Volunteering at BOBATH

• Helping the Fundraising Team with show, events or collections.
• Assisting with administration tasks from filing, mailing out literature, data imputing to counting money!
• Placing collection boxes in your locality.
• Research: exploring other avenues of fundraising that the Centre might be able to explore.
• Get together with a few friends or colleagues to form a fundraising group to organise a quiz, race night, dinner dance, jumble sale, coffee money or an idea of your own.
• Persuade your employer/employees/colleagues and friends to adopt Bobath Children's Therapy Centre Wales as their charity of the year.

The time you give is up to you, whether its a day a week or a few hours a month you will not be asked to do anything you are not happy with but you will make a difference to Bobath Children's Therapy Centre Wales.

For more information on volunteering, call Emma Bennetts, Volunteer Coordinator on +44 (0)2920 522600 or email: emmav@bobathwales.org

Oes yna rhywun sydd yn siarad Cyrmraeg?

Can you speak Welsh? Could you support us by volunteering your time? If the answer is yes, then please contact the fundraising team as we would really appreciate and benefit from having a Welsh speaking volunteer. Diolch yn Fawr!

Volunteer Gardener Required

Bobath Children's Therapy Centre Wales is looking for a volunteer gardener to spare a few hours each week to keep their garden area tidy. The Centre's garden is very much designed with the children in mind, particularly the sensory garden and play area.

Nearly 300 children with cerebral palsy from throughout Wales attend the centre. The garden provides them with an interesting environment in which to be challenged and stimulated, as well as a pleasant garden area to just sit and relax in.

If you feel that you can help with general gardening tasks such as weeding, pruning, planting and clearing of leaves etc please call Emma Bennetts, Volunteer Co-ordinator on 02920 522600. Equipment and materials will be provided.

A Volunteer's Story

My daughter, Tina worked with Mandy who is the mother of Ieuan one of the children who attends Bobath Children's Therapy Centre Wales. When Ieuan was about 4 years old Mandy invited my family to a fundraising BBQ at the Centre. One of the Trustees took us on a tour of the Centre and explained how the charity came into being.

I thought no more about it until I saw an article in the local paper about the charity and their need for volunteers. I wrote to Paul Lubas the Chairman of Trustees, explaining that my husband had died about a year before and I would like to do something helpful and interesting to help. And, that is how I came to be a volunteer.

My work consists of a little bit of everything from stuffing envelopes, entering information onto a database to counting money, which I especially love doing! Whenever somebody would thank me for doing a job, I would reply "That's okay I'll get to Buck House one day", and I DID. I was invited along with three members of staff to a royal garden party at Buckingham Palace, which was a day to remember.

Going back to the beginning, about eighteen months before visiting the Centre for the first time, my late husband and I were walking around a local park with our little grand daughter when we met Mandy, her husband Gareth and Ieuan. There was our grandchild six months younger than Ieuan toddling around having great fun and Ieuan lying in a special pushchair. I always remember my husband saying to me "It makes you wonder what you can do to help", and that I think steered me in the right direction. I can't promise you'll get invited to Buck House but you will have great fun and the satisfaction that you are helping to make a difference to some very special children.
Jean May

Friends of Bobath Group

As mentioned previously Friends of Bobath Children's Therapy Centre Wales are groups of people who hold events and fundraise for the Centre. Currently, we have Friends Groups in Cardiff, Bridgend/Mid Glamorgan and Merthyr Tydfil and soon other groups in Powys, Vale of Glamorgan, Gwent, North Wales and West Wales will be set up. WHY NOT join a Friends Group in your area or even better start your own today.

For more details contact Emma Bennetts, Volunteer Coordinator on: +44 (0)2920 522600

Volunteer Application Form