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Volunteering Opportunies for FYS 3150: London Calling Spring 2015

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FYS 3150 London Calling

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Volunteering Opportunities for FYS 3150: London Calling

Spring 2015

TEAM LONDON

http://volunteerteam.london.gov.uk - Sign up now to discover a variety

of opportunities all over London You can search opportunities by interest(s), skill(s), or location Keep up to date with new opportunities by following Team London on

Facebook or Twitter Check out their volunteer blogs - http://volunteerteam.london.gov.uk/

press/?presscategory_content_id=17976 The new Speed Volunteering site is now live! Find out more and search

opportunities at - https://speedvolunteer.london.gov.uk/

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Do something good today

https://do-it.org/ - Sign up, fill out a volunteer profile, and explore the various volunteering opportunities available

You can search opportunities by interest(s), skill(s), or

location. There is even the opportunity to set up your own volunteer project.

Stay in touch for new opportunities via Facebook or Twitter

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• http://www.volunteeringrichmond.org.uk/ - Sign up on the website now for a range of opportunities in the Borough of Richmond

• Or contact Annette, our Volunteer Brokerage Officer, or another member of the team at: 0300 365 9940 and [email protected]

• Opening hours are: 10am – 4pm, Monday – Friday (excluding public holidays)

Image Credit: Volunteering Richmond, http://www.volunteeringrichmond.org.uk

• Various roles for volunteers helping children and young people with learning activities.

• http://scouts.org.uk/home/ - see what is available

• Contact Louise Preedy - 07793073946 or [email protected]

Be part of The Scouts!

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Based in Twickenham

Help one afternoon per week/fortnight/month

Help children who don’t have other opportunities

Contact Lizzie Long Help children to be creative!

Great opportunity for: Art, Design, & Media; Psychology majors

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Help disabled children

A range of evening, weekend, and school half term activities

Takes place at Clarendon School in Hampton

Contact Lizzie Long

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Chinese New Year 2015 Celebrations

China comes to London in a breathtaking blaze of colour on Sunday 22 February 2015!

Lots of Chinese New Year volunteer roles at the London Chinatown celebrations, including PR, stewards, & photography

Contact info - http://volunteerteam.london.gov.uk/

opportunities/3170 or http://www.lccauk.com/

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London St. Patrick’s Day Parade &

Festival

Now in its 14th year, this colouful event celebrates London’s Irish communities.

The parade will be on Sunday 15 March 2015, among other events

showcasing music, song, dance, film, comedy, food, and fashion. Volunteers are needed to help form the parade and “Wheelwalk”

alongside the parade vehicles to maintain the safety of the public. Contact info - http://volunteerteam.london.gov.uk/

opportunities/3286

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“Lenten lunches” at a local church

Give up a couple of hours once a week on a Thursday between 12 and 2pm to help with preparing and serving simple lunch for local people during February and March.

All money raised goes to a local charity.

Takes place in St. Elizabeth’s church hall - 10 minute walk from campus

Contact Lizzie Long

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Richmond History Project

• Engage with older people

• Visit them in local care homes

• Combat loneliness

• Write up their memories

• Be published!

• Contact [email protected] and Lizzie Long

Great opportunity for: Communications, International Journalism, History, International Relations & Political Science majors

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Richmond Foodbank at the half marathon

Help local families in need

Sunday 22nd March – half marathon in Richmond Collect and sort food donations for needy families Act as a marshal for the half marathon Contact Margo on [email protected] Request a Foodbank newsletter from Lizzie Long

Image Credit: Richmond Foodbank

Great Opportunity for anyone who lives in North London!

Many ways of volunteering with children and young people, e.g.: study mentoring, football coaching, and many more

More information on: http://www.fya.org.uk Apply through the website

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NASS: National Ankylosing Spondylitis Society

Join us to raise money and awareness of Ankylosing Spondylitis NASS will be holding its first bucket collections at train stations

in 2015 We are looking for friendly, enthusiastic volunteers to spare a

few hours of their time to help make the most of this fantastic opportunity to raise both money and much-needed awareness of AS.

Apply here: http://nass.co.uk/NASS/en/news/nass-bucket-

collections--coming-in-2015/ The collections we have confirmed so far are:

Thursday 5 February - London Waterloo

Thursday 5 February - London Cannon Street

Friday 6 February - London Bridge

Thursday 12 February - London Paddington

Thursday 12 February - London Charing Cross

Wednesday 25 February - London Euston

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Nepal Leprosy Trust

Office here in Richmond

Provides healthcare to all kinds of children, including those with leprosy, in the remotest parts of Nepal.

• Help with selling Nepalese goods to raise money

• Help with marketing

• Contact Lizzie Long

Stroke Association: Volunteers required for the following events

Sunday 1 March: Resolution Run - Hyde Park

Roles available: marshalling, baggage, handing out water/ medals

Sunday 15 March:

North London Run

Roles available: cheer point

Saturday 28 and Sunday 29 March:

Oval Zipslide - Oval Cricket Ground

Roles available: chaperoning participants to start area, handing out medals

Sunday 26 April:

London Marathon - various locations in London

Roles available: cheer point, helping at the after party

Complete application form (available from Lizzie Long) and email to Charlotte Whalich at [email protected]

http://www.stroke.org.uk/

Image Credit: Stroke Association, http://www.stroke.org.uk

Image Credit: Nepal Leprosy Trust, http://www.nlt.org.uk/

Housing and support for people with sight loss

Help unsighted people Get specialist training Take unsighted people out on visits Contact Lizzie Long

Great opportunity for: Psychology majors

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INS - Integrated Neurological Services

Rehabilitation & Support for Neurological Conditions

Integrated Neurological Services (INS) is a registered charity providing long-term support for people with neurological conditions and their carers. We support people living in the London Boroughs of Hounslow and Richmond.

Volunteer opportunities providing support for patients. Full

training is provided. Preferably a 6 month commitment Find out more at: http://www.ins.org.uk/

Great opportunity for: Psychology majors

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Richmond Gateway Club

We provide a weekly leisure and social club for people with a learning disability, aged over 18, who are resident in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames. We are a registered charity and affiliated to Royal MENCAP Society.

The Members’ Committee decide the activity programme and

implement it with the help of the Joint Club Leaders and a small band of volunteers, all of whom are CRB checked.

We meet Tuesday evenings 7 – 9pm at Linden Hall, Linden Road, Hampton TW12 2JG

In addition to club nights, there are outings and events during the

year, which are always popular. More information: http://richmondgatewayclub.org/Home.php Apply on: http://www.volunteeringrichmond.org.uknews/259#.VOs8pNKhTmh

What do we do?

When and where do we meet?

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Volunteer in a Local Charity Shop

• Help out in the shop by sorting donations or assisting customers

• Charity shops help sustain numerous programmes such as: helping disadvantaged children, research into cures for illnesses, providing relief aid for countries undergoing political or environmental crises.

• Contact Anastasia Fjodorova or Rebecca Atkinson

Contacts for local shops in Richmond: FARA: 020 8892 9923 Oxfam: http://www.oxfam.org.uk/get -involved/volunteer-with-us or 0208 9487381 Cancer Research UK: 0208 940 4581 Octavia Foundation: http://www.octaviafoundation.org.uk/volunteer or 020 8891 6819 Marie Curie Cancer Care: http://www.mariecurie.org.uk/en-GB/fundraising-volunteering/Donate-your-skills/ or 020 8940 1800 Princess Alice Hospice: http://www.pah.org.uk/volunteer/thinking-volunteering/ or 020 8891 5476

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Encourage re-use and re-cycling

• Raise awareness amongst students about all of the unwanted clothes, shoes, and room furnishings that are left behind each semester

• Arrange for a new purpose for all of these unwanted goods by setting up end of semester collections to be donated to local charity shops to help them raise money.

• Contact Paul Trivett (Accommodation Manager) on Richmond

Campus - [email protected] or 020 8332 8368

Volunteer here on campus and work with a local charity shop.

Parkrun: a free 5k run which takes place at 9:00 every Saturday in various locations

Choose your park and sign up to Run or to Volunteer or Both. You’ll be helping a great local community project - http://www.parkrun.org.uk/

Richmond Park Bushy Park Many other parks around London

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Get involved in Sports & Fundraising Activities that help children in Africa & Locally

• Focuses on improving the lives of underprivileged and impoverished communities both in Africa and the UK, through sports development, health, wellbeing and education

• For more info and to sign up - http://

www.mofarahfoundation.org.uk/volunteer/

GoodGym helps you get fit by doing good

GET FIT GoodGym increases your motivation, gives you expert fitness advice and helps you achieve whatever goals you have your eye on DO GOOD It’s easy - just turn up at a group run, get sent on missions or make a commitment to drop in on an isolated older person CONNECT Meet new people in your area, connect with exciting local projects and explore hidden spaces after dark Good for runners who spend time in North or East London http://www.goodgym.org/

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Wandle Trust – river clean-up

• Help clean the river OR bake cakes for everyone who does!

This work is done with the Wandle Trust charity: http://www.wandletrust.org/ • You can put the waders on and get in the river, or do

bank work (litter picking, wheelbarrow work, etc.)

• Cleaning events are the second Sunday of every month and are from 11am to 3pm.

• Contact Wayne Clark or Officers of The Green Project:

Victoria Marques-Pinto and Aimee Jane Parr

Help out with fundraising events and community outreach projects

Contact details: 020 7036 9764 or [email protected]

or [email protected]

Get Involved in an Organisation that Tackles Homelessness

Two events are coming up in March that will need volunteers

Image Credit: SPEAR, http://www.spearlondon.org/

Wednesday, 18th March - SWT Collection Day

Sunday, 22nd March - Richmond 10K and Half Marathon

Volunteer collectors needed between 7-11am and 3-7pm in Twickenham and Teddington.

Volunteers are needed to be cheerers (who can join at various points along the route, so you don’t need to come to the start), marshalls, and there are still a coup of (free) running spaces left.

Great opportunity for: Communications & Business Administration majors

There will be fun events in these local parks overlooking the Thames, to give the public the opportunity to view and enjoy the annual Oxford and Cambridge Boat Race.

The Oxford and Cambridge Boat Race

The volunteer’s role will include: Supplying information and directing members of the public Collecting feedback from people attending the event Informing Event Managers of any issues/problems

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If you have some spare time on the day and would like to get involved, then please Contact 020 8741 9876 for more information.

Bishops Park Fulham and Furnival Gardens Hammersmith

11 April 2015

Animal carers and walkers for the Cinnamon Trust

To provide assistance to elderly owners who need help with the day-to-day care of their pets.

During the registration process volunteers can specify how far they are able to travel and how many hours per week they can offer. Once they are registered with the Trust, we'll aim to get them partnered up with a project that fits their criteria.

Any donation of time, regardless of length or regularity, is

gratefully welcomed. Sign up through: https://vinspired.com/opportunities/156/

events/267-animal-carers

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Volunteer at Kingston Hospital

Helping patients in hospital in all sorts of ways:

Elderly people Children Shop Café To apply: email [email protected] , call

0208 934 3620, or apply online kingston.volunteercommunity.uk

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Provides services that respond to the needs of carers and the people they support

Several ways to get involved!

Join our marketing and fundraising committee. Help to shape the future of a crucial local charity and learn new

skills at the same time. Initial contact Lizzie Long

Become a digital buddy to a carer Drop-in sessions for carers Last Friday of the month, between 11am—3pm Help the carers to use tablets—easier for older people Takes place in Teddington—20 minutes on the bus from

Richmond Contact Janet Fevrier 020 8943 9421 or

[email protected]

Great opportunity for: Communications majors

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