Volunteers Needed!

Pyramid Club Leaders Needed!!

Are you interested in becoming an after school club leader? The Salford Pyramid Scheme is an exciting project affiliated to The National Pyramid Trust for children – a well respected national charity.

We run after school fun based activity clubs for children aged seven to eight years old. Children come to the club for a variety of reasons, but generally the club is designed to give the quieter, more withdrawn children a boost to their self-confidence. As clubs progress, these children often find their voice.The clubs are run by a small group of volunteers – usually three – with around ten children attending. Each club runs for an hour and a half, immediately after school for a period of ten weeks.

We ask for more than one and half hours of your time as the club willrequire some planning time. All Pyramid Volunteers are asked to undertaketwo to three days of training and attend a meeting at the end of the clubs to discuss the progress of the children and the club process itself.We ask our volunteers to have enthusiasm, a sense of fun, to be able to play, laugh, listen, and above all, respect each child in the group. The sort of things we do during our clubs are – Circle Time, games, food preparation of some sort, arts and crafts.

A typical club might look something like this:

Club leaders arrive and set up room/prepare activities
Children arrive/register
Drink/biscuit
Circle time
Games
Art/ craft activity/cooking
Tidy up
Circle time
Collect bags and coats/meet parents
Club leaders meet to evaluate session and plan for next one

Interested?If you are, please contact Penelope Hart, Pyramid Co-ordinator for Salford, on 0161 7878500 or by email to Penelopehart@salfordbep.co.uk

We interview all potential club leaders, and check their suitability through the Criminal Records Bureau. Because of the nature of the work with children, applicants are required by the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 to declare all criminal convictions including those, which are spent. However, having a criminal record will not mean that a person is automatically unsuitable.Applicants will be encouraged to discuss their situation in confidence on interview. We will write or telephone you to arrange for this interview to take place. You may be asked to bring along to interview some documentation to support your CRB checks*

The training aspect of this project is also important. We get the opportunity to spend time with you, get to know you, and you get the opportunity to get to know us. We therefore wait until after this is completed to ask you to fully commit to us – or for us to fully commit to you.Once you become a club leader, you are not just left to get on with it. You will be offered full support by the Pyramid Co-ordinator.

In addition, there will always be a Link Teacher as contact at the school during the time clubs are running. There will also be at least one support visit to the club by the Co-ordinator.Being a club leader will not cost you anything other than your time. All out-of-pocket expenses will be reimbursed by us.* CRB proof of identity: Your Pyramid Coordinator will specify which documents