Helpline & Advocacy --- Volunteering
Our helpline services are expanding, and so is our advocacy service!
Friendly skilled listeners needed, in and around Exeter!
This is a great opportunity to really help those worst affected by rural isolation and homophobia/transphobia. Could you provide a friendly listening ear on a regular basis? We know this could make a huge difference.
Alternatively, if you have relevant experience, would you like towork with us as a volunteer community advocate, helping people to fight their corner against discrimination?
Contact us!
If you feel you’d like to be involved as a volunteer in the helpline or in the advocacy service, please let us know! It could be that you feel your talents would lie in working on the helpline, maybe you’re better at working face-to-face or maybe you’d like to offer vital support in the office. And of course there’s nothing to stop you moving between projects if you wanted some variety! Whatever it is that you feel you’d like to do to help would make a huge difference to us as an organisation, and an even bigger difference to our clients.
Training and support
We will, of course, provide full training and supervision for our volunteers so you will be supported by our staff every step of the way. Intercom would also pay travelling expenses --- there is after all no reason for you to be out-of-pocket if you’re giving your time to help your community! You wouldn’t even have to give a lot of your time --- we will find the best arrangement for everyone involved.
What sort of time is involved?
Training for the helpline takes place over two days, which we arrange to suit potential volunteers. If all involved are happy to go forward at the end of the training, then we ask yhat the new volunteers start with the intention of committing to at least six hours a month, and at least six months of working with us (there's quite a lot of time and expense involved in training volunteers).
Go for it!
So if any of this appeals to you and you would like to do something rewarding with those spare couple of hours a week, then please do contact Tess on 01392 678744 during office hours, or e-mail me: Tess (at) intercomtrust.org.uk.
We’re more than happy to have a chat if there’s anything you’d like to ask us before you make your mind up. If it goes to answerphone just leave a message and we’ll call you back as soon as we can! We look forward to hearing from you!