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Christams Market 3rd December 2011

Posted by St Werburghs - 23/11/11 12:42pm - 0 Comments - news
Saturday, 3rd December 2011 10.30 am - 4.30 pm Community Christmas Market at St Werburghs Centre

Join us for a festive feast of all things creative - buy original arts and crafts from the best local artists and makers. We have over 30 stalls booked filled with personal, handmade and unique gifts for your family and friends.

On sale:

• Paintings, Photography, prints, stained glass & ceramics
• Handmade clothing and home accessories
• Natural, organic and fair trade skincare products
• Gift cards
• Fair-trade gifts
• Toys
• Indian and Tibetan gifts, Fused glass jewellery.

Yes, all of that and even more!

* Live performance by Rauken Dance and singing
* Cafe with homemade food and cakes
* Children activities

For more information please contact Goska on 0117 955 1351 or e-mail her on office@stwerburghs.org.uk




BECOME A VOLUNTEER

St Werburghs Centre is recruiting volunteers to help us with various and exciting projects – film-making, bike repair project, photography & writing for our new community newsletter, photography & co-ordination for new Community Centre's website, organising workshops and events and general administration, reception or care-taking tasks.

The Management Committee and Staff of the St Werburghs Centre are fully committed to the recruitment and support of volunteers within our organisation.
We hold the belief that volunteers can provide a variety of skills and experience that would not otherwise be available. We also recognise that volunteers require satisfying work and personal development and will seek to help our volunteers to meet these needs.
To find out more please download our Volunteer Policy.

If you would like to get involved and make a difference in your community please contact Goska Ong on 0117 955 1351 or e-mail office@stwerburghs.org.uk

OPPORTUNITIES


JOB VACANCIES

Trainee Community Organisers

In partnership with Locality, St Werburghs Community Centre are looking to recruit four Community Organisers to work in the East Bristol area.  This is a one year experiential learning programme, aiming to increase integration and achieve shared goals within the local community.

This is an excellent opportunity for an organised person with confident communicative skill and who has a real enthusiasm for working with people from a wide variety of cultures and backgrounds.

Scale of pay will be £8.50 per hour, for a 30-35 hour week.

This post will be a fixed term 51 week contract with accredited training.

Important:  Successful candidates will be required to attend a compulsory three-day residential training programme from
11 to 13th September 2012.

There will be an opportunity to get further information and ask any questions at St Werburghs Community Centre on Tuesday 12 June 2012 at 7:30pm.

No CVs, please. To get a detailed job pack, please contact either Goska or Heather on 0117 955 1351, or e-mail heather@stwerburghs.org.uk

Closing date for applications:  Monday 2nd July 2012

Interviews will be held on:

Wednesday 18th and Thursday 19th July 2012




VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITY

St Werburghs Centre
Horley Road, St Werburghs, Bristol BS2 9TJ

Gardeners and Chefs

Part time Volunteers needed to help us running our Raking and Baking Project - Free Gardening and Cooking workshops.
The Project will start in September, the workshops will be run weekly and we are looking for people who can commit to come for 8 weeks at the time.
Dates and times are still to be agreed, depending on availability.

The role will involve:

Gardening - Creating a mini allotment/garden using planters around the Community Centre, helping workshop attendees, sharing skills and knowledge, working with the Centre staff and other volunteers. The main focus is to teach how to grow food in small places, manage a small garden and how to plan it, so the crops fit the needs.

Cooking - running a series of cookery classes which will focus on how to cook fresh, healthy and well-balanced meals, we hope to get volunteers from all ethnic groups to share both recipes and cooking techniques, to include Somali, Arabic, Chinese, Polish, Japanese and Asian food.

We will need help with everything from sourcing the soil and plants to administrating and promoting the project! If you are enthusiastic about growing your own food and can spare a few hours each week, please contact us!

For more information please e-mail office@stwerburghs.org.uk
or telephone Goska Ong on 0117 9551351



VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITY

St Werburghs Centre
Horley Road, St Werburghs, Bristol BS2 9TJ

Part time Volunteer needed to help us running our Free Tea Dance workshops for over 50's
Thursdays 1 to 5 pm
Weekly, starting 3rd of March 2011 (excl. half term) finishing 21st July 2011

The role will involve:

Setting up the room
Setting up refershments
Welcoming workshop attendees
Clearing up refreshments and washing up
Liaising with the Centre staff
Helping to recruit new attendees

For more information please e-mail office@stwerburghs.org.uk
or telephone Goska Ong on 0117 9551351



VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITY

St Werburghs Centre
Horley Road, St Werburghs, Bristol BS2 9TJ

Part time Volunteer needed to work on our Energy Saving Scheme

The role will involve:

Collecting and inputting data onto excel spreadsheets
Presentation of outcomes using description and charts
Liaising with the Centre staff

For an application form please e-mail office@stwerburghs.org.uk
or telephone Goska Ong on 0117 9551351



VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITY

St Werburghs Centre
Horley Road, St Werburghs, Bristol BS2 9TJ

Marketing Officer

We are looking for a volunteer to help us keep our website up to date as well as to create social networks accounts and administrate them according to what news we have. If you can spare a couple of hours per week and are interested in this role, please phone Goska Ong on 0117 955 1351 or e-mail office@stwerburghs.org.uk