Trustee (Marketing and Publicity)

Currently we have six trustees and Chair who oversee our activities including a very experienced and qualified Treasurer and a trustee generating income mainly from Charitable Trusts. We have a paid team of 10 part time and one full time all directly delivering our services. 

We need someone who can publicize our five services to the local area and particularly attract more volunteers particularly for car driving. We are using social media, have a web site and use the local newspaper and local area magazines that also have web sites to exploit.

Our accompanied volunteer car driving involves taking older people to hospital, GP clinics, dentist, social clubs, to shopping. One to one befriending involves a volunteer visit to their home. Over the last two years we have taken on three new projects for older people, three community cafés each week in the Basingstoke area, a handyperson service and gardeners.

We have around 130 volunteers, 55 volunteer car drivers, accomplishing around 3,000 tasks a year and 50 befrienders. We ask for charitable contributions for driving and a modest charge for handyperson and gardening. We are supported mainly by charitable trusts; our costs are around £150,000 a year. Our Report and Accounts for year ending March 2024 is available through our web site and via the Charity Commission.

The driving service is organized by 5 part time paid coordinators working from a small office in the Orchard using phones, e mail and a client/volunteer CRM database. We reimburse drivers at 45p a mile for each journey they make. 

We are very well known in the Basingstoke area having been in operation for 27 years, gaining the Queen’s Award. We are a Strategic Partner with Basingstoke and Deane Borough Council.

Our transport service ensures older people with limited mobility and no local family can get out and about and reach activities that would otherwise be denied to them. Accessing medical services to maintain good health is essential with possible diagnosis and early treatment. Cafés provide a welcome break for older people to get out and about with entertainments organized as well as snacks. Handyperson and gardening enable people to live better and longer in their own home.

I can provide more detail to an interested person.

Peter Robson, Trustee

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