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There are multiple volunteer opportunities available, a great way to be involved in an exciting and vibrant festival! Week prior to Festival (w/c 15.06.20, weekday evenings): Support Facilities Team with building up Festival area site eg marquees, bar, Herras fencing, chairs, tables. During Festival (evening of Friday 19.06.20; all day Saturday 20.06.20 & all day Sunday 21.06.20): Facilities support – support Festival team and vendors with supply of tables/chairs etc, set out chairs at stage area, set up for specific events/performances, keep festival site clean and tidy. Stewards – be available to ensure Festival area is kept safe for visitors, provide information to visitors, provide escort for parades etc including Saturday evening Viking torch-lit parade. After Festival (AM/PM Monday 22.06.20): Support Facilities Team with breakdown/clearup after event – collect tables/chairs, return items to storage, general clean up of Festival area to return it to normal.

About Chest Heart & Stroke Scotland Everyone has the right to live life to the full. After a diagnosis of a chest or heart condition or a stroke, many people experience fear and isolation and struggle with the impact on their lives. Chest Heart & Stroke Scotland won’t stand for that. The care and support we deliver every day ensures everyone can live the life they want to. About Our Services Across Scotland, over 1 million people – that’s one in five of the population – are living with the effects of serious chest and heart conditions and stroke. By 2021 we will double the number of people we support so that more people can live life to the full. We will do this by providing vital advice, information, and support through our No Life Half Lived Support services across Scotland. These services include our Advice Line, Stroke Nurse Service, Rehabilitation Support Service, Health Information, Health Defence, Education and E-learning, Financial Advice & Support and our Peer Support Groups. About the Role Rehabilitation Support Volunteers support people who have had a stroke to develop autonomy and confidence in self-management, enabling them to fully engage with their community and activities of their choosing. The service follows a pathway from hospital to community and can be delivered in a one-to-one and/or a group setting. The service can be delivered to provide specified person-centred communication support for those with a communication difficulty and/or to support a specific physical or everyday task. About Volunteering at CHSS Volunteers are vital to the success of No Life Half Lived strategy. We will double the number of volunteers that we have to reach everybody who needs us and help us to raise funds. Our Volunteer Steering Group will make sure that every volunteer is supported so they have the best experience and become ambassadors for CHSS in their local communities. CHSS is committed to ensuring that every volunteer has the best experience throughout their volunteering journey and has been reaccredited with the Investing in Volunteers quality standard.

Chest Heart & Stroke Scotland Community Hubs are located in the heart of local communities, unifying our activities and presence and bringing together CHSS Retail, Services and Fundraising. In essence, they provide a ‘front door’ for everything we do. Supporting a ‘Healthy Community’ (striving to be Mentally Healthy, Physically Healthy, Financially Healthy, Socially Healthy & Nutritionally Healthy), your CHSS Hub Team will engage with and host organisations that provide local opportunities for our service users and the wider community. This whole ‘Community’ approach will ensure that CHSS service users are at the heart of everything we do in our CHSS Community Hubs. Every Hub event, meeting or activity will support a CHSS Healthy Community in one or more of these five key areas. Quite simply, we cannot operate our Community Hubs without the amazing support of our volunteers. The time, support and the work they do is vital to us and the people we help. By supporting our Community Hub, you can make a difference to people and their families in Scotland and help to create a Chest Heart & Stroke Scotland Healthy Community. About Your Role It is vital that to the success of the Community Hub that we ensure that the stakeholders who engage with us: • are welcomed • understand the resources that we have to offer • have a positive experience • have the opportunity to feedback on their experience • make suggestions for future engagement The role therefore includes: • welcoming customers/ members of the public to the Community Hub and the Coffee Corner • signposting users of the Coffee Corner and Community Spaces to other areas within the hub e.g. advice line, donation station and community rooms • assisting users with the online booking of Community Spaces and being confident in showing the Community Space available to potential users • recording customer feedback on their experience of using the Community Spaces • recording customer feedback on suggestions for future engagement • keeping the tables and shelves in the area tidy

Chest Heart & Stroke Scotland Community Hubs are located in the heart of local communities, unifying our activities and presence and bringing together CHSS Retail, Services and Fundraising. In essence, they provide a ‘front door’ for everything we do. Supporting a ‘Healthy Community’ (striving to be Mentally Healthy, Physically Healthy, Financially Healthy, Socially Healthy & Nutritionally Healthy), your CHSS Hub Team will engage with and host organisations that provide local opportunities for our service users and the wider community. This whole ‘Community’ approach will ensure that CHSS service users are at the heart of everything we do in our CHSS Community Hubs. Every Hub event, meeting or activity will support a CHSS Healthy Community in one or more of these five key areas. Quite simply, we cannot operate our Community Hubs without the amazing support of our volunteers. The time, support and the work they do is vital to us and the people we help. By supporting our Community Hub, you can make a difference to people and their families in Scotland and help to create a Chest Heart & Stroke Scotland Healthy Community. About Your Role It is vital that to the success of the Community Hub that we ensure that the stakeholders who engage with us: • are welcomed • understand the resources that we have to offer • have a positive experience • have the opportunity to feedback on their experience • make suggestions for future engagement The role therefore includes: • welcoming customers/ members of the public to the Community Hub and the Coffee Corner • signposting users of the Coffee Corner and Community Spaces to other areas within the hub e.g. advice line, donation station and community rooms • assisting users with the online booking of Community Spaces and being confident in showing the Community Space available to potential users • recording customer feedback on their experience of using the Community Spaces • recording customer feedback on suggestions for future engagement • keeping the tables and shelves in the area tidy

About the Role Drivers support people living with our conditions by transporting them to and from our regular weekly services in a specified area. Your level of involvement will be arranged to suit you and service users mutually. Drivers are added to a rota for our weekly services, but relief drivers may be required to cover where necessary. About Volunteering at CHSS Volunteers are vital to the success of No Life Half Lived strategy. We will double the number of volunteers that we have to reach everybody who needs us and help us to raise funds. Our Volunteer Steering Group will make sure that every volunteer is supported so they have the best experience and become ambassadors for CHSS in their local communities. CHSS is also accredited with the Investing in Volunteers quality standard. About Chest Heart & Stroke Scotland Everyone has the right to live life to the full. After a diagnosis of a chest or heart condition or a stroke, many people experience fear and isolation and struggle with the impact on their lives. Chest Heart & Stroke Scotland won’t stand for that. The care and support we deliver every day ensures everyone can live the life they want to. About our Services Across Scotland, over 1 million people – that’s one in five of the population – are living with the effects of serious chest and heart conditions and stroke. By 2021 we will double the number of people we support so that more people can live life to the full. We will do this by providing vital advice, information, and support through our No Life Half Lived support services across Scotland. These services include our Advice Line, Stroke Nurse Service, Rehabilitation Support Service, Health Information, Health Defence, Education and E-learning, Financial Advice & Support and our Peer Support Groups.

About Chest Heart & Stroke Scotland We are Scotland’s health charity supporting people and their families across Scotland with chest, heart and stroke conditions. We want to make sure life living with a chest or heart condition or after a stroke is a life lived to the full. We will fight for better health for everyone and work to make sure there is help and support in every community. Our new strategy No Life Half Lived will address the unmet needs – social, emotional and physical – of people and their families who are living with effects of our conditions across Scotland’s communities. Not everyone living with our conditions gets the care and support they need, and this is what makes living day to day harder. Help us to ensure no life is half lived in Scotland. Join Clan CHSS and make your time matter by volunteering to fight for better health in Scotland. About the Role Rehabilitation Support Volunteers support people who have had a stroke to develop autonomy and confidence in self-management, enabling them to fully engage with their community and activities of their choosing. The service follows a pathway from hospital to community and can be delivered in a one-to-one and/or a group setting. The service can be delivered to provide specified person-centred communication support for those with a communication difficulty and/or to support a specific physical or everyday task. How you can make an Impact As volunteer contribution is so important to CHSS, here are some of the ways that you can have an impact: • You can ensure there is No Life Half Lived for people living with chest, heart and stroke conditions but supporting them in our peer support groups. • You will be an ambassador for CHSS and raise the profile of the organisation. What’s in it for me? We want your volunteering experience to be as rewarding for you as it is for CHSS. Here are some examples of the benefits to you in this role: • Meet new people • Improve health and wellbeing • Learn and develop new skills • Use your existing skills • Help you gain experience if you’re looking for a route to employment or study • Help you fulfil requirements to achieve an award • Have fun!

This is an opportunity to undertake a satisfying and rewarding role. As part of our team of volunteers, you will collect and transfer donations for the shop, providing an extremely useful and appreciated service to the Charity. The role includes: • Collecting donated stock • Delivering stock to the charity shop • Transferring donations between shops • Put collection bags out in the community to be collected We currently have around 50 shops/ community hubs across Scotland. Our shops and hubs help us raise funds so we can provide our services to the people who need us. Every one of our stores relies on a team of volunteers to help run it and support our staff. Quite simply, we cannot provide our services or raise funds without the amazing support of our volunteers.

This is an opportunity to undertake a satisfying and rewarding role. As part of our team of volunteers, you will collect and transfer donations for the shop, providing an extremely useful and appreciated service to the Charity. The role includes: • Collecting donated stock • Delivering stock to the charity shop • Transferring donations between shops • Put collection bags out in the community to be collected We currently have around 50 shops/ community hubs across Scotland. Our shops and hubs help us raise funds so we can provide our services to the people who need us. Every one of our stores relies on a team of volunteers to help run it and support our staff. Quite simply, we cannot provide our services or raise funds without the amazing support of our volunteers.

This is an opportunity to undertake a satisfying and rewarding role. As part of our team of volunteers, you will collect and transfer donations for the shop, providing an extremely useful and appreciated service to the Charity. The role includes: • Collecting donated stock • Delivering stock to the charity shop • Transferring donations between shops • Put collection bags out in the community to be collected We currently have around 50 shops/ community hubs across Scotland. Our shops and hubs help us raise funds so we can provide our services to the people who need us. Every one of our stores relies on a team of volunteers to help run it and support our staff. Quite simply, we cannot provide our services or raise funds without the amazing support of our volunteers.

This is an opportunity to undertake a satisfying and rewarding role. As part of our team of volunteers, you will collect and transfer donations for the shop, providing an extremely useful and appreciated service to the Charity. The role includes: • Collecting donated stock • Delivering stock to the charity shop • Transferring donations between shops • Put collection bags out in the community to be collected We currently have around 50 shops/ community hubs across Scotland. Our shops and hubs help us raise funds so we can provide our services to the people who need us. Every one of our stores relies on a team of volunteers to help run it and support our staff. Quite simply, we cannot provide our services or raise funds without the amazing support of our volunteers.