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To promote and lobby for equality acroos all areas of disability, raise awareness of group and increase membership to allow the voice of people with disabilities to inform decision that have an impact on their lives.

This research role involves using your own lived experienced of eating disorders in a positive way to raise awareness, fight against stigma and campaign for change. Working as a team, ‘Seen but not Heard’ eating disorders collective advocacy have developed training around eating disorders, two films, awareness events, attended conferences, responded to/developed consultations, and have produced leaflets and resource packs.

This role involves using your own lived experiences of eating disorders in a positive way to raise awareness, fight against stigma and campaign for change. Working as a team, 'Seen but not Heard' eating disorders collective advocacy have developed training around eating disorders, two films, awareness events, attended conferences, responded to/developed consultations and have produced leaflets and resource packs.

The role involves using personal experiences of living with Psychosis as part of CAPS collective advocacy group (Experiences of Psychosis); to raise awareness of Psychosis, promote understanding, fight against stigma and campaign for change. The group have made films, produced a training workshop, attended conferences & are working on awareness raising around psychosis in the local community and beyond.

: Helping people to speak up and be involved in decisions that affect their lives. Supporting people to make their views and wishes known at meetings and appointments. Advocacy Highland provides support to adults with mental health issues, including dementia as well as people with learning difficulties.

Why we want you. Can you help young people build essential life skills? Community Education delivers free confidence-building workshops to over 100 ,000 people every year and we want you to help us in our mission to provide life-saving and life-changing education to help our communities become more resilient. You will empower young people by delivering workshops on topics such as ‘Everyday First Aid’, ‘Coping with Challenges’ and ‘Empathy and Migration’. This is a wonderful opportunity to represent the British Red Cross in your local community and gain experience in the voluntary sector, whilst working with a supportive and inclusive team. What you will be doing/ - Deliver a range of interactive workshops to young people in schools and youth settings. - Promote our Community Education workshops within your community. What’s in it for you. -The opportunity to make a difference to the lives of young people in your community. -The opportunity to develop your existing skills, whilst gaining new skills and experience within the voluntary sector. -The opportunity to share your skills and knowledge to help your community. -You will meet new people and be part of a supportive and inclusive team. -You will have access to the British Red Cross internal Jobs Site. For more information visit: https://volunteer.redcross.org.uk/opportunities/36478-youth-education-volunteer-orkney-2022-08-22

The mission of Citizens of Cyber is to bring together cyber-specialists and connect individuals and professional bodies, to support and assist in cyber-education and the development of safer online practices, aimed at people of all ages and knowledge levels. ​We wish to use our professional network to keep up to date with the activities of hackers and online scammers and produce resources for use by schools, groups, and individuals, whether online, offline, or through face-to-face sessions. ​We want cyber-users to know how to protect themselves and others online, whilst being confident and making the best of their online interactions, and still remain within the confines of the law while doing so. In addition, we aim to ensure that support is available for anyone affected by negative interactions online and to help anyone who finds themselves in cyber-related difficulties. Our volunteers are at the heart of what we do and it is important for us to ensure we provide the best working environment possible. Volunteers work remotely during hours they set, our team focuses on ensuring clear deliverables are identified and agreed to allow volunteers to manage their own time. Meetings with the whole team will be held regularly to make sure everyone knows each other and work together. Duties and Responsibilities would be, and are not restricted to the following: • Ability to engage and support clients such as professionals, young people and vulnerable adults with a wide range of diverse needs; • Assist in the planning, monitoring, and management of the creation of training material; • Design and conduct effective training programs to a broad range of clients; • Assist in the preparation of educational/training materials to support training programs; • Conduct evaluations to identify areas of improvement; • Build relationships with a range of stakeholders across the children and young people’s workforce and beyond; • Liaise with Youth Engagement Officers, Volunteer Coordinator and Resource Developers regularly; • Facilitate opportunities and events to promote cyber awareness skills and provide the facilities to create an open forum to feedback into the development of Citizens of Cyber; • Train and support a range of stakeholders to develop sustainable and meaningful engagement activities for children and young people; and • Report back to the CEO and Board on a regular basis. To apply, please proceed to the charity website - https://www.citizensofcyber.org.uk/vacancies and click on "Apply Now". This will take you to the application form. Once filled in, a member of team will be in touch shortly.

We are Citizens of Cyber, our mission is to bring together cyber-specialists and connect individuals and professional bodies, to support and assist in cyber-education and the development of safer online practices, aimed at people of all ages and knowledge levels. We wish to use our professional network to keep up to date with the activities of hackers and online scammers and produce resources for use by schools, groups, and individuals, whether online, offline, or through face-to-face sessions. We want cyber-users to know how to protect themselves and others online, whilst being confident and making the best of their online interactions, and still remain within the confines of the law while doing so. In addition, we aim to ensure that support is available for anyone affected by negative interactions online and to help anyone who finds themselves in cyber-related difficulties. Our volunteers are at the heart of what we do and it is important for us to ensure we provide the best working environment possible. Volunteers work remotely during hours they set, our team focuses on ensuring clear deliverables are identified and agreed to allow volunteers to manage their own time. Meetings with the whole team will be held regularly to make sure everyone knows each other and work together. Duties and Responsibilities would be, and not restricted to the following: - To establish volunteering requirements of Citizens of Cyber, in discussions with CEO; - To create, in conjunction with CEO, volunteer role descriptions; - To recruit volunteers into agreed roles, in conjunction with CEO; - To ensure PVG clearance for potential volunteers; - To run volunteers’ meetings, to gather views, to deliver generic training and to agree activities; - To create, in conjunction with CEO, a risk assessment for each volunteer role; - To create and deliver 1:1 induction, start-up training and ongoing training and refreshers to individual volunteers, incorporating CEO and/or others at need; - To deliver public sessions as one of the volunteers; - To meet for 1:1 sessions with CEO, to ensure ongoing fitness for role and smooth delivery of role, with SMART targets set as appropriate; - To manage volunteers and assist them with resources required for a successful completion of projects/tasks; - To ensure the resolution of potential conflicts and come to agreement - To deliver and finalise website contents, in agreement with CEO and volunteers; - To maintain and administer the website; - To generate and revise webpages; and - To propose ideas on strategy improvement, content and training delivery. - You will be speaking/teaching/ working with young children and vulnerable adults as a volunteer of citizens of cyber.

We have great volunteering opportunities at Angus Independent Advocacy (AIA). We are looking for Angus residents to become Citizen Advocate's. An ideal Citizen Advocate will share our core purpose of supporting people to have their voice heard and uphold our Values. They must be aged 18+, are non- judgemental and have good communication and listening skills. All Citizen Advocates undergo a PVG check and must provide 2 references. We also ask that all new Citizen Advocates complete our preparation course. The purpose of this course is to give the person a better understanding of what Citizen Advocacy is and the principles and standards that underpin our work, focusing on; inclusion, confidentiality, non-discriminatory practice and adult protection. Main purpose of the role: - To connect with people who may have a learning disability, mental ill health, acquired brain injury, have dementia or are an older person. - Independent advocacy is a 1:1 equal partnership between an advocacy partner and citizen advocate. The citizen advocate will bring the concerns of the partner into ordinary life and help the partner to connect with their local community. A Development Worker will support you until you are matched with an Advocacy Partner. Our volunteering is unique as once you are matched as an equal Partnership, there are no set hours it is up to the two people when they want to meet or talk. Have a look at some of our Stories for examples of what may be involved in a Partnership. To become a Citizen Advocate or to find out more information, register your interest here or call our office on 01241 434413.

This role involves using personal experience as a peer worker/volunteer to raise awareness/promote understanding about peer work. Previous discussions in the group have included pay and peer work, opportunities to progress in peer work, language in peer work and employer’s understanding of peer work. Currently the group is seeking to conduct peer research exploring people’s experiences as a peer worker and how this changes over time.