Volunteer Telford

Telford After Care Team CIO and Branches TACT are a dedicated support charity helping the people of Telford and Wrekin who are struggling with mental health and/or addiction issues.  We run a drop in facility for anyone who needs help between the hours of 9.00am to 5.00pm Monday to Friday. 

We have a timetable of free events and peer support activities, free on site listening support, a supported housing facility, outreach and a crisis night service (professional referral-into).

Our volunteers receive free accredited training, full expenses, and a dbs check.

Our staff all have lived experience of mental health/addiction/the justice system/social services etc.  It’s our company pledge that we help people to realise their potential and help others in a safe, encouraging environment.  Strickland House is a friendly, lively and non-judgmental place.

We offer volunteering opportunities in Support Work, Reception Desk, Café, Gardening, Facilitating groups, Administration, Creative Writing, Singing and much more.

The Friends of group are all about promoting, conserving and protecting Rough Park as a Local Nature Reserve.Rough Park is a wildlife corridor linking Madeley Court pitmound with the Ironbridge  Gorge wildlife area's running adjacent to Woodside. We are looking for enthusiastic volunteers to help to get involved with  casual ongoing monitoring of the site and reporting of any problems to appropriate sources along with some basic practical hands on work where needed such as litter picking/scrub clearance & pathway encroachment plus much more.

Street Champions are volunteers who play an active role in their community.

They are the people who care about their local area, look out for their neighbours and want a clean, safe place to live.

If you are one of these highly valued individuals, the Council will help you to make your community spirit go even further.

There are a range of things you can choose to do as a Street Champion.

The roles are broken down into three key areas:

- Doing

- Reporting

- Monitoring

By becoming a Street Champion you will be encouraged and supported to organise community events that improve your neighbourhood and local environment such as litter picks and improvements to untidy pieces of land.

Read Easy Telford and Shropshire East is affiliated to Read Easy UK, a national charity that helps adults learn to read and which has nearly 60 groups across England.

Read Easy Telford & Wrekin was established in 2019 and continues to grow to be a highly impactful local group with an increasing number of Reading Pairs (Reading Coach and Reader).

It is run by a hard-working, dedicated group of team members, all of whom are also volunteers.
The group is now seeking a new Publicity Organiser.

Spreading the word is key to your local community understanding what your Read Easy group does and how people can get the reading support they need or volunteer to help.

You will be creative, determined and passionate about communications, and bringing people together. You’ll be confident using local media, social media, and creating leaflets, posters and other resources provided by Read Easy UK to help get the message out there into your community about the life-changing journey of learning to read.

Once the local community and media hear about the thousands of adults who can’t read in the area, it will be your responsibility to make sure that your local Read Easy group is able to capitalise on this attention!