Volunteer Telford

Passionate about health and wellbeing? Want to help support your family, friends and local community to lead healthier lifestyles?

Health Champions are volunteers living in Telford and Wrekin who care about the health and wellbeing of those around them. They bring a mixture of their own life experiences, skills and training to make positive changes within their communities and help others to enjoy healthier lives by:

- raising awareness of healthy choices

- sharing important health-related messages

- helping to address barriers to accessing health services

- creating supportive networks

Supporting the community as a Health Champion can include a mixture of exciting roles and activities. You could incorporate the role into your day-to-day life through engaging in discussions and signposting around healthy lifestyles with others in your network like friends and family. You could also focus on topics that interest you such as healthy eating, mental health or sharing health condition information.

As well as raising awareness, there are opportunities for you to become more active in your community such as promoting public health messages at local community events or supporting local services with health and well-being related schemes.

Telford Health Champions are currently supporting Telford & Wrekin's new Blood Pressure Project- find out more below!

What is the time commitment?

Time commitment is flexible.

It is possible to fit the role into your existing day to day life and there are also opportunities to support others outside of your networks on both a regular and flexible basis. 

If you would like to get involved in events and projects, you can choose where and when you would like to help out.

What will I get out of being a Health Champion?

Benefits to you include access to training, improving your own emotional and physical health, being involved in your local community, making new friends and gaining new skills.

Telford Sailability provides sailing for anyone with care needs.

We sail on Mondays and Fridays

Our volunteers help out when they can, either part or all of the day. Normally posts go out a few days earlier on either our messenger page or by text, start and finish times. Our volunteers then say if they can help.

You don’t need to know how to sail as we can teach you. You don’t even need to go on the water if you don’t want to. If you don’t want to, or cannot come to the lake there are other tasks that need doing.

We are a volunteer Theatre Group who have been running for two years. we are based at Arleston Community Centre. We aim to give Youth the opportunity to experience drama.

We meet on a Tuesday evenings and aim to give experience of drama that is both enjoyable and relaxing for 8-18 year olds. We endeavour to perform two plays a year for both the younger and older Youth group.

We are looking for people who are energetic and fun loving who can help with sessions, work as a team and respect everyone’s strengths and weaknesses.
These placements are hard work but rewarding and we need dedicated people who take their roles seriously. We have all procedures and processes in place and work to strict Child Protection Policies.

An opportunity has arisen for a Youth Theatre Leader / Assistant  to work  with Watch this Space Youth Theatre . The position is to work with Youth of ages ranging from 8-18 who would like to experience drama. 

We are a Christian charity that collects unwanted usable tools, refurbishes them, sorts them into trade tool kits and sends them to the developing world for livelihood creation.

A TWAM Local Group is a team of people who share our passion for livelihood creating tools and get together to collect tools from their area. Many also arrange tool collections at local supermarkets, DIY stores and garden centres.

Many also offer talks to local community groups and even speak on local radio. Some groups sort the tools before arranging collection and some even do some refurbishment, such as grinding off rust and fixing loose handles.

To start you need somewhere to store tools, such as a vacant garage or big shed and the enthusiasm to gather together likeminded friends. Our local groups have a great community spirit and are a huge support for TWAM.

What will you be doing?

There are so many possibilities, but the main tasks usually undertaken are:

You will be collect tool from requests made by the general public through the TWAM website.

You will promote TWAM locally to generate your own tool donation requests.

You will store the tools until and arrange collection by a TWAM van.

You will sort the tools so all broken and unsuitable tools are removed before the van collects.

You will do basic tool refurbishment as facilities and skills allow.

You will visit shows, farmers markets, local events etc. to promote TWAM and tool donations.

You will offer talks and demonstrations to churches and other local groups to encourage their support.

You will work with your local Tool Ambassadors, Community Ambassadors and Community Champions to have a real impact on your community.

What are we offering?

TWAM will provide training and advice. We will all put you in touch with another local group who will offer advice and support. You will offer support to other potential groups who need advice on how to set up and run a group.

You may not do all of these things, but they are examples of what Local Groups do for TWAM.

We will invite you to visit your nearest Refurbishment Centre and invite you to Volunteer Days and Open Days.

We will include you in the Local Group Network which will offer support and resources to all groups and help them stay in touch with each other.

We will provide you with leaflets, pull up banners, and promotional materials. We will also provide a leaflet just about your local group for you to distribute.

We will provide materials for talks and, if needed, a projector and screen.

You will have the support of the Volunteering Coordinator, Fundraising and Communications Officer, and Press Officer.

You will be offered your own promotional page on the main TWAM website.

TWAM will help with expenses, such as when needing to purchase grinding wheels for refurbishment, basic tools for refurbishment, and expenses if attending exhibitions. However, we permit local groups to sell unwanted tools to help cover their own costs and most try to be self- financing.

We will provide you with TWAM branded polo shirts and fleeces.

Finally, it is an amazing opportunity to build friendships, impact your community, and transform lives.

What a difference you will make?

This is an incredibly rewarding role as you are directly helping people living in ultra- poverty gain the tools that will change their lives.

There are not too many volunteer opportunities where the role you do, will make a direct difference to people thousands of miles away. However, the tools the local group collects will be in the hands of a trained tailor or craftsmen in Africa potentially within months.

It is quite normal for people to recognize tools they have collected (usually large and unusual ones) being used in Africa in photos in our magazine. That’s the genuine difference you will make.