Volunteering in your community: OWLS Volunteers Urgently Needed

OWLS Community Car Scheme urgently needs your help. If you are recently retired, work part time or are unemployed, have a full driving licence and a couple of hours you could offer each week then please get in touch. You don’t have to be available on a certain day or time each week. Drivers get 45p a mile in total and have to be DBS checked.

OWLS have undertaken almost 10,000 journeys since its formation, helping many elderly and people with poor mobility/health in our Community to attend medical appointments and occasional social visits.

Customers are very appreciative and value the service, knowing that drivers are local friendly people who are giving their time to help others.

In recent months we have unfortunately lost several of our drivers due to changes in circumstance and health and we are now in a position where we can’t meet demand for journeys and desperately need new drivers. Please help us continue this much needed Community service.

We would also like to recruit additional volunteer coordinators who answer the scheme’s mobile and arrange journeys for a fortnight at a time every 8 – 10 weeks (max. 5 times a year). Could you help?    
For more information about becoming a driver or coordinator please ring the scheme’s mobile on       07505 254363. Thank you.