We offer free Peer Support Groups to adults in the Leeds Metropolitan District who want to learn to better manage their mental health.
2024/25 is our fifth year of offering weekly Peer-facilitated Support Groups in-person and by Zoom.
All of our Trustees, Facilitators and Administrators are volunteers. We are ordinary everyday people. Most of us continue to actively manage our own mental health. We are living proof, if that were needed, that Peer Support works.
Are you able to offer between 50 and 100 hours a year, working flexibly from home? We don’t have an office but manage and administer online using laptops, smartphones, Email, WhatsApp, Zoom, Word, Excel, Facebook and our WordPress website.
The adults we support (and some of our volunteers) may already be or may become vulnerable while we are supporting them. We have no way of knowing who might be considered vulnerable at any moment. Our Administrators may from time to time be the first point of contact and have access to sensitive personal data so we will ask you to complete an Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check. We will arrange and pay for the DBS check to be done before a hands-on introduction to role job can begin.
We don’t expect you to be out of pocket if you travel for training or to volunteer for us, or incur other costs directly related to the role. Administrators are able to claim and be reimbursed reasonable pre-authorised and receipted expenses.
We hope you will feel committed to volunteer for at least a year after your take up the role.
Skills developed
Communication, Community Development, Administration, Interpersonal Skills, Mental Health, Problem Solving, Teamwork.
Next steps
To learn more about Peer Support Plus CIO please browse our website peersupportplus.org.
Please read the Administrator Role Description which you can download from within ‘Volunteers and Role Descriptions‘ at https://www.peersupportplus.org/documents.:
This is a voluntary role so no contract of employment or other obligation will be established between us.
Volunteering as an Administrator would not bar you from being a beneficiary of the charity.
If you are inspired to explore the possibility of volunteering with us, please email Lisa Bamford our Chair of Trustees chair@peersupportplus.org or leave a message at 07434 614 829 mentioning your name and telephone number. Lisa will try to call you back for an informal chat at a time that suits you.
