in the future

We have a great volunteer opportunity to join our excellent team of volunteers as a Cathedral Caretaker is responsible for the general upkeep and presentation of the Cathedral and associated properties. Duties will include: *Routine maintenance and heavier-duty cleaning, supporting the existing cleaning team when appropriate; *Conducting scheduled safety checks and tests in accordance with statutory requirements; *Being a responsible key-holder for emergency access to the buildings *Preparing venues and providing access to buildings for external-hire events; securing premises after the event; *Being the primary contact and providing access to buildings for contractors and officials visiting the Cathedral; *Ensuring all boilers / radiators are working efficiently and boilers are regularly inspected/serviced by a qualified tradesperson. *Setting of heating in accordance with Cathedral diary of events Relevant training and good support is provided to all volunteers, with all help greatly appreciated. For further details please contact Lynda Johnston, Cathedral Administrator at E Mail: office@standrewscathedralabereen.org.uk or Tel.: 01224 640119

The main purpose of our volunteering program is help our workshop coordinators with the preparing and running of both our various workshops and community-based projects. Tasks include the preparing of materials and equipment, the collecting and organizing of donations, as well as assisting workshop coordinators in the running of workshops, helping support workshop participants with their projects. Other tasks include general admin duties as well as PR activities.

Contribute to the growth of this small charity which has the potential to expand in providing support to vulnerable, disadvantaged families in the Forth Valley region. You will share our vision on inclusion and aims to provide opportunities to develop empowerment in young people and families and use your experience and expertise to help lead us into our next stage of growth to increase our impact.