Community Champion - Preston Park

Community Champion - Preston Park

Posted for Sussex Nightstop

Posted by Community Works

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If you're a sociable person with limited time, living in and around Preston Park and you'd like to join our community response to youth homelessness, this is the perfect role for you! Also a great way to connect more with your community.

As a small, community-orientated charity, with our funding focused on service delivery, we need help from sociable people to raise our profile throughout Brighton & Hove’s (and surrounding areas) many communities. Residents are ideally placed to connect with local public places, groups, events and businesses.

Our community champions help us to create and maintain a presence in each community.

We are ideally seeking a minimum commitment of one year to the Community Champion role to allow for training, settling in and continuity. Hours are flexible and controlled by the volunteer. 

Benefits

This is a rewarding role that will benefit you with: 

• Involvement in a vital community project that helps to prevent homelessness in our city. 
• Join our training program through which you can (if you wish) acquire additional knowledge and skills in areas such as safeguarding, equal opportunities and diversity, communication, behaviour and attachment.  
• The opportunity to meet a wide and diverse range of people and through this to broaden your life perspective through an increased understanding and knowledge of the issues facing vulnerable people. 

Practical Considerations

Flexible hours, 6-8 hours per month at times that suit you. 

What skills do I need?

We welcome anyone with a desire to help and the drive to make a difference. All you need is:

• Good communication skills – a ‘people person’.
• A pragmatic, adaptable approach, to make the most of opportunities and to spend time. where it will achieve the best outcomes.
• A commitment to the values and principles of diversity, equality and inclusion and ability to volunteer within Sussex Nightstop’s policies in this area.
• Ability to log and report activity as guided by Nightstop document templates. 

Location

This opportunity can be carried out whilst working from home.