. During the COVID19 pandemic, the role of Volunteers within our community has never been more important. These opportunities include helping with shopping, driving, check-in calls and collecting prescriptions for those in isolation/shielding. There are many activities you can get involved in to help make a difference in your local community. PPE will be supplied

During the COVID19 pandemic, the role of Volunteers within our community has never been more important. These opportunities include helping with shopping, driving, check-in calls and collecting prescriptions for those in isolation/shielding. There are many activities you can get involved in to help make a difference in your local community. Perhaps you could help to coordinate volunteers as they assist with shopping and prescriptions, light gardening, friendly phone calls and other community needs that are identified. Please contact us if you feel you have the skills to coordinate local volunteer activity in Bishopbriggs, Auchinairn and Torrance.

During the COVID19 pandemic, the role of Volunteers within our community has never been more important. These opportunities include helping with shopping, driving, check-in calls and collecting prescriptions for those in isolation/shielding. There are many activities you can get involved in to help make a difference in your local community. PPE will be supplied

Help support children aged 8 and over, and their families, who have worries about their emotional health and wellbeing. By promoting positive relationships, we empower families to understand and improve their emotional wellbeing. We tailor our support to meet the needs of individual families. What will I be doing? Usually our volunteering is face to face but currently this is difficult to achieve in most circumstances, so contact may be online initially. Volunteers build relationships with families in different ways including; Family Wellbeing – helping to establish and support family play and activities or offering support and encouragement to help a parent or carer maintain their relationship with their child/ren. Befriending – developing a 1 to 1 supportive, reliable, social relationship with a child, young person or adult by arranging weekly opportunities to experience new activities and develop interests. Befriending relationships can help build self-esteem and confidence and supports personal and social development. Group Work – working with groups of young people, parents and children; supporting the work of Children 1st staff within group sessions.

Volunteering Matters Overview At Volunteering Matters we believe everyone in the UK should have the opportunity to thrive, so we bring people together to overcome some of society’s most complex issues through the power of volunteering. We partner with communities to overcome adversity, tackling social isolation and loneliness, improving health, developing skills and opportunities. And because we’re a national charity, we do this at scale, sharing our expertise and building partnerships to make an even bigger impact. We turn local knowledge and energy into action and progress, building stronger communities and a better future for all. Project Overview Our Volunteers Supporting Families in Edinburgh project offers practical and emotional support to families across the South East and South West localities of Edinburgh, empowering them to face a range of life challenges. We recruit, train and match dedicated, local volunteers to help families every step of the way, spending 1-1 time together on a personalised set of goals chosen by the family, for the family. We can help in many ways, such as improved living standards, budgeting, healthier eating, better school life and behaviour, access to health and wellbeing aid, as well as introducing parents to community resources, to name a few. So far, thousands of families across the UK have benefitted from our service and we are now delighted to extend the programmes reach to families in Edinburgh. Who can volunteer with us? Our volunteers are locally based people with an understanding of the challenges that families are facing. Aged 18+, each volunteer brings different life experiences and skills that they can use to help the family they are matched to, offering support on a weekly basis, usually for 6-9 months at a time that suits everyone. They build a strong relationship based on trust and mutual respect, acting as a friendly face who listens and cares about the family. All volunteers are interviewed, trained to the highest standards and undergo disclosure checks before being matched with a family. What can we offer volunteers? As well as the sense of achievement that comes through supporting a family, our volunteers will have the opportunity to learn and develop new skills, attend social events with other volunteers and enhance their employability. Certificates are provided upon completion of induction training and at the end of the commitment, with project staff happy to provide references for future studies or employment.

One to One Counselling are looking for some local Aboyne/Banchory area volunteers to join a local sub-committee to support the One to One Manager

The Alford Community Foodstore currently based in Montgarrie near Alford are needing a volunteer to help organise the Lending Library on Tuesday mornings 10.45 -11.45

General Purpose of Role To support the work of Children 1st staff in helping families become more resilient by getting alongside families and building relationships with the family group and/or an individual family member to: • help reduce isolation and promote a sense of belonging by encouraging families to engage with their wider communities • build on identified strengths to increase self-esteem and confidence in individuals • support the work of Children 1st staff to assist parents to provide a safe and nurturing environment for their children All volunteering activity is linked to an assessment and workplan produced by the Family Wellbeing Worker and the family. Key Tasks Key tasks may include: Family Support Spending time with families in their own home to build trusting relationships so as to compliment and add value to the work of the Family Wellbeing Worker. Time may be spent: • out and about with the family in the local community accessing resources such as libraries or groups, attending appointments or other similar family activities • helping to establish and support individual/family play and activities • offering support and encouragement to help a parent or carer maintain their relationship with their children And/or Befriending Developing a 1 to 1 supportive, reliable, social relationship with a child, young person or adult in the family. Time may be spent: • Organising and undertaking weekly activities with a child or young person, collecting them from their home and returning them safely to their parent/carer • Building a relationship with a child or young person that is focussed on their needs and abilities • Supporting and developing a child or young person’s personal and social development • Helping the child, young person or adult to build their self-esteem and confidence • Creating opportunities for a child or young person to experience new activities and develop their interests Group work and drop-in sessions This may include working with young people, kinship carers, parents and children, supporting Children 1st staff in a group work setting. All Family Wellbeing and Befriending Volunteers will: • Ensure prompt and ongoing communication with Children 1st • In conjunction with paid Project Workers, record interactions with children and family members as per Children 1st recording policy and requirements • Attend relevant meetings such as supervision sessions, team meetings and training

Our Connect Friends volunteer with local families, supporting them remotely through phone and/or video calls and perhaps an occasional parcel drop to the family. Fully trained, they offer connection and friendship to those in need. Safe Families is offering an opportunity to volunteer as Connect Friends with us. We are a charity that seek to befriend families when they are struggling, support them through the support our volunteers can offer them, and strengthen them as a family long term. Connect Friend is a befriending role, keeping things remote within the confines of Covid-19 restrictions. Connect Friends will be fully trained and go through a full recruitment process in order to be able to befriend local families in their community via phone and/or video calls and perhaps offer regular parcel drops to the family they are involved with, only, no face to face befriending work. Whilst this opportunity has arisen during the lockdown, we envisage these roles remaining as a long term opportunity for volunteers if they find this a rewarding and positive way of volunteering with Safe Families.

Hall Booking Secretary ideal for working from home. Duties include taking and sending bookings out, occasionally opening hall and locking up after events (£10 will be paid for reach event this is required of booking secretary) , liaising with Committee