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Short-term support
Our volunteers do not do personal care or housework, but here are some examples of the kind of low level support a volunteer is will provide for a couple of months:
Our volunteers do not do personal care or housework, but here are some examples of the kind of low level support a volunteer is will provide for a couple of months:
- Regular weekly contact during difficult times such as bereavement
- Support following hospitalisation, e.g. running small errands, getting a pint of milk, loaf of bread or prescription, organising meals
- Help with small household tasks like changing a light bulb, posting letters
- Help and support to use local facilities and resources, etc.
- Accompanying someone the first few times of joining new social activities
- Help with correspondence and forms
- Money handling paperwork
- Support to organise transport and outings
- Support to read books, newspapers and library books
- One to one activities to support physical and mental functions, e.g. scrabble, art and craft, going for a walk
- Short term animal care, e.g. walking a dog if the owner is incapacitated