The Wokingham Transport scheme is a scheme is run from the Wokingham Volunteer Centre and provides transport mainly for the to hospital, the doctors, dentist and physiotherapy appointments.
It also provides transport for social trips such as shopping, lunch clubs and other social activities.
Drivers will be called on an ad hoc basis and they then help the clients get to and from their desired destination and in most cases, help them to attend their appointment. We are looking for a volunteer on Wednesday mornings to take telephone requests from clients for transport to essential medical appointments, shopping and social trips and to enter all the booking into the CATTS booking system, to liaise with volunteer drivers to allocate the drives effectively and to update the system whenever necessary regarding any changes to client/drivers situations.
Training will be provided on the CATTS system.
Time Commitment is 9.30am– 1pm on Wednesdays, plus possible other adhoc cover for holidays and sickness if possible.
Essential skills; Good IT skills, excellent communication and an empathy for elderly or other clients with health problems. Volunteer travel and parking expenses can be claimed. Based Wokingham Town Centre.
Building for the Future is a Wokingham-based, parent-led charity providing activities, support and therapy for children with disabilities and/or extra needs and their families.
We are looking for volunteers to help at various groups we run from Our House in Wokingham.
Ladybirds (0- 5yrs) Friday 9.30-11.30am approx 2 per month, Youth club Friday 7-9pm approx 2 per month, Saturday club 11-1pm (quiet session) 3-5pm (active session) approx 2 per month. We also run Holiday clubs.
Our House is a unique and accessible play centre for children with any disability. These are not respite sessions as parents are always in the building, but a willingness to play and ensure the children have the most fun they can have is vital.
Please contact us even if you can only commit to one session a month.
Thrive uses gardening to bring about positive changes to the lives of people living with disabilities or ill-health, or isolated, disadvantaged or vulnerable. We’re looking for client support volunteers to assist the client gardeners and horticultural therapists at our garden in Beech Hill, near Reading.
Working directly with our clients, volunteers support our horticultural therapists in delivering a high level of service to client gardeners with a disability or ill-health.
Our client gardeners come to our gardening programmes with a range of disabilities and health conditions and the programmes they follow vary from general gardening to working towards horticultural qualifications.
We are looking for people with: patience and understanding with a commitment to being supportive and companionable, flexibility, reliability and some understanding of basic gardening skills.
These are just a few roles on our books. Please visit our website www.volunteerwokinghamborough.org.uk to find out more and have a look at all the roles we have to offer. If you would like to get in touch with us, please call 0118 977 0749 or email volunteer@wok-vol.org.uk.
