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101 Ways to Help
Just some of the ways you can volunteer in
Camden
BEFRIENDING/ HELPLINE
You may be supporting/advising children, young people
or adults in either an ongoing relationship or at the end of a telephone
line.
CHARITY SHOPS
Volunteers help with sorting clothes and other donated
goods. Also helping customers and handling money.
CHILDREN/YOUNG PEOPLE
Help in playgroups, community play-projects, youth
clubs and schools. Also supporting disabled children, mentoring,
befriending, and supervising activities.
COMMITTEE MEMBERS
Voluntary groups are run by a Management Committee who
need general members and people with specific skills-financial/ legal/
personnel/ marketing.
CRIMINAL JUSTICE
You can support witnesses and victims of crime, or
assist vulnerable people who have no one to speak for them.
You can visit or write to prisoners, or give support to the families of
people in prison.
DISABLED PEOPLE
Includes practical help, advice and campaign work.
You can also visit and chat to people in their own homes, at clubs or day
centres.
ENVIRONMENTAL WORK
Can be London-based or weekends away. Work includes
campaigning, improving wild life habitats; making footpaths, stiles and
gates; clearing derelict land and planting trees.
ETHNIC GROUPS
Help in community groups, giving advice and
information, teaching English as a 2nd language or office work. Some groups
require volunteers from specific ethnic backgrounds and with particular
language skills.
FAMILIES
Play work, support work, practical help and
befriending with all kinds of families e.g. single parents.
FUND RAISING
Many groups in Camden are looking for volunteers to
help with flag days, events, in charity shops and with fundraising of all
kinds.
GAY AND LESBIAN GROUPS
Volunteers are needed for befriending, counselling and
support work. Volunteers may have to identify as
lesbian/gay/bisexual.
"GOOD NEIGHBOURS"
Friendly visits to older people and disabled people;
give practical help with shopping, decorating, gardening, driving
etc
HOMELESS
Assist in day centres, night shelters or soup
kitchens; give practical help/support.
HOSPITALS
Includes chatting to patients and helping with trolley
shops, mobile libraries, manicures, beauty care and tea bars.
MENTAL HEALTH
Volunteers help people who are experiencing mental
health difficulties. You can help with activities in residential/day
centres, chat and listen, or help in practical ways.
OFFICE WORK
Help with administration, word processing and other
computer work, telephone, reception, and bookkeeping. Do research; help in
libraries, or with publicity.
OLDER PEOPLE
People living in their own or residential homes, at
Day Centres or hospital patients welcome volunteers to chat with and help
with small practical tasks. You can also help with advice, information and
campaign work.
PEOPLE WITH DRUG AND/OR ALCOHOL PROBLEMS
You can give support/advice and information on drug
and alcohol problems either in a centre or on a telephone help
line.
PEOPLE WITH LEARNING DIFFICULTIES
You can help with campaign work, support work, leisure
activities. Help in clubs and classes. Accompany people on holidays.
Assist people to live independently.
PRACTICAL HELP
E.g., gardening, driving, shopping, DIY, helping a
wheel chair user.
READING HELP
Volunteers are needed to work with children, teenagers
and adults who have problems with reading and writing.
WOMENS GROUPS
Require women volunteers to provide support, practical
help and office work.
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