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Tea Party for people aged 75+ Become a Group coordinator
Practical details
Volunteering • Longer term volunteering
Contact person
Suki Matharu
#127598
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As a tea party group coordinator, you’ll plan, organise and schedule monthly tea parties in your local area.
This is an administrative role that requires communicating and socialising with older guests, volunteer hosts and drivers from all walks of life.
The tea party will be at a different volunteer host's home each month and will include older guests, other volunteer drivers and the tea party group coordinator.
Each tea party usually lasts around two hours and take place on a Sunday afternoon.
Tea parties provide a lifeline of friendship of socially isolated or lonely older people. The Warm, regular, and friendly companionship provides a vital link with the outside world from which they have become isolated.
To become a Group coordinator you will need to:
- Attend a telephone induction or view an online video induction
- Complete an ID check
- Provide a character reference
- Complete online volunteer training modules
- Although many tea party group coordinators are also tea party drivers, this is not a requirement of the role.
Tasks include:
- Welcoming and supporting new volunteers into the tea party group so they can start volunteering with confidence.
- Welcoming new older guests to the tea party group and contacting them before their first tea party group so that they feel welcome and comfortable.
- Arranging the annual tea party schedule so the hosts know when it’s their turn to host and older guests and drivers know where the tea parties are each month.
- Matching older guests to volunteer drivers, so the same drivers collect and drop off the same older guests each month.
- Keeping in regular contact with the tea party group older guests and volunteers, and sharing any updates from Re-engage that are relevant to them.
- Responding to any issues and queries from the volunteers and older guests in the tea party group.
- Following the guidance in the online volunteer training so that the tea parties are safe, enjoyable, appropriate and in line with our charitable aims.
- Keeping in regular contact with Re-engage and reporting any concerns to the team.
- Promoting the tea party group in your local area so we can recruit more volunteers and support more older people.
- Completing a short online report about the tea party group four times a year.
- Keeping your knowledge and training up to date by reading our monthly volunteer newsletter – Re-engage Matters.
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About Re-engage
Re-engage work to prevent and reduce isolation in later life, by providing free online, telephone and in-person services.
Our vision is a world where no one is ever too old to make friends and enjoy social interaction.
Our mission is to work within communities to end social isolation and loneliness in older people.