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.
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.
Right now they want someone to help them examine and organise photos and documents relating to their history. This role could also include talking to former Members about their memories with RAB.
This Social History Project is a flexible volunteer role, anybody interested could plan their own time around this project.
Enrych Berkshire is a Registered Charity that provides support to people with a disability, helping them get access to leisure, social and learning activities.
Enrych are currently looking for a female volunteer to accompany a female member to her swimming sessions. The swimming sessions happen early afternoon on Wednesdays.
You are not required to get into the pool yourself. You are welcome to do so at the same time. The member does not require assistance when in the water, however they would like help carrying their bags and to have somebody to push their wheelchair poolside and into the changing rooms.
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.
