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 by Jo Harry

2018 Pave the Way OCD group

 

The Secret Garden in Bute Park

Thanks to the determination of our wonderful Pave the Way volunteers, our OCD group socials ran from March to October this year. Group members have formed lasting friendships, and we have all enjoyed getting together every few weeks to catch up and chat, eat cake and drink cuppas.

2018 has flown by and though we are all sad to see the end of Pave the Way we know that these friendships will continue long into the future.

Most group members have attended a specialist OCD support group that runs from Ty Canna in Canton on a Monday evening.  That same group also meets on a Thursday in Cardiff town centre for a get together. Find out more about the Ty Canna group by contacting Ty Canna at:

40, Market Road, Canton CF5 1RZ                       telephone: 029 2064 1530

Julian shows his skills – he thrashed us

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 by Jo Harry

Pave the Way OCD group meet again

28th march saw the second meeting of our OCD group. It’s a social thing, a small group of people meeting to chat about whatever comes to mind, to eat cake and to have a cuppa.

 

We had planned to go for a wander around Bute Park but early rain a change of venue to somewhere with a roof and a cafe. We met at the Museum, arriving just as lots of people were leaving for the day. We just sat in the cafe catching up and chewing the fat – well, chewing a delicious piece of cake to be honest…..

 

Great to meet up again, thanks all. Looking forward to the next one, Cardiff’s our oyster, where will it take us?

 

Stay well, Jo

 

Whatever you need to talk about the Samaritans are there 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Phone free on 116 123 or email [email protected], Cardiff and district info here: https://www.samaritans.org/branches/cardiff-district-samaritans

 

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 by Jo Harry

A blog from a Pave the Way volunteer

I started volunteering a couple of months ago. I volunteer a couple of hours a day, 2 days a week. VCS is a relaxed setting and where there is little pressure put on you so I can work at my own pace.

The VCS Radio Cardiff building is a 10 minute walk from the City Centre so it is easily accessible and easy to travel by bus or rail.

My main areas of focus are Administration & Research. With regards to administration:

  • I have inputted guests & volunteer contact information and their time and dates that they visited VCS on Microsoft Excel.
  • I also have inputted printed receipts of expenses on to Microsoft Excel (on Chronicle and Petty cash).

With regards to research, I carry our research for WellWaves, a community mental health radio show. I put together information to give to the two presenters of the show.

  • The Wellwaves radio show focuses on Mental Health.
  • The topic changes weekly so I am never doing the same thing.
  • Some of the topics I have a bit of knowledge of from personal experience namely the one week which focused on Autism but most weeks I have researched topics which I have no experience of or even on topics that I have never heard of previously (Dual Diagnosis).

I have also had buddying help role from Raj on how to cope with a reception role. I had about 5 hours help from him.

Benefits

  • It gives greater structure to my life.
  • Most weeks I am resear
    ching different topics or doing different types of administration stuff so there are a variety of things that I am doing which means my voluntary experience is more interesting.
  • The staff and volunteers are friendly and more than happy to provide support and feedback when you require help.
  • The hours are flexible so you can volunteer however many hours that suits you.
  • Provides opportunities to improve skills such as social and communication skills.
  • Opportunities to learn new skills but under no pressure to do tasks if you don’t feel ready or interested in these tasks.
    • These new tasks can include administration roles, researching for radio shows, editing shows, doing a reception role which can but does not require you to answer the telephone. Other roles can include a buddying role where you can help someone who needs help on a specific issue.
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