For more information about any of the opportunities listed below, please contact Alison at the Volunteer centre. Call 01748 822335, or
2010 Dales Festival of Food and Drink
We are looking for volunteers who will help out preparing the site during the week before the festival, 26th to 30th April, Quite labour intensive, it includes erecting animal pens, putting up signage, carrying tables and hay bales, filling in rabbit holes.
On Friday volunteers are needed to staff the trade entrance, and give directions.
Over the Festival Weekend itself, volunteers are needed for a variety of tasks supporting the traders, staffing entrance and offices, selling , clearing tables and conducting a visitor survery.
Shifts are 9.30 to 12.30, 11.30 to 2.30pm, 1.30 to 4.30pm
Deer Shed Festival volunteer
Have fun for a day by volunteering to help at this new, local, music and arts festival. There are all sorts of volunteering opportunities in return for a ticket to the family friendly event.
Opportunities include: site supervisors, ticket sellers, runners, litter pickers, activity assistants, catering helpers.
Applications are welcome from individuals, charity and community groups, - anyone who would like to get involved. Contact us also if you are a performer, or would like to run a stall.
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 2010 Swaledale Festival - 29th May to 13th 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.
HELPING VULNERABLE YOUNG PEOPLE IN NORTH YORKSHIRE: become a NIGHTSTOP volunteer
Could you help a young person who is temporarily homeless by providing a bed for one night?
York Nightstop Charity is one of around 60 Nightstop Schemes around the UK. It is a very successful emergency response to the problems of homelessness amongst young people. In rural North Yorkshire this is a bigger problem than most people think. This situation can arise for a number of reasons, including family breakdown, eviction from tenancy, fleeing violence or abuse.
Nightstop’s project in Hambleton and Richmondshire provides emergency accommodation for vulnerable young people aged 16-24 (inclusive) in the homes of trained volunteers. Hosts provide a bed, the chance for a bath or shower, an evening meal and breakfast for one night at a time. Young people are referred for accommodation by a variety of local organisations, including the District Councils and the young people’s Personal Advisers from Connexions.
Volunteers come from varied backgrounds, but all offer a breathing space and valuable support to the young person at a crisis point in their lives. According to one family, who currently host with 2 young children, “so many people say they’d like to help the homeless but haven’t got the time. Giving up your spare room for an occasional night takes very little effort but is so rewarding”.
Volunteer drivers provide transport from the organisation making the referral to the host’s house, and back the next morning
To find out more about Nightstop or if you are interested in volunteering, contact Wendy Horsman on 0870 2406921 or write to Hambleton and Richmondshire Nightstop, FREEPOST NEA10382 York YO1 8ZB.
