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VOLUNTEER

Thank you for your interest in volunteering at The Avon Centre.  

We want all our volunteers to have the best experience possible. As well as being able to use and build on your skills, we want you to feel that you are part of our community, have fun working here and make friends. 

You will be a valuable member of our team, supporting us to deliver our services to Disabled and Disadvantaged people in Bristol and the surrounding areas.

 

Areas to volunteer in include:

  • Yard - Helping on the stable yard to look after the horses

  • Arena – Supporting riders during their RDA sessions

  • Pony Interaction Sessions – Supporting our Shetland Therapy programme

  • Estate – Land tasks e.g. fence building and maintenance

  • Reception – Greeting riders and visitors, answering the phone and admin support

  • Events – Helping with Sunday events - A good one if you can’t commit regularly

  • Nature based Activities support - supporting our nature-based activities in our woodland area.       

 

Types of Volunteers

  • Regular weekly volunteers –  Are you interested in coming every week to volunteer with one of our teams in the yard, with the Shetland team, or in the arena supporting RDA sessions or maybe at one of our weekend events or a summer nature session? Please note volunteers must be 14+. Please complete this application form Volunteer application form

  • University placements – Are you an existing student currently at university, over 18 and want to gain experience in working with large animals on a busy working yard. Please complete our University placement application

  • Work experience  – Are you looking for a placement for year 10 or 12 work experience. We can offer 1 week placements in the yard as long as you are competent at grooming, leading and tacking up etc. Volunteers must be 14+.
    Please complete our Work experience application form

  • DofE Volunteering – We are able to support DofE volunteering but we ask for a minimum of 6 months commitment, and will only assess the last 3. You must be 14+. Please complete our Work experience application form

  • Corporate Volunteers – We welcome challenge teams from many different organisations. We can offer tasks like stable painting, fence building and land maintenance. Please email info@theavoncentre.org.uk for more information.

  • Individual Volunteer days – some companies offer 1 or 2 days of volunteering a year. If you would like to spend your volunteering time with us, please email info@theavoncentre.org.uk

  • Supported volunteering - If you have or are a support worker for someone and would like a to volunteer together in the yard then we can offer you a place on our buddied volunteer placement. It's an 8 week placement running on a Monday morning. You can email volunteercoordinator.tac@gmail.com for more information or complete this Volunteer application form 

 

If you have applied for a volunteering role we will be in touch as and when we have a role that matches your skills, area of interest and availability. We receive a large number of applications and have only a small number of available positions so there may be a long wait - thank you for your patience.
In the meantime you can keep keep up to date with what's happening at the Centre on our Blog, come to one of our events or visit us on an open day. 

 

If you have a question about any of our volunteering roles, please email volunteercoordinator.tac@gmail.com

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