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YOUR COMMUNITY NEEDS YOU! PDF Print E-mail

10th anniversary celebration tea ladies

Can you give a little time to help your local community by volunteering at the Community Centre? You will be made very welcome, be offered support, and training if necessary, and it will certainly be interesting and lots of fun!

There is a great choice of voluntary work available at times to suit you: Cooking, gardening, bar work, computer work, litter picking, helping with our toddler & parent groups, helping with our youth activities, publicity, fundraising, serving refreshments (see picture above of Joyce Bryant, Marilyn Pike and Barbara Sanders, Volunteer Tea Ladies), clerical and reception work, maintenance work (painting, carpentry, electrics etc), cleaning, delivering newsletters and flyers, and photography.

All volunteers are given an introductory interview with the Centre Manager, to match the skills on offer to the work available. An introductory tour of the Centre will be given and an explanation of the way we work as a large team, as well as an introduction to our tenant and partnership organisations that are based at or use the Centre. A trial period can then be arranged at times that are suitable.

All prospective volunteers are asked to provide a CRB Check (Criminal Records Bureau Police Check). The Association is legally bound to request this to ensure the protection of all young and vulnerable people that use the Centre.

All volunteers get a full set of the Association's Policies to read, digest and abide by.

All volunteers are regularly offered training opportunities along with other members and staff at the Centre. Increasing skills is one of the Aims & Objectives of the Association.

There are over 30 volunteers currently giving either regular or occasional help in running and developing the services and activities of Sunningmead Community Centre. These volunteers have a number of representatives on the Association's Management Committee.

 

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Volunteer of the Year PDF Print E-mail

SUNNINGMEAD VOLUNTEER OF THE YEAR AWARD 2009

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  Carole Brown receives her award from Association Chairman,
Dave Graham (left)and Richard Holmes, former Centre Manager with Carole's faithful Guide Dog Sally.

At the Association's Annual General Meeting, at the end of September, our Guest of Honour Tiverton Mayor, Paul Graham, had the happy task of announcing that Carole Brown was to receive Sunningmead's 2009 Volunteer of the Year Award.  Carole has given her services to the Community Association for over 6 years.  She has regularly given her time once a week, helping with clerical work such as shredding, collating, folding, photocopying, answering the telephone and occasional typing.  Carole is registered blind and she and her lovely guide dog, Sally, are well know at the Centre, always working conscientiously and with good humour despite the many interuptions that working in the Reception Office entails.   

Each year members of the Community Association are asked to nominate one of our 40 volunteers for an annual Volunteer of the Year Award.  The Award is given in recognition of the considerable contribution to the local community that volunteers make by their regular and invaluable work  for the Community Centre.  The Award gives a year's free membership of the Association and the volunteer receives a certificate, a copy of which is displayed in the reception area of the Community Centre.