CSV full-time volunteering offers a unique experience of ‘total immersion’ into the lives of people who need help or support.
CSV volunteers are a flexible and dynamic resource and volunteer for up to 35 hours a week for between 4 and 12 months each. They can be mentors, role models, companions and friends -but above all they get things done, sometimes in very challenging settings.
We recruit nationally and internationally, through our international partners, so our pool of volunteers can bring enthusiasm, diversity and enable organisations to do more and add quality to their provision.
In education settings they can:
- Support the delivery of the Citizenship in the curriculum e.g. Callington Community College Cornwall
- Raise attainment levels for pupils at key stage 4 e.g. Ash Technology College Middlesex
- Offer one-to-one support to children with epilepsy and related disabilities while at school or in their residential settings e.g St Elizabeths Centre, Hertfordshire
- Offer one-to-one support to young boys at Ballikinrain Residential school in Scotland.
With Young Offenders they can provide intensive mentoring support to young people supported by the Youth Offending Service on a number of different orders including ISSP e.g Bedfordshire YOS, Cambridgeshire YOS.
With people who are homeless they can offer a range of support dependent on individual need e.g. Colchester Night Shelter :-
- Organising activities within the hostel
Introducing hostel users to local community activities
- Supporting individuals to keep to their care and support plans
- Providing additional sleep in cover to supplement hostel staff
- Providing mentoring and befriending support to hostel residents
- Offering outreach support.
In social care settings they can offer support in day centres for older people, learning disabled people, people with mental health issues and disabled people e.g.Haringey Association for Independent Living where they:
- Organise activities for users
- Support individual users
- Organise trips and introduce users to community facilities
- Complement the staff team
- Take on special projects.
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To discuss full time volunteering, email solutions@csv.org.uk or contact your nearest Volunteering Partners regional office.
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