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South Tyneside Volunteer Centre

Announcing the 2015 South Tyneside Volunteer Awards

South Tyneside CVS and South Tyneside Volunteer Centre are committed to building strong, active communities and at the heart of any such community lies voluntary activity. Volunteers give up their free time to support local charities/groups and many of these organisations would not be able to offer the same level and quality of support that they currently do without the hard work and effort of volunteers.

We are therefore pleased to announce the South Tyneside Volunteer Awards for 2015 which are open to anyone who volunteers within South Tyneside (including young people under the age of 18).

These awards are a fantastic opportunity to provide volunteers with the recognition they deserve and aim to:

  • Recognise the valuable work undertaken by volunteers in South Tyneside.
  • Thank volunteers for their contribution to the community
  • Raise the profile of volunteering
  • Increase awareness of the valuable work undertaken by volunteers

South Tyneside CVS would like to invite organisations to nominate individuals or groups who they think deserve recognition for their voluntary service.

There are four nomination categories for 2015:

  • Supporting the Community
  • Improving Health and Wellbeing
  • Supporting Young People, Children and Families
  • Volunteer of the Year

Nominees do not necessarily have to live within South Tyneside, but the activities for which they are nominated must take place in South Tyneside.
 
Nominations will be judged by a panel who will make the final decision on awards.
 
The closing date for nominations for inclusion in the South Tyneside Volunteer Awards 2015 is Monday 03rd August 2015. 
 
Successful nominees will receive a written invitation to attend the awards ceremony with an extended invitation for one guest.
 
For a nomination form or for more information please contact Ian Carr on 0191 456 9551 or email iancarr@stcvs.org.uk


 

Is your organisation looking for volunteers?
 
South Tyneside Volunteer Centre attracts hundreds of people who are interested in volunteering. We offer free, impartial and confidential advice and information to people seeking volunteering opportunities and help local organisations to recruit new volunteers. 

If you are looking for volunteers to support your organisation then we can help and support you with information, training, advice and best practice guidance.    

Our Services include:

  • Interviewing and referring prospective volunteers to your organisation.
  • Collecting and promoting volunteering opportunities.
  • Working with volunteer-involving agencies to develop new volunteering opportunities.
  • Providing training and support to volunteers and volunteer-involving organisations.
  • Promoting best practice in volunteer management.
By registering your organisation with South Tyneside Volunteer Centre you can advertise your volunteering opportunities free of charge:
  • On the South Tyneside CVS website.
  • On Facebook and Twitter.
  • In the Tyneside CVS and Volunteer Centre e-newsletters.
  • On the national volunteering database.
  • At local regional promotional events.

Registering also entitles your organisation to a range of additional benefits including:
  • Access to advice and information on volunteer-related issues.
  • Guidance and support on recruiting, retaining and managing volunteers.
  • Assistance with developing volunteer related policies and procedures.
  • Information on training, networking and promotional opportunities.
  • Regular updates on volunteer related issues.
South Tyneside Volunteer Centre strives to ensure that volunteers are not discriminated against and that they are fully supported though-out their volunteering activity.
 
Registration is free
  • To discuss your requirements further or to arrange a meeting in confidence please contact the Volunteer Centre on 0191 456 9551 or via iancarr@stcv.org.uk.

 

 

Latest Volunteering Opportunities


Community Homes - Supported Enterprise Volunteer

Community Homes is a forward looking organisation and our Supported Enterprise Programme provides young people with the opportunity to gain work experience with a twist in our retail store. Young people are referred to us via a number of agencies and we allow them (with supervision) to manage a section of our store. We are looking for volunteers who can support the young people taking part in this programme. The volunteers will offer the young people advice and support in a mentoring role and help them with any any difficulties that they may be experiencing in their role within the store.

Sports Recycle Ltd - Trasit Van / Minibus Driver

Sports Recycler Ltd is a not for profit social enterprise that sells a full range of recycled bike parts and offers a Saturday bike repair service for the public.
 About once a month, we need a volunteer to drive our transit van or our 16 seater mini bus (if the volunteer was also confident enough to tow a 12 bike trailer as well then that would be ideal). They would be driving to Sunderland, Gateshead and Newcastle in the van, but the mini bus could be further and could involve taking clients up to the Lake District.

Your Voice Counts - Drop-in Support

Your Voice Counts runs an established project in Gateshead and South Tyneside to partner volunteers with people with a learning disability to provide Citizen Advocacy. We also
 offer a drop-in service for adults with learning disabilities in Gateshead where they can receive advice/support with any difficult situations that they may be facing. Volunteers are needed to help support this service - tasks could include welcoming adults when they arrive, making them a cup of tea or coffee and talking to them about any concerns or questions that they may have (this can also lead to more in depth support eg. helping them to fill out forms or making telephone calls on their behalf).

Trinity House Social Centre - Administrative Support

Trinity House Social Centre is a busy community centre based at Laygate in South Shields. We are currently seeking dedicated, enthusiastic and committed volunteers to provide support to our administration services. This could include dealing with telephone/email enquiries, managing the diary system, taking room bookings, sorting through invoices and assisting with general office duties (such as photocopying and filing).

Host UK - Short Term Host (Cultural Exchange Days)

HOST offers international students studying at all levels in the UK a day or or a weekend to visit a British home. Volunteer hosts invite students to visit for a day so the student can experience real Britain, away from university and heavy tourism, and so the host can meet new people and learn about diverse cultures from around the world. Hosts can choose how often and how many they host and if they would like to meet someone from a specific country.

Community Homes - Shop Assistant

We are looking for volunteers who can help support our store within the Westoe area in South Shields. This will involve generally helping out on the shop floor and may involve helping
 customers with enquiries, putting stock out, keeping the shop floor tidy, serving customers on the till and handling cash payments.

South Tyneside Hospital Volunteer - Hospital Support Volunteer

South Tyneside Foundation Trust and South Tyneside CVS/Volunteer Centre are working in partnership to create new and exciting volunteering opportunities at South Tyneside District Hospital. We are looking for reliable, enthusiastic and dedicated volunteers to provide non-nursing, non-clinical care to patients in order to enhance their experience in hospital. There are a variety of tasks available including encouragement at mealtimes, assisting with the preparation of the bed area for patient arrival, providing companionship to patients, assisting with hobbies and interests, reading to patients and greeting patients and visitors.

Trinity House Social Centre - Housekeeping and Domestic Volunteer

We are seeking dedicated, enthusiastic and committed volunteers to provide housekeeping and domestic services throughout Trinity House Social Centre. Duties could include keeping the communal areas of Trinity House clean and tidy (including toilet, shower rooms and changing areas),
 managing/ordering cleaning products, vacuuming and occasionally assisting with laundry and ironing.

Maritime Volunteer Service - Volunteer Support

The Maritime Volunteer Service is a recognised national maritime training organisation that operates as a registered charity. Volunteers are required to help manage the service, to become instructors to pass on valuable maritime skills and knowledge and to encourage others to become involved. Duties could include seamanship (becoming a seamanship Volunteer Officer and skippering one of our vessels), assisting in the engineering department (helping to run, manage and maintain a vessel's engine room) and operational support (assisting in command and control, communications, fuelling, transport and much more).



 

For further information or to apply for any of these roles please contact the South Tyneside Volunteer Centre on 0191 456 9551 or via iancarr@stcvs.org.uk

Latest News and Events

The Great North Run – Volunteer with Save the Children! - September 13th 2015

The Cheering Team

We need enthusiastic volunteers to support our runners at the UK’s biggest half marathon. We have around 300 amazing participants running for us and it would be great to have a big team spurring them on, right amidst all the action on this iconic route!

We’ll provide you with a Save the Children T-shirt and all the cheering materials you could possibly need!

It really is a case of ‘the more the merrier’, so if you can rustle up a group of friends to join us, that would be even better!

Join us for a fun, exciting and rewarding day out.

Take a look at our Facebook group for pictures of our previous events: https://www.facebook.com/groups/TeamSavetheChildren

Masseurs

Our supporters will arrive at the post-run reception and will be greeted and offered a massage. We are looking for qualified massage therapists.

If you are interested, please let us know whether you will be able to bring your own massage couch or not. Please note you will need to have insurance and provide evidence of this.

This is a great opportunity for newly qualified masseurs to get some practice in and all volunteers will receive a Save the Children t-shirt as well as light refreshments and reasonable travel expenses.

To join either team, or ask any questions, contact c.constable@savethechildren.org.uk  or call 020 7012 6400

We can’t wait to hear from you!


Mental Health in the Workplace - Training for SMEs - delivered by MIND

This course is delivered by Tyneside and Northumberland Mind and proudly hosted by The HR Dept South Tyneside, Newcastle, Gateshead
 
Why Should You attend?

Poor mental health is the number one cause for absence from work. The following facts demonstrate that mental health is most definitely a workplace issue;

1 in 5 people take a day off work due to stress
1 in 10 people have resigned a job due to stress, 1 in 4 have thought about it.
19% of staff feel they can’t speak to managers about stress at work.
25% of people we surveyed considered resigning due to stress.
56% of employers said they would like to do more to improve staff wellbeing but don't feel they have the right training or guidance
 
This has an impact upon your productivity and costs you money.

Delivered by Tyneside and Northumberland Mind, the training is a cost effective way of working towards cultivating a positive and healthy workplace, by building confidence and skills in those managing staff with ill mental health at work.

The legal case to attend

Mental health issues are protected from discrimination under the Equality Act 2010.  Businesses therefore must make reasonable adjustments for their staff and the issue should be approached with great care and consideration by an employer, to protect and support the employee and to protect the business from an expensive employment tribunal. We will support you to do this.

We will help the business to reduce absenteeism and turnover resulting in increased productivity and profits.

Course Objectives

Attendees will be able to;
Recognise early signs of stress, anxiety and depression and how they can manifest at work.
 Offer a range of strategies for supporting an employee who is stressed or who has a mental health condition.
Understand the legislative and policy related requirements to manage mental health at work and be legally compliant

Who Should attend?

Specifically aimed at small businesses, this course is aimed at business owners, managers, supervisors, and anyone with responsibilities for people in the workplace.

All ticket sales go to Tyneside and Northumberland Mind. To apply for a place on the course please contact Tyneside and Northumberland Mind via the contact details below:


Tyneside and Northumberland Mind,
Wellbeing Centre,
Dunsmuir Grove,
Bensham,
Gateshead,
NE8 4QL

Telephone: 0191 4774545
Email: admin@tynesidemind.org.uk 
 

Walk Leader Training with Groundwork South Tyneside and Newcastle

When- 10th of August

Where- Marsden Road Health Centre

Time- 10-4pm
 
Groundwork is running a training day which is completely free of charge.
You could just be looking at getting back in to exercise, meeting new people or even interested in walking in the outdoors. Either way this training is a great opportunity and free to all. 

Please dress for outdoors.

Please contact: Sarah Atchison Tel: 0191 428 1144 or Email: Sarah.Atchison@groundwork.org.uk  


Tyne Gateway are delivering the 'Lads and Dads' Project


Tyne Gateway Trust is an award winning charity, working primarily in North and South Tyneside to support families through early intervention and the development of new enterprising community-led solutions.

We adopt a ‘Barefoot Professional’ approach meaning that we recruit, train and employ local parents who have experienced something and who, therefore, understand what it means to go through that experience.  Their knowledge enables them to then support other families and together they work in a unique way to find realistic and sustainable solutions.

We have secured Big Lottery funding to develop and deliver a ‘Lads and Dads’ project that will run for 3 years and will see us supporting young parents, particularly young fathers, in a range of skills including routines, play, bonding, keeping a family home and moving towards training and employment.  It will focus on supporting these parents in their relationships with the aim that children can benefit from joking parenting as they grow and develop. Working alongside the established and successful Tyne Gateway team, our new Community Entrepreneurs, working on this project, will aim to improve the lives of children through supporting dads.

We are currently seeking nominations from professionals for parents, especially dads, who may be eligible for one of four full time employments posts, or a number of volunteer roles, across the two boroughs. All nominees will need to meet the criteria of having themselves experienced difficulty and will have overcome that difficulty to become a good role model. They will need to commit to attending our bespoke eight week training course and, following that, will be invited to apply for posts as employees or volunteers.

We believe this project will make a huge difference to improved outcomes for children through whole family support and developing skills in fathers and we are hugely excited about it.

If you know of any young parents, particularly young fathers, who meet our criteria, and who may be interested in training with us, please complete the attached nomination form and return it to me as soon as possible. If you would like a discussion about the process or the criteria, or simply to discuss a specific nominee then please contact Team Leader, Julie Croft, on 07927 481 198 or via Julie@tynegatewaytrust.co.uk



World Mental Health Day “Question Time” Panel at South Shields Library

This is your chance to ask a panel of health professionals important questions about mental health and wellbeing.

When:   -   Friday 9th October 2015 at 9.30am

Where: -    South Shields Central Library (basement cinema)

Who will be on the panel?

Dr David Hambleton (Chair)
Chief Officer NHS South Tyneside Clinical commissioning Group

Dr James Gordon
(Mental Health Lead – South Tyneside Clinical Commissioning Group)
Clinical Director Mental Health and Learning Disability

Stephen Laverton
Development Manager and Principal Social Worker, Adult Social Care

Melanie Stephenson
Service Manager for Gateshead and South Tyneside, Alzheimer’s Society

John Lawlor
Chief Executive Officer of NTW

Rebecca Campbell
Service manager, children and Young People Community Services

Michelle Sandberg
Project Manager – Carers Services
 
If you need more information, please contact Carole Watson on 0191 340 4173.



Meeting Rooms Available for hire at South Tyneside CVS

Meeting room (able to seat 10 - 15 people) are currently available to hire at South Tyneside CVS - based at 27 Beach Road, South Shields, Tyne and Wear, NE33 2QA.
Prices start from £5 per hour and includes refreshments.

To make a booking or arrange a viewing please contact South Tyneside CVS reception on 0191 456 9551.

IMG_3845meeting room 1a

Room Hire Charges from 01/04/14  
Voluntary (non-funded) £5.00 per hour
Voluntary (funded) £7.50 per hour
Social Enterprise/CIC/CIO £10.00 per hour
Statutory/Agency £15.00 per hour
Private Companies £15.00 per hour
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