UCL UNION VOLUNTEERING NEWS
November 8th – 15th
Compiled by the Voluntary Service Unit
www.uclunion.org/volunteers
Hi
Here are this week’s vacancies. We’ve a couple of one-off events; for example, this Friday you’ve got a choice of putting on some wellies and helping us out with a clean up of the Thames, or you can help the Royal National Institute of the Blind raise money. On Sunday, youth charity GetConnected are looking for help with a mailing. Later on in the month, Shelter are looking for help with some campaigning on housing issue, and RNIB are out collecting again. Then in December, we’re looking for help with the UCL Union Charity Concert in the Quad.
We’ve also got a selection of ongoing opportunities, including marketing coordinator for Artsline, befriending volunteers at St. Pancras refugee centre, and an advert from the Special constables scheme.
All the best
John Braime
Voluntary Services Coordinator
VOLUNTEERING CHALLENGE – FRIDAY 10TH NOVEMBER
Are you free this Friday morning? Would you like to take part in our volunteering event by the River Thames, helping to clean up the shoreline?
Thames 21 is an environmental charity that works on the rivers and canals of London, involving local communities to help them turn their local waterway into a clean and safe place that they can be proud of. Volunteers help out on river clean-up events throughout the year but on the 10th Thames 21 are organising an event exclusively for UCL Union.
The event is running from 9am until 11.30am – and the weather forecast is for sunshine! Wellies are provided if you don’t have your own, and travel expenses covered and lunch will be provided.
To sign up for the event please email j.braime@ucl.ac.uk.
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UCL UNION CHARITY CONCERT IN THE QUAD – VOLUNTEERS NEEDED
UCL TUESDAY 5TH DECEMBER
We’re looking for volunteers for the annual concert in the quad, put on to raise money for charity. We’re recruiting for the following posts:
Street Team:
8-10 volunteers needed to distribute and talk to local commuters and shoppers about the evening. To start from 11am - 6pm. Shared shifts are available so please let us know your available times.
Concert Team:
Minimum of 10 volunteers are needed to fulfill various roles at the event from 5pm - c.10pm. Roles will include collecting donations, serving mulled wine and pies, supervising Santa's Grotto etc.
Side-Team:
5-10 volunteers needed either side of the event to help set-up and clean-up. The times that would need filling are all day Tuesday. Shared shifts are available so please email me your available times.
To find out more, email John at j.braime@ucl.ac.uk
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ARTSLINE – PUBLICITY/MARKETING VOLUNTEERS
Artsline has been the leading provider of detailed access information for almost 25 years. Our core service is a comprehensive database of disabled access information for over 1000 arts and entertainment venues in London. Tourist attractions, Museums, Galleries, Cinemas, Multicultural Venues, and Hotels are all extensively covered and details are held on a wide variety of other places of interest. All of Artslines’s access visits are carried out by disabled professionals, who work with a detailed questionnaire to fully evaluate a venue’s access facilities. Artsline are currently working with Open House, Society of London Theatres and Hidden Art Spaces to ensure access information is provided for all of the buildings involved, as well as the Cinemas Exhibitors Association to collect disabled access information for all Cinemas in the UK.
We are looking for a volunteer/s to help with the co-ordination of marketing/publicity surrounding with the relaunch of its website. The volunteer/s would be responsible, along with Artsline staff, for getting articles into press such as Disability Now, BBC’s Ouch and Society Guardian, as well as placing advertisements in relevant publications and getting publicity leaflets produced and distributed. This would also tie in with the 25th Anniversary relaunch party planned for March 2007.
If this sounds like something you would be interested in please contact John at j.braime@ucl.ac.uk
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BEFRIENDING VOLUNTEERS WANTED FOR ST PANCRAS REFUGEE CENTRE!
St Pancras Refugee Centre (SPaRC) has been funded by Capital Volunteering to run a befriending project. SPaRC will be providing the scheme for refugees/asylum seeker clients referred by the Traumatic Stress Clinic (TSC).
Befrienders will be providing individual support to other refugees who are experiencing isolation and are in need of support.
The project aims:
• To support clients to cope with life challenges through friendship and empathy
• To provide informal social support and improved quality of life
• To form a trusting relationship and reduction of isolation
• To work towards improved self esteem and self confidence
Training and supervision will be provided and full expenses will be paid including travel and other costs. If you are interested, please email Petra on p.wahlqvist@ucl.ac.uk
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VOLUNTEERS NEEDED FOR RNIB COLLECTION!
RNIB (Royal National Institute of the Blind) is looking for volunteers to help out with collections to support our work. We are the UK’s leading charity offering information, support and advice to over two million people with sight problems. Collections such as these are one of the most cost-effective ways we have of raising funds for our services to blind and partially sighted people. T-shirts and buckets will be provided and we will cover the cost of your Travelcard. Upcoming collections:
Friday 10 November from 10am-2pm
Cabot Place East within Canary Wharf Shopping Mall
Closest station is DLR Canary Wharf
Friday 24 November – time to be confirmed
Euston Station
If you are interested in helping out, please email Petra on p.wahlqvist@ucl.ac.uk
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ONE OFF EVENT – SUNDAY 12TH NOVEMBER
Get Connected is a relatively new organisation which seeks to help young people contact services that can help them, whether it's other helplines, face-to-face services or internet help.
Get Connected has recently re-branded their publicity materials and are working hard to get these out to as many organizations as possible. They need to do a schools mailing to every school in the UK and this needs to be done very soon. Volunteering for them involves envelope-stuffing/franking/posting. You’ll be needed on Sunday 12 November from 10 -6pm. If you can’t make it for the whole day then half a day will be just as useful. Refreshments will be made available and lunch will be provided if you’re there for the whole session.
The organisation would be enormously grateful to get a group of 10 or so volunteers who could help with this as it would save them a lot of money and staff time both of which they are very short on. It would also mean that a potentially huge audience of young people who may need or want to use the services of Get Connected would be more able to do so. Contact: d.davis@ucl.ac.uk if you’re interested.
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CAMPUSWATCH WESTMINSTER -
Join CampusWatch Westminster as a Special Constable, and by volunteering a minimum of 200 hours a year on this scheme you can help us make London and its universities safer. For the rest of your life you'll have all the skills of police training, and will have gained an inside perspective on the criminal justice system. It is both exciting and challenging. You'll make a difference, you'll feel different, you'll be a Police Officer.
Though you won't get paid, you will receive free travel both on and off duty on buses, the underground and DLR. If you're a student, when you graduate you can get in touch with the High Potential Development Scheme, continue as a Special Constable, or just have something great for your CV.
To find out more, come to one of our information sessions at New Scotland Yard. Contact us now for times and to book a place
j.braime@ucl.ac.uk
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VOLUNTEERS NEEDED TO HELP SHELTER STICK IT TO BAD HOUSING!
Shelter is the national charity working hard to ensure that everyone has a suitable, decent and affordable home.
On November 29th we are erecting a 'Wall of Shame' at Riverside Walkway on the South Bank.
For 5 days the wall will draw attention to the problem of bad housing and call on the Government to provide more investment in social housing
We’re looking for volunteers with good interpersonal skills to help with this event. Public campaigning will take place from 10am until 6pm from Wednesday 29th November to Sunday 3rd December, so if you’re free for at least half a day during this time, get in touch. Volunteers will be talking to the public and getting them to stick it to bad housing by signing a brick.
To find out more, email John at j.braime@ucl.ac.uk
November 8th – 15th
Compiled by the Voluntary Service Unit
www.uclunion.org/volunteers
Hi
Here are this week’s vacancies. We’ve a couple of one-off events; for example, this Friday you’ve got a choice of putting on some wellies and helping us out with a clean up of the Thames, or you can help the Royal National Institute of the Blind raise money. On Sunday, youth charity GetConnected are looking for help with a mailing. Later on in the month, Shelter are looking for help with some campaigning on housing issue, and RNIB are out collecting again. Then in December, we’re looking for help with the UCL Union Charity Concert in the Quad.
We’ve also got a selection of ongoing opportunities, including marketing coordinator for Artsline, befriending volunteers at St. Pancras refugee centre, and an advert from the Special constables scheme.
All the best
John Braime
Voluntary Services Coordinator
VOLUNTEERING CHALLENGE – FRIDAY 10TH NOVEMBER
Are you free this Friday morning? Would you like to take part in our volunteering event by the River Thames, helping to clean up the shoreline?
Thames 21 is an environmental charity that works on the rivers and canals of London, involving local communities to help them turn their local waterway into a clean and safe place that they can be proud of. Volunteers help out on river clean-up events throughout the year but on the 10th Thames 21 are organising an event exclusively for UCL Union.
The event is running from 9am until 11.30am – and the weather forecast is for sunshine! Wellies are provided if you don’t have your own, and travel expenses covered and lunch will be provided.
To sign up for the event please email j.braime@ucl.ac.uk.
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UCL UNION CHARITY CONCERT IN THE QUAD – VOLUNTEERS NEEDED
UCL TUESDAY 5TH DECEMBER
We’re looking for volunteers for the annual concert in the quad, put on to raise money for charity. We’re recruiting for the following posts:
Street Team:
8-10 volunteers needed to distribute and talk to local commuters and shoppers about the evening. To start from 11am - 6pm. Shared shifts are available so please let us know your available times.
Concert Team:
Minimum of 10 volunteers are needed to fulfill various roles at the event from 5pm - c.10pm. Roles will include collecting donations, serving mulled wine and pies, supervising Santa's Grotto etc.
Side-Team:
5-10 volunteers needed either side of the event to help set-up and clean-up. The times that would need filling are all day Tuesday. Shared shifts are available so please email me your available times.
To find out more, email John at j.braime@ucl.ac.uk
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ARTSLINE – PUBLICITY/MARKETING VOLUNTEERS
Artsline has been the leading provider of detailed access information for almost 25 years. Our core service is a comprehensive database of disabled access information for over 1000 arts and entertainment venues in London. Tourist attractions, Museums, Galleries, Cinemas, Multicultural Venues, and Hotels are all extensively covered and details are held on a wide variety of other places of interest. All of Artslines’s access visits are carried out by disabled professionals, who work with a detailed questionnaire to fully evaluate a venue’s access facilities. Artsline are currently working with Open House, Society of London Theatres and Hidden Art Spaces to ensure access information is provided for all of the buildings involved, as well as the Cinemas Exhibitors Association to collect disabled access information for all Cinemas in the UK.
We are looking for a volunteer/s to help with the co-ordination of marketing/publicity surrounding with the relaunch of its website. The volunteer/s would be responsible, along with Artsline staff, for getting articles into press such as Disability Now, BBC’s Ouch and Society Guardian, as well as placing advertisements in relevant publications and getting publicity leaflets produced and distributed. This would also tie in with the 25th Anniversary relaunch party planned for March 2007.
If this sounds like something you would be interested in please contact John at j.braime@ucl.ac.uk
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BEFRIENDING VOLUNTEERS WANTED FOR ST PANCRAS REFUGEE CENTRE!
St Pancras Refugee Centre (SPaRC) has been funded by Capital Volunteering to run a befriending project. SPaRC will be providing the scheme for refugees/asylum seeker clients referred by the Traumatic Stress Clinic (TSC).
Befrienders will be providing individual support to other refugees who are experiencing isolation and are in need of support.
The project aims:
• To support clients to cope with life challenges through friendship and empathy
• To provide informal social support and improved quality of life
• To form a trusting relationship and reduction of isolation
• To work towards improved self esteem and self confidence
Training and supervision will be provided and full expenses will be paid including travel and other costs. If you are interested, please email Petra on p.wahlqvist@ucl.ac.uk
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VOLUNTEERS NEEDED FOR RNIB COLLECTION!
RNIB (Royal National Institute of the Blind) is looking for volunteers to help out with collections to support our work. We are the UK’s leading charity offering information, support and advice to over two million people with sight problems. Collections such as these are one of the most cost-effective ways we have of raising funds for our services to blind and partially sighted people. T-shirts and buckets will be provided and we will cover the cost of your Travelcard. Upcoming collections:
Friday 10 November from 10am-2pm
Cabot Place East within Canary Wharf Shopping Mall
Closest station is DLR Canary Wharf
Friday 24 November – time to be confirmed
Euston Station
If you are interested in helping out, please email Petra on p.wahlqvist@ucl.ac.uk
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ONE OFF EVENT – SUNDAY 12TH NOVEMBER
Get Connected is a relatively new organisation which seeks to help young people contact services that can help them, whether it's other helplines, face-to-face services or internet help.
Get Connected has recently re-branded their publicity materials and are working hard to get these out to as many organizations as possible. They need to do a schools mailing to every school in the UK and this needs to be done very soon. Volunteering for them involves envelope-stuffing/franking/posting. You’ll be needed on Sunday 12 November from 10 -6pm. If you can’t make it for the whole day then half a day will be just as useful. Refreshments will be made available and lunch will be provided if you’re there for the whole session.
The organisation would be enormously grateful to get a group of 10 or so volunteers who could help with this as it would save them a lot of money and staff time both of which they are very short on. It would also mean that a potentially huge audience of young people who may need or want to use the services of Get Connected would be more able to do so. Contact: d.davis@ucl.ac.uk if you’re interested.
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CAMPUSWATCH WESTMINSTER -
Join CampusWatch Westminster as a Special Constable, and by volunteering a minimum of 200 hours a year on this scheme you can help us make London and its universities safer. For the rest of your life you'll have all the skills of police training, and will have gained an inside perspective on the criminal justice system. It is both exciting and challenging. You'll make a difference, you'll feel different, you'll be a Police Officer.
Though you won't get paid, you will receive free travel both on and off duty on buses, the underground and DLR. If you're a student, when you graduate you can get in touch with the High Potential Development Scheme, continue as a Special Constable, or just have something great for your CV.
To find out more, come to one of our information sessions at New Scotland Yard. Contact us now for times and to book a place
j.braime@ucl.ac.uk
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VOLUNTEERS NEEDED TO HELP SHELTER STICK IT TO BAD HOUSING!
Shelter is the national charity working hard to ensure that everyone has a suitable, decent and affordable home.
On November 29th we are erecting a 'Wall of Shame' at Riverside Walkway on the South Bank.
For 5 days the wall will draw attention to the problem of bad housing and call on the Government to provide more investment in social housing
We’re looking for volunteers with good interpersonal skills to help with this event. Public campaigning will take place from 10am until 6pm from Wednesday 29th November to Sunday 3rd December, so if you’re free for at least half a day during this time, get in touch. Volunteers will be talking to the public and getting them to stick it to bad housing by signing a brick.
To find out more, email John at j.braime@ucl.ac.uk