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Children's Residential Driver

Free to Be Kids

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"Free to Be run adventurous, nature based residentials to give vulnerable young people a space to have fun and to feel invited and accepted.

Our residential Driver volunteers volunteer 1 week at a time, staying on-site overnight, and are integral in making our projects work! As many of our young people would be unable to get to a central meeting point, we go and pick them all up from their houses at the start of the project and drop them off again at the end. We also go out to activities in the minibus each day and unsurprisingly, when asked to draw a picture to summarise their week at Free to Be, many of the children have the minibus as a key feature! It’s where a lot of the important chats, silly games and loud singing happens and can really be the heart of the project.

Our drivers have the important responsibility of safely driving the minibus but they also offer an important presence to the children. As the children are not with them 24/7 (unlike their group leaders!), the drivers are often seen as an authority figure who can offer an air of calm organisation on the activity days."

Befriending, Buddying & Mentoring,Caring,Community Work,Driving (must have full driving license),Youth Work,Support Work,General & Helping

Counselling, Managing People, UK Driving Licence

"We need a whole range of attributes from different volunteers. Our current volunteers may love sport and jumping into every activity with our children, whilst others may prefer having reflective chats over hot chocolate with the children about their days. Whatever your skillset, so long as you want to provide some deserving young people with the fun break they need, we would love to have you! For our driver roles, you must hold a clean driving licence, and have had been driving regularly over the past 3 years."

Food, board and activities during your time volunteering is covered by us. We pay for all of our drivers to do their MiDAS training to make sure that they are completely comfortable driving the minibus before they come on project. Full safeguarding training (online) and induction training with team and other new volunteers (online).

We run our residential projects throughout the Easter and Summer school holidays. Each residential lasts 6 nights, 7 days, and volunteers are required to stay on-site for the duration.

Further location details may be provided below.

Amy Nagle

Orpington, London

BR6 0SX

10

https://www.freetobekids.org.uk/

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18 and over

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We are particularly keen to encourage applications from those who can help us represent the lived experiences of our children through their own lived experience or background.

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