VOLUNTEER COLUMN: Help needed to capture Littlehampton’s oral history

The new recruits will be given training in oral history techniques, before working with a partner to interview people and record their memories.

For more information on this and other volunteer vacancies, contact Derek Moore, Arun Volunteer Centre co-ordinator, telephone 01903 731223, e-mail [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.

Other volunteering opportunities this week include:

Home-Start Arun needs more volunteers to visit families with at least one child aged under five. Visits take place weekly in the family’s own home. Volunteers offer support to families facing a wide range of issues, such as loneliness and isolation, ill-health, depression, bereavement, relationship difficulties, multiple births, special needs, first-time parenthood, domestic violence or disability.

The next preparation training course starts in November at Home-Start’s offices in Arundel. Volunteers need to be parents themselves or have 24-hour parenting experience such as through being a step-parent or foster carer.

Ford Prison has a vacancy for a play area volunteer, to supervise and provide interesting/appropriate activities for visiting children within the play area of the social visits hall. Volunteers greet and talk with the children and their parents and organise activities including playing with toys and use of craft materials, etc.

The Citizens’ Advice Bureau at Littlehampton needs volunteer receptionists to cover shifts from 9am-noon, Monday and Friday, 9am-4pm, Tuesday/Wednesday and Thursday, 9am-7pm. Duties include greeting clients, ensuring they fill in a form prior to interview and keeping the reception tidy.