Bath Gateway Out and About provides age appropriate Social and Leisure Activities on a weekly basis for our members of 18 years plus who have many different kinds of disabilities.

Our aim is to help and support our members get out and about and experience some of the pleasures of life that others may take for granted.

Our club is looking for volunteers to help support our members to enjoy Social and Leisure Activities on a weekly basis, for example their programme will include: meals out; boat trips; cinema visits; attendingnight clubs and discos; panto; summer B-B-Qs; picnics in the park; pub visits; day trips; an annual holiday excursion; fundraising events and much more!

The weekly activities take place on Monday or Wednesday evenings between 7pm and 9pm.

Role Profile

Our shop volunteers play an integral role in the day-to-day running of our charity shops and the maximising of sales to support Bath Cats & Dogs Home. Whether you prefer working behind the scenes or on the shop floor in a customer facing role there are plenty of tasks to get involved with.

Your activities could include:

• Assisting and serving customers on the till
• Providing excellent customer service on the shop floor
• Creating attractive displays and assisting with the visual merchandising of the shop
• Receiving donations from the public and promoting our Gift Aid scheme
• Assisting with the processing of donated stock, including sorting, steaming and hanging of items
• Other daily tasks including cleaning, tidying, dusting and hoovering

The George Street shop is our retail hub as it is also home to our E-Commerce operation. The friendly team working at George Street are happy for potential volunteers to explore the areas that are of interest to them, so if you love researching books or obscure bands, possibly discovering that a donation could raise hundreds for us by being sold online, then perhaps you'd enjoy working within our E-Commerce team! 

About You

You will be a motivated and enthusiastic individual with a love for animals. Good communication and customer care skills are key to a successful charity shop so the ability to work as part of a team and with the general public is desirable. There is a manual handling element to the role so this should be considered on application. The hours are flexible although we ask for a regular commitment of a few hours each week.

Full in person training will be provided for donation sorting and retail guidelines, as well as our waste management and recycling processes.

About the Role

Based in bucolic Claverton Down, we are lucky to have several large green spaces in which to excercise our dogs - and a brilliant cat garden for our feline friends! This takes a lot of looking after though and we are keen to hear from potential volunteers who would like to take on a specific area of our site as a project, tending to it on a weekly basis and seeing it flourish throughout the summer. There are several areas to choose from, including our Enrichment Paddock, Behaviour Cabin Garden and Pet Cemetery. There are also general gardening tasks to crack on wtih, such as sweeping the Summer House, mowing and strimming, and tackling weeds in the kennel block paddocks. 

This is a rewarding role as you will be able to see at the end of your shift the results of your hard work! You will also have the satisfaction of knowing that you have directly impacted the lives of the animals in our care by creating a safe outside space for them to enjoy off-lead play time and exploration, keeping their bodies active and their brains engaged. 

About You 

You will be a motivated and enthusiastic individual with a love for animals. This role requires elements of manual handling so you will need to be physically fit and this should be considered upon application. You will be a team player who is able to carefully follow instructions and relevant health and safety requirements for the position, for example the use of appropriate PPE. 

Bookmark Reading Volunteers directly support children who are at risk of leaving primary school unable to read well. Struggling to read can contribute to poor educational attainment, lower literacy in adulthood and has even been linked to a lower life expectancy. You can help ignite the joy of reading and change a child’s story.

In this volunteer role, you’ll have 30-minute one-to-one reading sessions on 2 days per week. This is across 6 weeks with a child aged between 5 and 11 years old. Each session will involve reading stories and playing literacy games on our secure online platform or face-to-face. You’ll book your reading programme through Bookmark’s Volunteer Hub and select sessions on days and times that work with your commitments.  

Volunteers tell us they find the role flexible, impactful and rewarding. More than 60% also say their own wellbeing has improved because of volunteering with Bookmark!

The role is also set up for you to bring your own personality into the sessions and get to know your reader’s interests. Volunteers report they enjoy providing the child one-to-one attention and being able to introduce a book, comic or poem for the first time that they love! 

Bookmark pays for your DBS checks, provides online training and offers volunteers ongoing support so that you can deliver fantastic and fun reading sessions, enabling all children to discover the joy of reading. 

Bookmark are proud to offer inclusive volunteering and work to deliver a greatly accessible volunteering role. Many of our reading programmes take place online, so there’s no need to travel or access a physical location to volunteer with Bookmark. Our application process and training are all completed online, and we have a helpful team at hand to offer support with technical or access requirements.

Bookmark is committed to promoting a diverse and inclusive community. We aim to create an environment in which all individuals can make best use of their skills, free from discrimination or harassment, and in which all decisions are based on merit.

To become a Bookmark Reading Volunteer, you should be: 

• 18 and over, and currently living in the UK.
   
• able to provide enthusiasm, encouragement, empathy and patience.
   
• free to commit to 30-minute one-to-one reading sessions on 2 days per week, across 6 weeks.
   
• able to provide two references for your application (for safeguarding reasons)
   
• prepared with access to a PC, laptop, Chromebook or iPad with a webcam and internet connection, and feel relatively comfortable using technology (for online reading programmes).

We are Bath Gateway Out and About, supporting adults with learning disabilities to get `out and about ` and enjoy social pleasures that you and I probably take for granted .

We run two clubs per week for about thirty members, one on a Monday night, the other a wednesday night, both running from 7-9pm .

We are looking for people to showcase their talents to a really enthusiastic audience . Doesn't have to be for two hours , but maybe up to an hour (or less) on an ad hoc basis , but if you do a Monday , we wouldlove it if in the same week , you could repeat your act on the Wednesday , this way , none of our lovely members miss out .

We will consider anything; singers, choirs, poets, actors, dancers, artists, musicians, magicians, bands, dj's, fitness instructors, painters and anything that we have missed. If you think you would like to perform with us and for us, please get in touch. We know within the University of our lovely City there is so much talent, we just need to find you!

Further details ping us an email office@bgoa.org.uk or follow the instructions on this site 

Really look forward to finding you budding talents out there

Thank you

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Bath marshall

Help our walkers finish their journey by guiding them on their final mile. You’ll be the face they remember as they triumphantly conquer the last few steps of the challenge! This role will involve marshalling the route along the canal, through Bath, and up into Sydney Gardens to the finish line.

Bath cheer squad

We need big cheers and big energy for our squad of Bath cheerers! You’ll be celebrating our incredible walkers as they cross the finish line. We’ll provide the airhorns and banners, all we ask is that you bring yourself!

Bath refreshments

Our walkers will need refreshments after their big finish! We’ll need volunteers to man our refreshment stall to help hand out drinks to our walkers at the finish line.

Why we want you

You’ll be part of the team supporting our fundraisers and events. We need your enthusiasm and cheering abilities to help organise and motivate those taking part. You’ll be part of the mission to ensure event attendees have the best possible experience, raising vital funds to find a cure and improve life for everyone affected by Parkinson's

What you will be doing

• Marshalling, ushering or cheering participants or event guests
• Running registration, information or merchandise stands
• Answering queries from event participants and providing information on the work of Parkinson’s UK
• Liaising with the event organiser to ensure things run smoothly, reporting any issues or concerns
• Event set up and packing down
• Most event champions spend two to three hours with us

The skills you need

• Friendly and welcoming personality
• Happy to be part of a team
• Flexibility and willingness to change tasks as the event needs

We are looking for volunteers to assist with the upcoming DSA2025 conference that will take place 25 - 27 June at the University of Bath. We invite you to be a part of the conference volunteer team!

Whether on the registration desk, advising on basic presentation technology issues or giving people directions, you will play a vital role in ensuring that the 500 or so delegates are welcomed to the conference.

In March, once the panel timetable is set and Early Bird registration has opened, we will send you a link to a form that gathers your data and preferences. Among other things, this form will ask which events, plenaries and panels you are keen to attend. We rely on your preferences when constructing a rota that allows you either to work at most of the events/panels you are interested in, or have free time to attend them. 

Your help will be needed throughout the conference. Please see the conference website to find out more about the event.

The volunteer tasks will include:

• rotating shifts at the reception desk (usually one 2.5-3 hour shift a day per person)

• looking after the presentation Audio-Visual equipment of panels (very basic care: usually helping presenters to transfer files from USB sticks to the presentation computer, ensuring the projector is on and that the sound is working, ensuring zoom is running and recording etc.).

• ushering and guiding at the beginning of events and breaks and afterwards

• operating the roving mics during keynote plenary Q&A sessions, running errands, helping with the Book Exhibits.

On the days before the conference, 24 June this year, we will train all volunteers on using the app for reception check-in, managing the support of panel rooms, and knowing the way around conference information such as the timetable, venue etc. The training usually takes about 2.5 hours.

In return for your help at the conference, we will offer you full access to all the sessions when not working; tea/coffee and lunch for the days of the event; a volunteering certificate; a souvenir conference t-shirt. Note that because the conference is hybrid, you will have access to any recordings post-conferences for panel sessions, events and plenaries also indefinitely. Volunteering not only gives you access to some very interesting presentations/discussions, but being part of a conference organising team is good work experience  - and quite good fun! You will of course have the opportunity to meet and network with a diverse range of scholars and practitioners from across disciplines and around the world.

So, if you are interested and available to work as part of the event team, please get acquainted with the conference and the DSA via the links provided in this email and complete this form to state your interest.

Looking forward to working with you!

Meeting and greeting patients.
Offering support to patients or loved ones.
Supporting patients at organised courses/workshops.