Wednesday, 16 February 2011

New year, New start, New You: Volunteering Into Pathways


In January, Volunteer Centre Oldham launched a new project: Volunteering into Pathways. The aim of the project is to support individuals who are unemployed to gain practical work experience and new skills through volunteering, to then become more employable. It is a 12 week project and individuals will volunteer once a week in a small team of 4 / 5. The projects consist of Construction roles at Springhead Community Centre, Administration roles at Duke of Edinburgh and Youth Work roles at Positive Steps.

Alongside the volunteering, participants will also attend a 6 training sessions, which will cover; pre - volunteer course, self care and employability skills training. In addition to all of that they will be going out on a team building challenge, where they will be rock climbing, abseiling and lots more in the great outdoors of Dove Stones in Greenfield.

Throughout the 12 week programme, participants will develop their own portfolios which will include certificates from the training and photographs from volunteering. They will also receive a reference from leaders at community projects will put them in an excellent position when applying for jobs.

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