Activity volunteers – Stockport

Role

Our activities provide vital support to our activities co-ordinator, so that we're able to deliver this important work. Our young people might be kayaking, playing football, a day out at the seaside, or simply going for a relaxing and uplifting group walk. You'll be a consistent, reliable, empathetic and supportive adult helping out, getting involved, offering moral support and encouragement. You might travel to the activity with the young people in our minibus, or you might give them a lift – and if that’s the case, anyone who has been in a car with a young person knows that’s rarely time wasted - being in a car with someone is often key to really insightful and meaningful conversations, or just enjoying a good chat about absolutely nothing. Some of our young people are quite isolated, so you can make a real difference there as well as while doing the activities! Our volunteers are human beings at their very best, and in this role, we're looking for people to offer ad-hoc support, to support our young people age 16-28 (usually aged 17 - early 20s) who need adults to be there to enable trips to go ahead (staff will be present at all times). Activities usually take place during work hours – Monday to Friday, 9-5 rather than on evenings and weekends, thought occasional weekend walks and trips do happen. We’d like you to be able to commit to an activity per month. We'll DBS check you, and if you drive then we'll see your drivers licence. Having a conviction doesn't mean you can't volunteer, we'll just need to have the details of any conviction to assess. You don't need any prior experience of youth work - we'll teach you all you need to know. To make sure that our young people are with people who understand what their challenges are, we created some it's interesting and relevant training to be a three hour session, during the day or in the evening in small groups, depending on when you're available. More information is available from volunteering@pure-insight.org.uk