Arts and Crafts

Fun with Arts and Crafts, running every Friday 11:00am - 12:30pm at the Northside Welcome Centre based in Erdington.

Explore your creative self with these fun activities:

• Textiles
• Drawing and sketching
• Painting
• Origami
• Poetry

Latest

Want to be a Volunteer Advocate? - Free Training provided

Advocacy Matters is twenty years in the Midlands helping vulnerable individuals to be heard. We need Volunteers in Birmingham and Walsall to keep this work going -who can speak up for and help individuals with needs. Supporting people to resolve issues and perhaps change their lives, by sharing your skills and learning new ones. Training takes place on line on Wed 15 and 22nd of March 2023 10am- 2pm
Mentoring & Employability Manager

Sport 4 Life UK, Closing date: 26 February
Warm Homes We can All Afford - Retrofitting the Future

Panel discussion on retrofitting, home insulation and how communities can take action.
How to Beat Self-Defeat

Many of us have an inner voice that is so often harshly self-critical. Often we compare ourselves unfavorably with others or with our own unrealistic expectations of ourselves, and then we beat ourselves up for falling short. On this special day course, Gen Kelsang Rabten will explain practical methods for reducing self-defeating thoughts and guide a series of empowering meditations.

Want to be a Volunteer Advocate? - Free Training provided

Advocacy Matters is twenty years in the Midlands helping vulnerable individuals to be heard. We need Volunteers in Birmingham and Walsall to keep this work going -who can speak up for and help individuals with needs. Supporting people to resolve issues and perhaps change their lives, by sharing your skills and learning new ones. Training takes place on line on Wed 15 and 22nd of March 2023 10am- 2pm
Become a Tea Party Host

Our tea party hosts are a vital part of the Re-engage team. Tea parties provide a lifeline of friendship for our older people, and the regular, warm, friendly chats and companionship provide a vital link with the outside world from which they have become isolated. Re-engage needs enthusiastic volunteers to work as tea party hosts. This is a flexible, voluntary role that can easily be fitted in around your own lifestyle and availability.
Reengage are looking for Volunteer Drivers in Birmingham for their Older People Tea Parties

Tea parties provide a lifeline of friendship for our older people, and the regular, warm, friendly chats and companionship provide a vital link with the outside world from which they have become isolated. Drivers take older people to the parties and stay with them to enjoy the get-together. Over time, drivers and older guests get to know each other well and together you will spend many hours full of fun, laughter, and stories.
Support available to help organisations to use Commitment to Collaborate (C2C) Toolkit

20 hours of support being offered to organisations, networks or partnerships use the Commitment to Collaborate (C2C) Toolkit to think about what actions they can take to help prevent homelessness at the earliest opportunity.
Making Every Contact Count - The Hospice Partnership Group, Birmingham

If you are a warm and friendly person who enjoys speaking to people and creating friendships and social connections, then we need you. We are looking for Befriending Volunteers to help deliver our Support at Home service, supporting those patients who are susceptible to social isolation and loneliness. You will need good listening and communication skills, providing supportive relationships of trust with our patients and their families at a time when they need support the most.
Soup Kitchen at South & City College Birmingham | Bordesley Green

Put your heart into it at the South & City College Soup Kitchen Event.
Community Inspiration Awards 2023

Nominations for the 11th Community Inspiration Awards 2023 are now open. The annual Community Inspiration Awards is organised by the Community Foundation, to recognise outstanding contributions made by members of the community, staff from public sector organisations, charities, and businesses whose efforts have made a positive difference in the community and has inspired others.
Volunteer Youth Worker/Activity Assistant

We are looking for people who have a passion to help others. To enable young people to experience and contribute to the youth programme activities which are fun, safe, social and educational. You will gain experience of centre based and detach/outreach youth work, along with an opportunity to shadow/experience other departments within Birmingham Settlement.
Gym Assistant Volunteers at Hagley Road Village

Ongoing opportunities to assist the gym instructor in the smooth running of the gym and ensure proper procedures are observed.
Gardening Volunteers at Hagley Road Village

Ongoing Opportunities to assist with maintaining and update our village gardens.