Volunteers
Why Volunteer?
Make a difference - Volunteering gives you an opportunity to make a difference to people’s lives in your community. You can use your skills and experience to help and enrich the local community.
Improve job prospets and employability – Volunteering proves to your future employer that you have developed necessary skills & are a committed person. This is especially useful for application forms and job interviews.
Fun – Volunteering is a fun and fulfilling allowing you to experience masses of opportunities not usually available to you.
Experience - Volunteering gives you a chance to get experience in a field you’d like to work in.
Training – Many of the volunteer projects will include training, which will be useful both on the project and in later life.
Experience diversity – Volunteering gives you the chance to meet people who you would not normally come across.
Influence career choice – Volunteering gives you the opportunity to test out potential career choices.Current Volunteer Roles & Responsibilities Available in Crich Toy Library
There are currently three teams of volunteers which rotate on a three week basis, we aim that volunteers help out for one session per month
- Welcome Host - Meet and greet new members and introduce Toy Library
- New Member/ Volunteer Buddy’s - Providing support as necessary
- Preparing Refreshments & Health Snacks for Children & Adults
- Toy Cleaning & Booking - This role a is shared during sessions
- Booking Toys In & Out - This role a is shared during sessions
- Toy Runner Collecting and depositing toys from CTL Toy stores -This role a is shared during sessions
- Committee Roles - We are in need of a new Treasurer from November 2008. We are looking to fill the position of Treasurer with someone with knowledge of bookkeeping and finance (NB: We are keen for someone to take on role for minimum period of two years)
- Promotion - Help designing leaflets & flyers
- Fundraising - Writing bids, attending carnivals, attracting sponsorshop
- Additional Needs - Help developing Additional Needs resource scheme
- Outreach Support - Liasion & Delivering and collecting toys from local groups, schools and GP Surgeries
Volunteer Rota
CTL Spring 2009 Volunteer Rota
Recruitment
We are currently looking to fill two new positions; Session Co-Ordinator and Outreach Worker. Although there are two role descriptions being advertised Crich Toy Library committee would prefer to contract one self employed person for both roles.
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