Ridgeline Trust helps people to learn new skills, regain lost skills and improve mental and physical health in their beautiful garden in East Reading.
They are currently seeking volunteers to join them as Horticultural Therapy support volunteers.
Tasks include: Help encourage clients to carry out gardening activities, Support individual clients or small groups to carry out gardening activities under the guidance of the Horticultural Therapists, develop and maintain a relationship of trust and mutual respect with the clients you support and more.
Reading Blind Aid Society was formed in 1883 and then changed to Reading Association for the Blind in 1926 and has supported the sight impaired people of Reading ever since.
They want volunteers to assist their members that experience varying degrees of Sight Loss at their Bowls Club.
It’s a social club where members and volunteers get a chance to play Bowls whilst having a bit of fun and companionship.
No prior experience of Bowls is necessary, and training is provided.
Reading Refugee Support Group has been helping Refugees and Asylum Seekers in Berkshire for 25 years and are committed to reducing poverty, suffering and social isolation of people who have already faced unimaginable persecution and hardship.
Right now they are looking for Interpreter Volunteers to help create a vital link between the service they wish to deliver for their clients.
As obviously their clients would have arrived in a new country with English more than likely not being their first language.
Please get in touch with the Reading Refugee Support Group if you could fit the role of an interpreter in the following languages: Pashto, Farsi, Kurdish Sorani, Arabic (any dialect of Arabic), Kurdish Kurmanji, Tigrinya or Dari.
Take a look at our brand new Reading Volunteer Connect platform for details of these and many more opportunities to volunteer via our website, www.rgneeds.me. Want to get in touch? Drop us an email at volunteering@rva.org.uk or call 0118 937 2273.
