Community Mile Champion
The Mason Foundation
We are recruiting for fun, enthusiastic people that love the great outdoors, to set up and deliver Miles within their community. Create your desired activity to drive socializing and wellbeing within your local community and lead on the delivery of the activity for a period of 12 weeks, with our support and CPD accredited training.
Calling individuals, couples, and families all across Greenwich! We are recruiting for fun, enthusiastic people that love the great outdoors, to set up and deliver Family Miles within their community. Would you like to help people 'Mile and talk' their way into better health and wellbeing? Do you want to provide a friendly atmosphere to help people in your community get outdoors and active through The Family Mile? Then our volunteer Champion role may be just what you’re looking for! The role is up to 1.5hrs a week and entails: • Promoting your Mile to the community online and/or in person. • Encouraging your milers to register to The Mile free community. • Having fun leading Your Mile, Your Way! The Community Mile Champions will work in partnership with Waterways Children's Centre in the Thamesmead area and will have the opportunity to create an activity of their choosing, for a minimum of 12 weeks. The Community Mile is a tool that can be used to increase participation, delivering something that has been co-designed with the community, or as a programme to support physical and mental wellbeing. Whatever your aim, The Mile could support you to achieve it! The activity created by the Champion with our support can help members of the local community who would otherwise not access social or physical activities, to be able to take part which helps drive societal change towards inclusion. Champions will receive our CPD accredited training, for two training sessions starting from the 10th of July 2024, ending on the 17th. Champions will also receive our support following the training for a period of 6 months. Waterways Children's Centre provide creche services for the duration of the training, volunteers must book in advance with the centre to avail of creche services.
Advice, Information & Support,Befriending, Buddying & Mentoring,Community Work,Events & Stewarding
Organising & Planning
We would look for an individual that can plan and deliver their own activity session, with our support. Volunteers must attend two training sessions of 2 hour duration each session.
Receive the opportunity and starting point to be a Champion in your local community, and create an activity of your choosing that may reflect your personal preferences or address the barriers of your local community. Receive our CPD accredited training and our support, which takes into consideration your individual needs as well as your community's needs, to be able to work together, as a fantastic experience in working in partnership, with Waterways Children's Centre and with the Mason Foundation. As part of the programme you will also receive a Champion coat and cap, as well as access to the Champion network. We support Champions to adopt a social prescribing approach through open conversations and active listening, as well as handholding and signposting people within the local support services – particularly those often underutilised by the communities they are designed to support. • We then provide a further 3 months light touch support, ensuring organisations have fully embedded The Mile and that their community is one step closer to living a healthier, happier, and more active life!
12 weeks minimum (commitment to deliver 12 sessions of physical activity, can be over a period of 12 weeks, or twice a month, or monthly for 12 sessions). Flexibility regarding the dates/times of the sessions
SE28 8EZ
Waterways Children’s Centre Southwood Road, London
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