* Meet new people * Add to your CV
* Gain hands-on experience * Develop new skills * Get out of the house * Increase your self-confidence * Have fun!
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The Volunteer Centre in Three Rivers can help you open new doors to volunteering whether you are retired, working, unemployed, with disabilities, a student, or a parent.
We provide a quality and professional service to both individual volunteers and the member organisations to which we match volunteers.
"My volunteering at the WRAP project is fantastic...I am getting a lot out of it, thank you!!!" Clare H. |
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Thinking of Volunteering?
Volunteers come from all walks of life and all ages.
They can all help in many ways and the variety and quality of volunteering opportunities is improving all the time.
The Volunteer Centre in Three Rivers is committed to providing a quality and comprehensive service to volunteers in the district.
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Finding out more couldn't be easier.
Just make an appointment to see the Volunteer Centre manager who will take you through your options and help to find you the right volunteering opportunity for you.
Alternatively visit the www.do-it.org.uk website which has details of what is available nationally. Just type in your postcode for a list.
We are now also able to offer information, advice and guidance interviews giving volunteers a chance to consider their career options. To find out more click here. |
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Pictured above: Staff from GE Money Home Lending downed keyboards and phones and picked up spades, brushes and shears for a fantastically productive day at Chiltern Open Air Museum in summer 2008. Our employee volunteering days are proving to be a huge success.
Pictured left: Our unique, new set of posters were launched in May 2006. Designed to be eye-catching they were created with the help of designer Peter Tish (back, right) and volunteers Janet Wheeler and Callum Judge (front) and photographer John Freebery. For more information |
If you would like to do voluntary work but are unsure you can cope - for whatever reason - then we can help you with our supported volunteering project, Threshold.
Volunteering can open up many new doors for you....
but don't just take our word for it.....
"Volunteering has been useful to me in my work.The staff are excellent and compasssionate and I am putting my academic and social experience to good use," Leonard, 49 at Guidepost. "The time volunteers give to victims of crime is invaluable. They support people at a time when they are really at a low ebb and need that extra support," Maria of Victim Support.
Need volunteers?
The Volunteer Centre will try and find your organisation the right volunteer for you.
We are also committed to helping to enhance the quality of volunteering opportunities offered by providing advice, ideas and training. To find out more about the benefits the Volunteer Centre can offer to organisations, including the public and private sectors. - Click here.
For more details contact the Volunteer Centre on
01923 711174 or by e-mail on vc.trcvs@speedinternet.co.uk