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Herts Inclusive Theatre are looking for volunteers!

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Herts Inclusive Theatre (HIT) is a charity with a mission to make theatre inclusive to all. Running weekly sessions for children, teens, and adults during term time, HIT operates across five locations in Hertfordshire and one in North London. Volunteering with HIT could see you helping to run sessions that include drama games, script work, and devising, or you could be helping to stage a performance at venues such as The Old Town Hall or the Gordon Craig Theatre.

We’ve put on productions of Hairspray, Grease, and shows written by the participants themselves in recent years, just to name a few. All our sessions and performances are designed to be accessible and inclusive so anyone and everyone can join in – including you! HIT would welcome volunteers at any of our locations: Watford, Stevenage, Hertford & Ware, Harrow, and Borehamwood, but we are currently in particular need of volunteers for our Hemel Hempstead group, which runs on a Saturday morning.

To be a volunteer with HIT, you need to be enthusiastic, empathetic and share our love for making accessible theatre. We will provide you with all the training you’ll need. If this sounds like something you’d be interested in, contact [email protected]. If you’d like to learn more about HIT, visit our website: https://hit-theatre.org.uk/ or go to our GoVolHerts Profile page

2024 January newsletter

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Facing 2024 together As the remnants of the Christmas festivities have now passed and all the decorations neatly put away for next year, we look forward to the year ahead. We welcome new users of the GoVolHerts platform, and thank those who have been with us for longer. The GoVolHerts platform empowers volunteers to discover suitable volunteering roles and enables Hertfordshire based charities and organisations to promote their opportunities and reach out to those volunteers. In this newsletter, we are asking readers to complete a short questionnaire about their experience using the GoVolHerts platform, we also highlight a few volunteering opportunities and offer organisations the opportunity to send us in their volunteer stories, news and any other updates for inclusion in the next newsletter. We love to celebrate all the hard work that people do for their communities, so please do get in touch with your stories! ` Click here to read the January Newsletter

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Meet Margaret Smith, Volunteer Recruitment Coordinator at Age UK Herfordshire Did your journey to working for Age UK Herts begin as a volunteer? If so, how? I wasn’t a volunteer for Age UK Hertfordshire, but I applied for my role as Volunteer Recruitment Coordinator as I had previously been a volunteer with the Scouts Association in different roles for over 11 years (with my last role of 2 years being the Group Scout Leader which involved recruitment of volunteers). I felt I had a good understanding of volunteering in the community and the challenges faced (particularly following Covid), so I was ecstatic when I got the role. When you have been a volunteer yourself, you can use your personal experience to engage with people to show how rewarding it is. What is the thing you enjoy the most about working as a Volunteer Manager & why? I love doing events and engaging with the local community as you get to hear some great stories and meet fantastic people, plus it’s also a great way to get local businesses involved. Not to mention the buzz you get when you do recruit a volunteer who you know is going to enrich a person’s life in the community! I also enjoy attending local networking events as it’s great to meet other Charities / organisations to share knowledge & experiences as there is a great support network out there. To volunteer with Age UK Herts please click on the link to view the current opportunities