Last updated: 3rd October 2011
Volunteers
TeaBook Book Groups Call For Volunteers
Do you love books literature? Enjoy working alongside others in small group settings? Have great communication skills? Could you inspire and motivate others about reading?
'Bookfeast' is looking for new TeaBook Group Leaders to lead book groups for older people in day care settings around Oxfordshire.
Bookfeast is an Oxfordshire based charity committed to providing opportunities for the young, the old and the disadvantaged of all ages to find support and encouragement to read for pleasure, to engage in creative writing and to have access to high quality book events.
Could you:
* Commit to leading sessions every 2 - 3 weeks for one hour during 2011, starting in April?
* Link with your local library to order, collect and deliver books to the group?
* Lead discussion with the group on the books read - encouraging all to take part, ensure all are heard and opinions shared?
* Carry out 2 hours in addition to each book group session to maintain basic records, evaluation and sourcing new titles to read?
Bookfeast would offer:
* One days training on skills for running the book group.
* Support from the TeaBook Coordinator
* Networking opportunities with other group leaders
* Up to £5.00 travel cost for each session
For more information please contact: contactus@bookfeast.net 01865 514149 or write to:
Bookfeast (TeaBooks) 301, Woodstock Road, Oxford OX2 7NY.
AgeUK
AgeUK are concerned that many elderly, or frail, or disabled people who are feeling "isolated" in their local communities, due to many local authority's proposed closures, or reductions in services, to community centres, libraries and local transport.
They have launched a campaign called "Give us an hour", asking for volunteers to give an hour a week or a month, or even a year to help the charity help those in need of their services. This could be working in community centres, to befriending an elderly person by visiting them in their home for a chat, to helping fundraise so that AgeUK can continue their work. If you think you could give an hour of your time visit AgeUK for more information.