Application Form: CampaignVolunteer

Thank you for considering volunteering with Greater Manchester Law Centre (GMLC), run by the community
for the community. If you are available for social media work, campaigns and fundraising events to promote GMLC, please fill in your details below.

All the information you provide on this form is confidential and will not be passed on to other people or organisations. It will only be used to assist the GMLC in its selection process. GMLC is committed to equality
and challenging all forms of discrimination.

For assistance with completing this form or for further information, please contact us at:
tel. 0161 769 2244 or email .

Your details

Title: / First name: / Surname:
Address (incl. Postcode):
Phone: / Email:
If you are currently a student or recently graduated, please name the Uni?

Your availability

We require Campaign Volunteers to attend and organise outreach events, to promote ouronline presence, shape our campaign strategy, help with fundraising, and more…

Regular availability

Please mark with an ‘x’if you have regular availability.

Monday / Tuesday / Wednesday / Thursday / Friday / Saturday / Sunday
9am-1pm
1pm-5pm
Evenings

Time commitments

Our campaigning activity will vary. Please indicate how much time you would be able to dedicate to GMLC.
The options below are not concrete commitments. Please mark with an ‘x’. You may select several options.

Can you commit to:
Up to four full days per month / Up to two full days per month
Half a day per week / Half a day per fortnight
Two evenings per month / One evening per month
Can we call you if we need you at short notice? / Yes / No
Any other information about availability and time commitments (e.g. school holidays):

Your skills

Previous campaigning experience is not essential, but please give us a brief summary of your skills.

Please mark with an ‘x’. Do you have experience in:
Managing social media accounts / Fundraising
Writing for a magazine, website or blog / Phone banking
Distributing leaflets / Office/admin work
Running stalls at conferences or events / Managing mailing lists
Event organisation / Design (print/web/memes)
Campaign strategy / Media work
Languages / First language:
Other languages (please list) / Oral (indicate with an “x”) / Written (indicate with an “x”)

Do you have any other experience that you would like to mention, or are there any skills that you would like to develop through your volunteering? Are you involved in any campaigning activity?

References

As part of the selection process for volunteers, GMLC may ask for references to be taken.
Please give the names and addresses of one referee. This can be a friend, teacher or a colleague,
but please do not include any relative or person under 18 year.

Title: / First name: / Surname:
Address (incl. Postcode):
Phone number: / Email:
Relationship: / How long have you known this person?

Final step

For monitoring purposes, please tell us where you heard about GMLC.

You will be bound by GMLC’s policies in relation to confidentiality and asked to sign a confidentially agreement, if your work is based at our premises. We encourage our volunteers to join a Trade Union.

Please sign the form to indicate that you are happy to provide this information to apply for a volunteering role with us.If you are emailing this form, you can omit signing it. Please just add your name.

Signature: / Date:
Would you like to receive our fortnightly email newsletter? / Yes / No
We may periodically contact you by email or phone to ask for feedback on your experiences as a volunteer. Is that ok? / Yes / No

Please post this form to Greater Manchester Law Centre, Development Worker, 159 Princess Road, Manchester, M14 4RE or email a copy to .

We will email or phone you and/or invite you to our regular Campaign Volunteer Meetings.

Thank you for completing the application form.

Campaign volunteer roles at GMLC

Outreach events

We frequently attend fares, festivals, talks and campaigning events where we host stalls and distribute leaflets. These are excellent opportunities to network, fundraise and garner support. For these events we require volunteers to run stalls, collect donations, take contact details, and assist with logistics. Volunteers with their own vehicles can assist with transporting materials to events, for example.

Volunteers will be notified as and when these opportunities arise.

Fundraising

Volunteers not only facilitate but initiate and organise our fundraising activities. This may include events such as pub quizzes, and crowd-funding schemes such as phone-banking.

We may ask volunteers with relevant experience to initiate these events, or ask for support when they occur.

Online presence

Maintaining our presence on social media is essential. Campaign volunteers can maximise our impact by sharing and promoting our content, as well as assisting in creating content and managing our accounts.

We invite volunteers to contribute material for our website, including articles, blog posts and opinion pieces on the topic of access to justice.

Campaign Administration

Our databases, members’ lists and administration systems require constant maintenance. We require volunteers sporadically or on a regular basis to assist with these tasks.

Strategising and Research

Volunteers are the backbone of the law centre. As well as facilitating our campaigning activity, we invite volunteers to decide which areas we should focus on and to shape our strategy.

We will meet with volunteers who have relevant campaigning experience or interests to help with this. This will include identifying groups and activities in Greater Manchester that we should communicate with, researching gaps in legal service provision that we should focus on, and designing plans and targets for the future.

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