Volunteer Opportunities
At Pensioners Link, we are extremely lucky and appreciative of our team of brilliant volunteers. We have over 50 volunteers working across the borough, helping us deliver our activities and services. Without our volunteer support, Pensioners Link would not exist.
All of our volunteers receive full training and support. We have regular meetings with guest speakers and there are often social events that take place. Volunteering can be extremely rewarding and enjoyable.
We currently need help from volunteers in the following areas:
Reception:
As a volunteer receptionist, you would be welcoming visitors, taking calls from clients, completing new referrals and liaising with staff in a busy environment where many activities and visitors attend. You will be the first welcoming face and voice to people - both clients and professionals - who contact Pensioners Link each day. Part of this role may include making outgoing calls.
Shopping:
Both of our shopping services require volunteer support - this role would involve obtaining a shopping list from the customer and going to a supermarket and completing the customer's weekly / fortnightly shop. You would then deliver this to the customer's home and take payment (cash or card). All expenses are covered and you will be a friendly regular contact for the customer, helping them access an essential service.
Books & More:
This role involves collecting and delivering the books to clients in their home. The books would be selected and collected from one of the borough's libraries using the client's own library membership card. You may also be asked to select and collect books for other volunteers who would then deliver books. Clients access this service if they enjoy reading and are unable to access a local library themselves.
Telephone Contact:
Our wonderful volunteers make contact with a client on a weekly basis for an informal telephone chat - this helps reduce isolation with people who may see or speak to few people on a typical week.
If any of these roles are of interest, please complete the short form below and our volunteer coordinator will be in touch:
Why Do You Volunteer?
Sue
Volunteering is FABULOUS, so rewarding. I have made many friends who really appreciate all I do for them
Edith
It helps to know that there are people out there who benefit from a fifteen-minute phone call. You know that they are smiling to hear from you
Alan
It falls into to my timescale now that I have retired. I have the opportunity to enhance my skills and develop new ones, to share experiences with other volunteers
Cathy
Satisfaction, sharing stories, bringing mutual joy of reading to people who may miss out
