Volunteer Telford

Deliver food/meals to luncheon clubs and residents in their own homes.

Moonstruck Astronaut is a not-for-profit community theatre company based in Newport, Shropshire.  Our mission is to bring the local community of Newport, Shropshire together through theatre projects and foster friendship, self-expression, belonging and confidence, first with our primary-school age children, then extending to young people and adults in time.

We have started running a Youth Theatre in Newport and continue to run outdoor Drama in the Forest workshops. 

We are seeking volunteers to join our passionate team and help Moonstruck Astronaut community Theatre Company succeed in filling the gap in supporting local children’s creative development.

Volunteers have to be 16 years or over. There is no upper age limit.

Role Description

To help MA increase social media presence and engagement, generate content and help promote existing activities. The initial focus would be the service’s Instagram and Facebook pages and to gain more of a following.

Main Duties

- Develop and produce social media material for Facebook, You Tube and Instagram

- Encouraging others to comment/like and share our posts with others

- Increasing the numbers of people following our social media platforms

- Develop digital marketing and images to promote the theatre company’s work

- Identify gaps and create specified content for our social media channels.

The role involves visiting people, over 50, at home or meeting with them at another location, to provide company and help for them to build confidence in getting out and about.

We are looking for a volunteer Workplace Support worker to join our team, to support vunerable adults to develop work skills as part of a new exciting project to enable people in their journey towards employment. 

You would work alongside staff and directly with customers to support them in ways such as one to one support in work experience placements, ensuring people have that guidance to build solid work skills in areas like health and safety, completing work tasks,  following employment rules and other tasks set.   

You will receive the same training and support as the rest of our team.

The Skills and Enterprise Hub runs daily Monday-Friday 9.00am-4.00pm. We are looking for people who can help for a minimum of half a day a week during these times.  How ever we do need a variety of potenital hours depending on need of customer and employer.