Harrogate & Area Council for Voluntary Service

Henshaws Society for Blind People

Contact Hannah Saxon on 01423 814501 or email hannah.saxon@henshaws.org.uk

Would you like to take part in a zip slide challenge to help raise money for Henshaws? Taking place on 12 September at Baiting Reservoir near Halifax, you'll have the chance to tackle a 750ft zip wire down the 180ft dam wall. For more information and to register, please contact Hannah on the number / email above.

Harrogate Training Services

Contact Ida Griffiths on 01423 526258 or email hts1@fsmail.net

Harrogate Training Services provides numeracy and literacy support to young people aged 16-19. Volunteers are required to help overcome the barriers to work and learning experience by these young people, through supporting them in a mixture of formal and informal learning. Ideally, volunteers are matched with a specific learner so that they can build rapport with them.

Orb Community Enterprise

Contact Leon Fijalkowski on 01423 202028 or email orbenterprise@talktalkbusiness.net

 Orb Community Enterprise exists to promote mental health and well being amongst vulnerable people living in Yorkshire by engaging individuals in multimedia activities with an emphasis on social inclusion, basic employment skills and personal development. They have an exciting new variety of ways people can support their organisation, including artspace facilitators, cleaners, drama group facilitators, event support, film and video makers, handymen/women, IT network support, IT tutor / facilitators, media / communications officers, gardeners, photography, music / dj’s and webmaster.

SOVA

Contact Phil Jarman on 01937 548301 or email pjarman@sova.org.uk

SOVA helps to reduce crime and empower communities through individual support, community involvement and partnership working. They are seeking volunteer mentors to work with ex-offenders, to help support them on their journey into paid employment. Support may be practical, education or emotional, and aims to help remove the barriers to employment faced by the mentee. Ideally, you would be able to commit to volunteering for 6 months onwards, to allow you to build a relationship of trust with your mentee.

RSPB

Contact Becky Jones on 07971 174594 or email becky.jones@rspb.org.uk

The Membership Development Team attend many shows and events year round and are looking for people to assist on their stand, chatting to members of the public about the RSPB and encouraging them to become a member. A great opportunity for somebody looking for experience of event management.

Time Together

Contact Heidi Johnson on 01423 876378 or email heidi.ttg@btconnect.com

Time Together provides individual support to people with learning difficulties. They have recently set up a social network on a Tuesday evening from 6-9pm for young adults with autism and asperger’s. Volunteers are required to work with these young people, and enable them to attend the social evenings. Support required may vary depending on the needs of the individual, and the meetings will be at various social locations across Harrogate.

Yorkshire Wildlife Trust

Contact Claire Jackson on 01904 659570 or email claire.jackson@ywt.org.uk

Would you like to conserve the wildlife on your doorstep and meet like minded people? If so, the Wildlife trust is aiming to put together a volunteer group in the Harrogate District to work on five nature reserves in the local area, including Staveley, Ripon, Upper Dunsforth, Bishop Monkton and Burton Leonard. Typical tasks would include coppicing, removal of non-native species, survey work (birds, botanical work, butterflies etc) and general monitoring of the sites. Some of this work is seasonal, so the nature of the work will vary throughout the year.