Volunteering and job opportunities | Canalside Community Food - Part 2

South Warwickshire Local Food (SWLF)

Community Food Worker

Fixed Term Contract: 10 months

Are you looking for a new challenge?

Do you have knowledge and understanding of community development and a passion for food and cooking?

Lillington Children’s Centre has one year funding from Warwick District council to continue the development of the community food project – raising awareness around healthy eating including the community café and promoting the food co-operative buying group.

Key Responsibilities:

To build on the development of the community café based in the Lillington Children’s Centre and make links with existing food projects, including the Food Co-op and the allotment

To attract a wide range of cafe customers, especially families with young children, to create a vibrant café environment

To promote, develop and manage the Lillington Food Co-op and attract a wide range of new customers

To manage the day to day running of the café and co-op, including basic book keeping, and to lead a team of volunteers to help make the projects a success, running the café four days a week and the co-op one day a week

To develop awareness in the community of the importance of healthy eating

To contribute to the development of a sustainable future for the project

Ensure reporting to the funder is carried out on a regular basis.

If you are interested in this exciting challenge please ring 01926 337506 for a job application pack.

Please submit your CV and a letter stating why you would be the right person for the job by email to inderjit.sahota@actionforchildren.org.uk or post to Lillington children’s Centre, 3 Mason Avenue, Lillington, Leamington Spa, CV32 7QE

Hours: 24 hours per week (around 5 days of 4.8 hours)
Salary: £1143.80 per month for 10 months (Jun14- Mar 15; equivalent of full time annual salary of £20,020)
Closing date: 12pm on the 6 May 2014
Interviews will be held on the 14 May 2014
To start: Ideally we would like the successful candidate to start 3 June 2014
This post is part of the Crown Routes initiative funded by WDC

Job description

Action 21: Re-Useful Centre Shop Supervisor
(2 positions available)

Salary: £16,000 Pro Rata (ie £14,400 pa)
Hours: 4.5 days a week (8:30 – 16:30) generally 4 days one week, 5 days the next on rotation
Location: Leamington Spa
Term of Contract: Permanent
Closing date: Sunday 30th March 2014, Midnight

Action 21 require two practical and versatile person managers with retail experience, strong customer care skills, with the ability to remain calm under pressure. This role requires a strong capability to multi task, as you will be simultaneously overseeing daily operations and projects at The Re-Useful Centre, whilst coordinating the activities of shop volunteers.

For further details or to download an application pack visit: http://www.action21.co.uk/work-for-us/ or email louise@action21.co.uk

Action 21: General Manager

Salary: £21,000 p/a
Hours: 37.5 hrs per week to include occasional evenings and weekends
Location: Leamington Spa
Closing date: Sunday 9th March, midnight

Are you driven by a passion for sustainable living? Do you have the vision and energy to oversee and develop Action 21′s charitable activities? We require an excellent organiser to ensure our interesting and worthwhile environmental projects run smoothly and ensure the ongoing development of our operation. You will lead a small, friendly and dedicated staff team of four other people to organise, manage and develop the delivery of the charity’s objectives. You will have overall responsibility for marketing, communications, the retail operation, volunteer management and business development. Accordingly this is an exciting opportunity to develop novel re-use and practical sustainability projects.

For further details or to download an application pack visit: http://www.action21.co.uk/work-for-us/

Does anyone fancy volunteering at Lillington Community Café or do you know
anyone who might?
We are looking for people who would like to cook, or help with cooking, or
serve drinks and cakes for an hour or so in the morning. Food is usually
vegetarian and soup and homemade bread are available alongside a hot meal.
Food Hygiene training available.
The café runs on a Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday lunchtime with a varying
start time.
Please get in touch and pass this on to anyone who might be interested, or
if you fancy a very reasonable lunch please visit,
Thanks!

Action Week
Monday 24th to Friday 28th September
On Monday 24th September work will begin to transform the land next to the garages off of Old Road in to a community growing space for all to grow fruit and veg, and enjoy.

To make this happen we need your help.

We will be on the site from around 11am each day until 6pm.

Please help out whenever you’re free, for as long as you’re able to, there will be tools available and maybe even some biscuits!

There will be a notice board in the entrance to the garden with more information about what we will be doing each day.

Thanks,
David Garrett, Garden Organic
If you have any questions about helping out during the week please get in touch:
T: 024 7621 7742
E: dgarrett@gardenorganic.org.uk

Hi All

You may like to know about another of ARC’s projects….. We provide a litterpicking and recycling service at festivals and events within Warwick District.

Our next event is the Warwick Folk Festival at the end of July. If you volunteer to do a 4 hour shift we say thank you with free day pass to the Folk Festival held on the grounds of Warwick School on Myton Road, Warwick. All training and equipment is provided by ARC.

It’s lots of fun and you get to see some great acts – have a look at the Folk Festival website to plan what day you’d like to come and help: http://www.warwickfolkfestival.co.uk/

Volunteer shift times are as follows:

Thurs 26th July – Setting up, putting the bins out ( 2 – 4pm)

Friday 27th July – Litterpicking: 9am – 1pm, 1pm – 5pm, 5pm – 9pm

Saturday 28th July – Litterpicking: 9am – 1pm, 1pm – 5pm, 5pm – 9pm

Sunday 29th July – Litterpicking: 9am – 1pm, 1pm – 5pm, 5pm – 9pm

Monday 30th July – Packing up bins (8am – 11am)

Please contact Kristie if you’d like more details: kristie@arccic.co.uk ph:07906 262 364 or visit the website: http://www.arccic.co.uk/projects/event-recycling

Many thanks

ARC CIC

Hello all,

Thanks for your ongoing support of Foundry Wood. Just to keep you up to date – below is a drawing of the vision for the woodland site.
Foundry Wood – draft drawing

A more formal planning application has been submitted this week but the attached gives you an idea of what we hope to achieve. If you have any further queries or would like details of a specific project – please get in touch with Kath or myself.

Also, the next work party on site is later this month:

When: Sunday 20th May, 11am – 3pm
Where: Meet at Victoria Park Car park on Princes Drive opposite the entrance to the tip. If you can’t make it for 11, please phone Kath on 07814 605 245 and she will come and meet you
What: Levelling the ground where we’ve cleared the brambles (so a bit of digging), planting some wildflowers plus a few other jobs depending on weather!

Please wear sturdy shoes and appropriate clothing, tools will be provided as well as Tea/Coffee and biscuits!

Hope to see you soon

cheers

Kristie Naimo
ARC CIC
07906 262 364

Hello,

Garden Organic are currently recruiting another twenty Master Gardeners to offer support and advice to people growing fruit and veg in Warwickshire. The new recruits will join our growing network of over 60 volunteers in the county.

So far the project has been really successful, with almost 400 households receiving the ongoing support of a Master Gardener, and over 10,000 residents spoken to. We’re looking for people with at least a couple of years food growing experience and the enthusiasm to encourage others to get growing. Application forms are available from me (contact details below) and an information sheet below contains further details:

Warwickshire Master Gardener volunteer role 2012

The next foundation training weekend is on 28 and 29 April, here at Garden Organic, Ryton. Volunteers receive all the resources they need to get going, extra training days, Garden Organic membership and ongoing support. We ask for around 30 hours volunteering a year, helping other local people to grow their own! I’d be really grateful if you could forward this to anyone you know who may interested in getting involved! Please have a look at our website for more information. www.warwickshire.mastergardeners.org.uk

Thank you for your time, please do get in touch if you’d like more information.

Kind Regards Kate

Kate Newman

Warwickshire Volunteer Co-ordinator

Master Gardener Programme

Garden Organic

Ryton on Dunsmore

Coventry

CV8 3LG

Tel: 02476 217 721

Mobile: 0758 4343846

Email: knewman@gardenorganic.org.uk

I am generally available on a Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday.

Master Gardener programme – encouraging and supporting people and communities to grow fruit and vegetables throughout Warwickshire.

Community Group ARC CIC are assisting the developers of the former Ford Foundry in Leamington to deliver a green triangle of land at the back of the site as a ‘community woodland’.

To have your say on what you think the space could be used for, please complete the survey here (http://www.arccic.co.uk/Survey.html) or come along to one of our public consultation evenings:

Thurs 8th March Leamington Town Hall 7pm

Weds 14th March Bath Place 7pm

Practical activities will also start on the site from March:

Willow Hedge Planting Days –

What: Planting a willow hedge along the railway line fences in the community woodland.

When: Sat 3rd, Sun 18th & Sun 25th March Time: 11am – 3pm

Where: Meet at Victoria Park car park at 11am

(If you can’t make it for that time, phone Kath: 07814 605 245 so she can come and meet you.)

If the Willow planting is completed – we’ll be clearing brambles and creating a compost heap!