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Many of the people who people the of Many skills. bookkeeping or fundraising, of experience air of hands to hands of air p extra an fer of you Can gardening. with out helping even occasional function; there may be a place for someone who has who someone for place a be may there function; occasional driving the minibus, helping with activities such as knitting or baking, and baking, or knitting as such activities with helping minibus, the driving have someone who could help produce posters, or help out at an at out help or posters, produce help could who someone have articularly on a one-to-one basis), reading, basis), one-to-one a on articularly (p s resident with socialising ance with cleaning and catering your local hall may be delighted to delighted be may hall local your catering and cleaning with ance assist would welcome volunteers, and these local opportunities include opportunities local these and volunteers, welcome would possibilities for volunteering within the hall committee: as well looking for looking well as committee: hall the within volunteering for possibilities All the care centres care the All Council. Islands Shetland by run are Scalloway) in , there are many are there , community the within roles many fulfils hall the as Just alter and Joan Gray Home Gray Joan and alter W the (excepting centres care rural Shetland's our Local Hall Committee Hall Local our Y Rural Care Centres Care Rural Volunteering In Rural Shetland We hope that's given you a taste of some of the opportunities available Voluntary Voice for volunteering. If you want to discuss any potential volunteering, just get in touch; we could come with you to visit the organisation if that Rural Issue would suit you. Spring 2006 Please contact the Volunteer Centre to tell us about further volunteering opportunities in your local community group or organisation. We will help to publicise them, help you to find suitable volunteers and can discuss training and support needs. And finally, what else can YOU do? Here are some suggestions of volunteering organisations: • Guides, Scouts, Cubs, Brownies, Boys' Brigade, Beavers etc. •Your local youth club Welcome to the Spring edition of Voluntary Voice. This issue we are focusing • Agricultural show committee on rural volunteering. • Initiative at the Edge in Northmavine and the North Isles Sue Beer is the new Volunteering Coordinator based •Your local history group in the Volunteer Centre Shetland at Market House. • Shetland Conservation Volunteers She aims to develop volunteering in Shetland, both in • Shetland Organic Producers Group - Shetland Bere & Aets Living encouraging individuals to put themselves forward as Heritage Project volunteers and in encouraging organisations to take • Shetland Befriending Scheme on volunteers. Other staff are Laura Singer, the Youth •Your local sports club Development Worker, and a new Training and Support Coordinator who will be starting in post Just call the Volunteer Centre Tel: 01595 743900 shortly. Sue Beer Email: [email protected] This issue emphasises that you don't have to live in Lerwick in order to volunteer, and gives some ideas of opportunities that you might like to consider. But please contact us for further ideas, and if you live in Or come in and visit us & the country and it's not easy for you to come in, just phone us or e-mail us. we'll see what we can do to help! If you have a potential volunteering opportunity, or you would like to talk to us face-to-face about how you might volunteer, we can come to you. We gratefully acknowledge the Volunteer Centre Shetland funding given for this newsletter by:- Shetland Market House Council Market Street, Lerwick Of Main Reception: Social Tel: 01595 743900 Service Fax: 01595 696787 Designed by Pixel Perfection Email: [email protected] WRVS - Volunteering In Your Area RSPB With both their Good Neighbours Scheme (household tasks such as The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds has opportunities for gardening) and Accessible Transport scheme (giving a lift to the doctor, volunteers who would like to help as information assistants, showing dentist or to the shop) the WRVS match volunteers to clients who live as visitors the birds at Sumburgh Head and Mousa nature reserves. They are close to each other as possible. WRVS aims to be able to cover clients also looking for volunteers to help at occasional events such as reserve from all of Shetland, including the outer isles and rural areas, so rural open days and agricultural shows, and sometimes assisting with practical volunteers are particularly work such as dry-stone dyking. They also have scope for help on surveys welcomed. The telephone of sea mammals, birds and plants. Contact RSPB Scotland at their contact scheme is designed Sumburgh Head Office Tel: 01950 460800 Photos: Pete Ellis RSPB to promote social interaction even where people cannot actually meet. This means that wherever you live, you can volunteer with WRVS. WRVS Club Meeting Photo: Leona For all schemes, volunteers' out of pocket expenses, including mileage, will be met in full. Contact: Leona, WRVS Project Manager Tel: 01595 743915 [email protected] WRVS - Emergency Services Spring Cleaning the Countryside! WRVS can provide training in a local setting to prepare people for assisting We are coming up to the biggest regular volunteering activity that takes with emergencies. Trained volunteers are then available to offer practical place in Shetland - Da Voar Redd Up. Each year people from many help, on a very local basis, in the event of an emergency such as a flood, different community groups put on their rubber gloves and grab a bin bag landslide or fire etc., and offer a familiar face at a time of crisis. WRVS to help make our beaches and countryside look stunning for the summer needs volunteers in order to offer this service, and provides full training season. To find out what groups are involved in your local area contact and support. Contact: Pete Carson, WRVS Emergency Services Manager, Mick Clifton at Shetland Amenity Trust Tel: 01595 694688 North Scotland. Tel: 01540 651896 or 07714898538 or email [email protected] SHETLAND COUNCIL OF SOCIAL SERVICE AND MARKET HOUSE Are you a voluntary organisation or community group? Would you like to receive help, advice and information about:- • New sources of funding? •Training opportunities for groups and volunteers? • New charities legislation? • The social economy in Shetland? • Discount rates on Conference and Training Room hire? • Disclosures and Child Protection? • Use of the IT and Resource Room facilities? Then come and join Shetland Council of Social Service Contact either Kate Gallant on 743905 or Anne Robertson on 743902 or Email [email protected] for a membership application form.