Volunteer Host

**Job description**

Our tea party hosts are a vital part of the Re-engage team.

Tea parties provide a lifeline of friendship for our older people, and the regular, warm, friendly chats and companionship provide a vital link with the outside world from which they have become isolated. Re-engage needs enthusiastic volunteers to work as tea party hosts.

This is a flexible, voluntary role that can easily be fitted in around your own lifestyle and availability. As a volunteer host you will run a local Re-engage tea party one to two times a year. You will host a group of four to 12 people (which includes drivers, the group coordinator as well as older guests) in either your home or a community venue. The tea parties will last around two hours and will usually take place on a Sunday afternoon. You must be comfortable socializing with people and providing guests and other volunteers with refreshments.

Tasks include:

- Completing and submitting a host’s home checklist for your own home or signing a declaration if you’re hosting at an external venue before your first tea party and on an annual basis.
- Welcoming a group of older guests and volunteer drivers into your home or to the community venue.
- Providing and serving refreshments for your group - usually food and drinks for afternoon tea.
- Liaising with your group coordinator to ensure dietary requirements and the older guests' needs are met prior to the tea party.
- Informing the group coordinator of any safeguarding concerns or issues you might have.
- Following all guidance in your host training modules to ensure that the tea parties are enjoyable, appropriate, and in line with our charitable aims.

**We are looking for hosts** with the following skills and attributes:

- Good conversation skills
- An enthusiasm for making genuine connections with older people in your community
- A friendly, empathetic approach
- The ability to really listen to people
- Patience
- A good sense of humour
- A passion for improving the lives of lonely and isolated older people.
- The ability to volunteer with others

**About us**

Our goal is to reduce loneliness amongst older people by bringing generations together in friendship and shared experiences. Re-engage provides vital, life-enhancing social connections for older people at a time in their lives when their social circles are diminishing.

**Job Type**: Volunteer

**Benefits**:

- Casual dress
- Flexitime

Schedule:

- Flexitime

Work Location: In person

Reference ID: WokingVolHost