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Daventry Volunteer Centre
The Library
North Street
DAVENTRY
Northants
NN114GH
Tel: 01327 300614
Email:

Links to other Voluntary Organisations
Here is a list of some of the many organisation we recruit for. If you would like more information about any of the organisations then contact us

- Add your postcode to find opportunites available in your area

- We are linked with South Nothants Volunteer Bureau's virtual forum, where you have an opportunity to put your points of view to others. Click on the forum button opposite


Age Concern Sitting Service
The Abbey
Market square
Daventry
NN11 4BH
Tel: 01327 701681
- require volunteers to sit with a disabled person to give the full time carer a break.


Age Concern hospital After Care Service
The Abbey
Market square
Daventry
NN11 4BH
Tel:01327 701681
- require volunteers to offer help to elderly people returning from hospital. eg Shopping, Collecting pension, Cleaning, Chatting etc.


Daventry & District Citizens Advice Bureau
The Abbey
Market Square
Daventry
NN11 4BH
Tel: 01327 706464
Email: click here
Web:
www.daventrycab.org.uk

National Web site
www.adviceguide.org.uk
- use volunteers to run the largest independent advice agency in the district.


CAN (Council on Addiction)
The Abbey
Market Square
Daventry
NN11 4BH
Tel: 01604 622121
- volunteers offer help, advice, support and counselling for anyone concerned about drink, drugs and homelessness.


DACT (Daventry Area Community Transport)
The Abbey
Market Square
Daventry
NN11 4BH
Tel: 01327 701666
- volunteers required to drive people who are elderly or have a disablity to essential GP and hosptial appointments.


DIAL (Disability Information Advice Line)
The Abbey
Market Square
Daventry
NN11 4BH
Tel: 01327 701646
Email: Click here
- volunteers opperate an advice line offering support to people and helping them access appropriate services.


HomeStart
The Meristem
Hawke Road
Daventry
NN11 4BH
Tel: 01327 703434
- volunteer visitors help families in their own homes by offering support friendship and practical help where there is at least one child under 5 years old.


Welfare Rights
The Abbey
Market Square
Daventry
NN11 4BH
Tel: 01327 701630
Email: Click here
- Welfare Rights is a voluntary organisation set up in 1977. We assist clients to claim Welfare benefits by helping them to fill in forms, liasing with relevant authorities and when necessary arranging representation at appeals tribunals.based at the Abbey the drop in advice sessions are manned by trained volunteers and home visits are arranegd for elderley people or people with disabilities.


MIND
North Street
Daventry
NN11 5PN
Tel: 01327 879416
- volunteers used in a variety of ways to support people with mental illness issues in their day centre.


Time2Talk
The Abbey
Market Square
Daventry
NN11 4BH
Tel: 01327 706706
- volunteers offer help information and support to young people between 13 - 25


Victim Support
Northamptonshire West
Angel Street
Northampton
NN1 1ED
Tel: 01604 603477
- volunteers offer support to victims of crime. They also use volunteers for their witness support service.


Volunteer Reading Help
Volunteer Services Manager
Barratt House
Kingsthorpe Road
NORTHAMPTON
NN2 6EZ
Tel: 0845 4500338
Web: www.vrh.org.uk
Email:

- volunteers work in primary school helping children aged 6-11 giving regular help through talking, reading and playing games with the children


Daventry LION
The Conservative Club,
High Street,
Daventry
Tel: 0121 441 4544
email: click here
- a community service club dedicated to the idea that the men and women who live in a community are in the best position to know who needs help and why. Local Clubs have 1.4 million members serving in more than 193 countries and areas. The association is both non-political and non-sectarian



Voluntary Youth Action
University of Northampton
Room MY115 Avenue Campus
St. Georges Avenue
Northampton
NN2 6JD
Tel: 01604 722244

web:
www.nvya.co.uk
- volunteers aged 16-24 involved in a variety of community based projects ranging from football coaching to help create gardens for local residents etc.


Daventry Country Park
Northern Way
Daventry
NN11 5JB
Tel: 01327 877193
- volunteers help ranger to run the Country Park and to manage its valuable habitats and maintain it facilities


BTCV
c/o Moulton College
Moulton
Northampton
NN3 7RR
Tel: 01604 643653
Email: click here
Web: www.btcv.org/users/btcvnorthants/
- volunteers help with a variety of conservation tasks.


WNDC
Head of Communications
PO Box 355
Franklin's Gardens
Northampton
NN5 5WU
Tel: 01604 586600
Email:
Web: www.wndc.co.uk
- WNDC has been set up by government to work with local authorities and partners to make Northampton, Daventry and Towcester better places to live, work and invest

Charity Registration number 802079