Volunteering Made Easy

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Permalink Reply by Penny on March 25, 2010 at 6:16

If you would like to know about volunteering opportunities in Haringey, contact HAVCO www.havcoharingey.org.uk

tel 020 8880 4032 or email ao@havcoharingey.org.uk to set up an appointment with the HAVCO Volunteer Centre.

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Permalink Reply by Hugh on March 25, 2010 at 6:49

Thanks for the link Penny.

I notice that the HAVCO website advises people wanting to volunteer that they should first register with do-it.org.uk and then contact you. Do you know if that advice is still current?

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Permalink Reply by Penny on March 25, 2010 at 13:06

I am not sure what the official process is now - I volunteered with HAVCO 4 years ago now. However I am still in touch with one or two officers there now and I am aware that they have a dedicated Volunteers Unit. I went through a formal process of Interview, completion of an application form and once they had checked my references, I was given the option of working directly for HAVCO or with one of the many voluntary organisations in the Borough.

It was a thoroughly enjoyable and positive experience especially meeting and the varied groups and organisations based in Haringey. They were particuarly good at empowering and giving help to groups with little resouces or know how.

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Permalink Reply by Oxfam Books & Music on March 26, 2010 at 12:40

You do not have to register with HAVCO or anyone else. At the Crouch End Oxfam Books & Music Shop most of our volunteers come to us directly.

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Permalink Reply by Liz on March 27, 2010 at 13:33

There was a great scheme run in a school I worked at not so long back whereby local businesses released workers for a few hours to either help hear kids read or give 'back up' to the PE department by say supervising a game of 5 a side. The long term benefits included good relations with local business leading to work placements for our kids and a changing view from the 'outside' that local secondary pupils were not all knife wielding maniacs.

I'm wondering, Mark, with the tighter rules about contact with kids (I think all the volunteers were CRB checked though) whether such schemes happen as much? Volunteering in local schools *seems* to have got much harder, with schools not being particularly interested in getting involved and all the negative press around working with kids in general.

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Permalink Reply by Oxfam Books & Music on July 11, 2012 at 20:51

Slightly off-topic, but relelvant:

IF WOULD YOU LIKE TO HELP OXFAM…

 

We need a responsible person to run our Oxfam Books & Music shop on Sundays 11-5.

 

This is a voluntary unpaid position but it does bring the rewards and satisfactions of making a big contribution to the local community and to Oxfam’s work around the world

 

You would receive training and experience in all aspects of shop management.

 

You would need to be over 18, be able to supply two references and be able to commit for at least the rest of this year.

 

For more background take a look at our website www.oxfamcrouchend.co.uk

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