Volunteer Centre Buxton
| 16 Eagle Parade, Buxton, Derbyshire SK17 9SB | |
| Tel: | 01298 23970 |
| Email: | sue@buxtonvc.org.uk |
| Web: | buxtonvc.org.uk |
Volunteer Centre Buxton provides a range of local volunteering opportunities for people of all ages and backgrounds. People can come for advice and help on a wide variety of voluntary work, tailored to the individual.
The Centre holds details of all types of local and national volunteering and offers a range of services to the local community in which volunteers participate.
Core Activities
The Volunteer Centre acts as a broker between organisations wishing to recruit volunteers and people interested in volunteering. A web database of over 100 locally available volunteer opportunities enables a search by postcode, area of interest, specific organisations, time availability or type of activity.
For groups using volunteers, Volunteer Centre Buxton provides information on good practices in working with volunteers and gives support to statutory and voluntary schemes in need of assistance.
Volunteer Centre Buxton runs a number of services to benefit the local community. Most of these have volunteering opportunities.
Projects
Transport Scheme - volunteers take older people to their doctors, to hospital appointments, out shopping or on social trips. They can chose which journeys they want to do and may use their own car or a specially adapted vehicle suitable for wheelchair users.
Shopping Escorts - assist people who need help shopping, in conjunction with Community Transport.
Befriending - visiting people who are isolated or live on their own with little contact.
ReadyCall - offers minor repair work, such as putting up shelves, fitting smoke detectors, or emulsioning walls. Volunteers will also tidy gardens, including mowing and general weeding.
Home Support Service - for people who need personal assistance in their own homes by trained care professionals.
Fairfield Luncheon Club - meets on Tuesdays for a chat and a meal at Fairfield Methodist church, with volunteers helping to serve the food.
Counselling - anyone can refer themselves to see the counsellor based at the Volunteer Centre.
Children's Service - provides support for disabled children up to the age of 18 and their families in the High Peak.
Safer Homes -
Management and Staff
The Volunteer Centre is managed on a day-to-day basis by the Manager Sue Howard. There are twelve other part time members of staff.
Policy decisions are taken by a Management Committee of eight members. The Committee meets regularly, at least every two months, to make decisions and also to ensure formal links are maintained with the Centre. Volunteers are represented on the Committee.
The work of Volunteer Centre Buxton is funded by Derbyshire County Council, Derbyshire Health Authority and High Peak Borough Council. The Transport Scheme is funded by High Peak and Dales PCT. Readcall is funded by the Community Fund. Various grants are taken up as and when opportunities arise.
Premises
Volunteer Centre Buxton have their own building at Eagle Parade off the Market Square in higher Buxton. The ground floor has a large reception, a number of offices and a kitchen. There are further offices and a meeting room on the upper floor.
