NewStarts
Description of the role
NewStarts is a community project that provides practical help to recently homeless and other vulnerable people across North Worcestershire. NewStarts has a Christian foundation, and its underlying ethos and values are inspired by Christian values.
The main areas of the work are:
- Loading furniture safely into the van
- Occasionally taking furniture apart in order to collect or deliver from the house
- Unpacking the van and offloading into the warehouse
- Helping to keep the warehouse organised, tidy and clean
We can offer from one or two days a week.
You need:
- To be physically fit
- Good practical skills
- To be able to get on with customers from all backgrounds
- To work well as a member of a team and be able to follow instructions
- An honest and responsible attitude to other people’s property
- To be careful in your work in order to avoid damage
- The ability to use a satnav
- To be aware of health and safety risks (health and safety induction will be given along with basic manual handling training)
Practical Considerations
To be discussed with the organisation.
Any specific requirements
- Will require a DBS check
- Drivers license
Where is the opportunity based?
The opportunity is across Bromsgrove
When is the opportunity available?
Volunteering days available to be discussed between you and the organisation.
About the organisation
NewStarts is a community project that provides practical and advocacy support to recently homeless people and others in financial crisis or on very low incomes so that they can make a fresh start in a new home.
Our aims are:
- To relieve poverty and reduce debt.
- To reduce the risk of homelessness by providing practical help with resettlement and advice.
- To protect the environment by promoting re-use and reducing landfill disposal of unwanted household goods.
NewStarts provides practical help to people on very low incomes and those in financial crisis, so they can make a fresh start in a new home. We offer volunteering opportunities and employability support to the unemployed and deliver a variety of free training schemes to help people reconnect and find employment. We are passionate about people and what they can become.
Activities involve:
- Collecting 2nd hand furniture and donating it to people in financial crisis, as well as selling it at low cost.
- Recycling old laptops, data cleansing the hard drives before reinstalling them and selling them at low cost.
- Delivering free training on key issues such as basic IT skills and money management, as well as arts and crafts.
- Offering a broad range of voluntary opportunities including: warehousing, administration, cleaning, IT recycling, woodwork and furniture repair, driving.
From our base in Bromsgrove, NewStarts:
- Donates reusable furniture and other essential household goods free of charge to more than 50 individuals and families every month who are on very low incomes moving into social housing who cannot afford to furnish their property
- Works with 80+ different agencies who refer people in genuine need of household items, serving a wide radius around Bromsgrove including Redditch, Worcester, Kidderminster, south Birmingham and north Warwickshire
- Provides work experience and volunteering placements
- Offers support and advice on housing related issues and debt
- Runs a quality second-hand furniture showroom to generate income
- Manages a small computer recycling project for people with mental health issues
- Diverts more than 176 tonnes of unwanted household goods from landfill every year via a doorstep collection service
Bromsgrove and Redditch Network 