The Well – Training Opportunities
The Well is a peer support group for women around the time of childbirth (before and after the birth of a baby). This means that women get together to share their experiences and to support each other in their roles as mothers. The Well is about community and provides opportunity for women to talk about things that cannot necessarily talk about with anyone else, share problems and share solutions to those problems.
The Well has been successful in gaining funding to expand the project to train up volunteers as befrienders to visit ladies in their houses to do what is known as ‘listening visits’. A befriender spends the first few weeks mainly listening and building up trust and friendship with the aim to help a lady to access the main support group where she can then build up her own circle of support.
The Well is therefore looking to take on 7-10 new volunteers to train either as: befrienders to go into people’s homes OR provide support at the main group.
Here we need people who can: do arts and crafts, provide refreshments, help with admin and welcoming, provide crèche support
Training will be taking place in the new year: 12th and 19th January.
This will run at Jubilee Hall, Ladypool Road, Balsall Heath.
Training is free and refreshments, lunch and crèche will all be provided.
The project is women only.
Women 18+ are very welcome to volunteer at the group, but befrienders should have some experience of parenting or supporting parents.
For more information or any questions please see Alison Stunt.
