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 a Garthdee area only shopping, medication collection, or dog walking service for the most vulnerable and isolated. This includes the elderly, people with disabilities, and most isolated living in our community. People can email inchgarthcc1@btinternet.com with your full name, address including post code, and phone number. 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 Inchgarthcc1@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.

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Human contact is vital. As we are all finding out, without it, life changes. Volunteering to carry out welfare calls, you will help people who may be isolated and stuck in their homes to maintain contact with the outside world. Offering a couple of hours a week to help make welfare calls will ensure our most vulnerable people have one friendly person to talk to. You will be supported by a key contact and will be provided with a short induction manual that offers guidance on how to stay safe and maintain boundaries while making calls.

During this pandemic our community hub is looking for volunteers who are willing to carry out shopping, prescription deliveries and welfare calls for individuals who are either shielding or self isolating due to being vulnerable to the COVID-19 virus. We are also looking for volunteers to help co-ordinate and support the delivery of these services. Volunteering with the Community Hub COVID-19 response, you will be helping people who may be isolated and stuck in their homes with deliveries of food shopping, medication and essential items, which they otherwise may not be able to obtain. If you have experience of managing/co-ordinating volunteers to carry out activities in the community or have skills in co-ordinating rotas and phonecalls then we need you. Your role will be focused on co-ordinating a team of volunteers covering a specific local area within East Renfrewshire to carry out shopping and/or prescription deliveries and welfare calls to isolated people. You must have access to email, telephone services and be able to support the Volunteer Lead to assign tasks to volunteers and check on progress and update Volunteer Lead as appropriate.

In 2018 and 2019, Strathmore Cricket Club ran cricket events exclusively for girls and women. These events had two elements: · CricHit – which is an exercise and fitness programme specifically developed for females · Softball Cricket – cricket games played with a softball The club plans to develop cricket for girls and women in 2020 and needs volunteers to help it do that. The club’s ambition is to establish regular girls and women’s sessions. CricHit – we would like to recruit and train volunteers who can deliver this programme to groups of girls and women. We would like to see the programme offered as an extra-curricular activity in school and on a regular basis at the club and in the community. Softball Cricket - This is the fastest growing aspect of the sport of cricket, in Scotland and across the world. We want to make sure that Forfar is part of that development. Girls’ and Women’s softball sessions are intended to be fun and social events. They normally include a mix of activities and games – with plenty of time for participants to socialise. They are flexible and try to take account of what participants want to do. For those who want to play more competitive games, sessions can be adjusted to make this possible. Strathmore Cricket Club is seeking to establish regular sessions at the club We are also keen to develop sessions at Forfar Academy – open to students and staff and have run some sessions for Brownie and Guide Groups in the past so the possibilities for this new venture are endless! To take these opportunities forward we also need volunteers in different roles, including to: · Promote and market programmes · Organise the cricket activities · Organise the social elements of events – music, catering etc This opportunity would be of interest to people interested in sports development, youth work, hospitality, marketing and promotion as well as for girls and women with an interest in fitness and sport.

Strathmore Cricket Club is keen to make the game available to people of all ages and abilities. It has piloted Walking Cricket for adults and is keen to develop this to run on a regular basis all year round. This session is designed to encourage adults involved to stay physically active. It is also a social opportunity for them, with the emphasis on fun, not competition. Sessions last for about an hour and involve a mix of skills practice and game playing This opportunity would be of interest to people looking to in work with adults in a learning, care or sports setting. It would also be of interest to people who want to develop their skills in engaging with people generally.

Assist with various aspects of the Shetland Stroke Support Group for example driving; social club activities; visiting stroke victims to provide support and friendship; providing basic IT training. The group meets monthly on the third Thursday of the month at Quoys in the winter months, and go on day trips one Saturday a month in the summer months. A newsletter is sent out to all group members and volunteers each month to update on upcoming events and items of interest.