The Southend Mind Housing service is looking for a volunteer to help our tenants learn to cook healthy meals for themselves. The volunteer would be involved in showing and teaching our tenants to cook healthy meals on a budget so… Read More ›
Archive for July 2012
Hunger Hurts. (July 2012)
Today has seen fourteen job applications go in, painstakingly typed on this Jurassic mobile phone, for care work, shop work, factory work, minimum wage work, any kind of work, because quite simply, this doesn’t work. For reasons unbeknownst to me,… Read More ›
Befrienders Needed
Shared Leisure would like volunteer befrienders who are able to give a little time once a month to spend with a person with a learning disability. This might be going out to the cinema, out to the pub, or… Read More ›
View From A 12th Floor Window: Sarah’s Column 7th July
“I have started looking at other options in the last week, after months of being on the Housing List and getting nowhere, and even being told not to bother bidding for some properties as I wouldn’t be considered. I have… Read More ›
Empowering Families: Volunteers Needed
Community Service Volunteers (CSV) is looking for volunteers. Do you have 2 or 3 hours per week to spare, have what it takes to work with the whole family and want to make a difference in your community whilst promoting… Read More ›
Nosh Ladies That Lunch: Volunteers Needed
Are you free on a Thursday at 2pm, and fancy being a lady that lunches? Rethink Recovery Point aim to provide service users with a pathway for recovery through developing skills to self manage their mental health condition. Volunteers facilitate… Read More ›
Fundraiser and Administrator Needed
Do you have experience in office administration and/or fundraising? Safer places need volunteers to help with all sorts of fundraising activities. These will include office administration, administration for events and helping out at our centres in Essex and Herts. We… Read More ›
View From A 12th Floor Window: Sarah’s Column 27th July
“Time to log on and see what properties the council have available this week. Logging on has become the main event in my week, it’s written in my diary, there’s a reminder on my phone, not that I need reminding… Read More ›
Volunteer Youth Workers Needed
Do you have experience working with children and young people? Volunteer Youth Workers are needed, to establish relationships with young people through which to encourage and enable young people to participate in a range of challenging activities. You will support… Read More ›
View From A 12th Floor Window: Sarah’s Column 25th July
“I recently sent a message via the housing online system asking why some weeks I am eligible for 3 bedroom properties, and some weeks I’m not. This is the reply I received: “Please be advised that due to differences in… Read More ›