alma club need volunteers

[jojo]

hi everyone

my friends and i have just started volunteering at our local alma club. Its really great fun and a valuable experience.Anyway they are desperate for volunteers so if anyone wants to help pls let me know!!!!!

i'm also starting voluntary work at local hospice (st andrews) that is if they accept me ive just sent away an application form.

Anyone heard of the Befriending Project we're doing it at school - you go and spend a few hours a week with an elderly person at a hospital and write their life story. Its really interesting and old people are the greatest!!! They're really funny and have the greatest stories>

Well anyway

Bye

Joanna:rolleyes:

[jojo]

Thought i'd reply to my own thread but hey the club is running a trip to Lourdes during the summer and it honestly is the greatest club ever!!!You get to sing on the karaoke, quizes, dancing ,keep fit, and other great things!!!!:)

Joanna

[nicolacurrie]

I would go but i'm sure you go on a night i work. I've heard of other trips to Lourdes that i'm sure 'devlinator' may have heard of. It's a catholic based organisation that get volunteers to go to Lourdes to help the sick for a week, i think? My friend Elizabeth went on one last summer

NextGen Blether :lol
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[jojo]

Nicola

the trip you are talking about is the HCPT trip!The Alma club is on on a Wed Night starting back on the 23 Oct from 7.30 till 9.30 at St Augustines hall!It accepts all people from all denominations!!!1:) The lady in charge Clair is really nice she taught at my skool for a few weeks!!!The trip to Lourdes is for two weeks!!

Cya 2morro

Joanna:)

[nicolacurrie]

I can go! I thought i was at work when you went. i finish work at 7 so i would maybe be 10 mins late or so.

nic x

[jojo]

I'll tell you more about it when we eventually meet!Hope you get better soon. Its not on this week cos it follows the skool hols!!!Where do you work Nicola?

Joanna x

[nicolacurrie]

Marks and Spencers! bloody hate it!

nic x

[jojo]

Cant be that bad at least you have money to go out! I dont work cos dad doesnt want me to , he says my studies are more important!:p But hey on the bright side he;ll have to pay for my hols Heheheheheh

Joanna

[Gary T]

jojo you ain't half lucky my mum won't stop going on about me looking for a job instead of lying in bed at the weekends

[phlangepal]

I would love to volunteer at places such as the alma club however, when you have student debt up to your eyeballs and need all the money you can get to see you through uni the next year you don't have much time. Anyone know where I could get a beast of a summer job. I'm off to MANCHESTER in Sept., it will be great fun however my bank manager may have a few concerns!!!

[Devlinator]

wait a mo i have just read this and realised tha i was insulted by nicola currie over three months ago, how dare you insult me, i have chosen a perfectly good user name, and no matter what elizabeth says i stand by the fact that it is better than Karrendo Devlino.

[nicolacurrie]

i did not insult u! how dare you accuse ur honourable PM of such a thing!!

[Devlinator]

okay so the sarcastic marks around my name where not there to insult me then, sorry but i am sensitive at the mo, glasgow have still not had the curtesy to get back to me.

[nicolacurrie]

not sarcastic! hmm! I dunno what they were there for

[nicolacurrie]

not sarcastic! hmm! I dunno what they were there for. How was Dundee BTW?

[jojo]

ok Gary!!im not lucky i just have a skill of being able to handle my parents!!Sumthing to do with being the youngest and only girl!!!

Right voluntary work like the ALMA club is sumthin that i would recommend to everyone it is sooo great!!I prefer it to going out!Its only one night a week so doesnt interfere with your life in fact i get more excited bout nxt time im at ALMA thatn anythin else i do!!!

well ok now that ive ranted on bout ALMA i should go!!!

Jo xx

[andrewbaillie]

And what exactly do they do at the ALMA club?

[jojo]

ALMA club is a social club for adults with special needs!As a helper you would hel to set up games encourage others to take part help members take part and generally have a GREAT time!!

Mostly you are there to encourage everyone to have a good time and make as many friends as possible!!!

ok i'll say more later i have to go n get ready 4 skool!!

Jo x

[Devlinator]

Dundee was fandabbydozzy, i so want to go there now, but i will have to wait and see what happens, ie, will they give me an offer.

[relliott]

is the alma club assosciated to the Ozanam club? I used to help out with them - same idea but for kids

[jojo]

im not sure ill ask tonight and get back to oyu on that one!!Same idea i imagine!!

Jo xx

[marie]

think i do something similar but it only runs over the summer. which is a total pain cos id love to do it all year round!
we work with special needs kids, taking them to adventure parks n generally getting them mixing with each other n having fun.
we have some budding young artists n some kids who r amazing at the monkey bars (even better than my big bro n hes GOOD at the monkey bars). so impressive!

marie

[ria]

hhhhmmm!
sound great fun!
i go to the Craighalbert centre and I really enjoy it !!!!!!!!
(oh, just in case you don't know, it's the national centre for children with motor impairments and I love going every week is great !!!):)

[Catriona]

Hi everyone!

I do voluntary work in the hospice. I work in the elderly care ward. I really enjoy it, all the staff and patients are friendly.

Good expperience. I have only met one other volunteer while i have been there over the past 2 months. They usually only have 6 volunteers at once.

I basically just talk to the people, help them with meals, play bingo(legs eleven!!!), make tea.

Volunteers are really there in the ward i am in for company for the patients. Some don't get many visitors so i go to chat with them and keep them company for a few hours. I would recomend it to anyone, even if you only want to do it for a few weeks.

P.S. Dont worry if you have applied and dont hear for a while. They have to wait until there is a vacancy and you will need to go for an interviw(really its just a chat with the volunterr co-ordinator and she is really nice)

Catxx

[jojo]

i got a phone call from Jane the other day i guess that meants there is ap place for me my prob is the only time she is in her office im at skoll!!

Jo xx

[nicolacurrie]

She's only in 10 - 1. She is really nice! Much nicer than the staff, dont really like them. I went a while ago but not been bak sincei ahd glandular fever. :o didnt let her know i'm not goin. Will do so sum1 else can get it!

nic x