Volunteering opportunities in Gazette area

Also, Arun Sunshine Group needs a new chairman of trustees to oversee the organisation’s work. The group provides regular breaks for carers by offering a safe and friendly befriending service and social programme for over-18s with learning difficulties.

The chairman’s role is to help organise annual meetings, liaising with the project leader to keep an overview of the organisation’s affairs as well as helping to give direction on policy making and monitoring any decisions made by the group’s board.

The chairman may, on rare occasions, also have to act as a spokesman for the group, so good communication skills, as well as former experience undertaking committee work, is desirable. For more information about the role, visit www.arunsunshine.org.uk

St Barnabas House Hospice charity shop, in Duke Street, Littlehampton, is looking for a friendly volunteer to help with the day-to-day running of the store. As well as working on the tills, the successful applicant will also be required to help keep the store clean and help monitor stock levels in the store.

Contact the Elderly needs a new co-ordinator to oversee the group’s work in this area. The aim is to tackle loneliness among older people in the Littlehampton area by organising free afternoon tea parties one Sunday a month for small groups.

The co-ordinator’s role is to help organise the tea parties and liaise with the older guests, volunteer drivers and hosts to ensure everything runs smoothly every month. The co-ordinator must also be able to drive one or two elderly guests to the tea parties one Sunday a month, and possibly host an afternoon tea party twice a year.

Drivers are also needed to collect up to three elderly people from their homes and take them to their host’s house for tea at 3pm. They should then be available to return them home at 5pm. Most drivers choose to stay at the host’s home with the guests during the tea, but this is not essential.

Finally, the Littlehampton Social Club for the Blind and Partially Sighted still needs drivers to collect one or two blind and partially-sighted club members to their afternoon social meeting, and take them home again afterwards. Drivers are asked to use their own vehicle, for which a mileage allowance is paid. Volunteers are also needed to help out at the meetings, on Tuesday afternoons.

For more information on these and other volunteer vacancies, contact Derek Moore, Arun Volunteer Centre co-ordinator, telephone 01903 731223, email avc@cvs-arunwide.org.uk 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.