If you would like to help with the work that Awetu does then there are several ways for you to get involved.

Volunteering – Awetu’s volunteers fall into four main categories.

Befriending volunteers – Befriending is a relationship carefully arranged between a volunteer and a person from a BME community who has a mental illness. It is limited to agreed time and to agreed activities, all designed to provide safe and sensitive parameters to a relationship that can help an individual to cope with their mental illness and its implications. Befriending volunteers deliver much of the face-to-face work with BME service users who suffer from mental illness and, when possible, provide the “mother tongue” communication lacking in many professional relationships. They provide a different, but valuable, relationship to that provided by outreach workers.

Admin Volunteers – These volunteers help out in the office with the day-to-day running of Awetu. Their work can involve answering phones, filing, helping to organise trips and events and a wide range of other tasks.

Children’s Volunteers – Under the direction of our children & young people’s outreach worker, these volunteers help arrange activities for the children of our service users and help supervise the children’s trips and events.

Management Committee – Awetu is always looking for people with an interest or lived experience in mental health to be part of the Management Committee and influence the direction of Awetu and help us deliver our services.

If you would be interested in volunteering for Awetu in any of these roles please contact us or download our volunteering application form.

We also welcome more specialised volunteering, for instance we have had a photographer donate time and resources to help us produce some promotional material and an aroma-therapist who came in and spent a day with our service users.

Donations - If you or your organisation would like to support Awetu and our work by making a donation please contact us for details of how to Gift Aid your donation, and enable us to reclaim the tax we would otherwise pay.