Volunteering – Always Available
A great way to gain experience and do something valuable
We are at the moment looking for volunteers with the following skills and experience:
- Trustees with Health and Safety and Marketing experience
- A dynamic volunteer to manage our Fund Raising Group – two days a month
- Volunteer Support Workers for term time projects
- Befrienders for people with learning disabilities
- A volunteer with media skills and experience to help with our publicity materials
SoLO would not be able to operate without its brilliant band of volunteers. Also, as a volunteer within SoLO we expect you to be introduced to all aspects of the projects and to be supported whilst working for us.
We provide free training to all our volunteers, to build up their skills and help them to be more prepared for the work that they do (see our training page for more information).
Our volunteers are simply amazing and go far and beyond what we expect from them to benefit our members.
- Sue comes in every week to help Ed with the finances – not sure now what we would do without her!
- Carla has started to come in once a week to help Cookie with her volunteering admin – and she makes wonderful coffee as well (a huge asset!)
- Alison comes in every week to help us with administration in the office – she is such a whizz!
- Paul produced our promotional DVD – a copy of which went to every person attending our ball and it has been shown at 3 corporate events so far.
- A wonderful band of volunteers supported our fundraising ball – especially Angela – who produced all of our programmes and prepared all of the table decorations
- Jill and her friends stuff our newsletters into envelopes every 4 months ensuring that everyone gets an update on what is happening within the organisation.
- Jan ran a fundraising event called Sing for SoLO and raised over £1800!
Supported volunteers
As a charity committed to giving young people with learning disabilities a more fulfilling life, we also have supported volunteers on our projects and in the office. This responsibility gives the supported volunteers a significant boost to their self-esteem. Currently we have Tracy on Open Door, Daniel on Teen Open Door and Alison in our office helping us once a week. Unfortunately, due to capacity constraints, we are not able at the moment to take on any more supported volunteers.
Most importantly, of course, all of our wonderful volunteers are - week in, week out -supporting our members to enjoy a social life which makes a difference to their lives.
All our volunteers are reference checked and have a full Criminal Records Bureau check before they start volunteering with us.
To contact SoLO about volunteering;
- Give us a call on 0121 788 3469
- Send us an E-Mail
- Download an Application Form and send it into us
- Or alternatively, send us a message using the form below and we will e-mail you with details of our current opportunities.