For more information about any of the opportunities listed below, please contact Alison at the Volunteer centre. Call 01748 822335, or
Home-Start Home Visitor
If you are a parent, or have parenting experience, you could offer practical and emotional support to a young family. As a Home-Start Volunteer you will be part of a team and receive an induction. Home-Start has an accredited training scheme.
Our supported families, like our volunteers, come from all walks of life, and may be finding it hard to cope with parenting for diverse reasons. Their problems may be due to a multiple birth, bereavement, disability, post natal illness or social isolation. We support any family with young children, which asks for our help.
You should be able to commit at least 6 months of your time to Home-Start, and you will have to attend our free Volunteer Preparation Course, with other new volunteers, before meeting your family.
Walk For Health - Walks Leader
Help Richmondshire people get fit! Volunteer as a walks leader, once or twice a month, leading groups around Richmond or Catterick. Enjoy our picturesque local scenery while you all feel the benefit of regular exercise
No formal skills are needed, just good health, a love of walking and a wish to help others enjoy walking for health reasons. Beginners’ walks are less than an hour and on good level footpaths around the towns, and on surrounding field paths. The walks are relaxed and friendly but moving at a pace brisk enough for individuals to feel an increased heart rate and faster breathing.
Swaledale Festival Volunteers
Join the team preparing for the 2011 Swaledale Festival - 28th May to 11th June. Volunteers are now being recruited to act as stewards on guided walks and at concerts. Can you offer admin 
help in the office or box-office in Hudson House? Or can you volunteer to help with transport for festival performers? Volunteers also act as hosts, offering bed and breakfast accommodation to the artists and performers.
