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Food Train Connects provides a one to one grocery shopping services for older people who are no longer able to manage independently, through age, ill health, frailty or disability. Our Connects Shopping Friends service is a fantastic way to make an impact on the lives of older people in your community. Our aim is to support older people to eat well, age well and live well. Becoming a Food Train Connects Shopping Friend is rewarding and it makes a huge difference to people’s lives. It’s amazing the impact that regular support with grocery shopping can have on someone who is isolated or lonely. If you want to make sure that an older person is able to live well in their own home this is a great opportunity to do so. The Role: • Contact the older person you are matched with on a regular basis, usually weekly, to obtain their shopping list, carry out their shopping and then deliver to their home, putting away if necessary. • Submit brief records, receipts for payment and to report any matters of concern to staff • Keep within the boundaries of the role • To inform Food Train Connects Staff of any accidents, incidents or complaints • To maintain confidentiality • To represent Food Train in a professional manner to our members and the wider community

Food Train Connects provides a one to one grocery shopping services for older people who are no longer able to manage independently, through age, ill health, frailty or disability. Becoming a Food Train Connects Shopping Friend is rewarding and it makes a huge difference to people’s lives. It’s amazing the impact that regular support with grocery shopping can have on someone who is isolated or lonely. If you want to make sure that an older person is able to live well in their own home this is a great opportunity to do so.

Waxcaps will be resurveyed again later this year, looking for those poorly understood undisturbed grassland loving mushrooms again. This is independent voluntary activity with folks going out with an app or other survey stuff and recording any waxcapps they see within the Cairngorms National Park for us. Please contact us for more information if this interests you.

Twinflower and one-flowered wintergreen translocations: The intent is to help recovery of these 2 endangered pinewoods species by takings cuttings/plug plants and introducing them to new/currently occupied but struggling sites to help improve health of small isolated patchy populations. We’re well into this work now, having collected and grown on many twinflower cuttings already and surveyed one-flowered wintergreen sites. This summer we’ll be working with volunteers to complete our surveys and planning for reintroductions of both species. Then in Autumn, the hope is that we will be planting out cuttings of twinflower and perhaps also one-flowered wintergreen plants at some of the identified sites with volunteers.

We are hoping to improve our understanding of mountaintop habitats while involving people in the process. The fungal DNA munro survey was really successful last year, and there is ambition to repeat and expand that this year, so there should be plenty of opportunity for keen walkers to volunteer for that again. We are also tentatively looking to design a mountain habitat assessment app, which will allow anyone who is walking in the mountains to provide useful scientific data on these understudied environments. Still early in development, but we may need volunteers to help test later in summer.

The John O Groat Trail relies on volunteers to help improve the coastal paths and environment on the East Coast of northern Scotland. It links into the North Coast 500 route and encourages tourism and environmental preservation. Volunteers work on improving access to paths and tracks, but they can also help with litter picks, beach cleans or one-off activities periodically. Mostly conducted in Spring/Summer months and at weekends, howevr Volunteers are welcome to get in touch all year around and support this group.

The Home Support service supports people affected by HIV and/or Hepatitis C to take care of their homes. When illness, mobility or side-effects of medication makes housework too difficult we can offer the support that enables people to feel more comfortable with their environment. You will work with the client to achieve goals that they have set by assisting them with cleaning and decluttering, as well as one-off tasks such as gardening or DIY (dependent on volunteers’ skills).

Elgin & District Men's Shed is a place for men to create, chat, and connect with one another. This is an exciting time to join the Shed as it seeks new premises (and continues to share its talents too, by making some very helpful products for other charities in the local community). The treasurer's role is to help oversee and monitor the financial running of the group and to make sure that good accounting practices are followed. For an informal chat about the Shed, this volunteer role, or more about how you could join the Shed to get involved, please do get in touch. A warm welcome awaits.

We are looking for volunteers of all ages and backgrounds with enthusiasm being more important than experience. We have a variety of roles within Rowlands such as handy person, mini bus driver. Media and advertising or just people helping with the drop ins or workshops that we have running. We are happy for people to come once a week, once a month and are happy for people who would be willing to share a skill or experience for a little while as part of a programme of activities.

Be a dear and volunteer! If you have a couple of hours a week to spare, or you are currently thinking of branching out to the care sector and would like to know whether it is something for you, why not volunteer at the South Lodge? Bring your skills and knowledge to our residents - art, crafts, health and wellbeing, seated yoga, low impact exercises, seated exercises, guitar strumming, lead a choir, any sharable skill is welcome. Expenses for any equipment or material used during the sessions will be reimbursed. Develop positive relationships with staff, visitors, and residents and participate with activities and events. - No prior training is needed, except for an enthusiasm to be with our residents. - Induction training is provided. - PVG checks needed and will be paid for by social care.