Help to care for Arun’s most lonely residents

Sparing a minimum of two hours a week to bring a sliver of joy and hope to some of the area’s most vulnerable people is a small sacrifice to make.

This is the goal of Age UK’s latest volunteering opportunity, entitled the Good Neighbour Scheme.

For more information on this and other volunteer vacancies, contact Derek Moore, Arun Volunteer Centre co-ordinator, telephone 01903 731223, e-mail [email protected] or call in at the centre on the ground floor, Bradbury Centre, 1-5 St Martin’s Lane, Littlehampton, from 9am-4pm on Mondays and Thursdays and 9.30am-4.30pm on Wednesdays.

Home-Start Arun is looking to recruit volunteers for its next course. Home-Start volunteers visit families with at least one child under-five. visits take place weekly in the family’s own home.

Volunteers offer support to families facing a wide range of issues, such as loneliness and isolation, ill health, depression, bereavement, relationship difficulties, multiple births, special needs, first-time parenthood, domestic violence or, disability.

The next preparation training is due to start later this year. It will run for a total of nine days and will be held at the charity’s headquarters, in Arundel.

Volunteers need to be parents themselves or have 24-hour parenting experience, for example, being a step-parent or foster carer.

For a full list of volunteering opportunities this week, pick up a copy of the Littlehampton Gazette (Thursday, January 24).