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Digital marketplace 

Jewish Care Scotland is looking for organised members of the community to support us with our online sales by listing and selling a range of donated items on various online marketplace platforms. This will help us raise additional funds to provide care and support to the Jewish community, and to recycle and reuse pre-loved items. 

Location: Jewish Care Scotland, The Walton Community Care Centre, May Terrace, Giffnock.

This voluntary role will play a key role in sorting through donated items, or items we no longer need, identifying if anything would be suitable to be redistributed to the community through local sales or ‘bartering’ pages on Facebook etc.  Maybe you already know your way around online selling platforms or maybe it’s something you want to find out more about, either way you will be supported in this role to make sure you develop the skills and experience needed to become an expert online lister. Volunteers will be guided by the our Senior Support Worker and Communications Officer.

For more information or for an informal discussion, please contact Jean by emailing jeang@jcarescot.org.uk or call 0141 620 1800.

Do you enjoy meeting new people, connecting with the community and supporting others? Jewish Care Scotland are looking for a Wellbeing Hub activity volunteer to help out at the weekly Wellbeing Hub. In the comfortable surroundings of the Walton Community Care Centre, our JCS Wellbeing Hub provides registered day care services to individuals who need care and support.  People, who might otherwise struggle getting out, meet here on Thursdays.

Location: The Walton Community Care Centre, May Terrace, Giffnock

Every Thursday from 10am – 2pm.

Duties: Making and serving tea and coffee, serving lunch, getting involved in arts and crafts activities, interacting with the group, making conversation and help tidying. 

To apply call us on 0141 620 1800 or email hello@jcarescot.org.uk

Would you like to find the fun in movement? New research shows that 31% of people say they would be more active if they found an activity they enjoy! 

JCS are looking for a volunteer to help out on Monday mornings from 10am until 12pm at Morph Fit’s Gentle Movement classes. 

Location: The Walton Community Care Centre, May Terrace, Giffnock.

Duties: Setting up 8-10 chairs in the Hub (depending on class numbers). Setting up the provided tea, coffee, milk, sugar, biscuits etc before class starts at 10.30am. After class, serving teas and coffees if required and tidying the space of dishes and chairs. 

The appointed volunteer can enjoy the Morph Fit class along with the rest of the group free of charge.

For more information on this role and to apply please email comms@jcarescot.org.uk or give us a call on 0141 620 1800

Jewish Care Scotland is looking for members of the community to support fundraising activity and events throughout the year.  Volunteers will play a key role in shaping, promoting and delivering fundraising events that will engage the community, existing donors as well as attracting new audiences. 

Volunteers will be supported by the Communications Officer and Deputy Chief Executive to research, plan and deliver a variety of fundraising opportunities throughout the year to raise unrestricted income to enable the delivery of our vital services.

There will be regular meetings, dependent on activity.  Support, training and supervision will be provided and volunteers will be empowered to act as ambassadors for the charity to raise awareness of fundraising opportunities as well as the services on offer. 

For more information or for an informal discussion, please contact Cally by emailing comms@jcarescot.org.uk or call 0141 620 1800. 

Volunteer Gardener 

Do you love getting out in the garden? JCS are looking for green-thumbed volunteer to support an elderly member of the community with their garden this summer. Ideal for those wanting to enjoy the sunshine while lending a hand. 

Location: Newton Mearns

Duties: Watering plants, tending to troughs and planters, tidying and deadheading plants, picking up plants to put in troughs and other light gardening work. 

Located in Newton Mearns, the gardening role would involve picking up plants to plant into the troughs, deadheading and watering regularly throughout the summertime.

These planters bring their owner joy but sadly he is now not fit enough to look after them alone. We would love to hear from all of the Horticulturists out there, or just anyone who loves plants!

Application to the PVG scheme may be required.

For more information on this role and to apply please email Jean at jeang@jcarescot.org.uk or give us a call on 0141 620 1800

JCS has officially launched our ‘165 for 165’ fundraising appeal where we will be asking 165 supporters to raise £165 throughout the year to mark our anniversary. We hope that your support this year will go a long way in securing the future of our services for many years to come for the Jewish Community in Scotland.

We are looking to get 165 people to get involved whether that is through celebration fundraising, one-off donations, or even through taking on a personal challenge.

Our year has already been kickstarted by a few keen supporters and we hope that the interest in our campaign continues to grow throughout the rest of the year.

To help this dream become a reality JCS is also launching a fundraising booklet of 65 unique fundraising ideas to go alongside our appeal, as well as advice on how to get media attention for your fundraiser, and how to run an online fundraising page. You can download it here at 165 for 165

We will be launching a segment on our social media that asks our supporters to think of how they would fundraise and we will be publishing what we receive throughout the coming months.

Having already heard from people getting in touch with unusual ideas we cannot wait to hear from you.

To talk to us about getting involved with the appeal you can follow the link to our Sign Up Form, go to our donation page, text ‘Donate jcarescot 165’ to 88802 or alternatively email Anya at anyak@jcarescot.org.uk