Please use this referral form if you would like to volunteer in Elisha Community Café. You will be contacted shortly after filling it in to discuss details of volunteering further. Why volunteer?
We need volunteers so that we can continue to develop our café, providing food, drinks and a safe environment to our local community at affordable prices.
As a volunteer, you can benefit in the following ways:
- Making connections with people.
- Gaining skills and experience that support employability.
- Access to Revolution Learning training and certificates, thanks to players of People’s Postcode Lottery.
- Access to accredited training such as food hygiene.
- References, which demonstrate your strengths.
What is Revolution Learning? We work with Breaking Cycles CIC, to provide our volunteers with training and learning opportunities which are integrated into their volunteering roles. The Revolution Learning model is designed to meet the needs of neurodivergent people and support people in gaining confidence and building esteem as well as learning new skills. Many of us are capable of more than we know!
Revolution learning is based upon active learning, at the pace of the learner and in the context of an activity that they would otherwise be doing. The preferred methods for training and teaching involve being hands on, modelling the skills of more experienced peers and recognising existing and transferable skills.
When knowledge, skills and understanding have been demonstrated, volunteers can be awarded certificates through the AQA unit award scheme. Most of the units are completely free from written work and only require learners to demonstrate what they can do, or understand, and answer questions verbally.
AQA unit award certificates are not qualifications, but they are an official recognition of your learning. They are a great way of recognising what you can do because the certificate state the Experience, Knowledge, Abilities and Understanding that you now have.
