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ASSOCIATION VISITORS
Association Visitors offer caring and informed support to patients, their families and carers by home visit or by telephone contact. They provide an invaluable link between those living with MND and the Association. Visitors also maintain regular contact with the Regional care Adviser who will liaise with them to offer advice and support in their work.
for this role we will provide you with accredited training and there is regular refresher and update training available. You will have the opportunity to use existing skills as well as to learn new ones.
Association visitors are recompensed by way of out of pocket expenses and insurance and they have the prospect of meeting and working with like minded people and making a difference to the lives of people living with MND in South West Surrey.
THE ROLE OF AN ASSOCIATION VISITOR Jean Miles
I first became involved with the Motor Neurone Disease Association in the early ‘70s, when my father-in-law was diagnosed with the disease. Sadly he died in 1978 before the Association was formed. When our Branch in S.W. Surrey was founded in 1988, my husband, Roy, and I joined. I became an Association Visitor and I have been doing it ever since. People living with MND, or their carers, may contact us via the Branch, the National Association or the Regional Care Adviser who will then arrange a visit, if that is what is needed.
It is an immense privilege to be invited into people’s homes and to be given the opportunity to help. We offer a listening ear, information and help in contacting the relevant professionals. Everything we do is in response to the patient’s and carer’s needs and wishes and we give as much or as little as requested.
Visiting people with MND and their families is truly rewarding and provides us with an opportunity to be really helpful. I can recommend the role to anyone who wants to give and receive friendship and to be of help. If you are interested in becoming an Association Visitor please contact either the Branch or the Association for more details.
PUBLICITY OFFICER
Use your communication skills to write press releases and liaise with the media. Who knows, we may have a budding TV presenter out there just waiting for the chance to shine on the silver screen.
NEWSLETTER EDITOR
Step forward all you frustrated Piers Morgans. Have you ever wanted to sit in the editor’s chair and use those hidden journalistic skills lurking in that active brain?
The Branch Newsletter is the life blood of communication at local level and a bright, upbeat newsletter is the key to a bright upbeat Branch.
GENERAL HELP
There is, of course, the opportunity to help in many other ways which require a less regular commitment. We all have an image in our mind of a charity volunteer standing in the street, shaking a tin and, although that can be a frustrating task, on the whole the great British Public are the most generous in the world. Street collections are a small part of the fundraising activities that take place throughout the year but they make a sizeable contribution to Branch funds. Even if you can only spare a few hours here or there, we would be glad of your help and we will always be able to find some way in which you can help.
Social events and fundraising activities often need catering and, if you can help to prepare drinks or light refreshments, your services would be most welcome. Perhaps this is something you could do at home, baking a cake for sale at a Branch market. Our events need volunteers to run the stall and sales at such events and a few hours on the day of a sale would be greatly appreciated.
Whatever you may be able to do to help, we would be grateful. If you would like to know more about volunteering to help the MND Association please contact us using the details on our contacts page or by clicking on the link below. There is no obligation to volunteer but, just maybe, you can help us while enjoying the very friendly company of like minded people who have also given their time to help. Thank you.
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