Are You Kind Hearted? Then Join Our Team Supporting Vulnerable People With Regular Check-in Phone Calls
We’re looking for kind-hearted people to volunteer as part of our ‘Hello Southampton’ team supporting vulnerable people with regular check-in phone calls. Could you regularly give one hour a week, between 9am and 1pm Monday-Friday? In this time you could help up to five people feel less lonely, and reassure them that someone is looking... Read More
Our Volunteer Lindsey Is On BBC Radio Solent!
Delighted to hear former Olympian and volunteer Lindsey Fraser chat about her telephone befriending experiences on BBC Radio Solent last Friday. You can listen to the feature here (forward to 22.35).
We Urgently Need Volunteer Drivers – Can You Help?
We’ve launched an appeal for volunteer drivers to come forward to take vulnerable people to urgent medical appointments. Our service users are unable to attend their appointments unaided, but it’s essential for their health that they do, so we’d love to hear from people with cars to get in touch. Kate Laver, Events & Communicare... Read More
Could You Be A Befriender? Your City Needs You!
Could you be a telephone befriender? We desperately need more volunteer telephone befrienders to help our isolated service users. As people ‘return to normal’ with work and social commitments, understandably, many can’t commit to making phone calls. Manager, Annie Clewlow says: “We are currently in touch with more than 600 of the city’s residents and... Read More
We Need Volunteer Drivers To Get People To Urgent Medical Appointments
We’d love to hear from drivers with their own cars to volunteer to transport our service users to urgent medical appointments throughout the summer and beyond. Communicare needs help with the collection and return of isolated and often lonely residents to their homes when they have GP appointments and hospital outpatient clinics to attend. Hannah... Read More
Jenny Adds-up To Make A Great Volunteer With Her Bookkeeping Skills
It’s Volunteers Week 2020 and we are so grateful to all our Communiteers and Trustees who give their time freely for the benefit of others and our charity. Jenny Coombs is married to fellow volunteer, Andrew and first volunteered with Communicare in November last year. She explained: “I offered to help with administration and as... Read More
Our Shielded Trustee Julia Helps Us Embrace Technology While Also Developing New Projects
Julia Painter, who is one of our Trustees, is in the 1.5 million currently being shielded because she has Crohn’s Disease and is on immunosuppressants, but she is making the most of her lockdown by helping our charity embrace technology and develop new projects. She says: “I could develop severe complications if I catch COVID-19,... Read More
Leila Supports Elderly And Vulnerable In Her Community By Becoming A Communiteer
Leila Andrews from Southampton answered our recent plea to help elderly and vulnerable service users and has joined our army of volunteers supporting the lonely and isolated in her community. The 35-year-old, mum-of-one, started volunteering with Communicare a couple of months ago. She says: “I saw an article and Facebook post about Communicare and attended... Read More
Highfield and Portswood Drop Ins, Tea Parties and Lunch Clubs Postponed
Due to the recent government advice regarding coronavirus, regretfully our Portswood and Highfield volunteer drops ins that were planned this month have been postponed until further notice. Our lunch clubs and tea parties have also been postponed. To keep up to date with the government advice regarding coronavirus please see www.gov.uk/government/topical-events/coronavirus-covid-19-uk-government-response
Highfield and Portswood Drop Ins
Do you have a kind heart? Could you regularly spare an hour to help someone and make their day? We have drop in sessions coming up in Highfield and Portswood to find out more about volunteering with us. Come and have a chat with us at one of our drop ins – we’d love to... Read More