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Volunteer Events Organiser
This role helps to raise vital funds for the charity's work, and encourages others to do likewise. This role can involve organising coffee mornings, dinners, lunches and days out. A fun and energetic role for an organised social networker with a heart.
Download the role profile here (Microsoft Word 2003-7 format) 
Email the Volunteering department to find out more
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Meet Vanessa, Volunteer Events Organiser
Vanessa is an illustrator and sculptor who lives in Suffolk. Over the last ten years, she has organised fundraising events for the charity including balls, art exhibitions and garden opens.
What made you want to become a Volunteer Events Organiser for Independent Age?
Because of the vagaries of my work, I knew that I wouldn't be able to regularly visit people when they necessarily required me to. But I used to work for an oil company, and part of my role in that was PR and organising events. I thought I would be more useful if I could raise funds, but I see my role as raising the profile as much as raising funds. And I wanted to target my then age group, the forties, because I thought that they would be the age group that would have parents who would need help and were probably in a good position to help, or offer financial support.
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Please describe a 'day in the life' of a Volunteer Events Organiser.
I work very closely with my Area Manager. I can plan my work around what's going on - it's a few hours here, a few hours there. It's just being organised, and writing the letters asking for sponsorship, and then putting things in place. Because if it's an art exhibition, everything has to be taken in and set up the day before. If it's a ball, then visits to the function place. Obviously you have to have meetings and stuff, but on the day, I think we spend the best part of the day blowing up balloons and putting place names and things out. A lot of it is done as a social thing.
And you gain something from it. You don't always have to get something tangible to gain from an experience. I would say it's like being part of a family, and I've made very close friends, lifelong friends from this.
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