Project Co-ordinator is Anya Gulliver Telephone No 01327 263431 or This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it me I joined RCV in June 2008. After finding out what amazing work the organisation did. I thought I have to work for them! At 17 I ran off to join the circus, ok it wasn't really a big top circus but just as much fun. I volunteered for 4 years with Circus Eruption, which is an integrated youth circus, based in Swansea. I later became their first project co-ordinator. While In Swansea I trained and worked with the creative training company, Dynamix. This gave me a really good grounding and I still use a lot of theory and practice today. Over the next 10 years I worked in youth work and care, specialising in special needs, learning difficulties and disabilities. I have been very lucky that my work has included organising and running summer play schemes, co-ordinating Swansea carnival, Facilitator on courses for the co-operative movement, and most recently working with adults with learning difficulties in a residential setting, training and supervising volunteers. I still work on occasionally as a freelance international creative trainer. When I am not working I enjoy spending time with my husband and daughter, swimming, co-directing the local village show and reading lots and lots of books! I also love eating cheese cake and watching movies with my girlfriends!

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Volunteers are needed for:

Daventry Area

Do you love a thriller?!

This avid Queen and Meatloaf fan is looking for a volunteer who can provide structured arts and crafts activities in his home. He would also like to share his love of music and films.

Do you love music with soul?

This creative member would love a volunteer, to help set up and maintain a recording studio in his home. Do you have an interest in different types of music and love to lay down tracks? This is a wonderful volunteering opportunity for someone with an inspirational outlook on life.

Have a strumming time!

Do you play guitar and fancy a jam? Could you befriend a gentleman who loves to write his own music? You could also have the chance to record your songs.

Lower Boddington

Who’s family?

Do you have an interest in family history? Could you help this member to trace his family? Are you in farming or from a farming family? Do you have an interest in agriculture and love to share stories? Grab your wellies and walk this way.

Greens Norton

Confidence needed!

Could you help this member to gain his confidence again? We are looking for one special volunteer to not only support this member with attending the gym once a week, but with his love of progressive rock, this member would be keen to shop for cd’s and go to concerts too. A football fan, he would be up for cheering the Cobblers on from the side line!

Northampton Area

Does a ‘diesel’ make you dizzy, does a ‘steam’ send shivers down your spine?

Two fellow railway enthusiasts wish to find someone to share their love of all things train related with a special interest in becoming working volunteers at the Northampton & Lamport Railway. If so…‘all aboard’ for a volunteering match made in heaven! (Northampton and Farthinghoe)

Piano pal wanted

Can you teach this first timer to play piano? Starting from the basics and with patience needed, you could support this lovely lady with a wicked sense of humor to for fill a dream. So practice those scales, dust of the sheet music and follow the rhythm this way!

Fancy a dip?

If so dust off those goggles and air out the cosie! Come and support a wonderfully determined member with a real zest for life.

Cross stitch

This young enthusiastic ‘monkey world’ fan is looking for a volunteer to help her with putting cross stitch patterns on to canvas. She has many hobbies and would love to have a volunteer to share them with… cooking, arts and crafts, animals; social outings ….to name a few. If you are a creative ‘Jack of all trades’, who embraces life and loves to bounce ideas around. Get in touch.

Brackley Area

‘Home sweet home front’ ‘ Women at war’

Can you help one of our members transcribe her aunt’s land girl diaries? Are you interested in family history? Do you have a wicked sense of humor? Join up- RCV needs you!

Are you a good loser? Fancy a pint and a game of chess?

This self-proclaimed good looking, comedy loving, Queen fan is looking to regularly beat a volunteer at board games and to frequent the local pub! If you enjoy a laugh and can swear with the best! Get in touch.

Got Green Fingers?

Wanted all-weather gardening volunteer, to help with up- keep of sizeable gardens. This member loves listening to 60’s music, watching crime dramas and Formula 1. Can you share his interests and go for the occasional pint?

Best Buddy wanted!

Could you become a buddy for this inspirational young man, who has raised money for dogs for the disabled and tackled everything head on, that life has thrown at him. Looking for someone to share his love of cricket and rugby, take the dog for a walk or just go for a pint and a chat.

Water colour wizard!

This budding artist is looking for a volunteer to share her love of water colour, having always loved arts and craft this lovely lady would like some one to work one to one in her home to create works of art and to explore different mediums.

Art Buddy Wanted

This independent fun loving fella, is looking for an artistic buddy to get creative, play board games, go out on trips and enjoy a pint or two down the pub.

Board games and a chat.

Are you up for getting regularly beaten at board games and catching up on gossip. Then this is the volunteering opportunity for you!

 F1 Friend

Do you love Formula 1? Could you chat about it for hours? If so you could have a friend in this lovely lady who has F1 on the brain! She also would love to learn to paint. Painters and petrol heads ….start you engines.

Towcester Area

Get creative!

Do you have a love of creative writing and poetry? With poetry publications under her belt, this member would love to find a volunteer who can inspire her and help with writing children’s stories.

Crafty?

This member would love to find a volunteer to help with needlework, arts and craft. With her passion for love songs, many a happy hour could be spent sewing and singing your hearts out! 

Do you love life?

Do you like getting out and about, going to the cinema, theatre, bingo, and bowling? With you give anything a go? If yes then you could be the volunteer for this lovely young man, who loves carry on films and shopping! It this opportunity ‘tickles your fancy’ ‘oh matron’ get ‘on the busses’ and get in touch.

Volunteering Opportunities in Cherwell

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