A.D.D.E.R. Needs Your Help!!
To help A.D.D.E.R. address the issues raised from the questionnaire completed by members earlier this year, volunteers are urgently required for :-
Clinic Support Volunteers for a clinic near you to offer refreshments and support while waiting for treatment at the clinic.
Road show volunteers are also needed to help with road shows to be arranged in Carlisle, York, Middlesbrough and Gateshead for later this year, early next, with guest speakers from the medical profession.
Support group volunteers required to help build a support group near you, to offer an environment in which members and their family can come along for coffee and chat etc.
Volunteer Drivers are required in an area near you to help those less mobile to attend events.
Essential criteria for all of these vacancies are :-
- Have a welcoming and friendly personality
- Have a few hours to spare each week, month or occasionally
- Have an understanding of the condition
Support will be given by the committee.
Travel expenses will be paid to all volunteers
A.D.D.E.R. is also looking for:-
Volunteer Welfare Rights Advisor to help support A.D.D.E.R.'s existing advisor. The demand for support in this area has increased dramatically over the last couple of years due to more members having to appeal to the DWP to stay on benefits previously awarded to them.
Essential criteria
- A Knowledge of the Benefit System is essential to this post
- Have an understanding of the condition
Support will be given by A.D.D.E.R.'s existing Advisor.
Travel expenses will be paid to all volunteers
In response to members, the A.D.D.E.R. committee have undertaken to address and improve as many of the services offered to its members as possible over the next couple of years as identified in the findings published.
- Promote A.D.D.E.R.
- Improve communications with its members
- Support the development of support groups in areas closer to members' homes
A.D.D.E.R. is run purely by volunteers (the majority of whom have dystonia) more are needed to give the support to its members. Although the existing volunteers do their utmost to ensure that all of A.D.D.E.R.'s aims and objectives are met there is a necessity to increase the number of volunteers to ensure that help and support is given to all living with this condition and their families.