Category Archives: Volunteering

Are you looking for a volunteer Treasurers role?

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Why are we looking for a new Treasurer?

 Our current Volunteer Treasurer will be leaving the board after 15 years of service (Not bad given that he initially only came for 5 years) and we need new strategic contribution to our Board to support our vision and delivery of our new Strategy.  We employ a very able Finance worker who undertakes the day-to-day financial operations; the Treasurer provides oversight and guidance of the delivery of our financial strategy, our reporting, compliance and financial risk management.  You can find our latest report and accounts on our website.

About our existing Board

 There are currently eight other volunteer Trustees with varied experience and skills including, law, personnel and academia. In addition half of our board is composed of local older people. We are a friendly Board, passionate about our local area and we enjoy welcoming new people and talents to support our work on behalf of older people in our local area.  You can read more about us on our website.

What do you get as our Treasurer?

  • A chance to build your experience of charities and the voluntary sector
  • An opportunity to exercise your financial management skills and knowledge, possibly in a different environment / context
  • A role that includes building your own leadership experience as Chair of our Finance Committee
  • Satisfaction of helping us make a difference for older people, and giving something back to local communities.
  • A boost to your career and CV, if needed.

What will you bring to us?

 You will have proven experience of financial management in the charity, public or commercial sector, ideally with an understanding of charity finance or be keen to learn if this is a new area for you.  You will bring excellent financial management and analysis skills to a financially literate Board, providing guidance on financial risk management and compliance. With a knowledge of finance systems you will be comfortable supporting our Chair as well as having a hands on involvement with our Finance Worker, auditors and Managers when required.

If you are interested, or know someone who might be?

  • You will need to be eligible to be a charity Trustee, which we will explain.
  • A full Role Description with person specification is available here Job Spec and person spec
  • The role is not remunerated although reasonable expenses can be claimed for.

 

 

 

Volunteering – Four

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Volunteers Week 2019

Celebrating Volunteering in all it’s forms

We get so much help from our community both from our ‘official’ volunteers and all our members who just naturally offer kindness and support where it is needed in our groups and day to day.

First week of the month is ‘bingo week’ on Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday and we will have our brilliant volunteer bingo caller shouting out the numbers.  At the same time, within our group yesterday we had baking brought in by one member, members supporting others to play bingo, supporting new members to feel included, prizes donated by members, help to clear away and so much support for each other.

Our bingo volunteer says: ‘I look forward to coming and it is something I enjoy doing’

Volunteers Week – Three

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Some volunteering is less visible.

Offering support and friendship, in person, on the phone, even by letter to help people stay connected even if circumstances make it harder for them to be involved.

This might be a regular visit to someone who doesn’t get out much or a temporary visit while someone is in hospital, or catch up call to say hello and see how someone is.

We don’t have words sometimes to express just how valuable this support and companionship is to some of our members.

Our volunteers are just amazing!

Volunteers Week -Two

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There are many volunteering opportunities in Leeds – Caring Together being one 🙂

Along with other local organisations, some of our volunteers and staff will be at

‘Leeds Volunteer Recruitment Fair’

Volunteer recruitment fair organised by Leeds Volunteer Managers Network.
 
Tuesday 25th June 2019 12noon to 5pm
The Event Space, Leeds Kirkgate Market 
 
Come along to find lots of volunteering opportunities within Leeds

Members/Volunteers Spring into Action for our Spring Newsletter

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Our Spring 2017  Newsletter went out to our members and supporters last week.  Lots of useful information and details of some of the things coming up at Caring Together in the near future.

We send this by email to many of our supporters but most of our members like to get the paper copy, which as you can imagine is a lot of newsletters!!

As always our Caring Together members and volunteers came to the rescue.  First we had a small team in the office sticking on labels and packing envelopes and then we had an amazing team effort to get the newsletters out to older people in the area.  From delivering batches to a specific area or just dropping off a couple to neighbours it all added up to over 250 newsletters being either hand delivered or passed on in groups.

This saved Caring Together almost £140 in postage costs!!

So thank you to each and every one of you – you were amazing (and we hope no-one got caught in the rain)

You can see all our most recent newsletters here

Caring Together volunteers to the rescue again.

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SAM_2320 SAM_2330A huge thanks to those Caring Together volunteers who gave up yesterday morning to pack Christmas food hampers for our oldest members in Woodhouse and Little London. Festive cheer was in the air as Carol’s played and everyone was in fine form enjoying donating their time for such a worthy cause. Many thanks again to the Grove Methodist Church in Horsforth and their parishioners for the donations of food items that made this possible.

Caring Together Needs You…….

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Memoirs walking in Golden Acre………to stroll in the park and help us raise funds.

Saturday 5th September is the date for our annual Sponsored Stroll.

This event helps us to raise £hundreds for Caring Together’s work with local older people but we need your help.

The more strollers we have, the more money we can raise so if you are free on the afternoon of Saturday 5th September please stroll for us.  It will be a nice afternoon with friendly people, not too arduous – a circuit round the park (or more if you wish) and at the end a cup of tea and a certificate.  We ordered the sunshine too – so fingers crossed!

If you think you could stroll for us, please get in touch and we will send you a sponsor pack.

If you can’t stroll on the day, please think about supporting us by sponsoring one of our strollers or making a donation.

Volunteers in Action

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2015-04-09 12.29.16Our volunteers have been hard at work this morning putting our Spring Newsletter into envelopes ready for posting/giving out to our members and supporters.

Some volunteers will be hand delivering some of them too to help us save on postage costs, some will be given out in groups and lastly some will go in the post or via email.  Whatever the method of getting to you, it should be with you very soon.  Thanks to the sterling efforts of Caring Together’s volunteers.

If you can’t wait that long to read it then you can see it now by clicking the link above!

Red Nose Day – and a thank you from us!

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Today is Red Nose Day – the major fundraising event for Comic Relief.

Since its launch in 1988, Red Nose Day has become something of a British institution. It’s the day, every two years, when people across the land can get together and do something funny for money at home, school and work.

There’s a fantastic night of TV on the BBC, with comedy and entertainment to inspire the nation to give generously.

Comic Relief spends the money raised by Red Nose Day to help people living tough lives across the UK and Africa.

Here at Caring Together we have been fortunate enough to receive funding from Comic Relief on several occasions over the years and we have been very grateful for this support that has helped us with various aspects of our work with older people in Woodhouse & Little London.

So today, we would like to say a big thank you and wish them well with today’s fundraising

Walking Group Fashion Show

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David WalkingDavid, Caring Together Walker, models the latest bag accessory for the discerning walker…also available in red or black….

Our walking group have been resting over the winter months but will be meeting very soon to plan the Spring walks.  And will soon be getting out and about on local walks and sometimes a little further afield – usually finishing at a cafe for a cup of tea, of course