Covid 19 Resilience Aberdeen is coordinating Aberdeen’s response to the Covid-19 (Coronavirus) outbreak and is particularly ensuring older and the most vulnerable people get the help and support they need. We are urgently seeking volunteers to help keep people safe and inside their homes during this crisis. If you are fit and healthy with no underlying health conditions and you are under 70 years old, then your neighbours need you! Now, more than ever before we need to stay connected in our communities and look after one another. >Can you help? We are looking for volunteers to help people living in your own neighbourhood who are unable to leave their homes and have no-one else to help them. This could mean doing things for your neighbours like • Picking up prescriptions • Picking up small amounts of local groceries • Posting mail • Urgent necessities • Making a friendly phone call. All volunteers would have a Neighbourhood coordinator who they could contact for help, support and advice and we would ask that volunteers keep themselves safe by keeping up to date with current advice which can be found on the web sites below. You would not be expected to enter anyone’s home, take any money or other type of payment, this service is free to the person who needs it and goods would be left on the person’s doorstep. If you can help in any way please email communities@aberdeencity.gov.uk All help makes a real difference and will be greatly appreciated, *Please keep updated with the official government public announcements and information at: 1. www.gov.scot/coronavirus-covid-19/ 2. www.gov.uk/guidance/coronavirus-covid-19-information-for-the-public 3. https://scvo.org.uk/support/covid-19/resources

Inchgarth Community Centre is coordinating tremendous support and the community response in south Aberdeen to COVID-19 with the great assistance of incredible volunteers. Since the COVID-19 Coronavirus outbreak we have helped over 100 households with aspects such as medication collection,food delivery, support to ensure no one is left isolated or lonely, dog walking service for the most vulnerable and isolated. This includes older people, people with disabilities, and most isolated living in our community. If you can help please email inchgarthcc2@btinternet.com Please let us know what kind of help you can give. All volunteers make a real difference and all assistance is greatly appreciated. *More information is also available at: -Website www.inchgarth.org -Email Inchgarthcc2@btinternet.com -Facebook Https://www.facebook.com/inchgarthcc -Twitter www.twitter.com/inchgarthcc

Aberdeen City Mutual Aid has been set up to support vulnerable people/those in self-isolation in Aberdeen during the Covid-19 Coronavirus outbreak. Help includes support with delivering mail, getting/dropping off groceries/urgent supplies and calling people for a chat to prevent/reduce loneliness. All volunteer help is welcome, greatly appreciated and will make a real difference – please register at https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeVTwg3XXtaMbLfwFuUrj-ALDvrVRdXJEOflUkVG778dPe8Qw/viewform or contact email aberdeenmutualaid@outlook.com or tel.: 01224 515513. Further details also at https://www.facebook.com/groups/2550692921870646/?ref=share and https://twitter.com/AidAberdeen . For details of Mutual Aid Groups in communities across the country please visit https://covidmutualaid.org/

The purpose of this group is to assist the support and care of people in the Ferryhill, Garthdee, Holburn, and Ruthireston areas of Aberdeen. Volunteers will help people in self isolation, by keeping in contact by phone or internet or running simple errands. This is being facilitated by local churches (Ferryhill, Ruthrieston West, South Holburn, and St John's Episcopal). It is open for anyone who wants to help their community. To date there are over 300 members. All new help welcome and greatly appreciated. Please contact us via https://www.facebook.com/groups/covid19riverside/ or Email office@ferryhillparishchurch.org / Telephone 01224 213093.

Charlie House will be running a café in the city’s Bon Accord Centre with 100% of profits supporting babies, children and young people with complex disabilities and life-limiting conditions, and their families, across the North-east of Scotland. The café will be open seven days a week providing sit-in and take-away hot/cold drinks, soup, cakes and sandwiches. Our ReCHarge café volunteers will be a key part of the team, helping to give customers a welcoming and positive café experience. Volunteer activities will include helping to: >meet and greet customers >keep the café and servery areas clean and tidy >prepare food/drinks >take payments >replenish stock. Volunteers will also be trained and encouraged to promote Charlie House events and activities to potential families, volunteers, supporters and members of the public. This is an opportunity to part of a new and exciting venture for Charlie House. For further details please contact Joan Cowie, Volunteer & Information Coordinator at E Mail: joan@charliehouse.org.uk or tel.: 01224 318888

At Cancer Support UK our Cancer Coach Volunteer Facilitators provide life changing support for people who have completed their cancer treatment and are now looking for support in how to return to life after cancer. Cancer Coach Volunteer Facilitators manage and facilitate telephone and online (Zoom) support groups once a week for 6 weeks either over the phone or online via Zoom. The groups take the participants through a series of discussion topics and conversations, enabling them to have the confidence and skills to start to move forward in their recovery. We cover various topics such as why we feel the way we do after cancer, managing worry and anxiety, challenging unhelpful thought patterns and goal setting. As our support is delivered in a group setting, it also gives the important element of peer support, whereby participants can connect with other people who recognize and understand how they feel. All our Volunteer Facilitators are given full training on the group structure and materials and this is an ideal opportunity for experienced communicators to enhance their skills while making a major difference in the lives of people recovering from cancer treatment.. Our volunteers are required to have experience in facilitation, coaching, training or counselling. We always welcome applications for people with a lived experience of cancer but we do ask that this experience was at least 2 years ago before considering volunteering.

Based in health, care and community settings, CCL is a service that promotes wellbeing by offering an active spiritual listening service. CCL helps people explore their deepest hurts and draw strength from their own inner resources and from the communities of support around them. CCL is a short term, early intervention model of person-centred, assets-based, spiritual listening with the aim of promoting personal and communal spiritual wellbeing. We are looking for volunteers to become listeners with the following experience: 1. Recognition of a spiritual dimension to life in self and/or others (create a safe space for the person to verbalise whatever gets in the way of their wellbeing and resilience) 2. Personal resilience, receptiveness to the pain of others 3. High degree of reflexivity, ability to recognise own inner process 4. Accepting and non-judgmental presence, commitment to person-centred ways of being and doing 5. Advanced communication skills, ability to handle raw feelings and emotions 6. Ability to foster wellbeing and autonomy rather than cultivate neediness and dependency 7. Ability to hold clear boundaries about issues and relationships 8. Ability to demonstrate previous experience in active listening it is expected that potential Listeners would be able to demonstrate these skills within their training and continue to develop these qualities when delivering the service. Based in a health care setting, usually a GP Practice. Commitment to 4 days training and a half day a week am/pm listening. Referral based listening service usually from GP or other Health Professionals. If you have any questions or would like to discuss our volunteer opportunity please contact Evonne Llewellyn, Community Chaplaincy Listening Service Volunteer Coordinator at evonne.llewellyn@nhs.scot or call 07584 217192.

People living well within supportive communities is at the heart of the local Health and Social Care Partnership’s aspirations. One of its priorities is to connect people to their neighbourhoods and communities, promoting good health and self-help. CTSI, SVE and partners are recruiting Volunteer Health Champions, who will receive training so that they can help to make a positive difference to health and wellbeing in their own family, community and workplace. Activities may include: • Speaking to family and friends about health and wellbeing topics • Signposting someone to a health and wellbeing service or support group • Promoting health campaigns within neighbourhoods and being champions on the ground for supermarket/ library/workplace exhibitions • Encouraging a group of friends to meet for a weekly walk rather than staying inside. • Linking with some of the specific support groups within Clackmannanshire and Stirlingshire that include people with dementia, arthritis, heart problems and Diabetes, for example. The health champions will work together to develop local information resources and will attend an accredited course by the Royal Society of Public Health run by Forth Valley College. Additional training will be provided by NHS Forth Valley on various health topics. We would like to hear from anyone who is passionate about health and well-being issues and would like to develop their knowledge and gain experience in this area. For further information please contact Liz Rowlett at CTSI

Ladies of the Rock in Stirling currently assists 145 people that benefit from twice per week fresh meals. Making meals Twice per week means that we need all the helping hands we can get As our communities slowly return to work, we are now experiencing a decline of our available volunteers. It’s for that reason that we are making an URGENT appeal to those in our communities that would like to help and make a difference to the lives of our community family members. We are currently looking for -3 cooks with ideally food and hygiene certificates (but not necessary as training could be offered) -2 keen bakers with food and hygiene (training offered if not certified) -3 delivery drivers (must have own transport) Our activities depend a lot on the help we get from very valuable volunteers This project was created by the community for our communities If you would like to apply for a role, please get in touch with Fran Nicol, Dorothy Morrow or Margaret Forsyth.

Ladies of the Rock in Stirling currently assists 145 people that benefit from twice per week fresh meals. Making meals Twice per week means that we need all the helping hands we can get As our communities slowly return to work, we are now experiencing a decline of our available volunteers. It’s for that reason that we are making an URGENT appeal to those in our communities that would like to help and make a difference to the lives of our community family members. We are currently looking for -3 cooks with ideally food and hygiene certificates (but not necessary as training could be offered) -2 keen bakers with food and hygiene (training offered if not certified) -3 delivery drivers (must have own transport) Our activities depend a lot on the help we get from very valuable volunteers This project was created by the community for our communities If you would like to apply for a role, please get in touch with Fran Nicol, Dorothy Morrow or Margaret Forsyth.