Whether you'd like to volunteer once a month by attending our monthly meetings or further develop your skillset and widen oppurtunities by being more proactive, Youthwatch Leeds are happy to help tailor your volunteering experience to what best suits you! We're an organisation that like to work creatively and are always open to sharing/discussing different ways of working.
We meet once a month within a venue based in central Leeds to discuss current topics affecting children and young people within health and social care. From here we focus on curating key projects to influence change within the sector and ensure the voice of children and young people are best represented. Every meeting provides an oppurtunity to meet like-minded young people - there's always an icebreaker, have guest speakers whereby possible and will always have food inc. infamous Dominos Pizza. The work we do at Youthwatch feeds into the city wide work that goes into ensuring Health and Social Care services are operating at optimum levels, we bring the creative spin and breath in the voice of the youth.
Aside from monthly meetings there are many more oppurtunities available inc: Monthly meetings, oppurtunities to be Board Director reps, Training, Collaborating with other organisations inc. other youth groups/organisations, the NHS/ICB - i.e. Leeds Teaching Hospitals Trust, Schools/Colleges/Universities etc., Outreach work inc. Enter and View, Data Input and Analysis, Campaigns/Project Work, Organising/ holding and attending events, Filming/Photography and Interviewing, Admin, Placement and much more. The team here are Healthwatch are all supportive and are open and receptive to your suggestions/ tailoring your volunteer experience to best align with your goals.
Once you put your application in we'll arrange an informal face to face interview at our office in the Old Gipton Fire Station, here you can meet the team and it enbales us to get to know you better so that we can best support you.
If you have any questions or would like to further discuss, please contact Rameesah via:
Email - rameesah@healthwatchleeds.co.uk
Telephone/ Mobile - 0113 898 0035 / 07496 403 308