Moving on together - volunteer training programme

The Friendship Centre would not be able to survive without the very generous help we receive from our volunteers. As a thank you we make sure that we provide our volunteers with training they might need to return to the workplace.

Our training has enabled many people to gain confidence in their abilities and we have assisted in the majority of them entering further training and college courses. We helped 80 people gain qualifications last year.

The success of our training programme has led to us being provided funding from Awards for All - a grant scheme run by the National Lottery. The has allowed us to develop our successful training programme over the next twelve months.

Ten voluneers have already successfully completed food safety training, eight people have attended an art course and three first aid at work qualifications have been achieved. We have also funded courses in customer service, bicycle maintenance and IT and Internet for beginners.

This funding was received in partnership with Hermitage Housing residents who applied for the funding on behalf of the Friendship Centre to actively demonstrate their support for the centre's worthwhile work.

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