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Volunteering

Position Title : Gym Buddy

Thank you for volunteering for this role. We will use this information to help decide your suitability for the job so please make sure that it is accurate and complete.

Step 2 of 8 : Contact Details

Email Address

Home Telephone

Work Telephone

Mobile Telephone

Address

Postcode

Step 3 of 8 : What's My Motivation?

Please indicate below your reasons for volunteering
(Note - there are no right or wrong answers! Tick as many as you like.)

Please give more details below (including why you chose Birmingham Focus On Blindness as the charity you wanted to volunteer for):

Step 4 of 8 : Experience

Please give details of all previous work experience, including voluntary work and any training you have undertaken.

Experience

It helps us to know what skills our volunteers are bringing to the organisation. Please indicate below the skills and special interests you have (You'll be surprised what we can find useful - please don't hold back!)

Skills

Do you have any experience of sight loss yourself or working with people with sight loss/blindness?

Other than English, please tell us of any languages you speak or understand:

I hold a full and current driving licence.

Step 5 of 8 : Availability

Any amount of time you give is valuable to us, be it an hour every now and then or a regular commitment. We would welcome the opportunity to discuss and tailor your volunteering in person.

I can volunteer my time:

At one-off events

Once a month

Weekly

If you selected Weekly, please let us know when:

Step 6 of 8 : References & Screening

Please give the name and contact details of two people willing to provide you with a character reference. If you have worked in the last five years (either paid or voluntary), at least one reference should be obtained from your last employer. If not, please give the names of two people who know you well - but they must not be family members (including those related through marriage). We will accept referees who live abroad, providing they are English speakers and have an email address we can contact them on.

Rereree One

Name

Address

Postcode

Telephone number

Relationship to you
(e.g. Manager, Colleague)

I want to be consulted before this referee is approached.

Rereree Two

Name

Address

Postcode

Telephone number

Relationship to you
(e.g. Manager, Colleague)

I want to be consulted before this referee is approached.

To comply with recent requirements within the Care Standards, we may contact your referees before the interview process.

I consent to Focus Birmingham contacting my referees.

Important CRB Check

Any volunteer role at Birmingham Focus On Blindness, including administration and other office-based tasks, will bring you into regular, sometimes unsupervised contact with vulnerable adults. In order to protect both you and our service users, all volunteer applicants will need to complete an application for a Criminal Records Bureau Disclosure (police check). This will be done, with the help of the Volunteer Coordinator, as part of your interview. Birmingham Focus On Blindness adheres to the CRB code of practice.

I agree to this CRB clearance being sought

Step 7 of 8 : Emergency Contact

Name

Relationship to you

Address

Postcode

Email Address

Home Telephone

Mobile Telephone

Step 8 of 8 : Declaration

I hereby declare that all the information given on this form is, to the best of my knowledge, true and complete in every respect and I accept that any volunteer role offered is on the basis of the validity of this information.

I have read, understood and confirm the above declaration.

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