Flexible Walking Volunteer with Travel Hands
VIP World Services Limited
Travel Hands is a service designed to ease the outdoor commute of VIP (Visually Impaired People) by pairing them with sighted & verified volunteers to walk together to similar destinations ensuring a safe, convenient, and inexpensive travel experience. Register with us to walk flexibly with VIP from point A to point B in the nearby location by clicking here and downloading our mobile application- Google: rb.gy/ddabu7 Apple Store: rb.gy/h496o0
Join us in the mission to make London the most accessible city in the world. Volunteer with Travel Hands (www.travelhands.co.uk), a service designed to ease the outdoor commute of VIP (Visually Impaired People) by pairing them with sighted & verified volunteers to walk together to similar destinations ensuring a safe, convenient, and inexpensive travel experience. A short video on Travel Hands- https://youtu.be/du1CEQeWoYw You get to participate in the most flexible volunteering experience that enables you to help whenever you want based on your flexibility. It is an opportunity to breathe fresh air, walk some more steps in the day, relax and make new friends in your area. In the near future, as a thank you, you get the benefit of turning your steps into points, converting them into potential rewards, as incentives from affiliated companies that pursue and value their customers under corporate social responsibility programs. You, as a volunteer, will be required to help VIPs navigate through roads safely whilst having interesting conversations, building friendships, or simply breathing fresh air. Your volunteering help, which is flexible and could be according to your personal schedule, will create a lot of positive impacts: - Ensure that VIP save on average 30 minutes for every journey undertaken and £100 on travel costs per month. - Create new social interactions and explore opportunities in life that VIP never enjoyed before. - Reduce carbon emission by reducing the use of taxis and single-mode transportation by VIP. - Improve physical and mental health by encouraging walking and social interaction.
Befriending, Buddying & Mentoring,Support Work,General & Helping
IT skills - basic, Managing People
You do not require any qualification for the role and we will be providing online training to make you aware of the ways to walk with a VIP What we are looking for in a volunteer: - Ability to empathize with the problems faced by VIP and acknowledge the mission of the company, VIP World Services - Good time management skills, schedule walks with VIP, and arrive at the meeting point on time. - Committed & Reliable - Compassionate - Patient - Trustworthy - Good Listener, we would appreciate it if our volunteers can have interesting chats with VIP whilst on journeys. Requirements: Must be 18 or over Will be required to perform a DBS check before becoming a verified volunteer Must be in a physical condition to walk without anyone else’s assistance
You can reap multiple benefits by helping VIP with Travel Hands: - Volunteer flexibly as and when you want. - Walk with VIP to become more physically active and increase your local community network. - The volunteering activity converts your involvement into points and you can redeem points with voucher rewards on the app
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