RSVP is the only national body that provides volunteering opportunities for the over-50s
HELP US FINANCIALLY
Most of RSVP West’s projects are self-funding, with volunteers’ expenses paid by the organisation or individuals they’re helping. This still leaves us with paying for our office at the CREATE Centre (rent, telephone, computer supplies, copying, and so on) and the expenses of the regional and area organisers, themselves volunteers, since our firm rule is that no RSVP volunteer should be out of pocket as a result of their voluntary work.
If you would like to make a donation or provide support in kind, please contact the Regional Cordinator, Bob Maggs.
Cheques for any amount will be gratefully received; they should be made out to the registered charity Friends of RSVP West Region.
If your donation were accompanied by a signed Gift Aid form, that would help us even more by allowing us to recover the tax from HM Revenue & Customs. Download the Gift Aid form.
A further, longer-term way to consider supporting the work of RSVP is to remember us in your will. If you have already written one, including a legacy to RSVP West is a simple matter of adding an extra instruction to it — what lawyers call a codicil. You do not need to make a new will. (If you haven’t made a will but have money or property, you are strongly advised to make one.) More details are available in our leaflet, Information About Legacies and Wills, which you can download from here.
(Both the form and the leaflet are in PDF format; if you haven’t got it, you will need to download the free Adobe Acrobat Reader program to view and print them.)
© 2003–12 RSVP West. Page last updated on 16 January 2011.
VOLUNTEERS NEEDED!
• A unique opportunity has arisen to run the tea bar at Yate magistrates court.
• Volunteers are needed now to expand the care-homes project.
• More organisers are required throughout the region, especially for schools’ and GP surgeries’ schemes.
• Would you like to become a volunteer driver? They’re wanted in Nailsea and Westbury-on-Trym.
• We need schools helpers in Bristol, South Gloucestershire, and Bath & North-East Somerset.
NEWS
13 Dec: The December 2011 issue of our newsletter, West Waffle, has been published.
6 Dec: The Bristol care-homes project pilot has ended and we are developing the scheme more widely.
15 Nov: Swindon older people get a louder voice. We have been at the heart of the establishment of an Older People’s Forum and will fund its development over the next 12 months.
11 Nov: The Blagdon Helpline in North Somerset has become affiliated with RSVP West.