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Welcome to the search engine for volunteering within Falkirk!
Please check out this page on a regular basis as we highlight the opportunities online, including:
- Royal Voluntary Service (RVS) Forth Valley, “Supporting your Recovery”
Providing practical and emotional support to help clients recovering from ill health or facing isolation gain independence and re-engage in their community.
Provide tailored support and encouragement to individual clients to support recovery, reduce isolation, improve health and wellbeing and reduce likelihood of hospital admission.
This varies by individual and can include:
– phone-calls, visits, accompanied walks/visits/shopping including driving or public transport
– mobility practice, seated exercise, practicing domestic tasks in any hospital reablement plan
– encourage healthy eating and hydration
– offer practical support e.g. prescription collection, dog walking, household paperwork, IT support
– guide clients to other sources of support and activities
- Dates-n-Mates
A local friendship and dating agency for adults with learning disabilities are looking for volunteers to assist at events! They run lots of social events and activities across Forth Valley, usually in the afternoon or evening, and ask for a commitment of 4 hours per month. Events Supporters role is to help members enjoy socialising in a safe and friendly environment. Events include going to restaurants, pubs, cinema, tenpin bowling, day trips and walks.
- Grangemouth Old People’s Welfare
Talbot House Lunch Club run 2 sessions per week on a Tuesday and Thursday. They welcome volunteers interested in the following roles; Cook, Lunch Club Helpers, and Handyman.
Volunteers with an interest in cooking for around 35 older people each session, providing “plain hearty foods” which are service users preference.
Helpers assist in the dining hall and serve up lunches, tidy up, dishwashing and engaging with people attending.
The handyman role is flexible and duties include painting, gardening, minor building repairs and improvements.
- Cycling Without Age Scotland – Volunteer Pilots
Cycling Without Age cover a wide area across Forth Valley and now have a permanent base for Tr-shaws in Bo’ness!
A Volunteer Trishaw Pilot is the cyclist who is
responsible for all aspects of preparing for and
conducting a ride, post-ride duties (e.g. required
records) and promoting awareness of,
encouraging support for and maintaining the
reputation of Cycling Without Age Scotland. The
decision as to whether a Co-Pilot is required on
the ride should be based on the route
assessment.
The Pilot must complete the 5-stage training as
detailed in the Trishaw and Pilot Handbook, which
may be amended/updated from time to time and
covers:
1. Getting to know the Trishaw
2. The Passenger’s Experience
3. Trial Runs
4. First Rides
5. Conducting route and risk assessments
followed by a final assessment
- Town Break – Dementia Group Volunteers
Town Break is a charity focused on reshaping the way we think about Dementia. We are always looking to connect with people in the local community to join our team in spreading hope and support to those living with Dementia. If you are passionate and believe in this cause, please take a few moments of your time and help us grow this campaign.
At Town Break, we run daily ‘coffee and blether’ groups. At these groups we offer a range of stimulating and creative activities as well as the chance to come together as a community. Your role as a Volunteer would be to assist at these groups, from joining in activities or spending time with a few of our clients to making tea and helping our groups to run smoothly.
- The Conservation Volunteers – Jupiter Urban Wildlife Centre – “Growing Together Volunteers”
This project involves local people in the development of an accessible organic growing centre at Jupiter Urban Wildlife Centre, owned by Scottish Wildlife Trust. The aim of this programme is to involve local people, for whom access to nature is severely limited, in a regular programme of outdoor growing and conservation-based activity. We know that connection with nature enhances peoples’ lives through improving health, well-being and building community cohesion.
We provide supported volunteering opportunities for people of all ages and abilities in two-hour outdoor practical sessions every Wednesday and Thursday.
During summer months sessions are focused on our fruit and vegetable garden which provides a range of hands-on practical tasks from organically growing herbs, salad, vegetables and fruit. Learning how to compost, plant wildflowers and garden with wildlife in mind whilst helping with general garden maintenance. Outdoor cooking sessions are run at the end of each month.
The recycle woodshed compliments our garden and offers the opportunity through winter when growing season has ended to learn how to make a range of items out of recycled pallet wood currently donated by Whyte & Mackay. We have an accessible wood-working space where our service users can learn to build planters, raised beds, bug hotels, bird/bat boxes, stools and signs from reclaimed timber.
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- CALL TO ACTION: A few local groups and organisations are currently in need of Volunteer Drivers, we would like to help them by putting them in touch with Falkirk folks who can drive, have a car they are happy to use for voluntary activities (including informing their insurance company of the use of the vehicle for this purpose, which often incurs no additional cost but makes sure you are covered!) and who would like to help. Please get in touch if you fit this description!
- Victim Support Scotland helps people who have witnessed or been affected by crime, they provide emotional support and practical advice as well as signposting to other services if necessary. They are a volunteer led organisation and are looking for others to help, if interested visit the Volunteer Scotland Website.
Looking for something more specific in the Falkirk and surrounding areas and can’t find it in the results above? Please don’t hesitate to contact our team here at Volunteer Falkirk via the contact details above.
