Daventry Volunteer Centre

Useful Links

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

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.

Advice Daventry
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
Web: www.can.org.uk

- 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.

HomeStart
The Meristem
Hawke Road
Daventry
NN11 4BH
Tel: 01327 703434
Web: www.home-start.org.uk

- 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.

- Every year BIG gives out millions of pounds from the National Lottery to good causes. Our money goes to community groups and to projects that improve health, education and the environment.

MIND
North Street
Daventry
NN11 5PN
Tel: 01327 879416
Web: www.mind.org.uk

- volunteers used in a variety of ways to support people with mental illness issues in their day centre.

Samaritans
2 St Michael's Avenue
Northampton
NN14JQ
Tel: 01604 637637
SMS/text: 07725 909090
Email:
Website: www.samaritans.org

- Samaritans are there for you 24 hours a day and seven days a week.
They provide confidential emotional support for you if you are experiencing any feelings of distress or despair, including those which may lead to suicide.

Time2Talk
The Abbey
Market Square
Daventry
NN11 4BH
Tel: 01327 706706
Web: www.time2talk.org.uk

- volunteers offer help information and support to young people between 13 - 25

Victim Support
Northamptonshire West
Angel Street
Northampton
NN1 1ED
Tel: 01604 603477
Web: www.victimsupport.org.uk

- 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

Northamptonshire 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.

Danetre School
Danetre School
Hawke Road
Daventry
Northants
NN11 4LJ
Tel: 01327 313400

Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen and Families Association (SSAFA) Forces Help
SSAFA Forces Help
19 Queen Elizabeth Street
London
SE1 2LP
Tel: 0845 1300 975

Motor Neurone Disease Association
Registered Office: David Niven House
10-15 Notre Dame Mews
Northampton
NN1 2BG
Web: www.mndassociation.org

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