Opportunities

Driver - Shopping Bus

Volunteers are needed to assist in the delivery of our Door-to-Door Shopping Services. These routes run every weekday from 10.30am onwards throughout the areas of the Borough. 


The work would involve driving a minibus, collecting our older residents from their homes and taking them to their local supermarket where they would have approximately 1hour to complete their shopping before  returning them to their homes. All shopping services have the support of a second person on the vehicle to assist in carrying shopping and helping passengers on and off the vehicle.

 

Happy volunteers are our priority
We provide full training to our volunteers to understand what is expected, how they can ask for support and what they need to help others in their volunteering role. As a volunteer driver we also train you to drive a minibus through the MiDAS driver awareness scheme, our less mobile individuals may require the use of a passenger lift to access the vehicle and full training on the use of all equipment is given as part of our induction. We also pay travel expenses, so you are not out of pocket coming to and from the charity and you get a meal allowance if you are out on a day trip.

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Walsall Community Transport

Walsall Community Transport

Established in 1993, Community Transport is a registered charity providing a broad range of transport services, whether that is group travel for other voluntary and community groups, dial-a-ride minibuses for people with disabilities or other mobility problems, or community bus routes that would not otherwise exist because they are not commercially viable.

Community Transport encourages the empowerment and involvement of its communities to influence and determine services through active volunteering.

Volunteers will assist in delivering our Tackling Loneliness with Transport project. We are looking for individuals to drive those experiencing loneliness on day trips and using our shopping service.

To keep costs as affordable as possible for them we rely on the support of our team of volunteer drivers to provide this service. Our volunteers can choose the type of organisations they wish to support i.e. elderly
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groups, sports groups, young people etc and the distance they are comfortable travelling. Some of our drivers only like driving
in the local Walsall area, some however like to go further afield to Llandudno, Bridgnorth, NEC, Derbyshire for example.

As a Charity we rely on our volunteers giving up their free time and it is also important to us that our volunteers enjoy what they do for their local community and it is flexible to fit in with their lifestyle, family needs and holidays.

Happy volunteers are our priority
We provide full training to our volunteers to understand what is expected, how they can ask for support and what they need to help others in their volunteering role. As a volunteer driver we also train you to drive a minibus through the MiDAS driver awareness scheme, our less mobile individuals may require the use of a passenger lift to access the vehicle and full training on the use of all equipment is given as part of our induction. We also pay travel expenses, so you are not out of pocket coming to and from the charity and you get a meal allowance if you are out on a day trip.