Community Skills Match

There are many well-established and fledging projects in Leeds which need your skills and passion! We want to connect individuals with projects which could benefit from the input and experience of people like you! We are seeking people with voluntary, professional and life experience in a whole range of areas, for example:

-caring or pastoral skills
-practical skills, understanding of issues affecting, particular groups of people
-project management or project development
-working with vulnerable people
-setting up a new initiatives
-legal and financial knowledge.

Your contribution would be flexible, depending on your availability and the needs of the project you are matched with. Possibilities include:
• getting involved with a project steering group
• mentoring a project worker
• volunteering for a project
• running training sessions for a project.

If this has whet your appetite and you’d like to know more, we’d love to hear from you!

Please contact: Sue Hoey (Leeds Churches Together in Mission)
Email: sue.hoey@talk21.com Tel: 07946 085 575 or
Rhoda Wu (Leeds Christian Community Trust)
Email: rhoda@lcct.org.uk Tel: 07951 693050

To give you a taster: Jenny is a full-time accountant. In her spare time, she is on the steering group of a Christian outreach project to sex workers in Leeds. The steering group meet once every six weeks. Her financial experience and project management skills (as well as general common sense and commitment to the cause!) are an essential contribution to the ongoing development of the project; despite some of the ups and downs, she feels it is a privilege to have this opportunity to assist a project which helps to change lives.