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• Tackling Health Inequalities – working within targeted areas of Dumfries & Galloway to contribute towards the reduction of health inequalities
• Swag – Supporting area based work to build community capacity and develop the skills, knowledge and expertise of local people to improve their health and the health of others
• Steps/HIC Courses – Partnership working by promoting, developing and sustaining effective partnerships for health throughout Dumfries and Galloway; engaging and influencing other organisations to effect changes in service and policies thereby reducing health and social inequalities.
• Jack & Jill’s of all Trades – To develop the manual skills, knowledge and expertise of local people and to improve their health and the health of others.
• Arts for Health – Arts for health established as a regular programme working with individuals and communities developing through alternative learning opportunities.
• Food and Health – Indentifying the need to people who are not aware of and do not eat a healthy diet.
• Tambourelli – Working more actively with individuals and closer community working to improve their health and the health of others
• Targeting Services Obesity/Fit Club – Identifying the need for an obesity/fit support club in partnership with Public Health
• Men’s Health – Healthier men and better partnership working to self help and others
• Yoga – Indentify alternative therapies available to support the health and wellbeing of the community
  

Opportunities as a Volunteer

• 1 – 1 support
• Access to training and learning
• Childcare and Carers support
• Out of pocket and travel expenses
• Access to resources
• Volunteering to develop activities and projects
• Volunteering opportunities with other agencies
• Fun
• Meeting new people and making new friends
• Volunteering can help you get back into employment
• Making a difference in your community

Volunteers are people who want to:-

• Give their time and energy for the benefit of their community
• Get out of the house and enjoy some adult company and meet new people
• Welcome challenge

or

• People who have or have experienced for example:
  Mental Health Issues
  Drug and Alcohol issues
  Domestic violence or abuse
  Feel isolated and lonely
  Have low self-esteem and lacking in confidence
  People with disabilities
  Experienced unemployment
  Experience of exclusion

There is a growing recognition of the health gains of volunteering. This means that there is an increasing interest in voluntary work. Research in the last decade suggests that 50% of the adult population in Scotland volunteered at least once in the past year.