Peer Support Group Volunteer

Peer Support Group Volunteer

Organisation role · 3–9 hrs/month · Starting from 28 Apr 2024
Flexible location
People with disabilitiesOlder peopleWellbeing
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Macular Society
#78550
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Summary

We are looking for volunteers to help at our peer support groups. Duties would include facilitating meetings, cascading information to members with sight loss.

Detailed description

We are looking for volunteers to help our local peer support groups. Our groups help people living with central vision loss, to obtain advice, information and peer support, to help them live well with sight loss. We need volunteers to help with facilitating meetings, providing refreshments, passing out information to members, and being a local point of contact. Our volunteers work closely with the regional manager, who can provide training and guidance, with the support of teams at the Macular Society. Meetings are held monthly, with ad hoc tasks to be done in between. Our groups are based in Cirencester, Stroud, Gloucester and Cheltenham.

What we will provide to volunteers

💸 Reimbursement of costs🤝 Extra support
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About Macular Society

Every day, around 300 people are diagnosed with macular disease. It’s the biggest cause of sight loss in the UK. Macular disease is cruel and isolating. It steals your sight, your independence, and your ability to do the things you love. It can affect people of any age — even children — but not enough is known about why, and there is still no cure. There is only one way to Beat Macular Disease for good. We must fund much more research now, until we find a cure, or find treatments that stop it in its tracks. Together we can fund the research that will find the cure.

Together we can make sure the next generation won’t have their sight, confidence, and love of life stolen from them by macular disease. We want to make sure that no-one faces macular disease on their own.