Volunteer Telford

Our members are men and women of all ages who are keen to use their skills and resources to help other people.

Couples are welcomed and Rotary offers a great way to make new friends and enjoy social activities while helping others.

By joining us in Rotary you can help others in communities near and far. Wherever you live, we would be delighted to welcome you to the Rotary Club of Ironbridge.

Come along to one of our meetings at The Valley Hotel in Ironbridge to see what we do. We would be delighted to welcome you as our guest. At worst, you will meet some friendly people and enjoy a pleasant meal. More likely, it will be the first step towards an enjoyable and rewarding future as part of a great club and inspirational organisation.

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.

County Ambassador Volunteers.

County Ambassador will assist our Volunteering Coordinator by proactively looking for opportunities to promote the mission and expand awareness of our work. This can be through speaking engagements, which can be in Church groups, Rotary groups, WI, U3A, retirement and community groups or local shows and events.

We would also like you to support our other remote working volunteers, as it can be lonely working as a Tool Ambassador, Community Ambassador, or Champion with  little personal contact with TWAM.

This role can offer a vital and comforting link for everyone involved. This is a great role for someone with drive, initiative, and passion who wants to use those qualities to transform lives.

What are we looking for?

TWAM is looking for honesty, openness, and someone who will be a credit to a big-hearted compassionate charity. We expect you to be diligent in your role and share our passion for lives transformed through livelihood-creating tools.

Because many speaking engagements come from churches, it is an advantage to be a Christian and essential to be in sympathy with the values and motivation of the Christian community.

This is a great role for someone who likes to show initiative and who shares our passion for livelihood creation. It’s a great role for someone who likes meeting people and getting involved in their community. If this is you, we’d love to hear from you.

What will you be doing?

The County Ambassador will work with our Volunteering Coordinator to:

Support our team of local volunteers (the people who collect tools, speak on our behalf and represent us in churches and community groups)

Recruit new volunteers

Promote our work locally

Help organise and run local events

Identify potential collection points or opportunities to establish local groups

Represent TWAM where opportunities arise

Volunteer benefits

You will receive resources from us including:

Volunteer speaker pack (updated biannually)

A selection of leaflets

Details of all your local volunteers

Details of local supporting churches and groups

Expenses guidelines and reimbursement

The provision of equipment including projector and screen, pull up banners, business cards and ID Card

You will receive full support from our Volunteering Coordinator, Paul Daley.

Wrekin View Primary School in Wellington is already host to a hugely successful Community Fridge, which supports up to 30 families a week by providing food and living essentials. They have now announced they are expanding their efforts to help end holiday hunger in Shropshire by opening a Community Café in the school hall over half term. Read on to find out more!

During the lockdown, school caretaker Russell Garner established Wrekin View Community Fridge. The motto of the food centre is ‘take what you want, donate if you can’, an inclusive message inviting the whole community to engage. No referral or documentation is required to use the fridge/HLC Food hub, and many families in the local community have benefitted from the scheme. A year on and the community fridge is still going strong, now supporting up to 30 families a week.  

Russell has now decided to expand by creating Wrekin View Community Café which will open in the Wrekin View Primary School Hall during school holidays. The café will open In the summer holidays from Monday 26^th July for two weeks every day from 10am-2:30pm. A wide variety of free food and drink will be available, from breakfast items including toast, cereal and bacon or egg baps, to tea, coffee and cakes in the afternoon. There will also be a lunch menu that will change on a daily basis, with both meat and vegetable options. 

Whilst the aim of the café is to provide hot food and drinks to families struggling to eat over the holiday period, the facility is open to all. Everything on offer is free, however if patrons feel that they can donate there will be a donation box to do this. 

Russell is extremely excited to re-open the café and is looking forward to welcoming the local community: ‘It will be a lovely place to be where people can relax and have good hot healthy food.

They are looking for a Community Café Chef/Cook volunteer

The Community café Chef/Cook is to provide a happy environment for the local community to eat.

Tasks include:

The Community café Chef/Cook will be responsible for supporting the all café volunteers.

They will take a lead role in the running of the café

Providing support with a clear focus on connecting individuals with their community.

Advertising date and location for the cafe.

Build a reliable volunteer work force

Support individuals to build their confidence, self-esteem and extend their social skills.

Menu Making and buying of food/cooking

Making the school hall into a pop up café

Relaying all H&S information

Organize all café volunteers

Marketing

Time:

School holidays

The café is open 5 days a week (Mon – Fri)

Each shift is 6 hours, but will be flexible to your availability.

Training:

Induction and mandatory training will be provided

Location:

Wrekin View Primary School

North Rd,

Wellington,

Telford

TF1 3ES

Do you want to help Borough residents to start talking about Climate Change and Sustainability and to take action?

We are looking for volunteers to be Telford and Wrekin’s first Climate Change Champions, these individuals will be willing to help the Council in a variety of ways to help engage Borough residents on Climate Change and Sustainability within their own communities, schools and groups.

You don't need to be a Climate Change and Sustainability expert - we want to hear from residents from all walks of life who love talking to people.

We would ideally like our Champions to make changes to their own lifestyles to reduce their carbon footprint and plastic as part of the role and to share your experiences.

Purpose of the role:

Climate Change Champions will be individuals who seek to help lead sustainable change in their communities.

Climate Change Champions will be a vital part of our delivery of Climate Change and Sustainability engagement within the Borough.

What will you do?

Promote Climate Change & Sustainability

The core function of the role will be to promote Climate Change and Sustainability, by encouraging effective resource use and leading by example to help Borough residents do the same thorough;

- sharing information with members of your community on how they can get involved;

- promoting local/national Climate Change and Sustainability campaigns;

- helping the Council to promote Council Climate Change and Sustainability consultations/questionnaires/surveys to your communities.

Climate Change Champions Group

- You will be part of a group of like-minded individuals from across the Borough, where you will have the opportunity to collaborate on projects, such as participating in Action Days where you will work together on initiatives such as litter picks, Refill days.

Reporting progress

- We would love to know what you and/or your community/organisation/school are doing to support Climate Change and Sustainability action within Telford and Wrekin, as such we would like all Champions to keep us up to date with what is happening. This can be done by podcasts/writing blog posts/or articles for the Sustainable Telford and Wrekin website or sharing photos with our twitter page in line with the Councils social media guidelines.