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Volunteer corner: As seen in Wokingham Today of May 26, 2022

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May 26, 2022
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Dingley’s Promise is a children’s nursery caring for children with special educational needs from ages two to five.

It has a sensory garden, with herbs and flowers, that needs some maintenance.

It anticipates this needing two to three hours every other week, but the charity is open to ideas and options.

If you have some basic gardening skills and enjoy the outdoors, please get in touch.

The Cowshed is a charity which provides support to people of all backgrounds in a time of personal crisis.

The aim of The Cowshed is to provide good quality cleaned and ironed clothes and other essentials free to anyone in need.

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It is looking for volunteers to help at its donation centre based at Unit 2, Bennet Court, Bennet Road, Reading RG2 0QX on Saturdays from 10am-1pm and/or 1pm-4pm. Volunteers are needed to help with sorting donations, washing, ironing, stock management and greeting guests.

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.

It is 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.

The Time commitment is 9.30am-1pm on Wednesdays, plus possible other ad-hoc 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.

It is also looking for drivers, who can help on an ad-hoc basis.

Please get in touch if you can help with either role.

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.

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