Fundraising Volunteer
Current opportunities
We are currently looking for volunteers to help with the following activities:
Bucket Collection for World Elder Abuse Awareness Day (WEAAD)
Saturday 13 June - Asda Parkgate, Shirley
Collect donations from the public and help raise awareness for WEAAD.
Two-hour slots available - contact us for details.
Big Knit Group Helper
Help out at our weekly get together for people knitting little hats for our Big Knit fundraising campaign. We are looking for someone to welcome members, make hot drinks, ensure our knitters have wool and patterns, count hats that are made for us, and clear away after. This is a relaxed and casual role where you can chat to our knitters and help with this popular fundraising activity
Please email fundraising@ageuksolihull.org.uk or leave a message on 0121 704 7842 if you are interested in helping and we will provide further details.
Like most charities, we need to raise much needed funds to help pay for our services. As well as receiving funding from sources such as the local authority, trusts and foundations and gifts in Wills, our fundraising team organise community events and activities throughout the year, with the aim of not only raising money, but also to engage with the local community and raise the profile of the charity.
Volunteering for fundraising doesn’t mean raising money yourself (although if you want to that’s fine!), but helping out at events and with campaigns.
It is ideal if you don’t want to commit to a regular slot each week or have a full-time job, which means you can only help now and again.
Opportunities include:
- Joining our Fundraising Committee to help us to organise fundraising events and activities
- Helping at one-off events – e.g. meeting and greeting guests, selling raffle tickets, making teas/coffees, helping out on a stall, collecting donations in a bucket
- ‘Stuffing’ envelopes – for example, our twice-yearly newsletter
- Finding homes for collecting cans (visiting shops, pubs, clubs etc. to ask if they will take a can and collect when it’s full)
- Office work – from time to time we have projects that we need help with such as internet research, data inputting or managing spreadsheets.
