Show you care: Older Adults
If you are interested in helping out those in your own community, who need support due to their older age and isolation, take a look at the opportunities we currently have listed on our Simply Connect Volunteering Platform.
This is one of a series of posts on different ways to show that you care for others in your community.
Age UK Bedfordshire
Information and Advice Advisor - Home Visits (Borough)
Information and Advice Advisor - Home Visits (Central)
Many people experience difficulty successfully completing forms or gaining access to information or advice. We therefore provide a service to people who cannot attend our offices, where we will visit an older person in their own home. Some visits to customers are made alone and on other occasions a member of staff or a fellow volunteer will accompany you
Volunteers will develop through planned, regular telephone conversations a small number of positive and valued relationships with isolated older people who have been identified by Age UK Bedfordshire, with the final aim of reducing social isolation of those older people.
Friends For Life
Volunteer Care Home Befriender
Volunteer Care Home Befriender visiting one or more resident of a Care Home on a one to one basis, providing friendship to that/those individual/s requiring a medium-long term commitment. The role entails visiting on a regular basis for chats and where appropriate taking individuals out for walks. The opportunity to talk to other residents in communal areas may also arise.
Wixams Retirement Village
Provide customer service - making and serving refreshments and snacks. Clearing tables, washing up, keeping bistro area clean/tidy, using the till (card payments only taken in Village), using the coffee making equipment.
Assist the Retirement Village receptionist with tasks on reception. Provide excellent customer service. Answering the telephone and taking/relaying messages. Answering queries face to face and over the telephone. Meeting & greeting visitors, directing and signposting visitors.
Use the links above to find more details on a particular role. If you would like to register an interest in the opportunity, then create an account on the Simply Connect volunteering platform and the group will contact you to follow through. Any problems, or if you simply wish to talk more generally about volunteering, give us a call on 01234 354366 or email to volunteering@cvsbeds.org.uk. We are here to help you.
