Volunteering

Would you like to help an older person in your local area?

Gaddum Befriending Service is a free new service, funded by the JT Blair Charitable Trust that supports socially isolated people over 60 in Manchester and Salford. The befriending co-ordinator aims to match up individuals with a volunteer befriender who would visit them regularly for social interaction.

The Gaddum Centre are looking for volunteers who can give at least two hours a fortnight to visit socially isolated older people living in Manchester.

Volunteer Centre Manchester awarded national accreditation

Anyone with enthusiasm is welcome to apply but Birch Community Centre are particularly looking for people who are local and/or with management experience or skills in the voluntary sector; early years; HR; accounts; and/or policy making.

The trustees meet every month currently on Wednesday evenings and sometimes some of us have to spend extra time inbetween meetings on Birch business such as forming policies; liaising with staff; following up proposals.

Growing in the City are inviting anyone who will be alone or who is unable to cook themselves a meal on Christmas Day to join them for Christmas Dinner. It’s expected to feed about 45 people and Growing in the City are looking for support from businesses and individuals to make this happen.

Oxfam is running a scheme to offer voluntary retail placement positions in Oxfam shops to women from disadvantaged communities, particularly BME women. Participant volunteers will be supported through a six month placement and will receive retail training and support for looking for work after their placement has finished. Oxfam’s aim is that the participants will also get the opportunity of gaining an accredited qualification to evidence their retail training.

We recently sent out a Stakeholder Survey asking for your comments and views as we need to make decisions about how we address our reducing funds and the need to change the way we operate in order to continue to meet the demand for our support.

Volunteer Centre Manchester has developed a Noticeboard Toolkit that allows organisations and agencies to print and display information about volunteering opportunities.

Some early adopters include: work clubs, housing schemes, libraries, community centres and offices. 

Volunteer Centre Manchester wants to hear from volunteer-involving organisations who have materials about their volunteering, training or development opportunities to be included in the Noticeboard Toolkit.

Dear friend

I need to ask a favour. Can I have 15 minutes of your time?

Like many other local Voluntary, Community and Social Enterprise (VCSE) groups and organisations, Macc is faced with increasing demand for our services while key funders have significantly cut our funding. We anticipate further cuts in future.