Can you help deliver nature to letterboxes across the North East? We’re looking for friendly and energetic volunteers to help with our members’ magazine and mailout.
About this opportunity
Do you like getting out and about in the fresh air, keeping up your exercise levels and contributing to a team effort? We are looking for friendly and energetic volunteers to help us with our magazine and publication mailouts.
As a Mailout Support Volunteer or Deliverer, you’ll help NHSN distribute our magazines and journals to members across the region.
Time commitment
We send our magazines out three times a year and have a couple of sessions each time for our Volunteer Envelope Stuffers. Whether you help with one session or more is completely up to you.
Volunteer Deliverers can collect their envelopes and carry out this role at any time once we have once we have your pile collated.
Main activities
Envelope Stuffing
Filling envelopes at our organised sessions at the Museum, comprising our North East Nature magazine, a personalised letter and sometimes our Journals too – these are friendly group sessions with tea, coffee and snacks provided.
Delivering
· Advising NHSN of any streets or postcode areas where you can hand-deliver our letters
· Collecting your collated pile from either Great North Museum: Hancock or from Gosforth Nature Reserve
· Hand-delivering the letters
Can you help in these areas?
We are especially looking for deliverers who live in or can deliver to the following areas. (The number of hand-deliveries you are allocated is entirely up to you – please let us know where is suitable in your application and we will get in touch to agree a round with you.)
| Ashington (NE63) | Chapel House, Chapel Park, Westerhope, West Denton (NE5) | Cramlington, Dudley, Seghill, Burradon, Annitsford, West Meadows (NE23) |
| Corbridge (NE45) | Darras Hall and Ponteland (NE20) | Dinnington and Hazlerigg, Wideopen and Five Mile Park (NE13) |
| Fenham and Benwell (NE4) | Heddon on the Wall, Walbottle (NE15) | Hexham (NE46 1xx – NE46 4xx) |
| Holywell and Seaton Delaval (NE25) and Seaton Sluice | Killingworth (NE12 5xx – NE12 6xx) | Kingston Park (NE3 2xx) and Kenton Bank Foot |
| Ryton (NE40 3xx – NE40 4xx) | South Shields (NE34) | Walker, Walkerville and Byker (NE6 1xx – NE6 4xx) |
| Wallsend (NE28 9xx) | Whickham, Sunniside and Burnopfield (NE16) |
About you
· You will be friendly and love to chat and meet new people
· You will be organised and able to work accurately
· Envelope stuffers will enjoy participating in a team activity with drinks and snacks provided
· Deliverers will enjoy a good walk around their chosen area with an added purpose
· You’ll be enthusiastic about wildlife, natural history and the wider work of NHSN
What the role will do for you
· You’ll meet new people, make new friends, and form part of a diverse team, passionate about nature
· You’ll meet naturalists from all walks of life – sharing their knowledge of the natural world
· The health benefits of the exercise involved are an added bonus!
This is a wonderful opportunity to help NHSN achieve its vision of engaging more and a wider range of people with natural history.
Interested in volunteering with NHSN?
If you’re interested in becoming a Mailout Support Volunteer or Deliverer, we’d love to hear from you.
Please get in touch today – we’ll get back to you as soon as possible.