Volunteer Telford

To help keep our website and social media up to date. If you have skills in this field get in touch.

We use Facebook, X, Instagram, Mastadon & LinkedIn, with a website on Wordpress

If you are good at putting together visual media, for the web including event posters and regular content, please get in touch.

This role is done mostly from the volunteers own home, in their own time. Occasional face to face meetings with rest of volunteers – maybe on Zoom or F2F.  Time volunteered is in correlation with skill of the volunteer, but there needs to be a regular, at least weekly input and monitoring of same.

You will need to attend our 3 main events:  a seedswap, a plantswap and a harvest event during the year and take photos.  Each event held on a Saturday.

Attending our monthly business/social meetings, once a month, first Tuesday of each month in the evening.

Location:

In their own home and business meeting in the Cock Hotel Wellington.

Benefits:

Advancing their own knowledge, training from the wider Transition network.   The knowledge they are helping their community.  Social interaction.

Training:

Attending our business meetings to get a familiarity of what we do and our concerns and interests.

Online seminars are available from the wider Transition network and gives a wider view.

Wellington orbit are looking for Cinema Steward volunteers.

Role:

- Checking tickets

- Escorting people to seats

- Helping in servery as required

- Using a App on a Tablet to scan tickets

- Talking to customers

- Upselling what we are and have here

Cinema Steward shifts are around 1 hour around the start of the performance times so

11 am show will be 10.30 – 11.30

2.30pm show will be 2.00 – 3.00

7pm show will be 6.30 - 7.30

5 days a week but we will be increasing to 7 day screenings at the end of September 2021

Location: 

Wellington Orbit  1 Station Road, Wellington TF1 1 BY

Benefits:

Being part of a great team

Increasing confidence

Learning front of house

Customer service and barista skills.

Training: 

No training is needed prior to starting but an interview and a trial shift would be required.

General description of duties

The main purpose of this role is to assist members of the public that visit the centre.

Main tasks

To act as the first point of contact for visitors to the centre and promotion of the centre

To organise promotion and meetings to promote the centre for the benefit of users and the wider public of Leegomery in a safe and responsible way

To organise and promotional calendar of activities in negotiation with the events coordinator, the centre manager and board

To promote the centre through as wide amount of media as possible in a safe and responsible way

Answering phone calls and taking messages

To support users of the centre to get the most out of the centre

Maintain clean and tidy reception area

Keep noticeboards and leaflets up to date

Ensure that rooms are prepared in advance for building users and events

Take payments and process using the till

Any other tasks as requested by the centre manager

My Sighted Guide is a service we offer that allows volunteers to become sighted guides. You will undergo training and learn to safely guide someone with sight loss, navigating environments and building self-confidence and increasing social interaction; whilst maintaining dignity and promoting independence.

What does sighted guiding involve? 

- Provide sighted guide assistance on a regular basis to people living with sight loss – you will be matched with a suitable partner.

- Agree on when and where you will provide the sighted guide, as part of a mutually agreed activity plan.

- You must undertake all elements of My Sighted Guide training (approximately two days).

- Always maintain professional boundaries and adhere to safeguarding procedures.

- Approx.3 hours per week but variable per needs of individual.