Volunteer Telford

Wrekin View Primary School in Wellington is already host to a hugely successful Community Fridge, which supports up to 30 families a week by providing food and living essentials. They have now announced they are expanding their efforts to help end holiday hunger in Shropshire by opening a Community Café in the school hall over half term. Read on to find out more!

During the lockdown, school caretaker Russell Garner established Wrekin View Community Fridge. The motto of the food centre is ‘take what you want, donate if you can’, an inclusive message inviting the whole community to engage. No referral or documentation is required to use the fridge/HLC Food hub, and many families in the local community have benefitted from the scheme. A year on and the community fridge is still going strong, now supporting up to 30 families a week.  

Russell has now decided to expand by creating Wrekin View Community Café which will open in the Wrekin View Primary School Hall during school holidays. The café will open In the summer holidays from Monday 26^th July for two weeks every day from 10am-2:30pm. A wide variety of free food and drink will be available, from breakfast items including toast, cereal and bacon or egg baps, to tea, coffee and cakes in the afternoon. There will also be a lunch menu that will change on a daily basis, with both meat and vegetable options. 

Whilst the aim of the café is to provide hot food and drinks to families struggling to eat over the holiday period, the facility is open to all. Everything on offer is free, however if patrons feel that they can donate there will be a donation box to do this. 

Russell is extremely excited to re-open the café and is looking forward to welcoming the local community: ‘It will be a lovely place to be where people can relax and have good hot healthy food.

They are looking for a Community Café Chef/Cook volunteer

The Community café Chef/Cook is to provide a happy environment for the local community to eat.

Tasks include:

The Community café Chef/Cook will be responsible for supporting the all café volunteers.

They will take a lead role in the running of the café

Providing support with a clear focus on connecting individuals with their community.

Advertising date and location for the cafe.

Build a reliable volunteer work force

Support individuals to build their confidence, self-esteem and extend their social skills.

Menu Making and buying of food/cooking

Making the school hall into a pop up café

Relaying all H&S information

Organize all café volunteers

Marketing

Time:

School holidays

The café is open 5 days a week (Mon – Fri)

Each shift is 6 hours, but will be flexible to your availability.

Training:

Induction and mandatory training will be provided

Location:

Wrekin View Primary School

North Rd,

Wellington,

Telford

TF1 3ES

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We are looking for volunteers who are passionate about supporting children and young people understand their early history and journey as well as their cultural identity.

 Life Story Work volunteers will assist the Life Story Work team to undertake direct and indirect life story work and promote the identity work for all our children who are looked after, across Children’s Services.

Life Story Work can be used to help children and young people in very difficult circumstances, understand what is happening to them in more depth, express their feelings, contribute to decision making and share their story with others.

Volunteer Responsibilities:

Volunteer will support the team with the delivery and indirect life story work to children and young people.

Supporting the team to ensure children understand their journey before care, into care and throughout to promote their identity.

Volunteer will work directly with children and young people to understand their care journey and promote their identity.

Time commitment:

Flexible based on individuals’ requirements.

Location:

Darby House, Lawn Central, Telford TF3 4JA.

Benefits:

People choose to volunteer for a variety of reasons:

For some it offers the chance to give something back or make a difference to the people around them.

For others it provides an opportunity to develop new skills or build on existing experience and knowledge.

Regardless of the motivation, what unites them all is that it gives them a purpose and it is rewarding.

Open up career opportunities as you gain new skills. • Provide you with valuable experience which enhances your CV.

Help adjustment from work to retirement.

Bring a great sense of personal achievement and self-worth by contributing to the community.

As a volunteer with Telford & Wrekin Children’s Safeguarding & Family Support Service, you will be supporting children and families across the borough to achieve better outcomes.

Our volunteers bring many benefits, including different skills, diverse life experiences and an understanding of their local communities.

Training:

All our volunteers undertake safeguarding training which allows us to safeguard the children, young people, adults and families we support as well as protecting the volunteers themselves.

We will also provide role specific training and supervision to all our volunteers.

Where possible, we match volunteers to service users based on needs and interests. Underpinning our approach is a commitment to positive and professional relationships between staff, volunteers and service users to achieve lasting impact.