Volunteer Information
The RCC (Leics & Rutland) has recruited volunteers from across Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland who will be able to help vulnerable people who may not be aware of what they need to do to ensure they don't lose their television reception during the Digital Switchover.
All the information below is for the RCC's current Digital Switchover volunteers. If you have any queries regarding any of the information here please contact:
Diana Cook 0116 2689706 or dcook@ruralcc.org.uk
Weekly Monitoring
Your weekly monitoring must be submitted by 5pm on Friday. If you are unable to submit it on a Friday please contact the Project Officer to arrange a more convenient day.
We would welcome case studies of people who have accessed the scheme as a result of your work. These are required by Digital UK for publicity purposes. There will be prizes for the best 3 case studies.
A form will be provided shortly to enable you to submit case studies. In the meantime please send them in as a word document or give details on your monitoring form.
Requests for leaflets and promotional material can now be made on the attached form which can be returned as an email attachment to dcook@ruralcc.org.uk
Further Information
- Directory of Care Providers
- Health & Safety (MS Powerpoint, 940 Kb)
- Volunteer Handbook (MS Word, 136 Kb)
- Monitoring Guidance Notes (MS Word, 101 Kb)
How to Volunteer
The RCC (Leics & Rutland) has recruted volunteers from across Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland who will be able to help vulnerable people who may not be aware of what they need to do to ensure they don't lose their television reception during the Digital Switchover. Training has been provided and expenses up to £350 will be available to all volunteers that undertake the work correctly.
Their task will be to:
• Attend a training workshop and a mid project evaluation
• Identify additional community supporters in their area
• Identify and support those in the target group
• Collect data from the community supporters and report back to the project officer.
The project will be undertaken between March 2011 and September 2011 and most work will be undertaken in your own district.
If you feel that you would like to volunteer please complete the application form below or contact Diana Cook for more details
dcook@ruralcc.org.uk 0116 2689706
- Volunteer Application Form (HTML, 87 Kb)