Volunteering

Superhighways is an ICT support and development project, employing professional ICT Support Workers.

Our mission is to assist voluntary and community organisations with their ICT:

• to use ICT to help with management and administrative tasks
• to use ICT to deliver services and communicate with a wide audience (including service users, staff & volunteers, funders, trustees, etc)
• to use ICT to maximise efficiency and save costs

Volunteers can help us achieve our mission in a number of ways:

• helping to develop and manage our ICT support programme
• as "circuit riders", working directly with voluntary and community organisations
• assisting with any of the specific projects supported by the Superhighways team or any of the individual Borough-wide CVS groups.

Over the course of the year, 14 people volunteered with Superhighways. The main motivations for volunteering were to gain practical ICT experience to improve employability and to help voluntary organisations. The volunteers worked on a diverse range of projects including video, databases, websites, help desk and maintenance.

One volunteer said:   "Being around a variety of people of expertise in different fields allowed me to learn a lot of new things. The conversations that take place, people exchanging ideas and knowledge, all while the work goes on, was great.

Interested?

Please go to Documents/Volunteering and fill out a Volunteer Profile Form and an Equal Opportunity Monitoring Form to tell us a little more about your skills, interests and availability. If you could also send us your C.V. this would also be very useful.  (If you want to be an ICT volunteer, hopefully you'll be able to email this back to us!)

One of our volunteers receiving their People Count '100 hours of volunteering' certificate.