Volunteering
Secondary Club night at St Barnabas Church
Volunteers are at the heart of Cre8. We welcome volunteers of any age, background or experience. The most important thing for a Cre8 volunteer is to be able to listen to young people about whatever they want to talk about and not to judge. Enthusiasm, patience and a passion for 'something', be it bike riding or flying model aeroplanes, are really important qualities.
Volunteers work on all our PROJECTS - running crafts at clubs, taking a one to one session with a young person, or helping someone learn to play an instrument.
"If you want your Tuesday / Wednesday night brightening up come and join us!
I've been volunteering for the past 3 years and it's still one of the highlights of my week. Everyone is super friendly and fun, laughter is always guaranteed."
Volunteers work on all our PROJECTS - running crafts at clubs, taking a one to one session with a young person, or helping someone learn to play an instrument.
"If you want your Tuesday / Wednesday night brightening up come and join us!
I've been volunteering for the past 3 years and it's still one of the highlights of my week. Everyone is super friendly and fun, laughter is always guaranteed."
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**Call for short term volunteers**
At Cre8 we run an alternative education project called Learning Plus. We get referrals from schools to work with young people who severely struggle in mainstream education. Many of our referrals enjoy doing practical, hands-on tasks. Unfortunately at the minute we don’t have the expertise within our staff team to offer many practical sessions. We’re looking for volunteers who enjoy making or fixing things to volunteer a couple of hours a week, for a short fixed period, to work on a specific project with a young person. This could be making a planter, some shelves or anything else – the limit is your imagination (and whether we can get our hands on the right resources!). You would be working with a young person in our well-equipped woodwork shed and be accompanied by a fully qualified youth worker. You don’t need any specific qualifications just some experience of wielding a hammer or screwdriver and enthusiasm. We envisage a project lasting 4-6 weeks so it would be a short term commitment and each session is 2 hours long. You would need to follow our volunteer recruitment process which involves an application form, references, DBS check and interview. If this is something that interests you please get in touch: info@cre8macclesfield.org or on 01625 503740 We particularly encourage those that have a specific passion in one of these areas as the young people get easily inspired by enthusiastic volunteers...
If you're interested, what to do next?
EMPLOYEE VOLUNTEERING
Does your company encourage employees to volunteer your skills and time for a number of hours per year? or on a short term basis during a particular week or month?
If so, there are just a few steps you or your company can take to become a regular or one off volunteer to help Cre8 get in early and support young people who haven't always had an easy start to life. Get in touch with the office at 01625 503740 or info@cre8macclesfield.org to talk about how Cre8 and your organisation can work together. |
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StoriesRead about the impact of volunteering on these Cre8 volunteers past and present; why they do it, what motivates them and what it means to be part of the Cre8 Team!
Click here to visit the Stories section In particular, look at Zoe's and Roger's stories. Our TeamFrom the wounderful, generous and passionate volunteers who are the backbone of everything we do, to the slightly crazy but dedicated and very patient staff team - everyone who has any involvement with Cre8 is a part of the team.
Click to visit the Our Team section |
Cre8 volunteers get involved in everything - here's a few pics.
Looks fun doesn't it?!
Looks fun doesn't it?!
