Age UK Islington
Age UK Islington is a charity which uses innovative techniques to provide support to Islington residents over the age of 16, enabling them to use self-help approaches to manage their own health and wellbeing. We focus on prevention: identifying those in need facilitating support before situations escalate. This, in turn, reduces over reliance on or inappropriate use of public funded services -…
  • You will help extend our reach and create awareness of the many facets of the work of Age UK Islington by writing and scheduling posts for our social media sites including Facebook and Twitter.
  • You'll be working closely with our communications manager to create new angles and content to showcase the broad support that we provide for our clients.
  • You will also help to research organisations that we connect clients to.
  • This will involve research on websites, speaking to people on the phone and updating information on forms to accurately reflect the information that we need to let clients make an informed choice.
  • You will help research and write knowledge articles that will be shared with clients and staff.

Time commitment

3-5 hours a week, minimum commitment of 4-6 months.
What measures have you put in place to ensure volunteers’ safety during COVID-19?
We will at all times adhere to the latest Covid advice from the health authorities.

This organisation is one of our community partner organisations.

Like all volunteer recruiters we work with, they have signed up to our service standards, agreeing to abide by our policy on partnership working.

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