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Penicuik Library of Things (PLoTs)
Activity: Practical / DIY
The role is flexible. We are building a team to run our brand-new community Library of Things. Things like tools and even apple pressing equipment, for people to share instead of buy. The team will be busy with all the following tasks: pickup and drop off sessions at the Pen-y-Coe Press; administration and IT; communicating with our community, maintain our “things”; helping teach others...
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Volunteer Mentor
Activity: Befriending / Mentoring
Volunteer mentors are required to help with employment, education, or personal development.You will work online for 2-3 hours per week with respective mentees, not exceeding 6 months. Mentor training is available for them. Mentors who would like to help mentees in the employment and education fields must have experience and employability skills such as job search, application & CV building and...
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Community Pantry Volunteer
Activity: Charity Shops / Retail
Central Dalkeith & Woodburn Pantry is a community-run food initiative, set up by members of the local community in response to the cost of living crisis. We provide an affordable weekly food shop to our members as well as free fruit and vegetables, period products, pet food and bakery items.
Our friendly team of volunteers is essential to the running of the Pantry in helping us to set up, move...
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Impact volunteer
Activity: Befriending / Mentoring
Impact volunteers help us to evaluate our work so that we can understand the impact of our services. This can involve interviewing older people or asking them to complete questionnaires.
The role asks you to give around two hours each week (or eight to 10 hours per month). You will spend most of your time surveying older people on the phone and gathering their responses, and there may be...
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Friends of Midlothian
Activity: Fundraising
Volunteers who can offer their support for a variety of local events and initiatives. To help build a group of passionate people we can call on if we need an extra pair of hands. The role will involve Helping out when you can at local fundraising and awareness raising events in support of the NSPCC. You will be representing the charity in a professional manner. Some examples include:
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Professional Volunteer
Activity: Management / Business Skills
Representation matters, which is why we want our volunteers to reflect the diversity of the community groups we work with. We’re actively encouraging applicants from ethnically diverse backgrounds to apply as we are currently under-represented in this space.
You will meet the inspirational faces of community groups across the UK and immerse yourself in their work; use your existing skills...
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Digital Marketing & Advertising Volunteer
Activity: Marketing / PR / Media
Midlothian Wildflowers are dedicated to preserving and restoring the wildflower meadows across Midlothian. We work tirelessly to raise awareness about the importance of these precious ecosystems and encourage community involvement in their protection and restoration.
We are currently seeking someone with a knack for digital marketing and advertising to play a crucial role in raising public...
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Call companion
Activity: Befriending / Mentoring
As a call companion, you will make regular telephone calls to an older person experiencing loneliness and isolation. These calls provide a lifeline of friendship for our older people, and the regular, warm, friendly chats and companionship provide a vital link with the outside world from which they have become isolated.
Over time, you and the older person you have been matched with will get to...
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Group coordinator
Activity: Befriending / Mentoring
Tea parties provide a lifeline of friendship for our older people, and the regular, warm, friendly chats and companionship provide a vital link with the outside world from which they have become isolated.
As a tea party group coordinator, you will ensure older guests know when and where the next tea party will be held and who will be collecting them each month. This is an administrative role...
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Office Admin Volunteer
Activity: Administrative / Office Work
Volunteers must be available to work one full day from our office in Edinburgh per week for about three to four months. They should have good IT and communication skills. Must be aiming to secure employment in the UK or further education for themselves.
LINKnet Mentoring is a voluntary sector charitable organisation that provides support for minority ethnic people on employment, education...
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