VOLUNTEERING AT MULTI-INGUAL COMMUNITY RIGHTS SHOP

Volunteering in Multi-Lingual Community Rights Shop is a rewarding and challenging experience and provides a wide range of opportunities to develop your skills.

Volunteering is not just about giving; it’s a two-way exchange of skills and experience. Volunteering is giving your time for free. The role of volunteering is to extend a service or improve its quality.

The possibilities include:

- Gain new skills

- Build confidence, self-esteem and gives structure to life

- Learn a new area of work -Build up contacts to help find a paid job

-Stops your skills going rusty

-Get a reference

-Meet new people - Improve your language

- Get used to an office environment

-Ease yourself back into work

- Help people

- Experience different cultures

- Have fun!

- Be trained as a bi-lingual advice and information worker to provide advice and information to people from black and ethnic minority, migrants, asylum seekers and refugee communities who live, work or study in the boroughs of London whose first language is not English and help people enforce their legal rights and empower people to take matters into their own hands.

- Learning reception and telephone skills in a busy office.

- Undertaking administrative duties to support the advice work and advisers.

- Learning and becoming more familiar with the use of Information Computer Technology (ICT), using Windows Office & Advice & Information Management System (AIMS) data entry systems, Internet etc.

- Carrying out community or legal research - Assisting in community based initiatives and organising cultural events. Attend partnership and network meetings, conferences and promote the needs of black and ethnic minority, migrants, asylum seekers and refugee communities who live, work or study in the boroughs of London whose first language is not English.

- Fundraising.

- Use and develop your language/s skills.

The volunteers in Multi-Lingual Community Rights Shop are incredibly diverse coming from different ethnic and social backgrounds and covering every age group. You may wish to volunteer full time or part-time or a few hours per week. Multi-Lingual Community Rights shop seeks volunteers with specific skills. Multi-Lingual Community Rights Shop will offer full training to volunteers whose only qualifications are reliability, commitment and a non-judgemental attitude. Whatever your skills or your previous experience it is worth exploring what options exist within the Multi-Lingual Community Rights Shop.

If you would like to volunteer with Multi-Lingual Community Rights Shop, please read information material about the Multi-Lingual Community Rights Shop to identify opportunities with particular that suit you. Ensure that it is the opportunity you are looking for - what will the work involve, is training provided, can they accommodate the times when you can volunteer, will expenses be paid?

If you suit with Multi-Lingual Community Rights Shop, then apply by filling a volunteer job application form and attach your CV or qualifications. After you apply, you will be informed of your acceptance/refusal. If accepted you will be called for an interview.

For a volunteer application pack please contact: Djafer Osman, Bi-Lingual Advice & Information Coordinator, 213 Camberwell Road, London SE5 0HG, Phone: 020 7703 4442, Fax : 020 7703 8393, E-Mail: mlcrs213@yahoo.co.uk