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The Volunteer Centre |
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The Volunteer Centre Daventry is staffed by a team of paid workers and volunteers and overseen by a management committee. The main office is located in the Daventry library and is the first port of call for anyone interested in volunteering. The office also deals with requests for gardening decorating and diy from elderly or disabled people and has a wide range of information available about services in the voluntary sector. The centre acts as a local infrastructure organisation for the local voluntary and community sector offering support, information, funding advice and training to local voluntary agencies. 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 13years. 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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Christine Wilson, Miriam Pearce, Lisa Smith
Office Volunteer |
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Chris, Mim & Lisa 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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Sue Rye - Independent |
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Cllr. Annette Dunn- Advisory Member |
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