Volunteer Appeal – Opening the Door to More

Volunteers are needed to continue to provide children and young people in Birmingham with someone to turn to in times of need. Edgbaston-based Open Door Youth Counselling is seeking to recruit additional volunteers to expand their free youth counselling service. Demand for the service is constantly increasing and waiting lists can sometimes be long. No previous experience or formal qualifications are necessary as full training is provided.

Carmel Mullan-Hartley, Director of Services said ‘Open Door exists to offer children and young people someone to listen to them at pivotal and often distressing times in their lives. We can only continue to do this with the help of our volunteer counsellors’.

Celebrate Edgbaston's Volunteers; 24th April 09

An event to celebrate the invaluable contribution made by volunteers to organisations in the Edgbaston Constituency will take place at Harborne Baptist Church on Friday 24th April from 5.30 – 8.30. A collage will be constructed during the evening, comprising of photographs that people bring to demonstrate their work as a volunteer. Volunteers will receive a formal thank you from Councillor Deirdre Alden, Chairman of the Edgbaston Constituency Committee and Jagwant Johal, the Constituency Director. Nominations will be accepted for: working with young people; the elderly; for being a good neighbour; or for their general contribution to their community’s development.