V-Bite, Autumn Week 1

V-Bite 4th October 2010 Hi Everyone Welcome back to Sussex, or if this is your first year, welcome! We really hope that you have had an enjoyable summer and feel refreshed and ready for the exciting year ahead.

V-Bite is the weekly term-time Project V e-bulletin and you have received this because at some point in your life you must have expressed an interest in volunteering with Project V and we have added you to our mailing list.

The aim of V-Bite is to keep you up to date with volunteering opportunities (new ones come in every week) and to let you know about anything else related to volunteering that we think you may wish to know about.

A COUPLE OF REQUESTS: 1) Resuming Volunteering? In order that we can continue to offer support to those of you that continue to volunteer from last year to this year, could you please let us know if you are going to return to your volunteering placement in the Autumn term? Please e-mail us on projectv@sussex.ac.uk. If not, and you would like to consider other volunteering opportunities, please check out the website, www.sussexstudent.com/volunteering for volunteering opportunities and come and see us, or e-mail us to let us know which opportunity you would like to be referred to.

2) Address Change Update: Some of you may have moved address since last term; if this is the case, can you please e-mail us on projectv@sussex.ac.uk to let us know.

COMMUNITY PROJECTS ON CAMPUS! Every now and again we invite projects registered with us onto campus to talk directly to students about their volunteering opportunities. This is a great opportunity for you to find out more about volunteering with these specific projects.

This term we have arranged the following:

1) Project Name: The Children’s Society Befriending Service Volunteering Role: To befriend young disabled people aged 12-18 yrs old, spend time getting to know them and developing a good relationship with them, and help them to identify, share and enjoy new interests.

Time Commitment: A minimum of 2-4 hours per week for a year.

Would suit you if …. Have an interest and enthusiasm for working with young people, would like to develop your skills & experience in supporting people and knowledge of disability issues.

If interested, come along to one or both of the following: a)

Information stall Thursday 28th October 11am – 2pm Foyer of Falmer House.

b)

Short presentation and Question & Answer session Friday 29th October 11-12am Students’ Union Meeting Room (top floor of South-East corner of Falmer House).

NEW VOLUNTEERING OPPORTUNITIES Lots of new and interesting volunteering opportunities came in over the summer you can use the ‘Opportunity Search’ facility on our website to get more information about each of them, but to give you an idea, they include the following:

1) Supporting street vendors with The Big Issue Company (517) 2) Selling Christmas charity cards with Cards for Good Causes (143) 3) Providing marketing & social media or press support with Brighton Festival Fringe (518 & 519) 4) Community development volunteering with the Trust for Developing Community (520)

5) Fundraising for The Clocktower Sanctuary (514) 6) Supporting people with dementia or assisting with the development of a guidebook detailing local services for people with dementia, or those supporting them, with The Alzheimers Society (521, 522, 523) 7) Playwork at a local day centre with the Bevendean Children’s Centre Association (525) 8) Development and marketing volunteering with Santuary Carr-Gomm (526) 9) Assisting with the box office and ushering with Cinecity (262) 10) Engaging in a public health education programme with Uscreates (531) 11) Assisting on a photography archive and exhibition project with Mosaic (532) 12) Playwork with Early Explorers Pre-School (533) 13) Updating a website and providing website support with Active Sussex (534).

In addition, we have two new volunteer roles within Project V (Students’ Union Volunteer) : Drop-In/ Publicity Stall Volunteer & Students' Union Media Volunteer (527 & 528).

If, having checked out the details on the website, you wish to find out more about how you can get involved in any of the opportunities detailed above, or any others that you have viewed online, contact us on projectv@sussex.ac.uk.

That’s all for this week. Any questions, comments, concerns, just get in touch.

Michaela Rossmann and Naomi Ashman Volunteering Manager & Volunteer Placement Co-ordinator Project V, Students’ Union Activities Centre 1st Floor, Falmer House University of Sussex projectv@sussex.ac.uk www.sussexstudent.com/volunteering (01273) 873387 (If you would like to be unsubscribed from this mailing list, please e-mail projectv@sussex.ac.uk )