 Do you have parenting or childcare experience?
Home-Start Lambeth is looking for people with your experience to support families in Lambeth with pre-school aged children. Volunteers will help families facing a range of challenges (e.g. isolation, depression, poverty, a bereavement, poor housing, a physical or mental disability, etc), so that their children can have the best start in life.
As a Home-Start Lambeth volunteer you will:
- Offer tailored practical & emotional support to families through weekly visits to their homes or meet-ups at public spaces.
- Build a supportive relationship with families in which the challenges of family life can be discussed & positive strategies encouraged.
- Help build families' strengths & boost their self-confidence, so that they can best support their children.
- Encourage families to widen their network of relationships & use the services available in Lambeth.
The commitment for this role is 2 hours a week during our working hours (Mon - Fri, 9.30am - 4pm).
Home Start Lambeth ask new volunteers to attend a volunteer training course before supporting families. Their next training will take place at Fenstanton Primary School between 10am - 2pm on 21st Sep, 28th Sep, 5th Oct, 12th Oct, 19th Oct, and 2nd Nov 2023 (six Thursdays).
Your experiences & skills could help another family more than you think! Apply here to secure your spot on the training!
Any questions - call 020 7924 9292 or email Home Start Lambeth directly.
 Come and help out at Brixton Windmill's Harvest Festival
Brixton Windmill is holding its Harvest Festival on Sunday 24 September, 1 to 5 pm, and is looking for volunteers to help out. The event includes live music, hot food and bakery stalls, craft and baking workshops for children and games for all. Join in the fun and help us make it go with a swing.
If you can help with setting up (from 9am - food provided), or stewarding and support for activity leaders (from 1 to 5 pm), or clearing up (after 5) please respond asap to volunteers@brixtonwindmill.org. Shorter shifts are available if needed.
 Refugees at Home Christmas Card Project
It may only be mid-September, and Christmas isn't the *first* thing on eveyone's mind... but Refugees at Home are planning ahead...
Refugees at Home connect people with a spare room to refugees and asylum seekers in need of somewhere to stay. They don’t think people who come to the UK for sanctuary should end up on the streets. Their vision is for every refugee and every person seeking asylum to have a safe place to stay.
Each year, Refugees at Home sell their popular holiday cards through an online shop, raising funds for their work at Refugees at Home. They're looking for a regular volunteer who can commit to coming to their office 1-2 days per week in the lead up to Christmas, to pack, send and process orders of cards to those ordering them. You'll be working alongside their staff team in their office, to help dispatch these. The local post office is a short distance away (within 5 minutes' walk) and the kettle is always on in the office!
Activities
- Liaising with printers for delivery of cards
- Processing orders made in online shop
- Packing cards
- Distributing orders
About you
You'll be willing to get stuck in to help, have a good level of written English (you'll be addressing envelopes and reading orders). You'll need to be happy making trips to the (fully accessible) post office a short distance away. They work from the office on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays between 9am and 6pm.
If you’d like to know more about hosting, please visit: Refugees at Home hosting or email the team.
 Be a Digital Volunteer with ClearCommunityWeb
ClearCommunityWeb help people feel more confident and comfortable with technology through classes, workshops and individual support, sometimes in the home.
Their drop-ins provide a friendly space for local residents to get questions answered or problems solved for their laptop, tablet or smart phone. They are also a place to practice in a supported environment and get access to other local learning programmes.
Clear Community Web run a programme of different drops-ins across Lambeth throughout the week and are always looking for people to help support residents or to assist with the coordination and hosting.
The most important skills are listening and being supportive, you do NOT need to be super technical and they do also provide volunteer training.
Clear Community Web currently have sessions in Upper Norwood, Balham, West Norwood, Brixton, Myatts Field and Kennington.
You can see their full Lambeth programme here and you can register your interest here.
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