Volunteer Telford

Are you interested in the development of Adult Social Care in Telford and Wrekin?

We are looking for volunteers to join our Making It Real Board, which gives local people a really important opportunity to have their say about social care services locally and to influence the way these services are developed.

Members of the board meet once a month for a couple of hours to have discussions and share their knowledge about adult social care, including the opportunity to:

- Provide feedback to decision makers

- Bring and share powerful stories and experiences

- Network in a positive way with other people who have an interest in social care

- Inform policies and influence local services

- Test the accuracy and readability of public documents before they are published

We're looking for an enthusiastic and proactive person to help promote our work and encourage new volunteers.

We are always involved with very positive projects and events and we want to spread this message with the wider community of Telford and we’re looking for the right person to help us do this.

You will be involved in generating press releases and advertisements of our work and lead the communication with newspapers, radio, local magazines and work with our Web Manager to promote things on social media and our website.

Moonstruck Astronaut is a not-for-profit community theatre company based in Newport, Shropshire.  Our mission is to bring the local community of Newport, Shropshire together through theatre projects and foster friendship, self-expression, belonging and confidence, first with our primary-school age children, then extending to young people and adults in time.

We have started running a Youth Theatre in Newport and continue to run outdoor Drama in the Forest workshops. 

We are seeking volunteers to join our passionate team and help Moonstruck Astronaut community Theatre Company succeed in filling the gap in supporting local children’s creative development.

Volunteers have to be 16 years or over. There is no upper age limit.

Role description

We are looking for a volunteer Fundraising and Grants Application Manager, to help us improve our grant making and fundraising processes and achieve more successful grant applications.

Main Duties:

- Create/manage a database of funders

- Manage subscriptions to funders (this could be subscribing to newsletters)

- Research potential grant funding and fundraising opportunities

- Support with writing applications and securing evidence (for example collecting testimonials/case studies)

- Create/manage a database of applications and outcomes

- Help monitor and evaluate our impact.

- Help Artistic Director meet grant funding deadlines and organize her time.

UMT TRUSTEE - Each Sea Cadet unit is an independent charity in its own right which must fundraise for its running costs while the parent charity of MSSC (Marine Society & Sea Cadets) funds the charitable infrastructure and provides national facilities. Our biggest supporter is the Royal Navy whose customs and traditions are at the heart of what we do.

Sea Cadet units are managed and run by committed volunteers. The unit management team (UMT) are volunteers and act as the unit’s trustees, headed up by unit chairperson, vice chairperson, secretary and treasurer. The UMT is responsible for the running of the unit at a strategic and management level.

Each Sea Cadet unit must comply with all policies and procedures issued for the governance of Sea Cadets by, or on behalf of, the MSSC Council and the Ministry of Defence (MOD). The MOD underwrites the Sea Cadet training liabilit.