Engage: - The West Somerset Voluntary Sector Development Agency
| Published: 21st June 2007 16:04 |
Would you like to:
Make a difference to someone's life?
Use your life experience to help others?
Gain work experience?
Make friends and develop personal skills?
Enhance your CV?
Well, you can.
Four projects:
1. The work of our Council for Voluntary Service
At a very basic level, the CVS offer support to voluntary and community sector groups and organisations. This can take many forms, for instance, we facilitate the West Somerset Voluntary Sector Forum which meets five times a year and we publish a newsletter that goes out to sector members as well as to key partners and players in other sectors. We hold an annual community conference. On top of this we offer help and advice on such issues as governance and fundraising and we represent the wider views and needs of the voluntary sector to our strategic partners in the statutory and public sectors.
2. The work of our Volunteer Centre
The primary function of a Volunteer Centre is to match both individuals and groups interested in volunteering with appropriate opportunities in the local community. We hold information on a comprehensive range of opportunities. We offer potential volunteers support and advice matching their motivation to volunteer with appropriate volunteering opportunities.
3. The work of our social car scheme
The service is provided by volunteer car owners who take people, at a subsidised rate, to doctors' surgeries, shopping, or maybe just to visit friends or family.
4. The work of the Furniture Re-use Project
Our volunteer drivers and porters collect donated items of furniture and take them to our premises in Quirke Street Minehead. Members of the public then buy the furniture and the volunteers deliver it to their homes for them. We operate a two-tier pricing system where people on means-tested benefits can buy at a lower price than those who are not.
One Contact!
contact Nicole at Engage Volunteer Centre on 01643 704041
Or email volunteer@engagews.org.uk
You are welcome to come in for a chat about any opportunity you may be interested in. There is usually someone in the Minehead office between 12 and 3pm every week day but you are advised to ring and make an appointment to avoid disappointment.
23a Friday Street
Minehead
TA24 5UB
Tel: 01643 704041
Engage Volunteer Centre is part of
Engage - the West Somerset Voluntary Sector Development Agency
The working name of West Somerset CVS
Charity No. 297839
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German proverb: Charity sees the need not the cause.
You must give some time to your fellow men. Even if it's a little thing, do something for others - something for which you get no pay but the privilege of doing it.
Albert Schweitzer (1875 - 1965)
