VOLUNTEER CORNER
The Royal Voluntary Service wants to help create a society where everyone feels valued and involved whatever their age. Their volunteers help older people stay active, independent and able to continue to contribute to society.
They do this by providing practical and emotional help where and when it’s needed. They are recruiting Volunteer Coordinators to develop and coordinate activities and social clubs for older people to attend in your area.
A Volunteer Coordinator could be one person leading the way, or you might want to help run a group with others as part of a team.
Each group will vary greatly and provide activities ranging from dining clubs, art groups, or exercise sessions – to gardening clubs, music or relaxed coffee and cake mornings – it’s really up to you. They need people who are friendly and outgoing, organised and efficient and a team player.
Sue Ryder helps provide person centred hospice and neurological care across the UK. Their charity shop in Wokingham sells donated items and new goods to raise money for the vital work they do.
They are looking to take on more volunteer sales assistants. Activities will include serving customers, dealing with stock donations and deliveries, keeping the shop floor tidy and well-presented and supporting shop fundraising activities.
Volunteers will need to have good communication skills and be able to be part of a team. Retail experience would be useful, but not essential as training will be given.
They have various slots available mornings and afternoons from Mondays to Saturdays, but volunteers will need to be able to commit to a regular slot.
The Stroke Association provides practical advice, essential information and emotional support to stroke survivors and their families. Their trained volunteers provide one-to-one support to assist people in achieving their personal goals for a full life after stroke.
They are looking for one-to-one support volunteers. This role will involve reducing social isolation and help stroke survivors regain their confidence and independence.
Volunteers will visit service users (typically at their home) once or twice a week over a six week period to work on their personal goals, such as communication practice or visiting their local coffee shop for the first time since their stroke.
depressing. Its demolition went unmourned, by everybody. Now Bracknell is vibrant.
The new shops in ‘The Lexicon’, though expensive, glitter with success, and one experiences that pleasant feeling of social mobility – that Bracknell is on its way up the social scale.
By contrast, the regeneration of Wokingham, is a completely different kettle of fish.
The old Wokingham Town Centre was historic, charming, and – as with lamenting the destruction of the lovely old trees on Elms Field – the people of Wokingham are experiencing the demolition of what was once an attractive market town, as degeneration, rather than as regeneration.
One has that unpleasant feeling of reversed social mobility – that Wokingham is on its way down the social scale!
So I do wish that you Conservatives would embrace your own political philosophy – leave well alone, and only change things if it is change for the better.
We all want to go up in the world, not down in the world.
At least the refurbishment of our next door neighbour, The Molly Millar Pub, appears to be a complete success.
It has gone upmarket, looks very smart, and we have been looking forward to its re-opening as The Station Tap, which took place on Monday.
Thus history repeats itself. What, in the 19th century, was The Railway Tap, is now The Station Tap. I am getting on very well
with my history of Station House – as reported recently in The Wokingham Paper.
The railway came to Wokingham in July 1849, so when ‘A Station House Through Time’ is published, next year, it will cover exactly 170 years of local history – 32 years, of which, are ours.
Pam Jenkinson, The Wokingham Crisis House
Anti-semitism
The Labour leader Jeremy
Corbyn has diverted a diversion from anti-Semitism to blaming Ms Rudd the home secretary about immigration.
Mr Corbyn is causing a hostile environment and gives Jewish people no confidence without action – so he diverts his action on Ms Rudd.
The Labour leader is toxic and has no respect for Israel he cannot and he will not face responsibility that he is spreading anti-Semitism.
To settle this he should resign the leadership and as a MP and take Dianne Abbot and many of his front bench with him.
They are not fit to be in Parliament, as he keep dividing the UK. He does not unite the people, he is selective.
Many of the Labour leader’s front bench team have his attitude that keep running down Israel.
Let me tell him this thank goodness the Jewish people have Israel because if he got into Number 10 the Jewish people will continue to suffer so much and would flee from this country to Israel.
Ms Rudd should have been strong enough to fight on and not give up – it is Mr Corbyn and his pals who should go.
Victor Rones, Bracknell
Immigration
It is a damning indictment of what kind of country we have become when we hear stories of people who have been here for decades being deported or denied healthcare.
But let us not forget that
Theresa May’s Hostile Environment impacts more than just the Windrush generation.
It poisons the very fabric of our society.
It forces landlords, doctors, police officers and others to be suspicious of everyone who
‘could’ be a so-called ‘illegal’ immigrant.
This makes the UK a more hostile place to be for many British citizens too.
Immigrants, whether they arrived in 1948 or 2018, are our neighbours, our friends and our children’s classmates.
Respect, love and a good
welcome – not hostility - is what they deserve.
This government must stop treating them like the enemy within and focus on the inequality and poverty that is the true enemy tearing our society apart.
So apologies and assurances are not enough. The government must end the hostile environment policy completely. Full stop.
Jackie Oversby Co-ordinator, Global Justice Reading