Last updated: 25 May

Hello and welcome to the latest Contact Bulletin!

We regularly receive information about exciting new and one-off volunteering projects that you can get involved in.  Please ensure that you are a member of Contact before signing up to any of the opportunities below.

Please e-mail contact@le.ac.uk if you have any questions. 

Visit our Events Diary to see what other volunteering activities are coming up.  

Please visit our Volunteering Projects page to view all the different volunteering opportunities available for you. 

Please note:  If you have not already told us about the volunteering you are doing, please do so as a matter of urgency.  This will enable us to update your volunteering record and prepare a certificate for you.  Go to: http://tinyurl.com/6qjvhhu

Student Engagement Team *Paid work*

• Will you be studying at the University of Leicester for the next academic year?
• Are you outgoing, confident and motivated?
• Do you enjoy speaking to other students?
• Are you persuasive, energetic and up for a challenge?
• Do you want to improve your CV and help others to achieve their career aspirations?

If you answer ‘yes’ to all of the above, then join the Student Engagement Team!

Find out more here.

Leicestershire Libraries Summer Scheme

Would you like to motivate children and teenagers about reading in a fun and interactive way?  If yes, find out more about the following roles in the Events Calendar:

• Story lab volunteer
• Author and workshops events volunteer
• Braunstone Carnival Volunteer

Saffron Acres Gardening Volunteer

Saffron Acres Project is twelve acres of vegetable growing and wildlife garden on an allotment site in Saffron, Leicester.  The project aims to encourage locally grown food, healthy eating and improve the local environment and community.  Vegetables produced are sold to fund the project or feed the homeless.

Volunteers are required to help with:

• Building fruit cages from recycled materials
• Planting seeds, growing hedges and maintaining the orchard

You can volunteer on a Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Saturday from 10am-3pm but you don't have to stay the whole time. 

If you would like to come along, please e-mail: saffronacresproject@yahoo.co.uk or leave a message on: 0116 283 7212.

WRVS Hospital and Health Volunteer

Keen, friendly and enthusiastic volunteers are required to befriend older people, provide transport and admin support.  To find out more and to attend an information session at a Leicester hospital, please refer to the Events Calendar.

CSV

Are you interested in volunteering over the summer in July and August to help in the conservation and preservation of Britain’s beautiful historic buildings. Camps will be led and run by young people aged between 16-25 and based at Cathedrals and other historic places of worship across the UK.

Get involved in:

• restoring monuments and statues
• re-laying stone pathways
• maintaining ornamental woodwork
• clearing crypts and cellars
• gardening or restoring graveyards

CSV are looking for leaders for some of these camps as well as those just wanting to help as volunteers. Accommodation and food is provided.  To apply or for more information please visit: www.cathedralcamps.org.uk

Secondary School Extra Curricular Activities Volunteer

Enthusiastic and reliable volunteers who already have a CRB disclosure and who are available between 11th June until 13th July 2012 are required to assist teachers with extra curricular activities at Crown Hills Community College, Leicester.    The Extra-Curricular activities will be taking place every Wednesday afternoons from 3-5pm.  If you have a CRB disclosure and are available to help during the above dates, please email Chani: contact@le.ac.uk

Creative School Display Assistant

Fullhurst Community College require a creative volunteer to produce fun, educational and informative displays in the college.  

You will need to volunteer for a few hours a month, depending on how many displays need updating.  Materials will be provided by the school so all you need is enthusiasm and lots of imagination. 

When you have finished your displays you can even take a photo of it as a keep sake and the school are also prepared to provide a reference for you with prior agreement.  If you would like to volunteer, please contact Jackie: JCooper@fullhurst.leicester.sch.uk

School Photographer

Any budding photographers out there?

Fullhurst Community College require a creative volunteer photographer to take photos of their students, which will be used to display around the college.

The photos will need to capture the learning activities that happen around school and will be blown up to 2 metre square.  If you would like to volunteer, please contact Jackie: JCooper@fullhurst.leicester.sch.uk

Rainbows Hospice Walk of Life 2012

Rainbows Annual Walk of Life is taking place on Sunday 27^th May at Leicestershire County Cricket Club from 9.00am- 4.30pm. 

Friendly, organised and reliable volunteers are needed to act as marshalls.  If you are able to offer some support for the entire day or just for a few hours in the morning, across lunchtime or in the afternoon it would be much appreciated. 

Marshalls provide an essential safety measure on the day and Rainbow’s Hospice could not run the event without volunteers like you. There are five sections on the route and each section has a lead marshal to look after you, ensure your safety and help you to enjoy the day. You will be provided with a goodie bag with water and food items. We will require marshalls to be in position prior to the walkers passing through their section, in order to ensure safety briefings have been completed.  If you have a preference for a particular spot on the route, please let the team know.

There are four sites around the walk which you can choose from:

• Leicestershire County Cricket Club, Grace Road
• Victoria Park
• Knighton Park
• King Power Stadium

Rainbows will also require volunteers at these sites to help with setting up, filling goodie bags, registration, water stations, and to encourage our fantastic walkers.

To sign up to help, please email Beccy: Beccy.May@rainbows.co.uk

Get volunteering in 3 simple steps:

1. Register with Contact Student Volunteers

2. Choose your project(s)

3. E-mail contact@le.ac.uk or the organisation you are interested in directly, if the details are provided.

Don't forget to visit our Events Diary to see what other volunteering activities are coming up.

Please e-mail contact@le.ac.uk if you have any other questions.