Young Carers Support Volunteer

Support young people who care for someone in their family-give them a break, a chance to access emotional support, experience new things and have fun. 

Our Young Carers Exploration Programme is a specialist programme designed to support Young Carers to explore their caring role, their identity and how to cope with life challenges.

You will support by helping supervise the young people and encouraging them to get involved in the activities on offer. You will provide a listening ear for those young people who need to talk and act as a role model.

Sessions run on a Wednesday evening as follows:

• LOWER Group 8-11's - Runs weekly from 4:30pm - 6:00pm
  
• MIDDLE Group, 11-13's - Runs fortnightly from 6:30pm-8:30pm
• UPPER Group, 14-17's - Runs fortnightly from 6:30pm-8:30pm

You can get involved in one or more of these groups, they are all run from UNIT 12 Centre in Winnall Valley Road.

Our Activities Programme runs weekends, school holidays or evenings going to places like Poppies Craft, Cinema, local restaurants, theatre, country park picnics. 

Please note you may be required to transport young people to and from groups and activities.

You must be over 18 and be able to give a regular commitment on a Wednesday afternoon or evening.

Full training and on-going support given.

Skills

Full training is provided but you will need basic skills in:

• Must be aged 18 or over
• Good listening skills
• Communication - ability to communicate effectively with children, young people and adults
• Understanding/experience of young people's issues
• Self-motivation - ability to work unsupervised and to use own initiative
• Commitment: able to help on a regular basis
• Have a full UK driving license
• Prepared to travel and transport young people within Winchester and District. N.B we will always endeavour to arrange this so it is on your way to/from volunteering to keep travel to a minimum
• MUST be available on Wednesday afternoon/evenings - see exact timings above