Volunteering

People in Greater Manchester are being urged to volunteer a few hours of their time to help reduce loneliness among older hospital patients whose family and friends are unable to visit them regularly.

The Royal Voluntary Service (RVS) is appealing for volunteers in the Rochdale, Oldham and North Manchester areas to befriend older people on hospital wards to provide companionship and ease the boredom of long spells without visitors.

Last year Southway Housing Trust organised their first Volunteer Fair, which was a great success with almost fifty organisations attending to promote their volunteering opportunities. This time they want to make it even bigger and celebrate everything that is being delivered by volunteers and voluntary and community sector organisations within the Southway area.

Southway Housing Trust are sponsoring the Volunteer Involving Organisation of the Year Award at this year’s Spirit of Manchester Awards and will be making this event part of the Spirit of Manchester Festival.

Manchester Volunteer Advice Project (MVAP) is a volunteering project that offers volunteers placements in a range of advice roles.

MVAP are interested in hearing about what you would like from volunteering to help with a funding bid that, if successful, will fund further volunteering opportunities in Manchester.

To complete the survey visit: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/mvapvol2015, by Friday 7 August 2015
 

Manchester Adult Education Service are looking for enthusiastic, committed volunteers who want to make a real difference to people’s lives and teach English. To be a volunteer ESOL teacher you will need to be able to demonstrate excellent skills in spoken and written English at Level 2 (GCSE equivalent) and good computer skills at Level 1.

Buckthorn House is a newly established community facility in South Manchester and it will be hosting a free Breakfast Club from 20 July – 28 August 2015, Monday to Friday, 9.30-10.30.

Southway Housing want to create a welcoming atmosphere where the community can get together and enjoy a healthy start to their day.

Southway Housing need some sociable and reliable volunteers for anything from one day to every day. If you’re happy to help set tables, make tea and coffee, and wash pots, you could be part of this activity that promises to be rewarding and fun.

Like many other local voluntary and community groups, Macc is currently faced with a situation where the demand on our services is increasing at a time when key funders have significantly cut our funding whilst also advising that there are more and deeper cuts to come.

The Spirit of Manchester Awards is a series of awards celebrating and highlighting all the excellent work being carried out in Manchester’s voluntary and community sector. As well as providing recognition to the sector in these hard times, we want to raise the profile of the sector amongst the general public and encourage local giving and active citizenship.

Inspiring Futures: Volunteering for Wellbeing is a unique volunteer training and placement programme delivered by Manchester Museum, IWM North and Museum of Science and Industry there are also a host of placement partners across Greater Manchester.

MSI will be launching the next round of the IF project by holding a taster session at the museum in mid-June, followed by a 10 week training course. The criteria for volunteers wanting to take part in the training and placement project is:

For Volunteers’ Week (1-7 June 2015) the Volunteer Centre Manchester Team will be visiting a venue near you in East/North and South Manchester, running Volunteer Roadshows to encourage more people to sign up and volunteer with local organisations. We will also be inviting training providers and those organisations who can provide residents with potential job opportunities.