This project is for young adults to develop skills for work, further education and getting on with others
What is ELSP? Where & When Sign Up This is a mentoring role to support people with mild/moderate learning disabilities and/or autism to develop skills to access further education, employment opportunities, and mainstream community facilities. We also run healthy living activities such as Sanjuro martial arts and football.
As a volunteer mentor you will be directly helping people to learn skills based on your own life experience including sourcing employment opportunities, living alone and travelling on public transport. Getting paid work and being independent are all things we often take for granted. For people in the ELSP group these things are hard to achieve without support.
So if you've ever written a CV or a shopping list, travelled on the tube or bus, budgeted for a weeks living costs or applied for a course, you would be just the sort of person we need.
Training "I was really pleased to be able to share my skills and
experiences with the group. They really started to understand that
you get more than just wages from a job".
Bhavin (27, recruitment consultant)
If you would like to join us and volunteer in our Monday and/or
Friday group then please Sign Up below.
Please note:
● We'll be holding regular informal online interviews from 22nd April
● We'll be holding face-to-face training from 10th May with lots of date options
Sign Up Now! and we'll send you details later of how you can:
● Book a 30-min informal online interview with us
● Send us info for your free DBS check
● Access our bite-size online training modules to get you started
Please note that volunteers applying to work with us need to be UK-based with a UK address - we are unable to support with sponsorship for UK visas. Do please contact us once you're living in the UK.
In-person Training
We'll be running a series of training sessions starting 10th May; there will be a few different
date
options.
We'll ask you to come to one of these, and then our ELSP co-ordinators will meet you again for an hour to
brief you about the way the ELSP groups work
The next training session takes place at:
Treehouse School
The Pears National Centre for Autism
Woodside Avenue
Muswell Hill
London
N10 3JA
Treehouse School is a 10-minute walk from Highgate underground station on the Northern line.
Please note minimum age for ELSP volunteers is 20 years old.
New volunteers must complete a free DBS check with us before taking
part in any of our projects and activities - we'll explain how we do this when we meet you online. It's free
for volunteers too!
Remember to check out our Facebook page to
see lots of photos and updates of Kith & Kids activities
throughout the year!
We can offer travel expenses to volunteers.
