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Buddy Up volunteer

Richmond AID

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Become a buddy to a young person with a disability in Richmond or Kingston Borough. Work with the young person to build their confidence and self-esteem, accompany them while learning different life skills such as traveling and handling money, and have loads of fun!
BuddyUp aims to boost the young person's independence and self-worth, be social and have fun outings, and give respite to young people and parents/carers.

Youth Work,Employee & Group Volunteering,General & Helping

Organising & Planning, People Skills

We are looking for volunteers that are reliable, fun, caring, safety conscious, responsible and enthusiastic! You will need to be reliable and enjoy working with people. You might be interested in a career in social care or working with young people. Experience with young people is great but not essential.

In return we will cover all expenses on meetings (including DBS (CRB) cost). This scheme provides work experience and references. You will also be invited to our Buddy Social Days which have previously been at Chessington World of Adventures and adventure golf! You get to have fun outings and do new things, while being trained and working with young people!

A minimum of 2-3 hours a fortnight with your buddy. Matching your schedule to the availability of the young people and their families

Further location details may be provided below.

Beatriz Donoso

Location for role varies as we are meeting the young person and having fun outings! Families live in either Richmond or Kingston, and 1:1 outings usually happen nearby. Our fun outings have include bowling, dog cafes, minigolf, cinema and much more!

TW11 8HT

Email b.donoso@richmondaid.org.uk

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Disabled people are at the heart of what we do. We have a large number of disabled volunteers supporting our work. We welcome applications from disabled people to all volunteer opportunities available at Richmond AID. We work hard to ensure our volunteer opportunities are accessible and inclusive to disabled people. We will make reasonable adjustments where possible to include disabled volunteers

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