Volunteer Telford

We are looking for a volunteer support worker to work alongside our independence and skills projects at our Day Service 

This project supports vulnerable adults to learn independent living skills in areas such as domestic living tasks, cooking, furniture restoration, crafts, textiles, community gardening service, allotment, community safety and participation, leisure activities, travel training, being healthy, work skills and looking after our wellbeing.

You will receive the same training and support as the rest of our team.

The Skills and Enterprise Hub, run daily Monday-Friday 9.00am-4.00pm.

We are looking for people who can help for a minimum of half a day a week during these times, or to do regular workshops on specific activities.

Serving food and drink in our community café. Giving support to our young volunteers and volunteers with disabilities so that they can serve in the café too.

Café is open Monday to Friday from 10am-5pm. Varied hours available to suit. All volunteers must consent to a DBS check.

Telford & Wrekin Council is advertising for more volunteers to join the Independent Appeal Panel dealing with primary and secondary school admissions and exclusion reviews. It is a requirement that the Local Authority’s School Admission Authority provides arrangements for appeals against decisions not to allow a child to attend a school or regarding a decision to exclude a child from a school within Telford and Wrekin.

The role

Admission panels comprise of three members to hear and determine appeals by parents who are not happy with the decision made about their child’s school placement. The panel is independent of the education authority and draws on a pool of lay and independent members to sit on particular appeals. This is an essential role that provides impartiality of decisions for parents and children in Telford and Wrekin.

Membership of the panel comprises of:

- People who have experience in education, who are acquainted with educational conditions in the local authority area, or who are parents of registered pupils in school. This can include current or previous head teachers, teachers, governors or parents

- Lay people, someone without personal experience in the management of any school or provision of education in any school except as a school governor or in another voluntary capacity.

PODS Befriending Scheme is a network of trained parent volunteers who support other parents of children with special needs at the time of diagnosis or during challenging times related to their child’s disability.

Every Befriender is someone whose own child has special needs.

They know what it is like to cope with a new diagnosis and the challenges that come with it in the future. 

This service is free and confidential.

We support parents of children with any type of disability or special need. As a parent of a child with a special need or disability you have something unique to offer. Your own experiences mean that you can empathise with other parents and help them to make positive adjustments to the news of their child’s special need/disability or you can provide support when they are facing new challenges.

Many parents find it invaluable to have another parent to talk to who can understand and listen.

So why not become a PODS Befriender, support other local parents, and strengthen our local community?