NCS Volunteer

Name of Organisation:

Youth Federation

Title of opportunity:

National Citizen Service Volunteer

Address

Unit 4 Rossmore Business Village, Ellesmere Port

Postcode

CH65 3EY

Telephone number

0151 357 1971

Email:

ncs@youthfed.org

Contact name:

Helene Devey

Number of volunteers required:

30

When are opportunities available

2nd July - 31st August (volunteers needed for at least a week - volunteers can committ to as many weeks as they want). Volunteers wanting to apply for the residentials preferably need to have experience in this setting.

Amount of time volunteers asked to give:

1 week to 8 weeks

outward bound residentials away from Cheshire - dates to be confirmed (overnight stays for 4 nights).

Home residentials - Dates TBC (overnight stays for 4 nights).

Social Action Project Planning - in a base in Cheshire or Wirral, Mon to Fri 10-4pm

Social Action Project - delivery Mon to Fri 10-4pm

Brief description of role and duties:

Volunteers are needed to help deliver the National Citizen Service for over 200 young people in Cheshire and Wirral.  Youth Federation are working with National partners v, The National Youth Volunteering Charity and the Dame Kelly Holmes Trust (DKH), delivering NCS Teams in Chester, Ellesmere Port, Vale Royal, Congleton, Crewe, Macclesfield and Wirral.

Each team of 15 young people will take part in a 6 week long programme of personal development incorporating 5 stages:

Phase 1 Induction – This involves teams working on personal goal setting and orientation in community settings and involves team building games from Olympic Athletes from the DKH Trust.

Phase 2 Activity Residential – The teams then attend outdoor activity centres away from home meeting other young people from around the country working together on personally and physically challenging courses.

Phase 3 Community Residential – This takes place at a local residential centre and involves the teams undertaking taster volunteering work and receiving training in budgeting, event management and self confidence with support from local businesses as well as having lots of fun.

Phase 4 Community Project Planning – Using local community bases the teams then work hard identifying local projects they could support putting their new skills directly into practice.

Phase 5 Community Project & Graduation – Teams then work hard on projects which would benefit the local community. These could include; fundraising, landscaping areas which had become derelict, refurbishing local community centres and creating neighbourhood information boards for local residents. The young people then attend graduation celebrating their achievements awarding certificates for their successful completion of the course.

volunteers are needed for one or all of the phases and they will support staff in the delivery.

CRB check required

Yes

Other information:

The opportunity doesn’t start until July 2012 but volunteers need to be trained and CRB'd before. The latest we can take on volunteers will be the beginning of June 2012.

Volunteers are also needed for film making etc…