Communiteer befriender Lindsey heads to Tokyo to judge Olympics
Our befriender Lindsey Fraser has recently left for Tokyo where she will be one of the judges for the diving at the Olympic Games. The world-renowned diving coach/judge volunteered for us when the event was postponed last year to keep busy and help us with our mission to eradicate loneliness and isolation. Olympian Lindsey, who... Read More
Big thanks to Virgin Media 02 who have provided a grant for Hello Southampton
We’re really grateful to Virgin Media 02 who have provided a grant to assist our Hello Southampton telephone project which helps lonely and isolated people in Southampton. Thanks to the donation from Virgin Media 02 we gave our Hello Southampton volunteers a tea party last Sunday to say thank you to them for all they... Read More
Our Vintage and Craft Fair was a great success!
Our Vintage and Craft Fair last Saturday went really well! A massive thank you to all our volunteers, stallholders, musicians, customers and St Mark’s Church, for a fantastic event! The rain just about held off and it was a really lovely occasion!
Volunteering for Communicare is a family and sporting affair!
Communicare befriender and world-renowned diving coach/judge Lindsey Fraser from Southampton is celebrating this week after one of her young divers brought home silver and bronze at Junior Europeans in Croatia. Leon Baker, 16, from Shirley, who specialises on springboard, took silver on three-metre in the individual events and bronze in Synchro on three-metre with partner... Read More
Our Vintage and Craft Fair is fully booked for sellers – so there’s going to be lots of fantastic stalls!
Our Vintage and Craft Fair on Saturday 3rd July at St Mark’s Church, Archers Road, SO15 2LU, 10.30am-2pm is going to be great as we’re now fully booked for stallholders and have a fantastic selection of sellers attending! Weather permitting there’s going to be live music outside and a BBQ! Please bring cash, and a... Read More
Call for students to volunteer while at university to help boost careers
A Southampton student who’s been contributing to her adopted community through charity work supporting the city’s vulnerable says volunteering boosted her career and she’s now urging others to volunteer too. Chloe Naegeli started volunteering for Communicare soon after she came to read English and French at the University of Southampton in 2018 and officially joined... Read More
It’s Loneliness Awareness Week 2021
We’re praising the benefits of volunteering as part of national Loneliness Awareness Week (June 14 – 18, 2021) and we’re urging others to join too. Wendy Summers (pictured) assists our charity in our mission to support the city’s lonely and isolated and was paired with one of our service users, Audrey Goodlud, and they’ve become... Read More
We’re Hiring a Mental Health Network Administrator
We’re looking to hire a Mental Health Network Administrator to join our friendly team. The role is for 20-25 hours per week on a 9 months fixed term contract. Do you have excellent communication and computer skills? Are you caring, flexible and able to work with a wide range of people? If so, you could... Read More
We’re Hiring an Assistant Coordinator
We’re looking to hire an Assistant Coordinator to join our friendly team. The role is for 25 hours per week under the Government’s Kickstart Scheme. Do you have excellent communication and IT skills? Are you caring, flexible and able to work with a wide range of people? If so, you could be just the person... Read More
Our wonderful volunteers have won an award!
It’s Volunteers Week next week and we’re delighted to announce our Communicare Volunteers have received this award for outstanding volunteering from Southampton Voluntary Services. We nominated the whole team because of their amazing response to the covid crisis. Our volunteers were very quick to respond to our requests to volunteer in new ways, for example... Read More