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Join our Hear to Help team and support service users to get the most from their hearing aids. Help provide hearing aid maintenance and advice as well as saving people a potential trip to the hospital! This is your chance to join our Hear to Help team at Action on Hearing Loss Scotland and support service users on how to get the most from their hearing aids. You will act a useful link between service users and the local health services as well as carrying out basic hearing aid maintenance and support. You will receive training from local audiology services in addition to a full induction process. We also ensure that you receive ongoing support from your project manager throughout your time with us. Having this service available reduces the need for people to travel to hospitals for basic hearing aid support and has significantly benefited local NHS audiology departments by enabling audiologists to focus on more demanding tasks. We're very ambitious about shaping a better future for the 945,000 people who are deaf or have a hearing loss across Scotland. You can help us make a real difference to people affected in your community by sharing your skills, experience, energy, enthusiasm and commitment. We couldn’t help the people we do without the support of our wonderful volunteers. In our recent volunteer satisfaction survey, 91% of volunteers said they would recommend us as a good place to volunteer, and 94% agreed that they found their volunteer role motivating and interesting.

Join our Hear to Inform and Connect project to help us provide information to older people with hearing loss, to ensure they feel better informed, and empowered to take action to manage their hearing loss. Our team of Information Officers and trained volunteers provide information in community settings across Scotland. You will be delivering deaf awareness sessions, giving presentations and talks, and raising awareness for Action on Hearing Loss Scotland. Constant support will be provided by your project manager and team in addition to training and induction sessions when you begin. In our recent volunteer satisfaction survey, 91% of volunteers said they would recommend us as a good place to volunteer, and 94% agreed that they found their volunteer role motivating and interesting. We're very ambitious about shaping a better future for the 945,000 people who are deaf or have a hearing loss across Scotland. You can help us make a real difference to people affected in your community by sharing your skills, experience, energy, enthusiasm and commitment. We couldn’t help the people we do without the support of our wonderful volunteers

Join our ‘Hearing Forces’ project which will be providing life-changing support to veterans aged 65+, their families and carers, with hearing loss or tinnitus. You will help by providing hearing aid support, maintenance and advice. You will be providing life changing support to veterans specifically by providing hearing aid maintenance and support, information and advice, hearing screening, promoting helpful equipment and signposting to other services that can help them. It can take as little as 2hrs of your time per month to make a difference. You will receive ongoing support from both the project manager and your local co-ordinator to receiving training from local audiology services, learning new skills. In our recent volunteer satisfaction survey, 91% of volunteers said they would recommend us as a good place to volunteer, and 94% agreed that they found their volunteer role motivating and interesting.

In this role, you will be fully trained and supported in providing technical assistance to hearing aid users, and helping them and their families to access support services.

This role involves talks educating a wide range of people on deafness, hearing loss and tinnitus.Tasks include becoming familiar with the range of RNID information and local services, answering questions from the audiences and distributing relevant information leaflets.

As part of a committed team you would have an active role in raising the profile of barnardos as well as providing excellent customer services. This has many elements that would enhance any existing skills as well as providing an opportunity to learn new ones.

Craft Town Scotland is looking to recruit Gallery Assistants to join our dedicated team of volunteers at the Barony Centre, West Kilbride. Gallery Assistants will work in the Barony Shop, serving customers, providing information on exhibitions and helping visitors with enquiries. All volunteers are provided with training and support, and receive benefits in return for their time, including; invites to exhibition openings, priority booking for workshops and special social events for volunteers. We are looking for Gallery Assistants for a commitment of one shift a week, Monday-Saturday, 10am -1.30pm or 1.30pm-5pmor Sundays 12-5pm.

Craft Town Scotland is a local charity which has achieved national and international recognition as an innovative and creative base for artisan craft studios, high quality craft exhibitions, educational workshops and other events. The parent company West Kilbride Community Initiative Limited holds the assets of CTS in trust for the benefit of the village in accordance with the aims stated in the Articles of Association.

Our main work is provided during three hours each week. We meet every Friday morning from 9.30-12.30 starting in Garratt Gardens which is in the quarry opposite the Community Centre. You may enter through the galvanised gates and walk to the bottom of the road. Volunteers may work at a level which suits them and can choose from a range of activities such as planting seeds and hanging baskets to digging holes and planting trees. We also value our social contact and meet during the morning for a well earned cup of tea. You do not have to be an expert! Many of us are learning as we go. Our volunteers maintain many community gardens. We cover the Station Planters, the Memorial Garden, Catlinn, Old Man’s Rest, the Barony Centre, the Cherry Orchard planters, the Boyd Orr Garden along with 9 other areas in the village. We also have two fields. One is planted as a wood and the other is being developed into a wild flower meadow and community orchard. We have established more sustainable planting and have introduced a range of perennial shrubs and plants. We top up during the summer with colourful annuals some of which we grow ourselves. We are keen to invite other volunteers to join us. If anyone would like to be involved in our work your assistance would be much appreciated.

The Scottish Centre for Personal Safety is a multi-award-winning charity based in Ardrossan. They provide confidence building Personal Safety courses to a variety of groups and vulnerable people both in North Ayrshire and across Scotland...and they are looking for a Trustee to join their Board. Could it be YOU? The Scottish Centre for Personal Safety runs their confidence building Personal Safety courses from their Barony St John Centre on Princes Street, Ardrossan but also provide their training across Scotland via their 10 volunteers. There are currently NO paid members of staff working with this charity. All instructors, including the Operations Manager, are volunteers. Being a charity, they need a Board of Trustees to operate and this Board meets 4 times per year (January, April, July and October), usually on a Friday morning, for around 2 hours each time so it's not a huge time constraint. The next Board meeting is scheduled for Friday 24th January. We are looking for people who are or have been involved with the people we service - female survivors of violence, children, Sensory Impaired, LBGT, Ethnic Minority groups - so people with a Women's Aid, Rape Crisis, Social Services, Sensory Impairment Team, Police background would be ideal. If you don't fit into those careers but think your background links with those whom we service, or if you feel you could be an asset to our charity, please get in touch. We look forward to you joining our team.