By becoming a Story Starter volunteer you will give a child in a local early years setting/nursery the skills to start primary school ready to read. You’ll open up their lives to the magic of stories and provide crucial language development in a way which is fun for both you and the child!

How does it work?

As a Story Starter you will support three children aged 3-5 years' old on a one-to-one basis, using play and stories to develop and enrich their use of language.

You’ll need to commit to volunteering at a local nursery for one hour, twice a week during nursery hours.

You’ll receive professional training and support to ensure that you are best able to support young children and feel comfortable in a modern nursery setting.

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.

Meeting Point House is owned by Meeting Point Trust Ltd, an independent registered charity.

Meeting Point House supports 12 local charities with office accommodation, provides meeting rooms with a capacity of 2 - 100 and is also home to the Hummingbird cafe.

We are looking to strengthen our Board by adding additional Trustees.  Applications are open to all, however, we would be very interested to meet anybody that has a background working within finance or has experience within the voluntary or charitable sector.

What you will be doing:

As a Trustee you will help develop and set the strategic aims, objectives, and direction of the charity. The skills and knowledge you bring will enhance the Board and support the Trust.

Trustees can be active in the business and delivery of events.  They can participate in the daily activities that take place inside Meeting Point House, such as assisting in the Hummingbird Café, being a friendly, welcoming face at reception, lending a helpful hand in our maintenance department or helping with admin tasks.  Likewise Trustees can play a more strategic and guiding role.  All have something to offer the Trust.

Our Board of Trustees meet formally 4 times a year.  Meetings take place on a midweek day, either mornings or afternoons and last for approximately 60 - 90 minutes. 

The daily operation of Meeting Point House falls under our CEO and the team who welcome any additional involvement/input from the Trustee's.

In return we offer a range of training courses ranging from Food Safety, Compliance, First Aid and Safeguarding to name but a few.

Club 2000 Sport and Leisure exists for the benefit of people over 16 with physical and/or learning disabilities, to provide them with the opportunity to participate in a wide variety of sport and leisure activities. This happens on Thursday evenings 6.30-9pm, mostly during term time.

Duties would include assisting the Treasurer, recording incoming and outgoing funds on club evenings, bank reconciliation, applying for grants.