North Yorkshire Council Home library service volunteering
Create a free account to applyDeliver books, audiobooks and information to people who find it difficult to visit a library, usually alongside another volunteer. You’ll keep simple records, share messages with library staff and help organise delivery rotas; routes can include homes and residential or nursing homes.
Home library and information service volunteers help people who find it difficult to visit the library by delivering books, audio books and information. Volunteers work alongside library staff and are usually paired with another volunteer so they can visit the same people each time.
Routes typically cover several addresses, including homes and residential or nursing homes.
The role also involves keeping simple records, passing messages back to library staff and helping to organise delivery rotas or cover for other volunteers when needed. Volunteers are supported by the library team, can take part in meetings and training, and receive reimbursement for fuel when using their own cars.
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- Volunteers of all ages, abilities and experience can apply.
- Volunteers need to be available for a regular weekday commitment of about two hours once a fortnight, on an agreed day.
- The role would suit caring people who do not mind spending time chatting to customers, many of whom are elderly or have a disability.
- Volunteers work in pairs, and one of each pair uses their own car.
- This role requires some lifting of bags of books and may include using stairs and lifts.
- Volunteers should be punctual and reliable.
Volunteers use their own cars and are paid out-of-pocket expenses. Fuel expenses are reimbursed at 40p per mile.
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