Volunteering

Current Volunteer Opportunities from Vivacity:-

19 April 2011


For more information or for an application pack contact 01733 864775 or volunteering@vivacity-peterborough.com

Help in general

Vivacity fundraiser: Are you an outgoing and friendly person, who enjoys a challenge? You could join our successful and dedicated team of fundraising volunteers. We’re celebrating our 1st anniversary on Saturday 14 May 2011 from 11am to 3pm in Cathedral Square, Peterborough. Vivacity fundraiser’s are vital to our work, and help us to sell raffle tickets, assist with collections and hand out flyers at events.


Handy person volunteer: Handy person volunteers help the team with general maintenance around our sites. At present this role is helping at the Lido with cleaning, painting, tidying and gardening until May 2011. Ideal for a work placement.


NEW! Mystery Shopper volunteer: Mystery Shopper volunteers are regular members of the public using Vivacity services. Volunteers choose an activity at a Vivacity service, carry out the mystery shop, and record their experience on an evaluation form. Discretion and attention to detail is important in this role. Applications are encouraged from people from all walks of life, age and gender.

Vivacity champion: Our enthusiastic Vivacity Champions present and promote our services to relevant groups and associations in Peterborough.


Help in libraries


Mobile volunteer assistant: Our mobile library brings the library service to people who don't live near a branch, housebound people and residents of nursing homes. This lively volunteer role will assist on the mobile library by shelving books and delivering packages of selected books to individual homes or nursing homes. Volunteer needed on a Friday!


NEW! British Wireless for the Blind coordinator: Peterborough Libraries coordinate and distribute players on behalf of the British Wireless for the Blind Fund. Are you methodical, organised and interested in coordinating this important service for our readers? This role will involve contacting new referrals, organising a volunteer visit, returning faulty players and training new volunteers on the use of a player.



NEW! Conservation volunteer: This role doesn’t start until July 2011, but you can apply now. The Archives team acquires, preserves and provides access to archive materials relating to Peterborough for the use of present and future generations. As a conservation volunteer you will be trained to match documents from the Peterborough Development Corporation (PDC) archive to the right archival quality packaging. The archive collection tells the story of modern Peterborough from 1967 onwards when Peterborough was designated as a ‘new town’ and underwent a major facelift to make it a vibrant modern City capable of accommodating an extra 80,000 people.


Help at events

Heritage Festival Steward: Experience two thousand years of history brought to life all in a weekend! We are looking for volunteers to help steward at the Heritage Festival over the weekend of 25 & 26 June 2011.


Help with children

NEW! Summer Reading Challenge Champion: We are looking for enthusiastic volunteers to help encourage children to keep reading over the summer holidays through our exciting Summer Reading Challenge.

This annual Challenge involves children reading six books over the holidays, collecting giveaways and receiving a certificate if they finish six books. We need volunteers to visit primary schools and promote the Summer Reading Challenge, help to sign children up to the Challenge, help children find books they will enjoy reading and help to with the set up/ running of the award ceremony.

NEW! Mobile Museum activity volunteer: A two week placement from 16th May ideal for a work experience person particularly, year 10, or college. The role will assist the Museum Education Team with preparation for and delivery of activities for primary school children. Helping with our Mobile Museum project, a service visiting local primary schools, and helping children to engage with the curriculum through heritage and museum objects.

Bookstart Assistant: “Bookstart” is a national scheme which encourages parents to share books with their children from an early age. You can become part of the team by assisting with the collection/delivery of gift packs, delivering Story Time sessions to young children and parents/carers, and presenting gift packs after the session.


Story/ rhyme time volunteer: Story/ rhyme time sessions are fun and interactive and encourage parents/ carers to interact with their baby or toddler using stories, nursery rhymes and songs to share the play experience. Volunteers will lead fun and interactive sessions, and love working with children.


Help with sport

Hand Cycling Volunteer Coach/ Assistant: Every Wednesday and Thursday from 5-7pm, volunteers support Peterborough Adapted Cycling Scheme by coaching or assisting adapted cycling at Ferry Meadows or Peterborough athletics track and by helping participants to improve their fitness. This will involve supporting participants, advising on using equipment safely and ensuring participants have an enjoyable time.


Volunteer Health Walk Leader: Walk with Us promotes and encourages more people to get active in Peterborough. This is an exciting opportunity to lead a healthy walk every week in the Peterborough area of your choice. You will have an opportunity to meet a group of people regularly ensuring the walk meets the needs of the participants.


Volunteer Sports Assistant – FINS Swim Club: The FINS Disability Swimming Club teaches and supports children with disabilities to learn to swim. Supporting the Sports Development Team, this role will involve assisting the swim instructor with the delivery of sessions, supporting participants in the water and helping them to have an enjoyable time.


Help in our offices

Volunteer Walking Coordinator: Walk with Us promotes and encourages more people to get active in Peterborough. This important role will support Volunteer Health Walk Leaders to plan and organise local healthy walks, capture and record walk information and organise volunteer social meetings. The role will be split between two people.

Administration volunteer: We are looking for an administration volunteer to assist our Sports Development team with general office support, ideally one day a week at Peterborough Regional Pool. The successful volunteer will have good computer skills, organised and enjoy being part of a team.


Help with a reading group

Mental Health Reading Group Facilitator: Help facilitate a fortnightly reading group for adults with mental health issues. Reading is one of the simplest forms of relaxation for the mind and body. This is an informal shared reading group, for anyone dealing with mental health issues. Members of the group can relax and enjoy listening to poems or short stories being read aloud.

Children Reading Group Facilitator: Our volunteer facilitators support the Events team, by leading small groups of children aged between 7 and 11 year olds to engage in the love of reading, through the Children Reading Groups.

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