Attendees at the 2024 Volunteers Fair
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Age UK Hertfordshire
Age UK Hertfordshire provides services to residents over the age of 50 across the whole of Hertfordshire. Age UK Hertfordshire support older people by delivering services that help make later life a fulfilling and enjoyable experience
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Akshaya Patra Foundation UK
From their kitchen in Watford, Akshaya Patra Foundation UK provided over 700,000 meals to individuals who need them. As one of the largest global charities, they serve 2.3 million meals daily.
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Citizens Advice Watford
Citizens Advice Watford is a local charity providing advice and support to people in the local community. We can help with a range of issues including welfare benefits, debt and money, housing, employment, immigration, consumer and family. We also use our influence to improve people's lives by raising awareness of unfair policies and practices and campaigning for change.
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Goods for Good
Goods for Good provides humanitarian aid to vulnerable people locally, across the UK & overseas.
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Guideposts Trust
Guideposts Trusts offers social care community support services for adults with complex and enduring Mental Health and social care needs, their friends and family, carers, offering 1:1, Group, and Peer support, focusing on recovery, community inclusion, building resilience and independence by empowering
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Help 4 The Homeless
Home 4 The Homeless aim to support those who are rough sleeping or otherwise homeless in London and the Home Counties and to help them directly by providing a personal delivery of food and drink, clothing, and essential items.
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Hertfordshire Health Walks
Hertfordshire Health Walks take place across Hertfordshire every day and offer a programme of FREE, volunteer-led walks, helping everyone get outdoors, get more active and reap the health and wellbeing benefits. We know getting active can be difficult, but we're here to help people get active and stay active at a walking pace that works for them. Walking with a group is a great way to feel healthier, fitter and more sociable while exploring the local environment
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Herts Inclusive Theatre
Herts Inclusive Theatre provide drama workshops that are fully inclusive and everyone is welcome. We use the arts as a tool for wellbeing, allowing a space where everyone taking part can make friends, build confidence and have fun.
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Home-Start Watford and Three Rivers
Home-Start volunteers work alongside families to give compassionate and confidential support and make sure the earliest years count, so that no child’s future is limited. Volunteers visits families in their own home every week for 2-3 hours to provide family-led, kind, professional and non judgmental support. We also provide family groups for the families we work with and offer long term counselling for parents.
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Impactful Lives
Impactful Lives provides LGBTQ+ life mentoring support to improve mental wellbeing and disability-inclusive activities, social events and safe spaces, raising awareness and tackling stigma & bias.
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Ngorli C.I.C
Ngorli C.I.C provides tuition programme, youth club and general support to community by sign posting and giving information.
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Octagon Music Society
Octagon Music Society puts on five classical music concerts a year at the Clarendon Muse on a Sunday afternoon at 4pm. They are looking for volunteers to help us set up notice boards and move music stands and musical instruments (as well as some tables and chairs) before the start of the concert and to help put them back afterwards. They would also welcome volunteers who are interested in helping to run the Society, attending about five meetings a year and helping with marketing, box office and fundraising activities.
An appreciation of chamber music is equally a bonus.
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Rennie Grove Peace Hospice Care
Rennie Grove Peace offer support to people of all ages who are affected by a progressive life-limiting illness, and those who care for them, to live as well as possible by providing choice and ease of access to a wide range of palliative care and bereavement services across west Hertfordshire and Buckinghamshire
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Rickmansworth Waterways Trust
Rickmansworth Waterways Trust (RWT) is a Heritage Education charity. Our provision for the community includes:
- Education programmes for primary school groups (including Watford area schools), adults and other youth groups within our purpose built Education Centre;
- Organiser of the annual Rickmansworth Festival;
- Provision of amenities for visitors at Batchworth, including 2 trip boats for use by the public and by community and private groups;
- Conservation and presentation the locally important historic working boat Roger
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Thrive Youth CIC
Thrive Youth CIC provides support and guidance to young people through various services such as mentoring, counseling, football programmes, mental health workshops and life skills workshops.
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Watford African Caribbean Association
The Watford African Caribbean Association (WACA) is a registered charitable organisation and is one of the longest running African Caribbean Associations in the UK, since being established in 1976. WACA aims to protect, promote and support the interests of the African and Caribbean community in and around Watford, through the provision of a range cross-generational user-led services.
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Watford and Three Rivers Refugee Partnership
Watford and Three Rivers Refugee Partnership exists to serve vulnerable and needy people; both adults and children in the Watford and Three Rivers area who are without ‘leave to remain‘ in this country and often without ‘recourse to public funds'. Our objective is to provide practical and emotional support, ultimately helping our clients achieve a sustainable position as full members of our society.
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Watford and District Talking Newspaper
Watford Talking Newspaper are a small local, Watford based charity which provides free audio recordings of local news and general interest to those who suffer from temporary or permanent difficulty in reading the printed word. The weekly recordings are available in a number of formats including via Amazon Alexa, website and USB stick.
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Watford and Three Rivers Trust
Watford & Three Rivers Trust has been at the heart of community activity since 1974 and has played a significant part in the development of local voluntary services. W3RT’s vision is of a community in which people are connected, informed and take responsibility for the wellbeing of themselves and others.
We do this by encouraging and supporting people to be active in their communities for the wellbeing of themselves and others and by helping older and vulnerable people to build social networks and design and secure services appropriate to their needs.