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Volunteering Project

Volunteers

The Volunteer Project has been successfully running since April 2006.

The Project has 4 aims:

  • Offer current mental health service users volunteering opportunities with services they have or have not used before.
  • To attract and place those who are currently unemployed and unknown to the mental health field into volunteering roles within mental health field services.
  • By raising mental health awareness to attract new volunteers, the project will be tackling social exclusion through promoting better mental health and wellbeing.
  • Support organisations, both statutory and voluntary to identify the potential for volunteers within their own services. The project will help each organisation to identify their capacity and training needs in order to take on volunteers.“When I pick-up service users from their homes to go to an event/venue or drop-in I often find them quiet, pensive and disinclined to speak.
    However, when I collect them after the event they are commonly laughing, chatty and generally quite buoyant.
    I believe strongly in the power of human company to improve mood.”
    Hunts Mind Volunteer Driver.

Join Hunts Mind Volunteers and get the feel good factor, increase self-confidence, learn some new skills and have fun all at the same time

We currently have 31 regular volunteers supporting service users by:

“We have a fantastic team of volunteers here at Hunts Mind who are committed and dedicated to the Volunteering service, Hunts Mind Volunteers are invaluable.”
Hunts Mind Volunteer Co-Ordinator

As well as a 6 week induction course to volunteering, we also provide regular training such as:

  • principles of recovery
  • mentoring
  • mental health awareness
  • anger management
  • facilitating groups
  • any other training identified

If you are interested in becoming a volunteer, then please contact Donna Brown to arrange an informal interview.