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Volunteering in Caithness

If you wish to find information on volunteering opportunities go to Volunteer In Caithness.  If however you wish to find information about management issues, committees, legal questions, funding then check out Caithness Voluntary Group.  The office at Telford House, Williamson Street, Wick has a huge amount of information on the voluntary sector in Caithness and across the country.

 If your group is in Caithness and is not mentioned on the web site please let us know.  
Contact bill@caithness.org 

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Caithness Voluntary Group 
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Voluntary Sector Jobs In Scotland

The Gathering SCVO
2 day event in the Scottish Exhibition Centre 23 and 24 February 2004

Looking for A Job In Scotland's Voluntary Sector
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Volunteer Development Scotland
Jobs At Volunteer Development Scotland

Information Sheets  (in PDF format)

1. Insuring Volunteers (60Kb)
2. Recruiting from Outside the UK (60Kb)
3. Volunteering with Animals (74Kb)
4. Volunteering with Children (75Kb)
5. Volunteering in Conservation (77Kb)
6. Volunteering in Health (92Kb)
7. Volunteering Overseas (83Kb)
8. Volunteering and Welfare Benefits (445Kb)

Scottish Association Of Volunteer Managers

Retired and Senior Volunteer Programme Scotland

Volunteer Centre - Edinburgh

Highland 2007 searching for dynamic young people
Highland 2007, the year Scotland celebrates Highland culture, is encouraging young people in the Highlands to volunteer to become part of the Highland 2007 team. In partnership with ProjectScotland, Highland 2007 is looking to recruit up to four people, aged between 16 and 25 years old, to volunteer for a variety of roles within the Highland 2007 team. Highland 2007 has already had success with its partnership with ProjectScotland.

Samantha Bunce from Inverness joined the team in September 2006 as a volunteer for six months. When this placement comes to an end in March 2007 Samantha will be taken on full time as a Highland 2007 employee until she starts university in September 2007.

Samantha said: “I have thoroughly enjoyed my placement with Highland 2007, it’s such a cool project to be involved with and I feel like I’ve really learned a lot. The support from the Highland 2007 team and ProjectScotland has been great and I’m looking forward to the coming months as a full time employee with Highland 2007. “The opportunities this placement has given me are unique and I would recommend volunteering to anyone who wants to widen their horizons.”

Fiona Hampton, director of Highland 2007, said: “We are really excited to be working in partnership with ProjectScotland on such a worthwhile and rewarding project. Samantha has been a great help to the team and has really developed in her time at
Highland 2007 – so much so that to recognise all her hard work she will be employed full time until she begins university later in the year.

“We are looking for more enthusiastic young people, who like Samantha have a go ahead attitude and the enthusiasm and creativity to take on new challenges.”

The successful applicants will be based in Abertarff House, Church Street, Inverness, and will assist the Highland 2007 team in the delivery of the programme of celebrations throughout the rest of 2007.

The volunteers will gain experience from a variety of different tasks and across a range of events within each of the different strands of the programme – sport, arts, heritage, language, science and the environment.

Opportunities will be available in marketing and communications, public relations, project management, finance and administration. Each young person will gain experience over a range of functions.

All ProjectScotland placements are full time, designed to give a structured and rewarding volunteering experience. Each volunteer is given support from a line manager and mentor throughout their placement, plus £55 per week subsistence allowance and travel expenses. ProjectScotland recently announced how it is tackling youth unemployment across Scotland. Since its launch in May 2005, over 1,000 young people have taken part in ProjectScotland. The training and experience young people have gained whilst doing ProjectScotland has enabled 91 per cent of volunteers to move into employment, education or training after placement.

Anyone interested in these opportunities should go to the ProjectScotland website where they can apply for placements directly online at www.projectscotland.co.uk

or more information on Highland 2007 visit www.highland2007.com  or call 01463 702007.

See Volunteering Highland Caithness

CVS Small Grants Scheme For Caithness And Sutherland
As a partnership initiative, Caithness Voluntary Group (CVG), Voluntary Groups East Sutherland (VGES) and CVS North have secured funding from Caithness and Sutherland Enterprise, which will be used to make Small Grant Awards to community groups in Caithness and Sutherland. This pilot scheme will run for one year commencing on 1st. October, 2006. Funding assistance is available to formally-constituted voluntary groups whose membership is open to the whole community. Assistance is discretionary and the level of assistance will be assessed according to the nature and merit of each project. We expect to see community benefits as a result of each project. The applicant organisation must own, lease or have a management agreement in place relating to any asset for which assistance is requested. CVS Small Grants Scheme is unable to assist organisations with restricted membership, such as religious or political groups, nor with normal running costs. Applications from sports organisations will not normally be considered, and will therefore be directed to their local Sports Council - Caithness Sports Council - Sutherland Sports Council We cannot approve assistance to projects that have already started. In an effort to keep the application process as straight-forward as possible, we will provide one application form to cover all types of projects. This form can be used by all applicant groups seeking up to £1,000 towards training, or up to £1,500 towards capital costs or other discretionary projects.
Application Form

3 August 06
Samaritans Page Updated
The local Samaritans branch in Thurso recently got the message on to one of the largest structures in the north - the Dome at Dounreay.  A long established group the Samaritans help thousands of people in crisis each year.  they have helplines open 24 hours a day and volunteers are always needed in local branches.  if you can spare some time to help others why not give them a call.

21 December 05
MV Youth Volunteering Award Ceremony
Five young people recently became the recipients of the prestigious Gold MV Award for volunteering while participating in the Wick Players production of Mother Goose. The Gold Award is achieved when a volunteer accumulates 200 hours of volunteering which can take place over a two year period. The five young people involved with the panto had been in intensive rehearsals since August and fulfilled their required 200 hours on the 18th December. This Award is a recognised award of excellence endorsed by the Scottish Executive and the Gold award is signed by the First Minister.
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