Voluntary role to provide a friendly listening ear and confidential conversation on a regular basis to isolated and lonely Carers in Derbyshire.

Our mission is to provide enriching art experiences and educational projects for children with life-limiting illnesses and disabilities across the UK. We are seeking the help of volunteers who can spare some of their valuable time to help us.

Our Caseworker Volunteers support beneficiaries by working with them to identify what type of help they need, and how to go about accessing it. Caseworkers gather complex information over the phone and face to face to support applications for assistance; provide clear and concise digital reports on a beneficiary’s situation and finances and can also signpost to other specialist support services.

Please note that we ask for a minimum of 12 months commitment to this role.

School reader volunteers are matched with a local primary school and visit there once a week in term time for an hour or two where they listen to children read individually and support their reading development, their comprehension, their reading enjoyment and their social skills. Our volunteers find volunteering very rewarding and enjoy watching the children's reading skills progress.

The Mobile Resource Centre was set up to deliver eye health information and demonstrate low vision aids and equipment to visually impaired people, their family and to interested members of the public. We travel to specific locations around the county, such as retirement villages, health care centres, libraries, garden centres or local social groups and coffee mornings. We usually visit for a few hours in a morning or afternoon. Our aim is to help people by advising them what support is available, and to promote good eye health.
Our volunteers benefit from becoming more knowledgeable about support for visually impaired people and having the opportunity to go out into the community and make a big difference.

By joining our team of you will be making a positive impact in the local community, dealing with a range of people from various background.

Our mission is to provide enriching art experiences and educational projects for children with life-limiting illnesses and disabilities across the UK. We are seeking the help of volunteers who can spare some of their valuable time to help us.

Our mission is to provide enriching art experiences and educational projects for children with life-limiting illnesses and disabilities across the UK. We are seeking the help of volunteers who can spare some of their valuable time to help us.

We seek local governors from a range of backgrounds with different skills and levels of expertise. A local governor will use their skills to work with the principal and the senior leadership team to ensure that the students at their academy receive the best possible education.

You will be collecting and replacing our Sight Support Derbyshire collection boxes that are situated around the county, Your ‘patch’ can be in and around the areas where you live, or a little further afield if you agree. You will need access to your own vehicle and we will reimburse your out of pocket expenses in line with our expenses policy.

Our Home Visiting Befriending Scheme was set up to help alleviate some of the isolation that may be caused by visual impairment, for example in a situation where someone has very little contact with friends and family.
A Befriender helps in many different ways such as visiting and having a cup of tea & a chat, agreed shopping or outings together, or more practical help with reading mail or the newspaper. Many of our volunteers and service users build up a very good, long term, trusting relationship.

Help us with site maintenance projects, tree work, habitat creation, conservation and wildlife surveys. There is always something to be done around the site, to keep it well maintained for the general public and enhance Rosliston Forestry Centre for our wildlife.