Every week we have new volunteering opportunities both in Eastleigh and Fareham.
If you would like some volunteers to help with your not for profit project or you would like to do volunteering, please ring 023 8090 2400 and ask for Julia or Charlotte. You can email volunteer@1community.org.uk
Here are two of the latest positions.
Are you aged 14-25 and live, work or study in Hampshire, or the Isle of Wight?
Do you want to;
• Have your say on crime and policing
issues that matter most to you
• Gain new knowledge, skills and
experience
• Meet a variety of new people
• Make a difference
Forms and further information are available on their website:
www.hampshire-pcc.gov.uk/youth-commission
If you would like to print off a poster to advertise this really interesting opportunity, please click below.
On the 12th of September 2019 there is a wonderful event to find out about Breast Cancer Haven.
Here are the details-
Thursday 12 September 2019
6.30pm – 8.30pm
Breast Cancer Haven Wessex, 35 The Square, Titchfield, PO14 4RT
Join us to find out more about Breast Cancer Awareness Month in
October and other upcoming volunteering opportunities. We will
provide coffee, tea and biscuits on the night.
Please RSVP by Friday 6 September by emailing
wessexfundraising@breastcancerhaven.org.uk or calling 01329 559 295
Here is a poster you can download and print so you can display it.
This week we have been having some amazing new volunteers, from the British Army no less!
Working on a One Community filming project, to be shown later this year, the soldiers have been out at our various locations. ShopMobility, Eastleigh Museum and Day Activity Centres have all had visits.
Today our chief executive Jean Roberts-Jones has been interviewed.
Our special employee, LBE the canine partner dog, gave them a very warm welcome!
Back to the Future is the name of our re-engagement scheme where we help people at risk of loneliness and further isolation by visiting and accompanying them out and about.
Loneliness and social isolation is a huge problem among older people and others who find it difficult to get out and about.
Many people in the local area live on their own and there may be times when they feel the need for a volunteer visitor to come and chat with them. It may be a result of a
The reasons may vary, but the opportunity to chat with someone can often help to overcome the problems of the moment and enable people to get their lives in order again.
If you know of anyone who could benefit from this service please contact Options Manager, Hayley Malcolm on 023 8090 2416 or email hmalcolm@1community.org.uk
We often have volunteer opportunities appearing on our site but this is something different. So if you are a friendly person, why not give this some thought?
Have you got a couple of hours or more? You could volunteer for us and visit someone who is older and or has a physical disability.
Volunteers visit a client at home for an hour or two, to chat to someone who finds it difficult to get out of the house and finds themselves feeling lonely. Our aim is to support the client to re-engage with their community, by perhaps going to a lunch club, do their own shopping, with the aim of them going out on their own.
Being a volunteer visitor is a very flexible role, with visits arrange at the mutual convenience of the volunteer and client. It is a role that fits around any other commitments you may have.
While volunteers are welcome from across the borough, volunteers are particularly needed in the Southern Parishes of Botley, Bursledon, Hamble, Hedge End, Hound, Netley and West End to meet the needs of local people.
Training is given and full support and supervision are provided, with mileage expenses paid at 45p per mile.
If you are interested, please contact our Volunteer Centre on 023 8090 2458 or email volunteer@1community.org.uk
Celebrating Volunteers
Making the most of Volunteers’ Week 2019 (1-7 June), One Community, held two Volunteer Awards events on consecutive evenings. The first was at The Point in Eastleigh on Tuesday 4 June and the second at Ferneham Hall in Fareham on Wednesday 5 June. Over the two events 152 volunteers from 26 organisations were recognised, receiving their certificates from the Mayor of Eastleigh Cllr Darshan Mann and the Mayor of Fareham Cllr Pamela Bryant.
The presentations provide the opportunity to tell the individual stories of the volunteers, both amusing and touching in turn. The organisations represented reflect the diversity of the roles undertaken, from Front of House volunteers welcoming and serving visitors to Westbury Manor Museum in Fareham, to Street Pastors, who have been listening, caring and helping people on the streets of Eastleigh on Friday nights since July 2009.
Fareham fun in the picture:
Guests described the events as “life affirming”, volunteers spoke of feeling valued, and another said that the lovely words written by her nominator, read out at on the night, “brought tears to her eyes.” A volunteer manager who accompanied some of her volunteers to the Fareham presentation said: “I really enjoy the evening, it is so positive, and it really makes me feel part of something wonderful.”
The Eastleigh event incorporated the Mayor of Eastleigh’s Youth Awards, celebrating the work of young volunteers, aged 11-18, in the borough, an initiative that is supported by The Lions Club of Eastleigh. Silver and Gold Award runners up and winners were announced and certificates presented to 11 young people. (Pictured below.)
Gold award winners, who have completed more than 100 hours of volunteering were Stuart Tucker who helps swimmers with special needs learn to swim at Eastleigh Swimming Club & Learn To Swim; Amy Merewood who has worked in the local Marie Curie Charity Shop for over a year, clocking up over 200 hours; James Wiseman, a young leader at the 10th Itchen North Beaver Group; Laurel Beer who helps out with young children in her boxing club; and Josh Doyle who has contributed greatly to promoting Scouting and music and is now Deputy Director of Music of the Spitfires.
To find out more about volunteering contact One Community’s Volunteer Centre on 023 8090 2458 or volunteer@1community.org.uk
On Tuesday 4th June, a bunch of very keen, sensibly dressed people arrived at the Bursledon Brickworks to help out for a day. They all work for a company called AVIVA in the UK and are giving their time as part of the company’s Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR.)
Here they are helping out, moving the tiles (made on site, using traditional methods.)
It is a great thing to do, get out of the offices and gain a better insight into who your colleagues really are! CSR covers a broad approach of social responsibility in business which can include offering your staff volunteering opportunities.
You can see from our short clip that many hands make light work and how much the small charity (in this case the Brickworks museum) has benefitted.
If your organisation would like to do some planned CSR related Volunteering in the Eastleigh and Fareham areas of Hampshire, we can help you set this up.
Please ring either: Julia or Charlotte on 023 8090 2400 or email: volunteer@1community.org.uk
** APOLOGIES ** For the previously upside down photos, we did not hold awards in Tasmania after all!
Wow what a wonderful time was had on Tuesday 4th June 2019! The mayor of Eastleigh Darshan Mann was there and it was great to see him keenly supporting volunteering in our area.
Held at The Point, Eastleigh, it’s a fabulous evening celebrating the significant work of our volunteers. These amazing people are volunteers within the Eastleigh area. Their personal dedication and a great sense of giving to the greater good in a diverse range of projects has been celebrated.
We were delighted to receive so many nominations. We especially wanted to mention those from the Eastleigh Street Pastors who have celebrated their 10 year anniversary recently.
We had a lot of fun with the selfie frame.
Congratulations and many thanks to all those attending this warm, encouraging and uplifting celebration volunteer award evening.
We have a fabulous opportunity for organisations who need, are working with and would like to keep hold of their volunteers.
Our training is FREE OF CHARGE, and we have sessions in both Eastleigh (held at the Point) or in Fareham (Priory Park Community Centre, Fareham, So31 6PT.)
You need to book as places are limited by emailing rwebb@1community.org.uk
We have been teaming up with Unity101 every Tuesday afternoon for the community hour broadcast.
Make a cuppa, grab a pen and paper. Listen in to the lively, interesting interviews from One Community on this weeks’ Community hour show.
Exciting update! This week’s:
Podcast here (Pippa from the Food Bank)
Podcast here (Angela from Eastleigh College)
PODCAST HERE (Tim from Canine Partners)
PODCAST for the show is here. (Mary from Brickworks.)
PODCAST for the show is here. (H and Jenni)
Just click and the link should come right up!
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