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***Wessex Community Action News***
CSV Make a Difference Day – 29 October 2011
This autumn make sure you get involved in Make a Difference Day, the UK’s biggest day of volunteering!
Last year more than 70,000 volunteers were involved in over 2,000 activities, ranging from renovating homeless shelters to creating community gardens, teaching IT skills or helping housebound neighbours. This year’s campaign will focus on activities that combat loneliness and isolation in society.
Organising an event is a great way to raise the profile of what you do and encourage first-time volunteers to get involved. Free resources to help and inspire organisers and participants include a Handbook packed with tips and advice, How-to Guides, t-shirts, certificates and more!
To request the resources or for more information visit www.csv.org.uk/difference
A big thank you to everyone who supported us by attending our AGM. The event went very well thanks to a great turn our of both organisations and volunteers.
A note of thanks also goes to Dame Elizabeth Hoodless who spoke at our AGM, some good ideas were raised along with some interesting questions.
You can now use the Do-IT search embedded in our website to find volunteering opportunities near you, just enter your details in below and click search!
If you are struggling to find opportunities near you, why not try looking at I-volunteer, and new site working with Do-IT to encourage volunteering, simply follow the link: Volunteer Today!
Otherwise, email our volunteer adviser and we will get in touch to help you find a volunteering opportunity suited to you.Email: volunteering@wessexcommunityaction.org.uk
***Events***
We also now have community boards in our offices in Salt Lane Salisbury so please feel free to send us your posters or leaflets for any new community events or services and we will promote them on your behalf.
To have your events listed on our website, please email jane@wessexcommunityaction.org.uk
Digital TV Switchover Volunteers Needed!
How we receive our television signal is changing. In Wiltshire we receive our terrestrial television signals via one of two main transmitters at Hannington and Rowridge. The analogue signals from these transmitters will be switching over to digital in a two stage process for Hannington from 8 February and 22 February 2012 and for the Rowridge transmitter from 7 March and 21 March 2012.
The BBC’s “Switchover Help Scheme” has been well publicised but there will still be many people who do not understand what Switchover is about and these are likely to be people who need help from their community.
Wessex Community Action is supporting the local roll-out of the Switchover Help Scheme. We need to visit every parish and town in Wiltshire to spread this message and ensure no-one gets missed.
We need local volunteers to help with our programme to ensure that no-one misses out on the help that’s available to assist with making the necessary changes.
If you choose to volunteer with us, you will be asked to use your local connections, knowledge and networks to speak to those people in a community who are likely to know those people who are most at risk and who need help to make the switchover.
If you identify people who need other help whilst undertaking this task we will make sure they get the help they need.
Training & Support:
In the first instance all volunteers will be trained before commencing outreach work. This will give you more details about the role and provide all the support you need to ‘hit the ground’ running.
Throughout the programme, there will be updates sent by email and chances for volunteers to come together and share experiences.
As one of our volunteers, you will be representing Wessex Community Action and so we will provide a volunteer handbook about our work and services, along with all necessary handouts and materials relating to the project.
We will pay out of pocket expenses for attending training and conducting the outreach work. This includes travel by car, cycle or public transport.
Our Project Coordinator will be on-hand to give support, arrange volunteer meetings and to collect in your weekly reports.
If you have any further questions or want to chat further about this opportunity, please contact Jane Davies or Rob Walker on 01722 421747 or email volunteering@wessexcommunityaction.org.uk
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