We are looking for volunteers to help out at Talliston House and Gardens on their private group days and events in Great Dunmow.
We are looking for volunteers to help out at Talliston House and Gardens on their private group days and events in Great Dunmow.
Tasks would include:
Skills needed:
Contact us on T: 01371 404525 E: volunteer@ucan.org.uk
Adult Friendship Volunteers support adults who have a range of disabilities in a variety of social and leisure activities and settings.
The role of volunteers within this project is to befriend and support participants to access activities which will promote their self-confidence, independence, social and life skills. This can include accessing the local community in small groups and participating in activities that are of interest to the adults using this service. Regular social meetings are held in Uttlesford on a Tuesday evening where many members meet and participate in activities as a larger group.
Contact us on T: 01371 404525 E: volunteer@ucan.org.uk
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Saffron Walden Museum is one of the oldest purpose-built museums in the country.
Saffron Walden Museum is one of the oldest purpose-built museums in the country. We are looking for volunteers to help staff at Saffron Walden Museum with keeping the museum in a good condition so that it is tidy, organised and welcoming for visitors.
Tasks would include:
Skills needed:
Contact us on T: 01371 404525
We are looking for volunteers to help out at Talliston House and Gardens as tour guides for small groups. Talliston is a house and gardens in Great Dunmow
We are looking for volunteers to help out at Talliston House and Gardens as tour guides for small groups.
Volunteers would be needed for a few hours on the last weekend of every month, and occasionally to guide private groups on the weekdays.
Skills needed:
Contact us on T: 01371 404525 E: volunteer@ucan.org.uk
On Wednesday our community outreach team were in Newport with the UCAN Charity Mobile Community Hub. Across the week we are out and about visiting rural communities in Uttlesford, bringing to them services and support they might not otherwise be able to access. Our team includes Community Responders, Advisors and Social Workers and we carry with us a raft of information on help that is available to residents – most of it free!
Thank you to the people of Newport for being so welcoming and responsive – especially local resident Susan Vance who helped us make the arrangements and raise awareness of our visit. We had a bumper day with our highest engagement numbers so far.
If you’d like our mobile community hub to come to you, drop an email to connect@ucan.org.uk and we’ll arrange a visit.
Thanks also to our UCAN Volunteer Centre team who recruited a great bank of volunteer supporters to help us deploy the mobile hub and support members of the public.
Next week we are in Great Dunmow outside the Coop, with thanks to Dunmow Town Council for the invitation.
See you soon!
North Uttlesford PCN has an exciting opportunity for an acute social prescribing link worker to join our neighbourhood team, on a full-time or part-time basis, for up to 37.5 hours per week.
This innovative post will operate within the Cambridge Hospitals Foundation Trust (Addenbrooke’s Hospital) as part of the complex discharge team to facilitate and expedite hospital discharges. Hosted by the local voluntary sector, this exciting role is intended to work with individual patients and their families to support effective discharge planning. This is role intended to act as an expert in voluntary care and in leveraging community voluntary services in support of post-acute hospital care.
The main responsibilities of the role include:
For further information and to apply please visit:
A new report has been co-produced by staff from Uttlesford Community Action Network (UCAN) and social scientists at Anglia Ruskin University (ARU) as part of a consultancy evaluation of the Ticket Home hospital discharge service provided by UCAN.
The report presents a summary analysis of the academic and policy literature relating to the challenges involved in the safe and timely discharge of patients from hospital, as well as an evaluation of the achievements and challenges entailed by UCAN in supporting safe and timely discharge of patients from Princess Alexandra Hospital (PAH), Harlow, to their homes across West Essex, from December 2022 to November 2023. Detailed information is provided on actions undertaken to support patients who were discharged by UCAN’s Ticket Home initiative.
A copy of the evaluation can be downloaded here.
Acknowledgements
UCAN would like to acknowledge and thank the Hertfordshire & West Essex Integrated Care System and the specific Commissioners involved, Michelle Bullman and Sara Chaudhry, in agreeing to fund this initiative across the West Essex area, along with the ongoing support in its development provided by Sara Chaudhry and Amy Jackson. We would also like to thank the Transfer of Care Team at Princess Alexandra Hospital, Harlow, for their support and partnership working. Specifically, Kay Cobbold, the TOC Matron, who played a distinct role in the successful integration of this initiative within the hospital as a whole
UCAN has a vacancy among its trustee board for an Honorary Treasurer
Uttlesford Community Action Network is the charity at the heart of our community. Working with VCFSE colleagues, statutory services and volunteers, we deliver a range of services to improve the quality of life for the residents of Uttlesford. Our primary mission is to reduce loneliness and isolation amongst our population and enable people to live independent but supported and connected lives.
The UCAN board of trustees are volunteers who hold the operational management team to account, set strategy and develop policy and support the charity with compliance and governance matters. We are now seeking to appoint a new Honorary Treasurer, as the previous post-holder has retired.
The role of the Honorary Treasurer (who is both a trustee and director of the charity) in addition to their regular responsibilities as a trustee of UCAN, is to have oversight of the financial administration of the charity.
Day to day responsibility for the financial management and administration of the charity is devolved to the Chief Finance Officer (CFO), supported by the Financial Administrator. The financial management and administration of the charity is governed by the Financial Regulations policy.
The Treasurer, in addition to attending regular trustee meetings, will also Chair Finance Sub Group meetings where they will work with the Chief Finance Officer to set and review budgets and budget performance, review the fundraising activities and funding pipeline and support the CFO with matters relating to the good financial governance of the charity. The sub group will make recommendations to the board on routine financial matters and issues arising.
PERSON SPECIFICATION FOR THE HONORARY TREASURER
| Requirement | Essential or Desirable |
| Financial qualification such as chartered accountant | D |
| Financial management at a senior level | E |
| Charity finance, fundraising and pension schemes | D |
| Ability to analyse proposals and consider their consequences | E |
| Willingness to be available to the SMT and trustees for advice and guidance on an ad-hoc basis | E |
| Be eligible to serve as a trustee | E |
Your commitment as a trustee is to attend as many schedule board meetings as possible within the year. These alternate between in-person main meetings and virtual (Zoom) online update meetings approximately every six weeks, plus participation in the finance sub group which meets two weeks before each trustee meeting. Board meetings usually take place on a Friday morning in
If you match the eligibility criteria and are interested in taking an active role within UCAN and our community, please email your CV outlining relevant experience, and a covering letter to connect@ucan.org.uk the Dunmow area, with virtual meetings taking place on Wednesday evenings. This is a voluntar role, but expenses for attending meetings can be claimed.
Thank you for your interest.
The UCAN Charity Mobile Community Hub was out and about in Uttlesford again yesterday, this time setting up in Hatfield Broad Oak.
Saffron Walden Museum is one of the oldest purpose-built museums in the country.
The role would include varying activities such as researching and monitoring popular social media trends and hashtags, researching and compiling content for social media and blog updates and resizing and editing digital images for social media and website use.
The Museum Society, our charitable wing, also needs volunteers who would be willing to be the administrator/editor for their Facebook page and who would be able to help by taking notes during their monthly local history talks at the Parish rooms for review in their quarterly newsletter.
Contact us on T: 01371 404525
