This 2 hour session provides many benefits to anyone volunteering to host welcoming spaces for the public. This might include cafe drop-ins, Foodbanks, Warm Welcome spaces, lunch clubs, Places of Welcome, Community Libraries, Men's Sheds or any other community initiatives.
Benefits of the session to volunteers include:
- Improves their confidence in their volunteering role
- Enables them to recognise skills they already have, and how to apply them in their volunteer role
- Equips them with new knowledge and skills (that they can use in other situations as well as their volunteer role)
- Provides reassurance that they are prepared to deal with a wider range of circumstances
- Highlights some unhelpful things most of us tend to do in conversation, and how to avoid them
- Aids in avoidance of embarrassing or awkward situations - reduces personal risk
- Enables them to see enhanced benefit to their guests/service users, and to know they have made a difference
