Help Deliver Hot Meals In Your Community.

GL11 Community Hub is appealing for volunteers to join its Meals on Wheels delivery team who help support the wellbeing of neighbours in Cam, Dursley and surrounding areas.

Volunteers, who can give as much or as little time as they have available, are invited to get in touch and discover what GL11 does, what it’s like to be a volunteer and to find out more about helping with the delivery of hot meals to those most in need in the local community.

Volunteer Manager, Adam Jones at GL11 Community Hub, comments: “We had huge success with the COVID vaccination support programme at the end of 2020, connecting with over 400 volunteers, but in recent months, we’ve seen the number of people offering to volunteer fall. Our team of regular volunteers are amazing, but as our community grows, and the range of needs grow with it, we need to bring in more people to help spread the load”.

In March 2023, GL11 Community Hub took on the provision of cooked meals for residents of GL11 and GL13 postcode areas. This was after Gloucestershire County Council’s existing commercial service provider ended their contract for the whole of Gloucestershire.

Adam continues, “As a charity we are busier than ever with the range of support we offer. Right now, we are particularly keen to take on more volunteers to help us with ‘Meals on Wheels’ as this is a vital service, meeting the needs of some of the most vulnerable in our community. We cook all the meals here at GL11 and we really need help from volunteers to help us with collection and delivery. The meals get driven by car to recipient’s homes while they are still hot, so enthusiasm is vital. We’re keen to recruit people with a caring nature too, as stopping for a chat and checking on how recipients are doing is an essential part of the role”.

GL11 prepare around 60 healthy and nutritious meals every week from their Café kitchen. They have a dedicated team of volunteer delivery drivers, who not only deliver hot meals, daily, Monday to Friday (with a chilled option over weekends) to local people, who otherwise would not be able to cook for themselves, but also ensures that they have a bit of company each day. The Hub is looking to expand its team of volunteer delivery drivers to keep this service running successfully in the future. Volunteers will meet new people, learn new skills and give back to their community.

Meals on Wheels are looking for new volunteers over weekday lunchtimes, on a day or days that suit. Mileage will be reimbursed, and full training will be given.

If you are interested in signing up as a volunteer, you can find out more by calling GL11 Community Hub on 01453 548530 or emailing office@gl11.org.uk. Alternatively, more info on all the volunteering roles at GL11 Community Hub can be found on their website – www.gl11.org.