Community centres and cafés help older people stay more active in their communities by providing a range of activities and services supported by a team of dedicated volunteers. Visitors do not have to be members and the café is often open to the general public.

 

Information centres and cafés are run as places to drop in and enable the local community to access available information to address their health and social wellbeing priorities. Visitors, either by themselves or in discussion with trained volunteers, can be signposted to a wide range of local knowledge and services using leaflets, presentations, specialist surgeries, the internet or to other organisations.

You need to be over the age of 14 to become a volunteer and can help out in many different ways to make people happier in your community. 

 

Volunteers can help out in the café serving refreshments and lunches or by organising activities and events.  Support is often needed in the office with administration and in local promotion and fundraising as well as providing information and help to visitors.

 

These volunteering opportunities would be ideal for you if you want to contribute to the work of WRVS, help older people in your community, make new friends and will help you in personal development and developing skills in administration, fundraising, media and IT.

 

Training relevant to the role will be provided by WRVS and you will be reimbursed of out of pocket expenses.

 

 

Follow the links below to see what you would be doing as a volunteer.

 

To register your interest in one of these roles or to find out more, call 0845 601 4670 (all calls charged at local rate) or register to volunteer online.