Volunteer

Volunteering is a truly rewarding experience. Volunteers are invaluable to our operation, bringing skills, diversity, and friendliness and offering assistance to our workplace.

Maintaining high quality, meaningful employment, is imperative for our employees. It allows them to lead productive and fulfilling lives, whilst meeting other members of the community. It further lets our employees to demonstrate their skills and work ethic to others, allowing volunteers to see their abilities rather than disabilities.

We are a community within a community and welcome others to join us. Working alongside our employees in our not for profit organisation aids in a number of facets. It empowers our employees, who pride themselves on being able to work within the community. It allows them the opportunity to mix and mingle with various members of the community, as for many, work is a social outlet, whereby they can meet other people and volunteers play an important part in this.

Volunteering also assists in the packaging and assembly process at Waverley, as there are tasks, which challenge some employees and volunteers keep the production lines moving. Quality and meeting deadlines is pivotal in any organisation and ours is no different. This is particularly important as it maintains the employment and opportunities for almost 350+ employees with disabilities, and subsequently aiding with self-esteem and self-worth. Most importantly volunteers feel rewarded.

Benefits

• Volunteering creates an understanding, breaks down any barriers, misconceptions or preconceived ideas about people with a disability.
• Volunteering creates a positive experience for you and /or your team and have fun whilst contributing.
• Our employees meet people from outside their normal circle of friends.
• Volunteering sends a positive message to colleagues, friends and families of volunteers about people with a disability.
• Volunteers will see the ability, not the disability.