DO you have a few hours to spare? Would you like to gain new skills or experiences?
Then DEVELOP Enhancing Community Support can help. Whether you’ve got a few hours a month or a day a week there’s a volunteering opportunity out there to suit you.
One volunteer said, “Volunteering provides me with the chance to do meaningful work that enhances the community and makes me feel useful.”
Here are just a few opportunities within your area:
Nature Reserve Volunteer: Wiltshire Wildlife Trust owns or manages 38 nature reserves across Wiltshire. Volunteers are involved in every aspect of nature reserve management. Tasks vary from coppicing, tree felling, meadow management and pond clearance to important footpath work – keeping many miles of paths through the reserves open for visitors.
Good Neighbour Volunteer: Seend Link are looking for volunteers who can transport local residents to medical appointments, visiting friends in hospital, befriending or helping local residents with shopping, collecting prescriptions, small gardening and DIY jobs.
Collection Box Volunteer: Barnardo’s are looking for volunteers who have a few hours to spare who can open Barnado’s collecting boxes, count and bank money and complete relevant forms
Community Governor: Avon & Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership are looking for volunteers to become part of the council of governors and be the voice of their members. The Council of Governors will talk with the board and question them on issues raised in membership and request that action be taken where appropriate.
DEVELOP also have details of various gardening, environmental, befriending, mentoring, administration, IT and many other roles.
If you’d like to start volunteering get in touch and an adviser can help find the best role for you. Visit the website: www.volunteercentrewiltshire.org.uk or call the volunteering adviser on 0845 521 6224. Volunteer Centre Wiltshire is run by Develop Enhancing Community Support.
![Melksham Times Past
A column about days gone by in Melksham by local historian Lisa Ellis
The Independent Chapel and Women’s Rights in the 1840s
A document I recently transcribed lists the baptisms performed at the Independent Chapel. This record is especially helpful in that, along with baptisms, a lot of them include birth dates - one of the ways I discover which day someone was born.
The following is taken from a Wiltshire Times article published on 9th November 1878 which reports a speech given during the 100-year services and to celebrate their renovations (what we now know to be the Rachel Fowler Centre).
One speaker, Rev. T. Mann, minister in Trowbridge, talked about the Chapel’s origins when he related how Rev. Honywill came to Melksham and how he’d gone on to remain as the minister for the Independent Chapel for almost 60 years. [Honywill and his family lived on King Street in what we now call “Legion House”.]
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A column about days gone by in Melksham by local historian Lisa Ellis
The Independent Chapel and Women’s Rights in the 1840s
A document I recently transcribed lists the baptisms performed at the Independent Chapel. This record is especially helpful in that, along with baptisms, a lot of them include birth dates - one of the ways I discover which day someone was born.
The following is taken from a Wiltshire Times article published on 9th November 1878 which reports a speech given during the 100-year services and to celebrate their renovations (what we now know to be the Rachel Fowler Centre).
One speaker, Rev. T. Mann, minister in Trowbridge, talked about the Chapel’s origins when he related how Rev. Honywill came to Melksham and how he’d gone on to remain as the minister for the Independent Chapel for almost 60 years. [Honywill and his family lived on King Street in what we now call “Legion House”.]
Read more on our website, the link is in our bio.")
