ABOUT US
Office Staff
Our office is in Church House, Caversham and is manned from 9.30 to 10.30 on weekdays. Our volunteers transfer clients’ requests, taken by phone, on to our computerised booking system. They then phone drivers to match requests. The system is easy to use and full training is given. As a volunteer, you usually work once or twice a month on days which suit you.
Drivers
How much time you can give is up to you entirely, whether several times a week or month or once a week or month, it is a flexible role. It is also your choice to either be phoned with a client’s details for a lift or to take it online. This will be explained at the interview.
Once a journey is booked, a driver receives a confirmation email with full details about the client and the trip. At the end of a trip, you give an envelope, provided by the office, to the client for a donation to help with running costs of Caversham Good Neighbours. Their donation is entirely at the clients discretion but, if asked by them, we suggest 50p a mile.
We urgently need more drivers. CGN organises approximately 80? lifts per month and we need more drivers to ensure that we can fulfil the requests from our clients.
Volunteers worry that they will be almost full time drivers but with CGN, you can do as many as you wish. If you do one drive per week, that will help greatly. You choose how often you wish to drive, you are paid travelling expenses if you wish and you will strike up many new friendships with our clients.
The booking system changed to a computerised system over 10 years ago and our office volunteers quickly adapted to the new way of working. The drivers also had automatic email confirmation of their journeys.
CGN have social events for our volunteers during the year.
Please consider joining this very worthwhile local charity to help the people of Caversham and Emmer Green. You will be glad that you did.