Walking Volunteer for Visually Impaired People (VIP)
Travel Hands is a service that pairs Visually Impaired People (VIP) with verified & sighted volunteers to walk together towards their similar destinations. With Travel Hands, VIP's can travel around London in a safe, cheap, and independent manner.
TfL currently offers VIP's Freedom Passes to travel for free and has a system in place where blind people can ask for on-platform assistance. But even walking to the bus stop or to the tube station is tough. Even for the shortest of distances, a VIP has to face the hassle of booking a taxi when making an unaccompanied journey.
This is where Travel Hands comes in. You, as a volunteer, will be required to help VIP navigate through roads safely whilst having interesting conversations, building friendships, or simply breathing fresh air.
Click here to find out more
Age UK Lambeth Digital Neighbours
'Digital Neighbours' help Age UK Lambeth clients to get comfortable online to overcome the digital divide, with all the social and life benefits that brings. This is a community-based volunteering role in which the volunteer becomes something of a local digital hero in their neighbourhood.
The role is to provide basic digital support and learning to Age UK clients in your neighbourhood, over the phone or on Zoom. This could be anything from helping people get familiar with facetime, savvy with search engines or brave buying things online, all the way through to helping someone solve a scary error message or even to just ‘turn the bleeding thing on’!
The role is very flexible, so you can fit Digital Neighbour tasks around work and other responsibilities. Age UK hopes that helping in your local area fits nicely into everyday life - get in touch if you'd like to find out more!
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