Healthcare

Headway Oxford

Headway Oxford supports individuals and families of people who have had traumatic brain injuries due to accidents or assaults and with people with acquired brain injuries through events such as tumours, strokes or infections. We need volunteers to work 1:1 with our members on improving literacy and numeracy skills or computer work; to run workshops on art, drama, or gentle exercise; and perhaps most importantly to have time to listen and chat. We need volunteer drivers to enable our clients to get to and from our centre. We also offer opportunities with our fundraising and publicity team, volunteers can help plan and run events and help us to raise awareness throughout the County.
www.headwayoxford.org.uk

Oxfordshire Mind

Volunteers are essential to our work, enabling us to provide more, higher quality services for anyone with a mental health problem. We have a variety of volunteering roles including internal and external placements.

Oxfordshire Mind also runs the Chain Reaction Project, which aims to support people from Black and Minority Ethnic Communities into paid employment in mental health services. We want diverse volunteers to start a chain reaction to create more diverse services. Mental health problems can affect anyone from all ethnic backgrounds and we want our services to reflect this:
www.oxfordshire-mind.org.uk/help-us/volunteer

Elmore Community

Elmore Community Services aims to work with people with complex needs (including mental health) who do not easily fi t into existing service provisions or who need support to access service provisions in their local community. We aim to identify gaps and barriers in current provision and create and implement models of working that address these issues. We work directly with people on the margins of society and aim to enable such individuals to have equal access to the basic rights of society. We are looking for volunteers to help us with the following activities: reception duties, data analysis, data entry, administration tasks.
www.elmorecommunityservices.org.uk

The Archway Foundation

The Archway Foundation is a charity established in Oxford in 1982 to help relieve some of the real distress caused by loneliness. We connect those feeling alienated with a diverse group of volunteers, many of whom know for themselves how damaging loneliness can be.Archway volunteers receive on-going support, supervision and in-house training. We value our volunteers and are more than willing to pay travel and out-of-pocket expenses. We are looking for volunteer befrienders, drivers and social group helpers. www.archwayfoundation.org.uk

Fluid Motion

Fluid Motion was created by Oxford Brookes graduates and students to provide treatment and support for individuals with musculoskeletal (MSK) conditions and other pain conditions. It delivers aquatic rehabilitation sessions in local swimming pools around Oxford with the goal make sure classes are easily accessible and affordable for all participants. Sessions are interactive, engaging, fun and suitable for all ages and wide range of health conditions and personal needs.
Fluid Motion aims to create more self-reliant and resilient communities that can better self-manage MSK health conditions through an individual approach to rehabilitation in groups. Fluid Motion uses technology in the pool to track everyone's progress with feedback-loops that recommend the most suitable rehabilitation programme for each participant.
The role of volunteers is working with participants to so they feel comfortable and reassured, joining in with rehabilitation exercises, games and discussions in the pool.

www.fluid-motion.org.uk

Stroke Association

Stroke Association is the leading charity in the UK changing the world for people affected by stroke. Our research, campaigning and support services support our vision for a world where there are fewer strokes and all those touched by stroke get the help they need. Volunteering has an enormous impact on what we are able to achieve and the range of services and support we are able to provide.

In Oxfordshire we are looking for Communication Support Volunteers to work with stroke survivors whose communication has been affected by their stroke to develop new strategies to aid their communication and improve their confidence and independence. We are also looking for Stroke Ambassadors to help us raise awareness of stroke, stroke prevention and the Stroke Association in your local community through delivering presentations and providing information at events.

stroke.org.uk