Ability Net's network of volunteers provide free tech support to enable older and disabled people to make full use of their home technology. They are seeking volunteers in Moray to join their IT Can Help network to support people with their IT or computer needs. This role involves contacting and supporting clients, feeding back on progress, and supporting the local Co-ordinator with promoting the IT Can Help service in the local area. Volunteers will take all necessary precautions to ensure that both volunteer and client stay as safe as possible, and volunteers and clients will wear face coverings and social distance where possible.
If you like to help others, have good IT and computing skills, knowledge of standard operating systems and software and the ability to communicate well, please consider volunteering with our growing in Moray! Roles are flexible and can fit around your schedule, too.
Touchdown Memorial Home for Horses is a charity that provides rescue, rehabilitation and rehoming for horses and ponies in need. We welcome volunteers at all levels in our work from trustees to admin, from fundraising and compliance to 'on the ground' opportunities such as yard work, field work, animal care, rehabilitation, education, work with young and older people. This is a great way to make new friends two and four legged, learn new skills and have fun in the open air in beautiful countryside.
Murton Trust is a registered charity and Murton Farm, Tea Room and Nature Reserve is also a popular visitor attraction based 2 miles outside of Forfar, Angus and currently has opportunities for anyone interested in volunteering.
Do you have a few hours to spare? Would you like to get involved in helping Murton Trust?
As an adult volunteer with us you can share a particular skill you have whether that be organisational providing office support, photography social media, estate management & animal handling. However experience or specific skill set is not needed as we will provide training to volunteers. If you have the ability to work independently this is highly advantageous however should you require a bit of support this is also available for limited number of people too. If you are interested or would like to find out more please get in touch.
The club runs for 2 hours each week. Tutoring is on a one to one basis if possible and can cover all types of device from laptops running different versions of Windows to different types of tablet (IPAD, andriods. Hudl). The subjects that our members wish to learn range from an introduction to computing to browsing the internet to find information plus online shopping.
Please specify which Club you are interested in joining when you apply.
PC Build Department - Will be involved in refurbishing PC’s starting with an empty shell and reloading all hardware/software and operating systems. Will learn how to image machines and build to a standard to pass to Quality Control for checking. Other duties are moving stock from cages, separating PC equipment and sorting items as required
Aberdeen Climate Action (ACA) is seeking Social Media Lead volunteers to help with the crucial work in our Social Media team. Our website and social media provide information on climate change, sustainable living, and relevant events. The purpose of social media team is to guide the creation of new posts, to unify the organisation’s social media presence.
ACA is a volunteer led organisation, which focuses on educating and prompting action on climate change in the North East of Scotland.
As a Social Media Lead Volunteer, you’ll find yourself helping with
• Primarily promoting the climate café each month.
• Managing the messages to social media accounts.
• Promoting events.
• Creating graphics.
• Making relevant content.
• Creating Facebook events for the café.
• Promoting sustainability articles/ideas via our social media platforms while liaising with other groups such as XR and Friends Of the Earth.
You’ll be working alongside a diverse collection of individuals; from students to retirees; lawyers to oil and gas professionals; local Aberdonians to peoples from across the globe.
ACA wants to offer you an interesting and valuable opportunity that can help bolster your CV, develop or gain skills; make new friends; or just do your part to help the environment. No matter what, your time and the work you do helps ACA complete its valuable work in the North East.
For more information or any queries, please email our volunteer support team: recruit@aberdeenclimateaction.org
A Refurb Assistant at the Turing Trust will be taught all of the procedures we implement to restore a donated PC into a brand new elearning machine. The main tasks involved in the role include: computer repair, computer wiping, data management, PC installation, stock management and a variety of others. In this opportunity you will learn a huge amount about PC repair, maintenance and data management.
For application details, please go to :
https://turingtrust.co.uk/how-to-help/volunteer/apply-to-volunteer/
An new exciting volunteer role to support unpaid carers in East Dunbartonshire to gain confidence in using smart technologies, computers and other new technologies.
The Switched On project is designed to empower unpaid carers by teaching them how to use new technologies to improve their lives. This is an exciting and fun project that will improve your teaching skills and understanding of technology. Your role is to contact carers remotely, identify and deliver training that the carer needs. This will be conducted over a limited number of sessions.
We are looking for someone to take responsibility for managing our website. The role will involve reviewing our existing website (on Wordpress) and ensuring that it is regularly backed up and kept up to date and secure as well as regularly refreshed with new content. Here is our website: https://www.scottishcommunitiescan.org.uk/
Setting a strategic plan for the different web pages.
Monitor and suggest ways to increase engagement on all pages.