Get Involved / Volunteer for Changes mental health charity in Stoke on Trent, Staffordshire
Get involoved and volunteer is part of our 12 step approach. Changes encourages service users to ‘pass on’ their recovery to others in need, i.e. based on our understanding that the ‘best way to hold onto something, is to give it away…’
Consequently, we offer accredited training and support to volunteers, (and like-minded people), who wish to perform volunteer roles within our mental health and wellbeing organisation here in Stoke on Trent.
If you are interested in training or volunteering for Changes – for further information please call 01782 411433 or email us at volunteering@changes.org.uk
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Volunteering
In keeping with CHANGES user led ethos, users are encouraged to get involved in management, administration, and service delivery.
Management: membership of CHANGES Executive Committee is open to all service users, (currently all Executive members are users). The Executive Committee is the management body responsible for making decisions, planning and reviewing the organisation’s work.
Administration: opportunities exist for users to volunteer as Office Workers, involved in the day to day running of the organisation. Roles include – Funding and Development Worker, Public Relations Officer, and Social Secretary, (currently all volunteer office workers are service users).
Service delivery: opportunities exist for users to volunteer as Group Co-ordinators, who work in pairs to run CHANGES mutual help groups.
View our Volunteer Q&A’s here.
Contact: volunteering@changes.org.uk
Training
Training Changes provides a wide range of accredited training programmes for its volunteers and service users.
Co-ordinators Training Programme: is designed to train people with first or second hand experience of mental distress, or a genuine interest in recovery to co-ordinator Changes weekly mutual-help groups.
Bi-monthly Co-ordinator Training courses: designed to share and develop good practise in delivering Changes service.
Volunteers training programmes: designed to enable volunteers involved in management, administration, public relations and partnership work, fundraising etc to develop the skills necessary to perform these roles.
User Training Programmes: designed to expand upon and reinforce recovery concepts detailed in Changes 12 Steps.
Contact Tory: training@changes.org.uk
Make a Donation
As a registered charity, some of Changes work is dependent on donations from the general public for which we are most grateful.
Changes service offers an innovative and structured approach to recovery from mental distress, if you would like to make donation to enable us to continue this work, send it to:
Changes Freepost
Mid 19786
Stoke-on-Trent
ST4 4AL
For further information regarding making a financial contribution contact the finance person on 01782 411433 or email stoke@changes.org.uk
You can make a donation via Paypal here which will be gratefully recieved.
Setting up a Changes project in your area:
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