Help disabled care home in Rustington thrive

Minister for disabled people, Maria Miller, alongside Worthing West MP Sir Peter Bottomley during a visit to St Bridget's, earlier this year.

St Bridget’s Leonard Cheshire home, in Ilex Close, is appealing for a number of people to become ‘enablers’ with the charity. Those who take on the role would help encourage residents to enjoy a wide variety of activities.

St Bridget’s is particularly keen to find someone to cultivate the creative skills of some of the residents to produce models, or a volunteer who would bring new vigour to the game of chess.

The homee is also hoping to recruit someone to assist in running its small, on-site charity shop, which is open for just two hours each morning, with the exception of Sundays. There are vacancies for Mondays and Thursdays.

Applicants would be responsible for keeping the shop running.

For more information on these and other volunteering opportunities in the area, contact Derek Moore, Arun Volunteer Centre co-ordinator, telephone 01903 731223, email [email protected] or call in at the centre on the ground floor, Bradbury Centre, 1-5 St Martin’s Lane, Littlehampton, from 9am-4pm on Mondays and Thursdays and 9.30am-4.30pm on Wednesdays.

The Littlehampton ROC café bus is seeking volunteer drivers to help steer the service in the right direction.

The bus provides a place for residents, young and old, to meet and enjoy a cup of tea and a chat. It travels across the Littlehampton and Wick area most days.

Experience of driving a bus is preferable but not essential, as training can be given. Volunteers should be 21 or older and would need to be free for a couple of hours a week.

Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust is looking for those with their own car to befriend clients at Pepperville House, in Fort Road, Wick, and drive them to appointments and social occasions. Drivers need to be 18 or older with a full UK licence.

Home-Start Arun is searching for kindhearted and understanding people to become part of its team of home visiting volunteers.

Applicants would need to spare two to three hours a week in the Littlehampton area to visit people in their homes and offer advice and care. Training begins in October.

Wick’s Cancer United Shop is looking for a summer holiday volunteers to help run the store from Monday to Saturday, from 9am-5pm.