Volunteers

Volunteer Opportunities for January

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Here are the latest volunteer opportunities for Westmeath Volunteer Centre.

If you like the look of any of them, please contact us and we will connect you up with the organisations or if you have any questions, just let us know!

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Volunteer Code of Conduct

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Volunteer Code of Conduct

As a volunteer, I will:
1. Represent the organization with professionalism, dignity and pride, and be responsible for conducting myself with courtesy and appropriate behaviour.
2. Follow through and complete accepted tasks.
3. Seek training for my volunteer role by participating in meetings, self-study, or other training opportunities.
4. Display respect and courtesy for employees, other volunteers, programme participants, visitors, clients and property.
5. Respect the privacy of persons served by the organisation and hold in confidence sensitive, private and personal information except in cases of suspected child abuse or neglect which will be handled as per Irish law and programmeme policy.
6. Keep staff informed of progress, concerns and problems within the programme(s) in which I participate.
7. Keep personal opinions and actions separate from those made as a representative of this organization.
8. Avoid conduct, both on and off duty, which would jeopardize programme effectiveness.

And, as a volunteer, I will not:

9. Use vulgar or inappropriate language.
10. Solicit gratuities, gifts or bequests for personal or professional benefit.
11. Use or be under the influence of illegal drugs while volunteering.
12. Consume or be under the influence of alcohol or consume tobacco while volunteering.
13. Discriminate on the basis of race, colour, religion, sex, age, national origin, marital status or disability, and/or sexual orientation.

Do What You Love NOW!

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Very good watching to help you decide to do what you always wanted to do!! I grew up with this man, Philip McKiernan and he was such a funny and clever guy back then and he has kept that brilliance. He's speaking here about doing what you love to do and it's brilliant!!

Let your Passion Find You!!

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Is your passion within you?

Can you Care and Repair?

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Welcome to Catherine, our new Care and Repair Administrator!!

CR Westmeath I just wanted to take this opportunity to introduce myself! My name is Catherine Hynes and I am the new Volunteer Administrator for the Care & Repair Westmeath Service. This is an initiative that we have being trying to roll out in Mullingar and Athlone.

The purpose of Care and Repair is to assist older people to carry out necessary small repairs and improvements to their homes, enabling them to live independently in the community in increased comfort and safety. The Repair Service uses a pool of volunteers and handypersons to carry out small repairs and to complete minor home tasks for older people. Volunteers in effect provide a willing pair of helping hands to do a variety of small tasks that an older person may find difficult to do. The most common services required by older people are:

Minor gardening (e.g. mowing lawns)
Minor home decorating (e.g. interior painting)
Installing handrails
Tacking down carpets
Changing plugs, fuses and light bulbs
Installing security locks and chains
Hanging curtains
Installing domestic smoke alarms.

VCI Swirl A “job” is expected to take no longer than an hour, though many small tasks may be undertaken during the same visit. The service is free of charge; the client only pays for the cost of materials used. However, donations are always welcome.

I look forward to meeting with all of you in the next few weeks!

Now that we have existing and new volunteers in place and a dedicated Volunteer Administrator– we will be launching the Service countywide very shortly.

If you are interested or if you have already applied to Volunteer with Care & Repair Westmeath and have already/are submitting your forms – I would be most grateful if you could follow and complete this link.

If you feel you would be interested in volunteering with the Care & Repair Team – I would be grateful if you could follow and complete this linkand Bernadette will contact you and provide you with more information.

We will be having an induction evening for both existing and new Volunteers - who have completed and submitted Care & Repairs as follows: