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Join our friendly team, learn new skills and increase your well-being and confidence, as you help us make a positive difference in young adults lives. You will assist in our employability programme for disadvantaged young adults. We will be learning traditional woodland management techniques and green woodworking skills, whilst working together as a team. Sessions will also include cooking on an open fire, coppicing trees, making shelters and generally having a good time in the woods. Sessions will run weekly on Tuesday mornings in Galashiels Policies and on Thursday mornings at Drygrange Community Woodland rear Earlston, where we will grow, harvest and cook our own food. All sessions take place outdoors, in all weathers, although we always have a dry place to shelter. Participants will complete an Independent Learning Plan, recording their achievements, such as safe tool use and maintenance. This will have the potential to be used as evidence towards Youth Achievement Awards, if appropriate. Certificated training (Food Hygiene, Outdoor First Aid and Forest School Level 1) will be available to suitable candidates.

The treasurer plays a vital role in ensuring Headway Borders remains financially stable and maintains the longevity of the group. Headway Borders delivers vital support to those with brain injury, their families and carers. Duties include overseeing, and presenting budgets, accounts and financial statements for approval. Being assured that the financial resources of the organisation meet its present and future needs. Ensuring that the charity has an appropriate reserves policy. The preparation and presentation of financial reports to the board. Ensuring that appropriate accounting procedures and controls are in place. Monitoring the organisation's investment activity and ensuring its consistency with the organisation's policies and legal responsibilities. Ensuring the organisation's compliance with legislation. Ensuring that the accounts are prepared and disclosed in the form required by funders.

Our shops are very much part of their local community and volunteers help us make a real difference to children’s lives. Joining a fantastic team of volunteers, you’ll be helping to raise vital funds for children in the UK and overseas and telling our customers about the great work Save the Children does What you’ll be doing? • Welcoming and serving customers, including handling money. • Sorting donations and stock. • Making the shop look attractive, clean and tidy. • Helping with promotional events at the shop. • Following all shop processes, including registering Gift Aid donations

Working with the marketing consultant who delivers marketing communications for Energise Galashiels Trust, you will be regularly sourcing good content and posting on the Trust’s Facebook Page. This role includes these tasks: 1. Plan content for 1 year 2. Source images/video (including creating your own) 3. Write posts 4. Post on FB 5. Review

Looking for a flexible volunteering adventure offering fun, friendship and amazing experiences? Our helpers gain just as much out of Scouting as our young people. Share skills, learn new ones and make a valuable difference. Volunteering with us is easy, fun and flexible – how much time you give is completely up to you. Whether you help out once a fortnight, month or term or just at special events or camps, there’s a role you can play. No experience is required as full training is given and you’ll learn lots of new skills as well as sharing some of your own. Our groups also offer ‘Volunteer Taster Sessions’ to help you discover if Scouting is for you with no obligation to continue. Our Activity Helper roles assist the delivery of the Scouting programme. It’s designed to offer girls and boys a dynamic range of fun activities, challenges and experiences by providing a structure of badges and awards. The children and young people are aged between 6 and 18 and take part in Beavers, Cubs, Scouts and Explorer Scouts sections. Activities often include local community projects, arts and crafts, recycling and environmental pursuits as well as exciting outdoor adventure and camping experiences. Being a helper with Scouts also offers the chance to build on personal skills, like communication, confidence and leadership. Teamwork is at the heart of everything we do, and by facing new experiences as part of a team you’ll make friends for life. Whatever your background or the time you can give, you’ll be made to feel welcome and supported in Scouts. Contact us now to find out how your skills and interests could make a valuable difference to young people’s lives as a helper with Scottish Borders Scouts.

Looking for a flexible volunteering adventure offering fun, friendship and amazing experiences? Our helpers gain just as much out of Scouting as our young people. Share skills, learn new ones and make a valuable difference. Volunteering with us is easy, fun and flexible – how much time you give is completely up to you. Whether you help out once a fortnight, month or term or just at special events or camps, there’s a role you can play. No experience is required as full training is given and you’ll learn lots of new skills as well as sharing some of your own. Our groups also offer ‘Volunteer Taster Sessions’ to help you discover if Scouting is for you with no obligation to continue. Our Activity Helper roles assist the delivery of the Scouting programme. It’s designed to offer girls and boys a dynamic range of fun activities, challenges and experiences by providing a structure of badges and awards. The children and young people are aged between 6 and 18 and take part in Beavers, Cubs, Scouts and Explorer Scouts sections. Activities often include local community projects, arts and crafts, recycling and environmental pursuits as well as exciting outdoor adventure and camping experiences. Being a helper with Scouts also offers the chance to build on personal skills, like communication, confidence and leadership. Teamwork is at the heart of everything we do, and by facing new experiences as part of a team you’ll make friends for life. Whatever your background or the time you can give, you’ll be made to feel welcome and supported in Scouts. Contact us now to find out how your skills and interests could make a valuable difference to young people’s lives as a helper with Scottish Borders Scouts.

Looking for a flexible volunteering adventure offering fun, friendship and amazing experiences? Our helpers gain just as much out of Scouting as our young people. Share skills, learn new ones and make a valuable difference. Volunteering with us is easy, fun and flexible – how much time you give is completely up to you. Whether you help out once a fortnight, month or term or just at special events or camps, there’s a role you can play. No experience is required as full training is given and you’ll learn lots of new skills as well as sharing some of your own. Our groups also offer ‘Volunteer Taster Sessions’ to help you discover if Scouting is for you with no obligation to continue. Our Activity Helper roles assist the delivery of the Scouting programme. It’s designed to offer girls and boys a dynamic range of fun activities, challenges and experiences by providing a structure of badges and awards. The children and young people are aged between 6 and 18 and take part in Beavers, Cubs, Scouts and Explorer Scouts sections. Activities often include local community projects, arts and crafts, recycling and environmental pursuits as well as exciting outdoor adventure and camping experiences. Being a helper with Scouts also offers the chance to build on personal skills, like communication, confidence and leadership. Teamwork is at the heart of everything we do, and by facing new experiences as part of a team you’ll make friends for life. Whatever your background or the time you can give, you’ll be made to feel welcome and supported in Scouts. Contact us now to find out how your skills and interests could make a valuable difference to young people’s lives as a helper with Scottish Borders Scouts.

Poppyview Family Centre was set up as charity - a Scottish Charitable Incorporated Organisation - in April 2014, and is now seeking to recruit new Board Members (Trustees) to join the existing team who have responsibility to oversee the management of the Centre. However, they will not have any personal liability for the running costs of the Centre. They need you to join Poppyview Family Centre's board of trustees if: you are looking for a fun and fulfilling way to serve your community; you have skills in human resources, finance, fundraising, law or compliance expertise; you can spare 2 hours approximately 4 times a year and perhaps a little more; you are smart, dedicated and passionate about making a difference. Trustees make sure than an organisation: is legally and financially compliant - that it is well run; does what it was set up to do and sticks to its mission, vision and values; follows what is set out in the governing document or constitution; has well-managed and supported paid staff and volunteers.

We are looking for volunteers of all ages and backgrounds with enthusiasm being more important than experience. We have a variety of face to face roles in the weekly groups which runs 6 days a week or in other roles to support the organisations activities such as handy person, mini bus driver, media and advertising. Whichever role you think suits you best you will be given training and support and an allocated staff member who will help you along the way. We are happy for you to come once a week, once a month and are happy to hear from people who would be willing to share a skill or experience for a little while as part of a program of activities.

Providing leadership for the board of trustees in their role of setting the strategy and policy of the organisation; planning the annual cycle of board meetings and set the agendas; chairing and facilitating the board meetings; giving directions to board policy making; monitoring that decisions taken at board meetings are implemented; representing the organisation at appropriate events, meetings or functions; acting as a spokesperson for the organisation where appropriate; protect and manage the property of the organisation; attend meetings and read papers in advance of meetings; attend sub-committee meetings as appropriate; participate in other tasks as they arise from time to time, such as interviewing new staff, helping with fundraising; keep informed about the activities of the organisation and wider issues which affect its work.