Our event crew play an essential part in making sure our events and activities run smoothly and that all participants and supporters have fantastic experiences.

You can get stuck in setting up and stewarding events like the iconic Dragon Boat Festival, dramatic Fire and Ice Challenge and the poignant Lights of Love service – all of which help us generate vital funds to support our care services.

There are so many exciting opportunities to get involved from welcoming and registering participants, car parking, marshalling a route to handing out medals or running a merchandise stall.

It’s also a brilliant way to volunteer on an ad-hoc basis and can fit around busy lives.

Local homelessness organisations Stay, Maninplace, Kip and YMCA are seeking passionate and caring people to help fundraise in order to raise vital funds for their work supporting homeless and vulnerable people in the area.

We need help with fundraising events already set up, arranging new fundraising events and encouraging others to fundraise to help Telford's homeless.

There is no set requirement regarding the amount of time it is simply as much time as you are able to give. No previous experience required.

So if you have a passion for helping homeless and vulnerable people then please get in touch and help us to support people to change their lives and leave homelessness behind forever.

The ‘Move to Thrive’ project for people with dementia and their carers is a partnership project with Age UK STW, Forum 50+, Telford & Wrekin Council’s Public Health and Adult Social Care Teams, Community Resource and The Alzheimer's Society.

The project will provide combined social and physical activity sessions for people with dementia and their carers in a community venue supported by a ‘buddy’ Support Worker system and will provide an ‘at home’ offer for people unable to attend the group sessions.

The project will include an array of training for sustainability and legacy, with the objective of improving health and wellbeing, bringing people together, strengthening capacity within this community, building upon current relationships and empowering the individual. 

Roles/Responsibilities:

Welcoming participants to the group physical activity sessions on arrival, including people with dementia and their carers.

Supporting participants to get themselves a drink and snack, and fill in the survey form, before and after activity sessions.

Supporting the activity providers and participants with the booking-in and payment process as well as helping to monitor everyone’s wellbeing throughout the session.

Encouraging participants to take part in the activity and develop social interactions with each other.

Support participants to build trust and confidence to book onto and attend future sessions.

Read and understand this Role Description before starting and carry out your duties in accordance with these guidelines and the purpose of the project.

Be mindful of your own and the participants’ health, safety, and welfare.

Report any changes to rota arrangements as soon as possible.

Report any concerns or problems that need further referrals or investigation.

Not share information about participants or what they tell you with anyone else, unless there are safeguarding concerns.

Undertake any training necessary for the role, such as Dementia Awareness training. 

Time Commitment:

Volunteers can choose which sessions to support on a rota basis. It is hoped that there will be 1 or 2 volunteers present at each session.

Sessions are on Tuesday mornings from 10.45am - 12noon and/or Thursday afternoons from 1.30 - 2.45pm in Oakengates.

In addition, there may be training courses to attend, e.g. Dementia Awareness training.

Location of physical activity sessions:

Oakengates Rest Room, Charlton Street, Oakengates, TF2 6BS

Benefits:

The opportunity to meet new people.

The satisfaction of helping people who because of your support become more physically active.

The knowledge that your support is helping the mental and physical health and wellbeing of people who may feel marginalised, isolated, and excluded.

The knowledge that your support is helping to create a more inclusive community for everyone.

We are a Christian charity that collects unwanted usable tools, refurbishes them, sorts them into trade tool kits and sends them to the developing world for livelihood creation.

Community Champion volunteers: 

The main role of a Community Champion is to help raise support in their community for TWAM. This will mean organizing events (or finding people to organise them) such as coffee mornings, quiz nights, open gardens and all sorts of creative ways to fundraise.

It means keeping an eye on what is going on in the community and perhaps finding people to enter sponsored events such as fun runs, 10Ks, walks for TWAM.

It means keeping an eye on what is going on in the community and perhaps finding people to enter sponsored events such as fun runs, 10Ks, walks for TWAM.

It will include working with our other volunteers to arrange events such as TWAM evenings with coffee and cake or a buffet.

Community Fundraisers need to be people with big ideas and the energetic enthusiasm to see them through.

What will you be doing?

You will work within your local community, Church, or community group to promote TWAM and help raise the funds we need to keep the tools flowing.

You will organise events of all kinds or find others to do them for you, from music nights to traditional coffee mornings.

You’ll get pull-up banners, leaflets, resources and loads of support from everyone at TWAM from the Volunteering Coordinator and the Fundraising and Communications Officer to your local TWAM Tool Ambassadors and Community Ambassadors.

What are we looking for?

Passionate, energetic people who can organise things and get things done, and people who can identify others and mobilise them to organise events.

We really need people who can work as a team and really get stuck into the very exciting role.

What difference will you make?

We always need people to collect tools and refurbish them, but without the funds to run our vans and keep our Refurbishment Centres operating, nothing would happen. Shipping to Africa costs a lot of money and again, we need the funds to do it.

This is why the Community Champion is so important, and this is the difference you will make, because nothing happens without the people willing to ask for the funds to run the charity.