Spotlight set to fall on helping communities as Volunteer Marketplace comes to Buckie

LENDING the community a helping hand is to take centre stage at a forthcoming event in Buckie.

Tuesday, June 6 will see a Volunteer Marketplace event held in the Baptist Church hall from 10am until 12 noon.

A joint venture by the Department of Work and Pensions (DWP), tsiMoray and Moray Pathways, the event aims to help DWP customers source local volunteering opportunities which will suit helping hands of all shapes and sizes.

Inspiration for the event stemmed from the Big Help Out, part of the King's coronation celebrations seeking to bring together thousands of organisations across the UK to help their local communities.

The Volunteer Marketplace also coincides with Volunteer Week, which runs until Wednesday, June 7.

DWP employer and partnership manager Jane Munro said: "We are fully aware that volunteering can make a real different to peoples lives and help them take steps towards employment in some instances.

"Giving back really does will improve wellbeing and help equip people with skills for the future. One of DWP’s priorities is to support customers that have a health condition/disability and volunteering is great for supporting these customers and helping them move forward, too."

The charitable organisations who have agreed to attend so far are: Blackwood Group; Craft Daft; Guide Dogs; Keith and Dufftown Railway; Macmillan Cancer; Mikeysline; Moray Council volunteering; Moray Firth Credit Union; Moray Handypersons; Moray Rape Crisis; Moray School Bank; North East Sensory Services; REAP; Salvation Army; Samaritans; Step by Step; tsiMoray; Walk Moray.

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