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The Volunteer Centre |
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The Daventry Volunteer Centre (DVC) is staffed by a team of paid workers and volunteers and is overseen by a management committee.
The DVC acts as a local infrastructure organisation for the voluntary and community sector, offering support to help build their capcity, giving funding advice and offering training .
DVC promote all aspects of volunteering. The main office is located in the Daventry library and is the first port of call for anyone interested in becoming a volunteer. The office is an information point holding a wide range of information about services in the local voluntary sector. It also deals with requests for gardening decorating and DIY from elderly or disabled people and referrals from the DASH project which is run from the library office.
The "Brushes and Spades" project is located in the Daventry Welfare Foundation Building in New Street.
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Our Team |
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Carella Davies
Manager |
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Carella has worked in the voluntary sector for over 20 years and at the Daventry Volunteer Centre for the last 14 years. She has a background in counselling and youth work and voluntary sector management. She continues to have a leading role in developing infrastructure support to the Voluntary and Community Sector ( VCS) in Northamptonshire and chairs the Daventry Voluntary & Community Sector forum.
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Mal Thompson
Outreach Development co-ordinator & DASH worker |
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Mal's project has been funded through Daventry District Council to develop the capacity of the Volunteer Centre to deliver support to frontline organsations in the Daventry District. She offers help with funding applications, start-up for new organisations including management committee and governance issues, information and advice on good practice around volunteering, developing volunteering opportunities and training for volunteers. Mal also works promoting the Daventry Safer Homes agenda and recruiting volunteers for the project. DASH aims to: "improve the safety and well-being of older people by reducing risks that commonly affect them in their homes such as household accidents, poor heating and distraction burglaries." |
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Jeremy Patterson
Brushes and Spades Project Co-ordinator |
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Jeremy works full-time with the volunteers on the brushes and spades project. Organising the volunteering placements and helping the volunteers to acheive their personal goals. |
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Ken Blake
Brushes and Spades Project |
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Christine Wilson, Miriam Pearce, Angela Gee
Office Volunteers |
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Chris, Mim & Ange play an important roll in supporting the administration of the Volunteer Centre. |
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Our Management Committee |
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Geoff Pearce- Chair |
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Sue Manning - Treasurer |
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Carella Davies - Secretary |
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Ann Bamfield - Agency Rep |
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Andy Nixon - Agency Rep |
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Andrea Wheeler - Agency Rep |
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Cllr. Annette Dunn- Advisory Member |
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Sylvia Lerigo- Advisory Member |
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