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Tuesday, 17 June 2025

SHAPE HOUSE: Call For Volunteers…Please Read

Can you help support our brilliant SHAPE House? See Anna’s plea below….

Volunteering Request!
 
We have fantastic volunteers supporting regular SHAPE House groups, one-off events for different ages groups, and running Pop-Up Coffee weekly at the BritBar. Some of our core volunteers are moving to pastures new this summer, and we would love to broaden our pool of volunteers in preparation. We welcome everyone over 18, whether you want to volunteer at ad-hoc one-off events or would like to regularly run a weekly baby/toddler group, start a new group or anything in between. If you want to chat through different options (without any commitment) just email the community office or pop in and Gemma or Anna would be really happy to help.
 
We are also aware that some of you who have already kindly signed up to be volunteers need to finalise some paperwork – if this is the case Anna is opening SHAPE House for a volunteer drop-in with coffee and cake 9.30-11.30am on Friday 27th June (children welcome to come and play while you have a coffee and catch up on the paperwork). There will be paper copies of the paperwork you can complete there or a laptop ready to go if you prefer. If you want to come along and find out more but haven’t previously expressed a desire to volunteer, do pop in and we can help you find out more.
 
Volunteering is a fabulous way to meet people, feel involved in the community and settle into this new lifestyle, especially if you are not working out here. 

There is a real risk that without further volunteers coming forward, we will need to cancel some groups, events and sessions.