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Maldon & District CVS
FREE Learning Disability Awareness training
offered to local businesses
Local businesses and organisations are being offered the opportunity to
fi nd out more about how to extend excellent customer service to people
with learning disabilities in the Maldon District.
This free training session is being organised by the More2Life project which
aims to expand the opportunities for adults with Learning Disabilities to
engage in leisure activities.
It is aimed at members of staff in local businesses, leisure centres and
shops that come into contact with members of the public as part of their
daily role and will cover an introduction to learning disabilities the best ways
to communicate and how to respond to people with learning disabilities.
The training will take place on Monday, 23rd April at the Minerva Centre
in Mundon from 9.00 am – 1.30 pm (with lunch to follow). For more
information or to book a place for this FREE training, please contact Lynn
Marston at more2life@maldoncvs.org.uk or tel. 01621 851891
A selection of volunteering opportunities
Committee Members for Children’s Centre
Buddies Children’s Centre is a registered charity providing care and
education to pre-school children of all abilities.
They are looking for a volunteer to fi ll the committee role of company
secretary as well as volunteers to become general committee members.
Trustee meetings are held six weekly at the Centre and trustees are
expected to take on some roles outside of the meetings, this is not
envisaged to be more than a few hours per month
Deliver Emergency First Aid
Community First Responders are volunteers who are trained to assist the
Ambulance Service on certain categories of 999 calls. The most common
calls are to people with chest pains or breathing diffi culties.
The critical call is to a cardiac arrest, when the prompt arrival of a First
Responder can save a life. Full training is provided which assumes no
previous knowledge or experience.
Volunteers with a fl air for ingenuity
Remap is a very special charity, working through a nationwide network of
dedicated volunteers. These inspiring people use their ingenuity and skills
to enable people with disabilities to achieve much-desired independence
in some aspect of their lives, or to enjoy leisure opportunities previously
closed to them.
Volunteers are needed to design and make or adapt equipment to help
people with disabilities that is not available commercially.
Mentor a disabled person
Essex Coalition of Disabled people are looking for volunteers to support
disabled people of all ages to achieve a range of goals.
Volunteers are matched to people according to their interests and skills and
goals can range from attending a social group, taking the bus, learning a
new skill - such as cooking or using a computer - or completing an adult
learning course
Volunteers needed at Junk Swap event
The Maldon Baptist Church holds Junk Swap events twice a year to give
people in the town the opportunity to get rid of some of their unwanted
things and often see something they would like. No money changes hand it
is just a simple exchange to help people recycle and stop waste going into
landfi ll. Volunteers are needed to help run these events, simply being there
to help lay out the swap, receive items as they are brought in and tidy away
at the end. Swaps take place twice a year in November and April. The
Forthcoming date is Saturday the 28th of April 10am until 11:30am.
The Maldon and DIstrict CVS may
be contacted at: The Square,
Holloway Road, Heybridge CM9
4ER. Telephone 01621 851891.
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