Brighton Women's Centre needs weekly volunteers for its advice hubs

Brighton Women’s Centre^1,2,3 is recruiting volunteers to help run its Women’s Hubs, where women can come for advice, information and support. Applications close at 9am on Monday 9 November.

The centre supports women who have faced abuse, trauma, poverty, mental health difficulties or homelessness, or who are in contact with the criminal justice system. Last year it helped 986 women.

There are three hubs a week and volunteers choose one. The Monday session runs from 4.30pm to 8pm and the Wednesday one from 1.30pm to 5pm, both at Globe House on Morley Street. The Thursday hub is from 9.30am to 1pm at the Wellbeing Hub on Preston Park Avenue.

Volunteers work alongside staff. They help set up, welcome the women who come in, listen, and point them to information and other help. Now and then they run an activity-based or themed session. Every hub ends with a team debrief.

The centre asks for one session a week for at least 12 months. Applicants must be 18 or over and will need a DBS check. Shortlisted applicants have a conversation with the support services manager. Those who are taken on go to two in-house training sessions, then an induction with shadowing. The centre pays local travel up to the cost of a Brighton & Hove daily saver bus ticket per session.

It particularly welcomes applications from women who have been through the same kinds of difficulty as the women it supports and are now in a stable place.

The centre usually recruits volunteers twice a year. The application pack and form are on its volunteer page.