About
Marmalade Trust® is an award-winning loneliness charity for all ages, specifically dedicated to raising awareness of loneliness. We are a small charity with a big mission – and the momentum is growing ...
Marmalade Connections - volunteer with an interest in Space sought!
Contact person
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Summary
Chat on the phone once a week to someone experiencing loneliness. and support them into new social connections... we have a lady with an interest in Space!Detailed description
Marmalade Trust is an award-winning Bristol based charity dedicated to raising awareness of loneliness and empowering people to make connections.
Role outline
As a Marmalade Connections Volunteer, you will support one or occasionally two of our project members (the people we support) for a period of up to 15 weeks. The role involves phoning a matched project member once a week for a friendly call lasting about 30 minutes plus researching potential social connections and activity opportunities to signpost the project member to.
You will receive training on how to build up a trusted telephone relationship with your project member(s) to enable you to support and signpost them to relevant services and activities. The aim of this project is to help reduce social isolation and loneliness and to support your project member(s) to discover lasting connections in their community.
Our project members
Our Marmalade project members vary in age and ability, but all experience social isolation and/or loneliness. Many of them are of an older age, and, as such, may have health problems / mental health challenges or limited mobility, impacting on their ability to go outside. They will also have very different interests and needs in terms of the social connections and types of activities they would like to be involved in to help them feel less lonely.
The role is telephone based so can be done from home or office.
Full role description and detail online - see our website.