Volunteer With Us
Do you want to volunteer your time as a mentor, to help someone achieve a goal?
People may want a bit of support from you to start attending something new, build their confidence, find out information, fill in a form or even write a letter.
Do you want to help Inclusion Gloucestershire do some of their work?
We are often looking for people with important life skills who can support us in different project related roles.
We pride ourselves in supporting volunteers well and will help you to achieve your personal goals or signpost you elsewhere if we can’t.
Current volunteer oportunities
Thank you for your interest, our current volunteering opportunities will be listed below as and when they arise.
If you do not see any roles listed, it may mean that we don’t have any opportunities to offer at the moment. If you would still like to submit a prospective application to volunteer with us in the future, we are happy to keep this on file (with your permission) and contact you if a potentially suitable opportunity becomes available.
Please let us know if you would not like us to save your application for this purpose.
MHELO Steering Group Volunteer
As a MHELO Steering Group member, you will join others to share your views with services like the NHS. Together, we work to improve mental health support. As well as attending the Steering Group, we are looking for people to support with research, attending events and providing feedback from these to other Steering Group members.
Steering Group members will help to create the MHELO project plan by sharing ideas. Members will also help with the planning and actions required to meet an agreed project plan. Steering Group members will use their own lived experience, knowledge, and skills to do this.
Do you simply want to find out more about the role?
Please download the role description or to find out more contact Kate Keating on 07542 610256 or email: katek@inclusion-glos.org
Click here to download our application form.
Please send your completed application form to volunteering@inclusion-glos.org
Please include your permission to hold your application on file for future opportunities (if you are happy for us to do so).
Advocacy Volunteer – Peer Mentor
Peer mentors support people to build or regain their confidence and independence. We are looking for volunteers with lived experience of disability to help us delivering advocacy and mentoring to disabled people in Gloucestershire.
We are looking for people to support us with:
- 1:1 peer mentoring: working with people to identify what support they would like and working with them to help improve their quality of life
- Befriending: including supporting people to attend Inclusion hubs and other local activities and events
- Group advocacy (speak up groups): Supporting people to have their say in a group environment on topics that are important to them
- Supporting people with completing forms: to access support to improve their quality of life.
- Attending meetings and events: to help us to share information about our peer mentoring.
Do you simply want to find out more about the role?
Please download the role description or to find out more contact Faye Longley, Advocacy Co-ordinator: 07525 848514 or email fayel@inclusion-glos.org
Click here to download our application form.
Please send your completed application form to volunteering@inclusion-glos.org
Please include your permission to hold your application on file for future opportunities (if you are happy for us to do so).
Volunteer – Volunteer Trustee
Summary of the Role:
Inclusion Gloucestershire is a vibrant, successful Disabled People’s Organisation and registered charity (charity number 1171559). We are looking for people to join our board of trustees to help to lead the charity’s direction and play a key role in strategic decisions. Trustees need to attend board meetings every other month and be involved in communication with the board and CEO throughout the year.
Job Purpose
To work with the other trustees providing valuable insight regarding the charity’s key decisions to ensure the charity:
- Does great work for people who face disabling barriers
- Is well governed (run) in line with its governing document and the law
- Manages resources (like money and people) responsibly
- Is meeting the requirements of the law with its accounting and reporting
As a Disabled People’s Organisation, we are run by disabled people for disabled people. At least 75% of the Board must have lived experience so we especially welcome interest from disabled people, and other people who may be under represented at a Board level.
Reports to: Chair of the Board
Hours
Commitment: 3-4 hours per month in meetings, calls, discussions and board meeting preparation.
Locations: Railway House, Bruton Way, Gloucester, GL1 1DG and remote.
For more information including the full Advert, job description and application form please click here: Volunteer Trustee – Inclusion Gloucestershire
Volunteer – Volunteer Treasurer Trustee
Summary of the Role:
Inclusion Gloucestershire is a vibrant, successful Disabled People’s Organisation and registered charity (charity number 1171559). We are looking for a Treasurer to join our Board of Trustees who help to lead the charity’s direction and play a key role in strategic decisions.
At Inclusion Gloucestershire we have a Finance Director who is employed to do the day-to-day work of managing our money, producing reports and making sure that policies are followed. The Treasurer’s role is to provide oversight and support to make sure that this is done well and that the Board understands and approves or challenges the way that Inclusion Gloucestershire’s money is managed and spent.
Job Purpose
To work with the other trustees providing valuable insight regarding the charity’s key decisions. Lead on financial governance at a Board level:
- Ensuring Inclusion Gloucestershire keeps proper and accurate financial records and sharing this information with the Board
- Presenting key finance messages in plain English to the Board and at the AGM
- Ensuring sound controls (bank mandates, approvals, expenses, delegated limits)
- Overseeing budgets, management accounts, cashflow and forecasts for the Board
- Attending quarterly finance meetings with the operational team to review monthly accounts
- Reviewing reserves policy, risks and investment approach, flagging risks/shortfalls early
- Ensuring budgets are robust and supporting the Board to understand and approve them
- Ensuring that financial plans/strategies are followed, and progress against these plans is reported to the Board
- Filings: ensuring on-time Charity Commission/Companies House filings (with the CEO/Finance Director).
- Supporting the Finance Director to follow agreed policies and strategies
As a Disabled People’s Organisation, we are run by disabled people for disabled people. At least 75% of the Board must have lived experience so we especially welcome interest from disabled people, and other people who may be under represented at a Board level.
Reports to: Accountable collectively to the Board (co-ordinated by the Chair).
Hours
Time commitment: 6 x 2 hour board meetings per year, 4 x 2 hour Quarterly Finance meetings per year and ad hoc communications with the wider Board and SLT.
Locations: Railway House, Bruton Way, Gloucester, GL1 1DG and remote.
For more information including the full Advert, job description and application form please click here: Volunteer Treasurer Trustee – Inclusion Gloucestershire
Additional information
- You can give as little or as much time as you can.
- We will pay reasonable travel expenses.
- We will make sure you have training and support in your role.
Volunteer & Advocacy Quarterly Newsletters
We are pleased to share our Volunteer and Advocacy Newsletter with you.
We hope that this provides some helpful information, along with news, current volunteering opportunities, and insights about our volunteering and advocacy work.
Many thanks to all the volunteers who contribute to this newsletter.
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Autumn 2023 Newsletter
