All about volunteering for the Centre
The King’s Award for Voluntary Service is the highest award given to volunteer groups across the UK. The award is equivalent to an MBE and is awarded for life. It’s announced every year on 14 November, the King’s birthday. We are very grateful to our supporters Val, Graeme and Louise, who nominated the Centre to […]
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Today we welcomed our volunteer oxygen operators for their annual refresher training session. This year they had a session with our Physiotherapy Manager Anwen about safeguarding, alongside sharing other information and online training courses. We are only able to run our oxygen therapy sessions due to our amazing operators. In the past twelve months, they
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This week, our Centre manager Pip was thrilled to attend the BBC Make a Difference Awards ceremony at Reading Town Hall at the invitation of our amazing supporter Lynne Whiteland. Lynne was a finalist in the Fundraiser category, in recognition of her fantastic efforts in raising over £100,000 for the Centre over the past 15
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David Coe, who has been our Treasurer for many years, will be stepping down from the role soon. We are hugely grateful for all he has done for the Centre over such a long time. We are pleased to announce that Rachel George has recently joined BMSTC as a new Trustee and will be taking
This week is Volunteers Week and we’d like to take this opportunity to say a huge thank you to all our amazing volunteers. The Centre really couldn’t do everything we do without the support of our volunteers who help in so many ways. These include being on reception, doing collections, being our oxygen operators, being Trustees and many
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We are thrilled to let you know that our brilliant collectors raised a fantastic £1408.49 collecting at Reading Station on 19 April! This is an amazing amount. We so appreciate our volunteers giving up their time to support us in this way and we’d like to thank them all. If you’d like to join our
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We’d like to say a big thank you to everyone who collected for the Centre at Tesco Portman Road on Thursday 28 March. You raised a wonderful £577.91! We hope you enjoyed collecting. We really appreciate you giving up your time to raise funds and spread awareness for the Centre.
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Bucket collections are a great way to raise funds for the Centre and raise awareness of our work. Our next one takes place on Friday 19 April at Reading Station and we are looking for more people to join our collections team. If you have not collected before and can spare two hours, why not
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We have recently carried out an oxygen survey and it has been wonderful to find out how people benefit from this therapy. Did you know that all our oxygen sessions are volunteer led? We are very grateful to all our team who give up their time and in are awe of the amazing job they
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We are thrilled to welcome Nikki to the Centre this week as our new full time Membership and Volunteer Support Officer. We will let her introduce herself; “Hi, I’m Nikki Harris and I’ve worked in the Voluntary Sector for over 20 years in a number of different fields such as community engagement, family support services,
