When We Need You

From 12/08/2011 onwards

About Opportunity

Bring your enthusiam, tenacity, ideas and skills to help us raise funds to continue and develop our innovative, life-changing service. You will gain the satisfaction of making a real difference in people's lives - increasing their self-confidence and communication skills; and also have a lot of fun! This opportunity is ideal for someone with fundraising experience, or someone keen to gain such experience. dates-n-mates is a friendship and dating agency for people with learning disabilities, we are about connecting people and introducing them to new and exciting things. We run 3 to 4 different social events every month such as discos, movie nights, days out, theatre trips and many more. Attendance at our nights can can vary from 20 to 200 members. We need volunteer fundraisers to help us in the office; calling potential funders, seeking sponsorship, researching funding opportunities etc. HOW DO I GET INVOLVED: If you are interested in this opportunity please get in touch with us using the contact details on this page. Alternatively you can register your interest directly using the Register Interest facility. We will respond to all enquiries within 5 working days, but if you do not receive a response, please contact the Volunteer Centre. The next step is that we will arrange to send you an application form by email. It should take around 4-6 weeks to start volunteering on us, timing dependant on processing PVG scheme membership.