Disability
Working with Service Providers
York and North Yorkshire Volunteer Centres promote volunteering opportunities, and broker volunteers into a wide a variety of organisations across York and North Yorkshire that deliver services to people with disabilities, including people with physical disabilities, learning difficulties, and people who experience mental health problems.
Examples of services supported by Volunteer Centres include:
- Services to enable people to return home after a hospital stay and get the support they need
- Schemes offering people practical help in their own homes, including befriending and help with shopping
- Community transport schemes, to get people to doctors and hospital appointments
- Projects and activities that involve people with learning difficulties
- Services that are provided for and with people who have physical disabilities
- Projects that support people with mental health issues (including Community Mental Health teams) both to find volunteers to help deliver these services, and to find volunteering placements for people who use these services
Organisations that need volunteers, and volunteers that want to work in support services, should contact their local Volunteer Centre to find out what is on offer.
Working with People
Volunteer Centres recognise and understand that some people face additional barriers to volunteering, and support them to find opportunities that suit them, their interests and their skills and abilities.
Some organisations may not be aware of how they can adapt their opportunities, or create new opportunities, to suit people who have mental health issues, physical disabilities, or learning difficulties.
Volunteer Centres work with organisations to examine and develop their volunteering roles and practices, and to consider how they can be more inclusive in involving volunteers in their work.
If you have had a good or bad experience volunteering, or if you’d like to suggest a way we can improve our service, we’d love to hear from you. Please fill out one of these forms.
