With support and investment from Impact Funding Partners, we are recruiting for a Volunteer Coordinator to build on Westfield Park Community Centre’s (WPCC) volunteer engagement strategy with the local community. The post will be responsible for volunteer recruitment needed to support the development of a programme of activities and events and to meet the needs of the local community.

The position is 20 hours per week, with a degree of flexibility and incorporating occasional evening and weekend work. Salary at full time equivalent is £24,000 on a fixed term 1 year contract. WPCC offers 29 days Annual leave and will include 2 fixed public holidays. The organisation contributes equivalent to 6% of the post’s salary into the pension scheme.

The Volunteer Coordinator will contribute to the day-to-day management and smooth running of WPCC, ensuring that WPCC is a vibrant, welcoming and well managed facility that operates for the benefit of the local community and the residents of the Falkirk District area.

Applicants must be able to demonstrate relevant experience in recruiting, training and supporting volunteers and have a very good understanding of community development and challenges facing local communities. Relevant experience of the third sector would be beneficial.

About Us

Women on Wheels Scotland is a Community cycling hub for women. It is a service designed and led by women, delivering a range of cycling activities to get women back on a bike, or on to a bike for the first time, and to nurture the peer support and community connectedness that is helping women to keep cycling.

The world of everyday cycling is dominated by a white male demographic. It is much less common for women to cycle for transport and leisure, especially women of colour. We have worked with women for over a decade to understand that they have a number of barriers to cycling, including lack of confidence, lack of access to a bike, being a parent/carer and lacking time/childcare, religious barriers (not allowed, cannot cycle with men, a need to wear certain clothes), cultural barriers, a lack of money to pay for such services, and health; but we know that these barriers are surmountable and that with the proper support women can successfully adopt cycling into their everyday lives.

Our permanent women's cycling hub is providing ongoing support and generating more opportunities for women and their families to get engaged with cycling and reap the benefits.

OUR VISION

Women on Wheels (SCIO) is an all-inclusive community where women cycling is the norm, not the exception, and where every woman feels confident to ride.

OUR MISSION

Women on Wheels empowers and enables women to overcome their barriers to taking up cycling - for transport, to improve their physical and mental health, and most importantly, for the pure joy of it.

The Women’s Activities Coordinator will be responsible for coordinating and delivering cycle training to a wide range of women from our Hub in Govanhill, Glasgow. This will include learning to ride cycle lessons ( group and 1 2 1 ), confidence building led rides, bike buddy and route navigation support, maintenance classes, bike touring programme as well as lots of social events aimed at those looking to start cycling or cycling more regularly. They will also run the bike lending library.

The ability to develop and nurture strong partnerships with community organisations across Glasgow is key to this role.

Full job description available to download below.

Kingsway Community Connections is a community anchor organisation based in Scotstoun, Glasgow. An exciting opportunity has arisen to join our team as our Welfare Advice & Support Worker. We are seeking an exceptional individual who is committed to promoting financial inclusion, and whose values align with those of our organisation.

Haddington Bridge Centre Motorcycle Project

The Bridge Centre Motorcycle Project (BCMP) is a charitable organisation, operating as a part of The Haddington Bridge Centre Ltd. The Project was first established in 1990.

BCMP works with young people aged from 11 to 24 and is designed to work with individuals who have a wide range of additional support needs by using off road motorcycles and team building games/exercises as mediums to engage them. The work is ultimately aimed at promoting inclusion and social welfare.

The 3 main types of work undertaken at the Project are:

• Group Work Programmes

(Educational Support Programmes)

• 1-2-1 Programmes

(Individual Placements)

• Open Access Club

BCMP Works with young people individually or in small groups to develop confidence, supporting them to challenge themselves and work towards exciting and achievable goals, while learning new life skills.

The Project works with Secondary Schools and other partnering youth agencies/organisations with the aim of identifying young people who would benefit from taking part in an Educational Support Programme. The Project also works with referred young people who are not so suited to participating in group work, on a 1-1 basis.

In addition, the Project runs an open access club for young people aged 11-16 to join. This part of the Project allows self-referred young people to learn the skills and techniques of off-road motorcycling in a safe environment.

The Project requires an enthusiastic, organised and highly motivated individual with significant Youth / Support work experience to join the Motorcycle Project staff team. The post will be fixed term for one year in the first instance.

The successful candidate will be required to work as part of an existing team for a well-established youth Motorcycle Project and will be given full training. We work closely with local schools and youth agencies to provide group work and 1-1 programmes for young people. The Project uses off road motorcycles and group work activities to focus and engage young people.