Project To Women In Refuge, Homeless,Wellbeing&Community Reconnection

Project To Support Women In Refuge, The Homeless, Wellbeing & Community Reconnection

Supervising Outdoors Training Food banks Clearing litter Sports Events & festival First aid Youth work Reading & Writing Teaching Campaigning Social media Design Fundraising Administration Advice & Mentoring Assistance Social contact IT Data Science Website Photography & film Music Arts & crafts Creative English Electronics Marketing & Communications Lobbying Financial Trusteeship Business Development Driving Hosting

Community & family Refugees & minorities Poverty reduction

Long term role
· 1–2 hrs/Week Letchworth Garden City, Hertfordshire, England, United Kingdom. Supervising Outdoors Training Food banks Clearing litter Sports Events & festival First aid Youth work Reading & Writing Teaching Campaigning Social media Design Fundraising Administration Advice & Mentoring Assistance Social contact IT Data Science Website Photography & film Music Arts & crafts Creative English Electronics Marketing & Communications Lobbying Financial Trusteeship Business Development Driving Hosting Community & family Refugees & minorities Poverty reduction.

Suitable for under 18's, Trustee opportunity 1 person going.

This volunteer role focuses on helping women in refuge, post-refuge experience, the homeless, abuse survivors, health promotion and community reconnection.

Thank you so much for visiting this volunteer opportunity page.

At Come Up Higher To Greater Levels (CUH2GL) our aim is to ensure every volunteer is well equipped, supported, and confident in their role — and that every woman we serve is treated with dignity, safety, and compassion. Please see below the different areas to volunteer in with job descriptions and kindly do well to indicate your area of interest and then send your expression of interest.

Purpose:

We need someone or people who can help to support the delivery of flexible Wellness and Self‑Care Sessions for women post refuge experience or recovering from domestic abuse, helping create a calm, safe and empowering environment.

Key Responsibilities:

• Welcome participants and create a warm, trauma‑informed, non‑judgmental atmosphere.
• Assist in preparing self‑care materials, mindfulness tools, journals, refreshments, etc.
• Support group facilitators during activities focused on confidence, stress management, and emotional recovery.
• Provide one‑to‑one listening support (non‑therapeutic).
• Help monitor attendance and wellbeing outcomes.
• Signpost participants to wellbeing, mental‑health or refuge support in line with safeguarding guidelines.

Skills/Qualities Needed:

• Understanding of trauma, domestic abuse dynamics (training provided).
• Good boundaries and confidentiality awareness.
• DBS required (CIC provides this).

Purpose:

We need someone or people who can help with employability sessions fortnightly to support with CV writing, interview skills, digital confidence, and budgeting.

Key Responsibilities:

• Assist participants with CVs, job applications and basic digital skills.
• Support budgeting and financial resilience workshops.
• Help those with English as a second language understand key materials.
• Liaise with Jobcentre Plus contacts when needed.

Skills/Qualities Needed:

• Experience in administration, employability coaching, HR recruitment, or adult education (desirable).
• Good communication, patience and cultural sensitivity.

Purpose:

We need someone or people who can provide encouragement, share lived experience and act as a positive role‑model for women on their recovery journey.

Key Responsibilities:

• Support participants during group sessions, sharing lived experience safely (optional).
• Co‑facilitate activities once trained.
• Assist new members to settle into groups.
• Help build peer‑led wellbeing groups by month 10.
• Participate in the monthly steering group meeting.

Skills/Qualities Needed:

• Ideally lived experience of domestic abuse, chronic hardship or homelessness (supported, optional).
• Warm, empathetic, non‑judgmental approach.
• Ability to maintain boundaries and confidentiality.
• Training and DBS provided.