As a tea party group coordinator, you’ll plan, organise and
schedule monthly tea parties in your local area. This is an administrative role
that requires communicating and socialising with older guests, volunteer hosts
and drivers from all walks of life.
Each tea party group usually last for around two hours and take
place on a Sunday afternoon.
Tea parties provide a lifeline of friendship for socially isolated
or lonely older people. The warm, regular, and friendly companionship provides
a vital link with the outside world from which they’ve become isolated.
What skills do I need?
To become a tea party group coordinator you’ll
need to:
- Have a 30-minute induction call with a member of the
Re-engage team
- Complete an ID check
- Provide a reference
- Complete online volunteer training modules
- Although
many tea party group coordinators are also tea party drivers, this is not
a requirement of the role.
Tasks include:
- Welcoming and supporting new volunteers into the tea
party group so they can start volunteering with confidence.
- Welcoming new older guests to the tea party group and
contacting them before their first tea party group so that they feel
welcome and comfortable.
- Arranging the annual tea party schedule so the hosts
know when it’s their turn to host and older guests and drivers know where
the tea parties are each month.
- Matching older guests to volunteer drivers, so the same
drivers collect and drop off the same older guests each month.
- Keeping in regular contact with the tea party group
older guests and volunteers, and sharing any updates from Re-engage that
are relevant to them.
- Responding to any issues and queries from the
volunteers and older guests in the tea party group.
- Following the guidance in the online volunteer training
so that the tea parties are safe, enjoyable, appropriate and in line with
our charitable aims.
- Keeping in regular contact with Re-engage and reporting
any concerns to the team.
- Promoting the tea party group in your local area so we
can recruit more volunteers and support more older people.
- Completing a short online report about the tea party
group four times a year.
- Keeping
your knowledge and training up to date by reading our monthly volunteer
newsletter – Re-engage Matters.
And skills:
We’re looking for tea party group coordinators who have:
- Good admin and organisation skills
- Good problem-solving skills
- A friendly nature
- Good listening skills
- Good conversation skills
- Patience and understanding
- A passion for improving the lives of lonely and
isolated older people
- Basic
computer skills (our checks, training and tea party reports are all online
and our charity is paperless)
