VSU EVENTS
UCL MUSEUMS – OUTREACH BOXES TRAINING
Thursday 28th January
5.30 – 7pm
The VSU is teaming up with UCL Museums to offer training on use of their outreach boxes. What's an outreach box? It's a portable case containing some of the museums' collections. This includes material on biodiversity, art & design, citizenship, Ancient Greece, and a mixed box of materials that can be used for a variety of purposes such as discussions, reminiscence or creativity. There are about a dozen boxes in all, each with a different theme. The boxes can be used with many different groups - children, young people, older people, and more.
To book a space, or to find out more, email John at j.braime@ucl.ac.uk
ONE-OFF VOLUNTEERING OPPORTUNITIES
Contact Oliver at oliver.peachey@ucl.ac.uk to find out more about any of the following one-off volunteering opportunities over the festive season.
CHRISTMAS CARDS FOR CHILDREN IN RUSSIA
Let's send our warmest wishes to children and teenagers from Russian orphanages. We have a long list of children who would love to receive a card from you. We will provide you with the children's names, postal address as well as some information on what people celebrate in Russia, some basic Russian words and postal tariffs. You can write as many letters as you wish.
WILTON’S MUSIC HALL
Performance ushers and event assistants
East London
Various dates and times
Wilton's is a fabulous but crumbling old music hall which is being developed into a brilliant centre for cultural and artistic excellence, innovation and integration. Wilton's needs volunteers to help usher at their shows and if you volunteer as an usher you can watch the show for free!
VOLUNTEER AT CRISIS CHRISTMAS 2009
We have over 7000 volunteers signed up for Crisis Christmas. This is fabulous news and we are really grateful to volunteers like you for committing your time to us over the Christmas period. We still urgently need more volunteers in order to open our centres safely and provide a warm welcome to our guests from the 23rd - 30th of December.
Can you help us by spreading the word amongst friends, family and colleagues who may be able to volunteer this year at Crisis Christmas? For those of you into social networking, please consider helping us out by putting out an appeal on Facebook or by following Crisis on twitter at www.twitter.com/crisis_uk
We still need:
Applicants should sign up to volunteer here - https://community.crisis.org.uk/page.redir?target=https%3a%2f%2fweb.crisis.org.uk%2fcc2009%2f&srcid=5514&srctid=1&erid=112391
LONDON BOROUGH OF CAMDEN NATURE CONSERVATION
Hampstead Parish Churchyard
Conservation Work: Friday, 15th January
10:00-2:00
Join us for some healthy outdoors work to improve this fantastic historical site for wildlife.
Small Charities Coalition
‘Small Charities, BIG Questions’ Event
20th January, Euston
4:00-8:00pm
The Small Charities Coalition is holding an event called ‘Small charities, BIG questions’. The Small Charities Coalition aims to empower small charities to allow them to unleash their full potential while building a bridge between large and small charities.
We are seeking friendly volunteers to set up the venue, welcome the VIPs, usher them in and to serve food and drinks. We will require your services from 4pm till about 8pm, though the event does run longer and you are welcome to stay.
WORMWOOD SCRUBS CONSERVATION DAY
Wednesday 20th January 1400-1700
One off volunteer day to undertake practical nature conservation tasks on the Wormwood Scrubs local nature reserve. Activities will include either tree planting, scrub clearance or lizard habitat maintenance with hand tools.
WESTBERE COPSE CONSERVATION DAY
Sunday, 14th February 12:00-3:00
NW2
Get fit and improve the local natural environment. Activities include bird and plant surveying, cutting back bramble and other unwanted vegetation, litter picking, planting bulbs, seeds, shrubs and trees. We will provide hot mince pies and punch and discuss our work plans in a nearby volunteer’s house.
CHARITY COLLECTIONS
AGE CONCERN AND HELP THE AGED
CHRISTMAS CRACKER CHARITY COLLECTORS
Christmas Eve (24th December), 1.30pm – 5pm
Royal Festival Hall, Southbank
The Royal Festival Hall is staging Sandi Toksvig and her Christmas Cracker show starring Ronnie Corbett with a festive line-up featuring an array of stars from the worlds of comedy music. There will be a bucket collection for Age Concern and Help the Aged. You will need to be at the Festival Hall 1.30pm and we should be away by 5pm. You will also be able to have a ticket to the show.
NEW VOLUNTEERING OPPORTUNITIES
GREENHOUSE
RECRUITMENT ASSISTANT
If you enjoy meeting new people, want to take responsibility for your own work and are looking to gain experience in recruiting and/or managing people then volunteer with Greenhouse as a Volunteer Recruitment Assistant. You will help to expand Greenhouse’s volunteer programme by taking responsibility for writing and placing volunteer role descriptions and adverts, keeping the current vacancies up to date and assisting with the entire recruitment process from application to training and ongoing management. You will need to speak and write English fluently; be organised, creative and professional with excellent people skills. This role will equip you with experience that will demonstrate to future employers your ability to communicate, manage your own workload, build rapport with others and work as part of a team.
SWIMMING CLUB ADMINISTRATOR
Are you interested in gaining administrative / sports development experience? We run a weekend swimming club for disabled and non-disabled young people and we would like volunteers to help us improve the service that we provide to our members. Working predominantly on Saturday afternoons, we would like you to gather feedback from our members, ensure that we have up to date information for them, and provide relevant information to new members. You will need good administrative skills and an excellent telephone and in-person manner.
Contact oliver.peachey@ucl.ac.uk to find out more about either of these two exciting new roles.
INTERFAITH ACTION
TEAM LEADERS & VOLUNTEERS
Interfaith is recruiting young people to participate in and design community projects in their area. We are currently working with groups and individuals in Camden and Enfield and have had great success and lots of fun at volunteer day events at Highgate Cemetery and Lee Valley Park. To find out more, contact oliver.peachey@ucl.ac.uk
THE WINGS OF HOPE
OFFICE VOLUNTEER
Would you like to volunteer with a fun and proactive children’s charity working with over 100 schools across the UK to provide free education to hundreds of poor and orphaned children in India and Malawi? The Wings of Hope Children’s Charity are looking for volunteers to be based at their office in North London to assist with a wide range of admin, marketing and IT based activities on a flexible basis. Whether your strengths are in communication, administration, designing and maintaining website content, or motivating young people to take part in our student social enterprise scheme, we would love to hear from you! Please email oliver.peachey@ucl.ac.uk to find out more.
INTOUNIVERSITY
STUDENT MENTOR
Would you like to make a real difference to a disadvantaged young person by helping them on their way to reach their potential? Be an IntoUniversity mentor and share your success with an aspiring young person aged between 10 and 18. Volunteers will be expected to meet their mentee at least once a fortnight during term-time availability.
Balancing academic, social and future activities you might be talking through a school project/ piece of coursework, playing board games or cooking something up in the kitchen or researching a course to study at university. You will receive training and support from mentoring staff throughout.
Come along and get involved at IntoUniversity- helping to support and inspire the next generation, whilst gaining valuable skills for yourself- and extra points on your CV! To begin you will need to attend a Training and Selection Day- there are sessions on January 23rd or 27th 2010. Simply contact oliver.peachey@ucl.ac.uk to find out more.
SAVE THE CHILDREN
EMERGENCY FUNDRAISER
Calling UCL superhero students! Whether you’re an individual or a group of friends - you can be an Emergency Fundraiser. We need you when an emergency strikes. When we launch an emergency appeal we'll ask you to raise money - and fast. The cash you raise will save children's lives in an emergency. We give families life-saving help when things are desperate, and then help them rebuild their lives. It’s as simple as that.
As soon as a disaster strikes, you’ll get a call to action. Whether it’s an earthquake, a cyclone, famine or war, one thing’s for sure: children’s lives are in extreme danger. Without quick help, many won’t survive the next few days and weeks. It's your chance to get together and raise money through holding a party, taking on an extreme sport for sponsorship or even just packing bags in your local supermarket. We will be here to support you and send you the materials you need to get your fundraiser off the ground.
Contact oliver.peachey@ucl.ac.uk to find out more and get involved. We can't wait to hear from you!
UCL MEDICAL SCHOOL
REAL HEALTH STORIES FILM COMPETITION VOLUNTEER
Volunteers needed to help with Reel Health Stories Film Competition. Everybody’s got a story to tell about healthcare, and Reel Health Stories, a film competition run by UCL Medical School, is giving North Londoners the opportunity to win prizes for short films about their health-related experiences. The best films will be used to teach students
about the patient’s perspective in medicine. Award-winning director Ken Loach (Kes, The Wind That Shakes the Barley, Looking for Eric), actor/director David Morrissey (Dr Who, State of Play, Don’t Worry About Me) and Prof Jane Dare, are amongst the judges. Films will be screened at The Rowan Arts Project ‘Big Day Out’ in July and at UCL in October. We need student volunteers to advertise the competition by putting up posters and handing out leaflets in January 2010. This is a very good opportunity to be involved in a community project and all students involved will be given a certificate of participation for their portfolios, as well as a special invite to the screenings. If interested please contact oliver.peachey@ucl.ac.uk
KNITTING @ FREIGHTLINERS FARM
WEDNESDAYS, 2-4pm.
Volunteers and/or participants required for a knitting group at Freightliners Farm (5 mins walk from Caledonian Road tube).
No knitting skills necessary, just a willingness to drink tea, eat cake and be friendly! Supplies provided. To find out more, email j.braime@ucl.ac.uk
BROOK
INFORMATION AND SUPPORT VOLUNTEER
Brook is the leading provider of sexual health services and advice for young people under 25. We have over 45 years of experience working with young people and have a network of services across the UK. Young volunteers (under 25) are needed to provide information, support and signposting to other young people on sexual health and relationships, via online enquiries and text messages. Contact oliver.peachey@ucl.ac.uk to get involved.
NORTH WEST LONDON HOSPITALS: REGIONAL REHABILITATION UNIT
WEEKEND ACTIVITIES CO-ORDINATOR
The Regional Rehabilitation Unit has not had volunteers working on the weekends before. Volunteers provide an exciting opportunity to enrich the patients’ experience of hospitalisation and we aim to make it an enjoyable experience for the Volunteers. The post will suit an enthusiastic person with imaginative ideas for suitable activities while acknowledging the persons physical and cognitive limitations.
The role for the volunteer worker will be primarily to arrange leisure activities for patients on the regional rehabilitation unit unable to return home for the weekend. This will be particularly relevant for those whose family members live a significant distance and are unable to visit regularly. To find out more about this exciting new weekend opportunity, email oliver.peachey@ucl.ac.uk
HAMPSTEAD PARISH CHURCHYARD
VOLUNTEERS NEEDED
Join our exciting Heritage Lottery funded project to deliver a programme of improvements to the Hampstead Parish Churchyard. The site has a very long history and has been a site of worship for over 1000 years. Throughout the site there are monuments and gravestones including some of great historic significance such as the grave of the artist John Constable. It is also a designated Grade I Site of Importance for Nature Conservation. The project relies heavily on the help of volunteers and we are currently seeking students to help with a variety roles from researchers and wildlife surveyors, to website designers and education assistants. Contact oliver.peachey@ucl.ac.uk to find out more about these exciting opportunities.
ACTION DISABILITY KENSINGTON AND CHELSEA
ACTIVE CHOICES VOLUNTEER
Action Disability Kensington and Chelsea (ADKC) provide support for people living with physical, sensory and hidden impairments. We are looking for outgoing, enthusiastic and sensitive volunteers to help our members to enjoy the social and leisure activities that non-disabled people take for granted - like going to the cinema, working out at the gym or visiting an art gallery. No previous experience needed. Full training and ongoing support provided. Volunteers give as much time as they choose and will not be expected to provide personal care. Those interested, contact oliver.peachey@ucl.ac.uk
TOMMY’S
DATA INPUT VOLUNTEER
We have an excellent opportunity for a volunteer to do some data entry work within the leading charity in pregnancy health. Tommy's wants to give every baby the best chance of being born healthy. Right now in the UK one in four women loses a baby during pregnancy or birth. We fund medical research into the causes of premature birth, stillbirth and miscarriage, and provide a free information service that educates all parents-to-be about health in pregnancy.
Tommy's is located in the City, 5 minutes walk from Bank, Cannon Street, and Monument Stations and 10 minutes walk from Liverpool Street and London Bridge Stations. We would need someone for 3-5 days – contact oliver.peachey@ucl.ac.uk to find out more.
RIGHT TO PLAY
STUDENT AMBASSADOR
This is a very exciting and flexible role for someone who wants to be creative and outgoing. Maybe you will arrange a weekly club night with proceeds going to Right To Play, maybe you’ll organise a rally, a conference, a sports day or a quiz, or maybe you have your own ideas. Either way, if you care about improving the opportunities for young people like you around the world then this is a position for you. Contact oliver.peachey@ucl.ac.uk to find out more.
NEW HORIZON YOUTH CENTRE
SUPPORT VOLUNTEER
Want a challenge? Over 23 years old? Come and volunteer at New Horizon Youth Centre to support young homeless and vulnerable people achieve positive futures in Kings Cross. Our twice-award winning training programme will facilitate your volunteering in our fundraising, youth work, advice or weekend teams. We provide regular (accredited) training, support, lunch, travel expenses and the chance to work alongside a dynamic and creative team.
New Horizon Youth Centre in Somers Town provides a range of services to young homeless people between the ages of 16 to 21. The drop-in provides a safe environment including various facilities and activities such as a surgery, classes, life skills, EET, sports, free meals, showers and laundry. Various satellite services on employment, education, drugs and family mediation are also available at the centre. The ARO (Advice Resettlement and Outreach) Team provides welfare benefits, housing advice, resettlement and outreach visits.
We are currently looking for volunteers (aged 23 or over) during weekdays and at weekends. To find out more, email oliver.peachey@ucl.ac.uk
GREENHOUSE
INFORMATION OFFICER
Greenhouse works with thousands of young people in London each week, involving them in sports and performing arts. In order for them to participate in our activities, each of them has to have written permission from their parents and fill in a registration form. As the new academic year has just begun, we have already got registration forms piling up and we really need a team of volunteers to help us transfer the details from the handwritten forms on to spreadsheets. Please give one day per week or equivalent hours (or more if you can) to join our friendly team for three to four weeks, to help us in our task.
Contact oliver.peachey@ucl.ac.uk to find out more.
OTHER ADS AND EVENTS
UCLU WELLBEING WEEK
VOLUNTEERS
If you would like to get involved in promoting general health and wellbeing among UCL students, why not get involved in events during Wellbeing Week, the first week of term in January? We want to encourage students to eat healthily by offering them the opportunity to buy cheap fruit and vegetables, so we are looking for volunteers to help work on a fruit and vegetable stall in the entrance of the Union, next to Gordon’s. The stall will be open 11am-3pm Monday to Friday of that week (January 11th-15th), but you can be very flexible about what hours you work and how many, and you can fit it in around lectures.
To find out more, email Nicki Challinger, UCL Union Welfare Officer, w.officer@ucl.ac.uk
UCL MUSEUMS – OUTREACH BOXES TRAINING
Thursday 28th January
5.30 – 7pm
The VSU is teaming up with UCL Museums to offer training on use of their outreach boxes. What's an outreach box? It's a portable case containing some of the museums' collections. This includes material on biodiversity, art & design, citizenship, Ancient Greece, and a mixed box of materials that can be used for a variety of purposes such as discussions, reminiscence or creativity. There are about a dozen boxes in all, each with a different theme. The boxes can be used with many different groups - children, young people, older people, and more.
To book a space, or to find out more, email John at j.braime@ucl.ac.uk
ONE-OFF VOLUNTEERING OPPORTUNITIES
Contact Oliver at oliver.peachey@ucl.ac.uk to find out more about any of the following one-off volunteering opportunities over the festive season.
CHRISTMAS CARDS FOR CHILDREN IN RUSSIA
Let's send our warmest wishes to children and teenagers from Russian orphanages. We have a long list of children who would love to receive a card from you. We will provide you with the children's names, postal address as well as some information on what people celebrate in Russia, some basic Russian words and postal tariffs. You can write as many letters as you wish.
WILTON’S MUSIC HALL
Performance ushers and event assistants
East London
Various dates and times
Wilton's is a fabulous but crumbling old music hall which is being developed into a brilliant centre for cultural and artistic excellence, innovation and integration. Wilton's needs volunteers to help usher at their shows and if you volunteer as an usher you can watch the show for free!
VOLUNTEER AT CRISIS CHRISTMAS 2009
We have over 7000 volunteers signed up for Crisis Christmas. This is fabulous news and we are really grateful to volunteers like you for committing your time to us over the Christmas period. We still urgently need more volunteers in order to open our centres safely and provide a warm welcome to our guests from the 23rd - 30th of December.
Can you help us by spreading the word amongst friends, family and colleagues who may be able to volunteer this year at Crisis Christmas? For those of you into social networking, please consider helping us out by putting out an appeal on Facebook or by following Crisis on twitter at www.twitter.com/crisis_uk
We still need:
- Night owls- volunteers for night shifts are urgently needed in all of our centres- in particular we need female volunteers to sign up to night shifts in our Women’s Centre in West London
- Residential Centres- volunteers are needed in our Dependency Centre (Battersea), Quiet Centre (Islington), Women’s Centre (West London) and Rough Sleeper’s Centre (East London)
- Stratford- volunteers for afternoon shifts are needed at our day centre in Stratford
- Opticians, befrienders and massage specialists- volunteers with specialist skills are urgently needed to help deliver vital services
Applicants should sign up to volunteer here - https://community.crisis.org.uk/page.redir?target=https%3a%2f%2fweb.crisis.org.uk%2fcc2009%2f&srcid=5514&srctid=1&erid=112391
LONDON BOROUGH OF CAMDEN NATURE CONSERVATION
Hampstead Parish Churchyard
Conservation Work: Friday, 15th January
10:00-2:00
Join us for some healthy outdoors work to improve this fantastic historical site for wildlife.
Small Charities Coalition
‘Small Charities, BIG Questions’ Event
20th January, Euston
4:00-8:00pm
The Small Charities Coalition is holding an event called ‘Small charities, BIG questions’. The Small Charities Coalition aims to empower small charities to allow them to unleash their full potential while building a bridge between large and small charities.
We are seeking friendly volunteers to set up the venue, welcome the VIPs, usher them in and to serve food and drinks. We will require your services from 4pm till about 8pm, though the event does run longer and you are welcome to stay.
WORMWOOD SCRUBS CONSERVATION DAY
Wednesday 20th January 1400-1700
One off volunteer day to undertake practical nature conservation tasks on the Wormwood Scrubs local nature reserve. Activities will include either tree planting, scrub clearance or lizard habitat maintenance with hand tools.
WESTBERE COPSE CONSERVATION DAY
Sunday, 14th February 12:00-3:00
NW2
Get fit and improve the local natural environment. Activities include bird and plant surveying, cutting back bramble and other unwanted vegetation, litter picking, planting bulbs, seeds, shrubs and trees. We will provide hot mince pies and punch and discuss our work plans in a nearby volunteer’s house.
CHARITY COLLECTIONS
AGE CONCERN AND HELP THE AGED
CHRISTMAS CRACKER CHARITY COLLECTORS
Christmas Eve (24th December), 1.30pm – 5pm
Royal Festival Hall, Southbank
The Royal Festival Hall is staging Sandi Toksvig and her Christmas Cracker show starring Ronnie Corbett with a festive line-up featuring an array of stars from the worlds of comedy music. There will be a bucket collection for Age Concern and Help the Aged. You will need to be at the Festival Hall 1.30pm and we should be away by 5pm. You will also be able to have a ticket to the show.
NEW VOLUNTEERING OPPORTUNITIES
GREENHOUSE
RECRUITMENT ASSISTANT
If you enjoy meeting new people, want to take responsibility for your own work and are looking to gain experience in recruiting and/or managing people then volunteer with Greenhouse as a Volunteer Recruitment Assistant. You will help to expand Greenhouse’s volunteer programme by taking responsibility for writing and placing volunteer role descriptions and adverts, keeping the current vacancies up to date and assisting with the entire recruitment process from application to training and ongoing management. You will need to speak and write English fluently; be organised, creative and professional with excellent people skills. This role will equip you with experience that will demonstrate to future employers your ability to communicate, manage your own workload, build rapport with others and work as part of a team.
SWIMMING CLUB ADMINISTRATOR
Are you interested in gaining administrative / sports development experience? We run a weekend swimming club for disabled and non-disabled young people and we would like volunteers to help us improve the service that we provide to our members. Working predominantly on Saturday afternoons, we would like you to gather feedback from our members, ensure that we have up to date information for them, and provide relevant information to new members. You will need good administrative skills and an excellent telephone and in-person manner.
Contact oliver.peachey@ucl.ac.uk to find out more about either of these two exciting new roles.
INTERFAITH ACTION
TEAM LEADERS & VOLUNTEERS
Interfaith is recruiting young people to participate in and design community projects in their area. We are currently working with groups and individuals in Camden and Enfield and have had great success and lots of fun at volunteer day events at Highgate Cemetery and Lee Valley Park. To find out more, contact oliver.peachey@ucl.ac.uk
THE WINGS OF HOPE
OFFICE VOLUNTEER
Would you like to volunteer with a fun and proactive children’s charity working with over 100 schools across the UK to provide free education to hundreds of poor and orphaned children in India and Malawi? The Wings of Hope Children’s Charity are looking for volunteers to be based at their office in North London to assist with a wide range of admin, marketing and IT based activities on a flexible basis. Whether your strengths are in communication, administration, designing and maintaining website content, or motivating young people to take part in our student social enterprise scheme, we would love to hear from you! Please email oliver.peachey@ucl.ac.uk to find out more.
INTOUNIVERSITY
STUDENT MENTOR
Would you like to make a real difference to a disadvantaged young person by helping them on their way to reach their potential? Be an IntoUniversity mentor and share your success with an aspiring young person aged between 10 and 18. Volunteers will be expected to meet their mentee at least once a fortnight during term-time availability.
Balancing academic, social and future activities you might be talking through a school project/ piece of coursework, playing board games or cooking something up in the kitchen or researching a course to study at university. You will receive training and support from mentoring staff throughout.
Come along and get involved at IntoUniversity- helping to support and inspire the next generation, whilst gaining valuable skills for yourself- and extra points on your CV! To begin you will need to attend a Training and Selection Day- there are sessions on January 23rd or 27th 2010. Simply contact oliver.peachey@ucl.ac.uk to find out more.
SAVE THE CHILDREN
EMERGENCY FUNDRAISER
Calling UCL superhero students! Whether you’re an individual or a group of friends - you can be an Emergency Fundraiser. We need you when an emergency strikes. When we launch an emergency appeal we'll ask you to raise money - and fast. The cash you raise will save children's lives in an emergency. We give families life-saving help when things are desperate, and then help them rebuild their lives. It’s as simple as that.
As soon as a disaster strikes, you’ll get a call to action. Whether it’s an earthquake, a cyclone, famine or war, one thing’s for sure: children’s lives are in extreme danger. Without quick help, many won’t survive the next few days and weeks. It's your chance to get together and raise money through holding a party, taking on an extreme sport for sponsorship or even just packing bags in your local supermarket. We will be here to support you and send you the materials you need to get your fundraiser off the ground.
Contact oliver.peachey@ucl.ac.uk to find out more and get involved. We can't wait to hear from you!
UCL MEDICAL SCHOOL
REAL HEALTH STORIES FILM COMPETITION VOLUNTEER
Volunteers needed to help with Reel Health Stories Film Competition. Everybody’s got a story to tell about healthcare, and Reel Health Stories, a film competition run by UCL Medical School, is giving North Londoners the opportunity to win prizes for short films about their health-related experiences. The best films will be used to teach students
about the patient’s perspective in medicine. Award-winning director Ken Loach (Kes, The Wind That Shakes the Barley, Looking for Eric), actor/director David Morrissey (Dr Who, State of Play, Don’t Worry About Me) and Prof Jane Dare, are amongst the judges. Films will be screened at The Rowan Arts Project ‘Big Day Out’ in July and at UCL in October. We need student volunteers to advertise the competition by putting up posters and handing out leaflets in January 2010. This is a very good opportunity to be involved in a community project and all students involved will be given a certificate of participation for their portfolios, as well as a special invite to the screenings. If interested please contact oliver.peachey@ucl.ac.uk
KNITTING @ FREIGHTLINERS FARM
WEDNESDAYS, 2-4pm.
Volunteers and/or participants required for a knitting group at Freightliners Farm (5 mins walk from Caledonian Road tube).
No knitting skills necessary, just a willingness to drink tea, eat cake and be friendly! Supplies provided. To find out more, email j.braime@ucl.ac.uk
BROOK
INFORMATION AND SUPPORT VOLUNTEER
Brook is the leading provider of sexual health services and advice for young people under 25. We have over 45 years of experience working with young people and have a network of services across the UK. Young volunteers (under 25) are needed to provide information, support and signposting to other young people on sexual health and relationships, via online enquiries and text messages. Contact oliver.peachey@ucl.ac.uk to get involved.
NORTH WEST LONDON HOSPITALS: REGIONAL REHABILITATION UNIT
WEEKEND ACTIVITIES CO-ORDINATOR
The Regional Rehabilitation Unit has not had volunteers working on the weekends before. Volunteers provide an exciting opportunity to enrich the patients’ experience of hospitalisation and we aim to make it an enjoyable experience for the Volunteers. The post will suit an enthusiastic person with imaginative ideas for suitable activities while acknowledging the persons physical and cognitive limitations.
The role for the volunteer worker will be primarily to arrange leisure activities for patients on the regional rehabilitation unit unable to return home for the weekend. This will be particularly relevant for those whose family members live a significant distance and are unable to visit regularly. To find out more about this exciting new weekend opportunity, email oliver.peachey@ucl.ac.uk
HAMPSTEAD PARISH CHURCHYARD
VOLUNTEERS NEEDED
Join our exciting Heritage Lottery funded project to deliver a programme of improvements to the Hampstead Parish Churchyard. The site has a very long history and has been a site of worship for over 1000 years. Throughout the site there are monuments and gravestones including some of great historic significance such as the grave of the artist John Constable. It is also a designated Grade I Site of Importance for Nature Conservation. The project relies heavily on the help of volunteers and we are currently seeking students to help with a variety roles from researchers and wildlife surveyors, to website designers and education assistants. Contact oliver.peachey@ucl.ac.uk to find out more about these exciting opportunities.
ACTION DISABILITY KENSINGTON AND CHELSEA
ACTIVE CHOICES VOLUNTEER
Action Disability Kensington and Chelsea (ADKC) provide support for people living with physical, sensory and hidden impairments. We are looking for outgoing, enthusiastic and sensitive volunteers to help our members to enjoy the social and leisure activities that non-disabled people take for granted - like going to the cinema, working out at the gym or visiting an art gallery. No previous experience needed. Full training and ongoing support provided. Volunteers give as much time as they choose and will not be expected to provide personal care. Those interested, contact oliver.peachey@ucl.ac.uk
TOMMY’S
DATA INPUT VOLUNTEER
We have an excellent opportunity for a volunteer to do some data entry work within the leading charity in pregnancy health. Tommy's wants to give every baby the best chance of being born healthy. Right now in the UK one in four women loses a baby during pregnancy or birth. We fund medical research into the causes of premature birth, stillbirth and miscarriage, and provide a free information service that educates all parents-to-be about health in pregnancy.
Tommy's is located in the City, 5 minutes walk from Bank, Cannon Street, and Monument Stations and 10 minutes walk from Liverpool Street and London Bridge Stations. We would need someone for 3-5 days – contact oliver.peachey@ucl.ac.uk to find out more.
RIGHT TO PLAY
STUDENT AMBASSADOR
This is a very exciting and flexible role for someone who wants to be creative and outgoing. Maybe you will arrange a weekly club night with proceeds going to Right To Play, maybe you’ll organise a rally, a conference, a sports day or a quiz, or maybe you have your own ideas. Either way, if you care about improving the opportunities for young people like you around the world then this is a position for you. Contact oliver.peachey@ucl.ac.uk to find out more.
NEW HORIZON YOUTH CENTRE
SUPPORT VOLUNTEER
Want a challenge? Over 23 years old? Come and volunteer at New Horizon Youth Centre to support young homeless and vulnerable people achieve positive futures in Kings Cross. Our twice-award winning training programme will facilitate your volunteering in our fundraising, youth work, advice or weekend teams. We provide regular (accredited) training, support, lunch, travel expenses and the chance to work alongside a dynamic and creative team.
New Horizon Youth Centre in Somers Town provides a range of services to young homeless people between the ages of 16 to 21. The drop-in provides a safe environment including various facilities and activities such as a surgery, classes, life skills, EET, sports, free meals, showers and laundry. Various satellite services on employment, education, drugs and family mediation are also available at the centre. The ARO (Advice Resettlement and Outreach) Team provides welfare benefits, housing advice, resettlement and outreach visits.
We are currently looking for volunteers (aged 23 or over) during weekdays and at weekends. To find out more, email oliver.peachey@ucl.ac.uk
GREENHOUSE
INFORMATION OFFICER
Greenhouse works with thousands of young people in London each week, involving them in sports and performing arts. In order for them to participate in our activities, each of them has to have written permission from their parents and fill in a registration form. As the new academic year has just begun, we have already got registration forms piling up and we really need a team of volunteers to help us transfer the details from the handwritten forms on to spreadsheets. Please give one day per week or equivalent hours (or more if you can) to join our friendly team for three to four weeks, to help us in our task.
Contact oliver.peachey@ucl.ac.uk to find out more.
OTHER ADS AND EVENTS
UCLU WELLBEING WEEK
VOLUNTEERS
If you would like to get involved in promoting general health and wellbeing among UCL students, why not get involved in events during Wellbeing Week, the first week of term in January? We want to encourage students to eat healthily by offering them the opportunity to buy cheap fruit and vegetables, so we are looking for volunteers to help work on a fruit and vegetable stall in the entrance of the Union, next to Gordon’s. The stall will be open 11am-3pm Monday to Friday of that week (January 11th-15th), but you can be very flexible about what hours you work and how many, and you can fit it in around lectures.
To find out more, email Nicki Challinger, UCL Union Welfare Officer, w.officer@ucl.ac.uk