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THE LATEST NEWS FROM FINGAL VOLUNTEER CENTRE Newsletter July 2021 Hi, we hope you’re keeping well. Here is our monthly newsletter filled with News, updates and a list of recent volunteer opportunities. Please scroll down to see their role descriptions and remember there are many more on I-VOL if the listed ones are not your cup of tea. Latest news from Fingal Volunteer Centre:
VIRTUAL OUTREACH PROGRAMME: Upcoming Virtual Outreach Sessions next week!
During the Outreach week you’ll get the chance to have a Zoom meeting with Chiara, our Placement and Outreach officer, and discover new volunteer opportunities available in your area or from home.
Available dates for one to one appointment (30/40 minutes each):
Monday 19th: 11-12:00pm To book your appointment please email Chiara at chiara@volunteerfingal.ie or simply reply to this email VOLUNTEER TESTIMONIALS
Have you been volunteering? Become a Volunteer Testimonial!
In Fingal Volunteer Centre we are always interested in hearing from volunteers and capturing the essence of volunteering by getting feedback about their volunteer experience. We’ve created a Volunteer Testimonials page to capture their volunteer story and experience. If you’ve been volunteering and you’d like to tell your story please reply back to this email and we’ll be in touch with you or email Chiara at chiara@volunteerfingal.ie
We look forward to your volunteer stories!
COVID-19 Related Volunteer Opportunities 1) Donate Household Essentials for Safe Havens from Domestic Violence with CRiTiCALL – Providing a Safe Haven (Dublin 8)
2) Family Volunteering – Letter Appeal with KASI-Killarney Asylum Seeker Initiative (From home)
3) Covid 19 Letter Request – write a letter to a resident of Peamount Healthcare with Peamount Healthcare (From home) 6) COVID-19: ***LETTER REQUEST *** to Brymore House, Howth with Fingal Volunteer Centre (From home)
7) COVID-19: ***LETTER REQUEST *** to Clearbrook Nursing Home, Finglas with Fingal Volunteer Centre (From home)
8) COVID-19: ***LETTER REQUEST *** to St. Patrick’s Care Centre Baldoyle with Fingal Volunteer Centre (From home)
9) COVID-19: ***LETTER REQUEST *** to Fingal House Nursing Home -Swords with Fingal Volunteer Centre (From home) General Long term Volunteer Opportunities 1) Wellbeing Facilitator with Praxis Care (Dublin 15)
2) Activities Facilitator with Praxis Care (Dublin 15)
3) Gardening Volunteer with Praxis Care (Dublin 15)
4) Youth Advisory Panel Member with Jigsaw (North Fingal) (OPEN TO UNDER 18!) 5) Cycling Without Age Pilot with Fingal County Council Sports Office (Skerries and Baldoyle/Portmarnock)
6) Mentor- BBBS with Big Brothers Big Sisters of Ireland- Foroige (countywide)
7) Retail Assistants (Finglas) with Enable Ireland Retail (Dublin 11) 10) Swords Tidy Towns Volunteer with Swords Tidy Towns (Swords)
11) Balbriggan Tidy Towns Volunteer with Balbriggan Tidy Towns (Balbriggan) Please bear in mind that we’re constantly working with not profit and charity organisations and there will be more roles on I-VOL in the coming weeks.
New roles are added to our database on a regular basis and you may also view them yourself on I-VOL before you receive our next newsletter. We are working from home so to cover all applications and registrations. Our monthly Outreach programme in local libraries has been postponed until further notice. Your safety and limiting the spread of the Coronavirus being the main priority, we continue to encourage you to adhere to HSE instructions on how best to avoid COVID-19, both in the work environment and at home. We’ve partnered up with several nursing homes, both in county Dublin and county Fingal, for our Fingal Letter Campaign.
The idea is to recruit as many volunteeers as possible willing to post letters, drawings, poems or whatever you can think of, to the residents of the nursing homes.
Would you like to take part in this project?
You might even decide to involve your small ones and ask them to be creative and prepare a drawing or something!
Great news: there won’t be any need to add a stamp on your letters since An Post agreed in sending them for free if addressed to nursing homes!
To read more and take part please click here:
VOLUNTEER HOURS Please let us know if you’ve been volunteering during this Covid-19 crisis and how was your experience. We’d love to learn more about your involvement and, maybe, collect your feedback and stories.
If you’ve been volunteering please click here to access your volunteer profile and register your volunteering hours and stories: FACEBOOK LIKES I know, not so many people use Facebook nowadays but we do. And we find it brilliant to share news, new volunteer opportunities, promote events and share videos/pictures.
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FINGAL COMMUNITY RESPONSE
Need a grocery order collected or prescription picked up? Feeling vulnerable & isolated? Or just want to talk. The Fingal Community Response are here to help. Call any day 8am to 8pm INFO FOR VOLUNTEERS
Before considering volunteering ask yourself – Am I well enough to volunteer? Your safety and limiting the spread of the coronavirus being the main priority, Volunteer Centres continue to encourage you to adhere to HSE instructions on how best to avoid COVID-19, both in the work environment and at home.
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