Volunteer with Help Bristol’s Homeless
Help Bristol’s Homeless is a very dynamic organisation. It has been, and still is, very reliant on amazing volunteers. These generous people have been vital in helping us to grow to how we are today, and in such a short period of time.
SKILLED TRADESPEOPLE
We generally have a real need for skilled tradespeople (electricians, plumbers, carpenters etc), in particular those who can self-certify their work. The work would vary from minor maintenance to helping with the conversion of new micro-flats.
CONVERSIONS OF CONTAINERS INTO MICRO-FLATS
We anticipate that we will have limited need for a few practically minded volunteers to help with container conversions. This would either be at Spring Street or another site close to Bristol. This activity is really suited to skilled tradespeople (perhaps retired) or competent home DIY folk.
GENERAL PRACTICAL HELP
Periodically we need people to do various practical things – e.g. painting/decorating, minor maintenance tasks (home DIY type jobs), sorting out donated items.
WELL-BEING CENTRE
This is still a fairly new facility at Spring Street, to further support the well-being of our residents. The services we offer will evolve over time, depending on people’s needs and availability of suitable volunteers.
We already offer, or plan to offer:
Hair cuts
An area for training activities (e.g. first aid, life skills, financial management..)
Yoga, Pilates, meditation classes etc
Massage therapy
Help with form-filling and job applications (e.g. on a PC).
If you have skills that could support this, then please get in touch.
FUNDRAISING
The big thing that we always need is money! This is to help fund the day-to-day running costs, and (hopefully) to enable us to expand so that we can help more people.
If you are able to get involved with existing fundraising activities, or perhaps could suggest new ones then please let us know. This could include anything from asking local businesses for raffle prizes, or running a fund-raising event or applying for grant funding.
SOCIAL MEDIA SUPPORT
Currently we have need of some help with our Social Media Platforms and will be needing some help moving forward with our newsletter.
CLEANING
Currently we have no need for any further volunteers for this activity.
KITCHEN SUPPORT
Currently we have no need for any further volunteers for this activity.
CORPORATE VOLUNTEERS
Large companies often have a ‘corporate social responsibility’ scheme. These schemes allow employees to volunteer for one or more days a year, during working hours.
HBH has found these really useful, for things like painting containers, fences, building plant containers etc. They have also been very interesting, enjoyable and rewarding for the volunteers.
Due to the nature of these activities, they are best done in the warmer, sunnier times of the year.
If companies have a budget to help provide materials, then that would be fantastic.