Family Weekend volunteers

As part of the All Together project, we are developing a team of volunteers to support our Family Weekends.

These weekends provide families with the opportunity to share experiences and information in a relaxed and stress-free environment. We're looking for volunteers to take on the roles of meeting families, facilitating discussion groups and presenting their experiences.

We are currently looking for grandparents, fathers and siblings aged 18 and over to support visitors at our Family Weekends by volunteering in the following sessions:

1. Diagnosis - sharing experiences
2. Parent group work
3. A deaf child in the family

For more information about the role that volunteers will play in each of the sessions, please download this document:

All Together volunteer roles (59 kb)

All volunteers will be invited to attend one of the following training days where they will prepare for their roles:

• Leeds training day - (Saturday 23 August 2008) Rescheduled to Saturday 1st November.
• London training day - Saturday 27 September 2008
• Birmingham training day - Saturday 11 October 2008

We are sorry to say that the Manchester training day which was scheduled for Saturday 16th August has had to be cancelled. However we are in the process of setting up another training day in Manchester later on this year.

In addition to this one day training, volunteers will also be supported in their roles during and after the Family Weekends.

We still have places at our Leeds and London training days.

If you are interested in joining our team of volunteers, please download, complete and return this registration form: 

All Together project registration form (48 kb)

For more information, contact:

Valerie Copenhagen
All Together Project Manager
The National Deaf Children's Society
15 Dufferin Street
London
EC1Y 8UR

Email: valerie.copenhagen@ndcs.org.uk
Tel: 020 7014 1107 (voice/text)