We are tiny and there is no salaried team. Our volunteers do the jobs trustees cannot — setting up the harvest tea, walking a befriender to a back door, running the tea urn at the AGM.
If something looks like a fit, please write to us using the form at the foot of the page. We will reply within five working days.
Time commitment: one to two hours a fortnight, daytime, between September and April.
Location: Aubourn, Haddington and Bassingham lanes.
Team lead: Lynne Rocks, trustee.
You walk to a named older parishioner's back door, sit in the kitchen for an hour, and walk home. We reimburse mileage and the price of a packet of biscuits. References taken; basic safeguarding induction provided.
Time commitment: two evenings a year (early October, late November) and one Saturday morning.
Location: Aubourn Village Hall.
Team lead: John Mosedale, trustee.
Setting up trestle tables, running the tea urn, washing-up at the harvest tea and at the AGM. Sociable, undemanding, very little admin. Suitable for first-time volunteers.
Time commitment: three or four hours in mid-November.
Location: from home.
Team lead: Julie Plackett-Smith, trustee.
You read between ten and twenty short bursary applications and write a paragraph of comment on each, returning them to Julie by post or email before the December trustees' meeting. Useful if you have ever worked in education, training or apprenticeships.
Time commitment: four meetings a year of about two hours each, plus reading time.
Location: Aubourn Village Hall.
Team lead: Jill Hughes, Chair.
We are looking for the next trustee. You sit in on three meetings as an observer; if it suits both sides, you are nominated for election at the AGM. Useful experience: finance, social care, education, parish life. Disclosure and Barring Service check required.
Tell us a little about you and which role caught your eye. A trustee will write back within five working days from our Aubourn office.
A single sheet, twice a year, with news of how the parish is doing.