Volunteering

You can volunteer with us as a Trustee or a driver.

Trustees

Trustees have responsibility for setting the strategy for our charity and for overseeing its operation. The Board meets quarterly for about one hour. There’s some reading to do between times….in fact as much work as you’d like to take on.

We’re keen to recruit additional trustees, particularly those with accounting/bookkeeping or marketing expertise.

Drivers

Volunteer drivers use either our electric MPV, affectionately known as Matilda, or their own car to take service users to medical appointments, social occasions or even shopping. You’re expected to wait for them or to return to collect them. There’s no need to get additional insurance, though if using your own car you do need to tell your insurance company that you are doing this. Normally insurers make no extra charge for this.

Volunteers can give as much or as little time as they prefer. Some can only commit to a morning or afternoon every couple of weeks, some can do a couple of days a week.

We’ll give you induction training, personal protective equipment, clear health & safety guidelines and on-going support and we’ll make as easy as possible the process of checking your documents and doing a police check when you start.

Donations and sponsorship

• Donations: Both those who use our service and interested members of the public can and do contribute amounts of money as they see fit.
• “Sponsor a Journey”. Around 1 in ten of our users struggle to cover the basic cost of a journey to get vital medical services, so supporters of the charity can ‘pay in advance’ for them for journeys such as those to Raigmore or the National Treatment Centre or Dingwall’s bone density scanning service. £20 would cover the return journey to Inverness, £35 to Dingwall.

Corporate Sponsorship 

We encourage you to sponsor WIN’s voluntary driver scheme and you can do this is three ways

• Corporate Donations. If you decide simply to donate you can deduct the value of your donation from business profits before corporation tax. A suggested donation might be £500. Your donation would be acknowledged on our website and in our Annual Report.
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• Sponsorship options
  • For £1,000 we will publish your logo and a short bio on our website for one year, along with our thanks
  • For £2,000 we will publish your details as above on our website and post at least quarterly on our Facebook and local pages such as Nairn Rocks, Nairn Our Town Our Views, Nairn When I was a Bairn
  • For £3,000 we will do all of the above and place your logo on our e-Vito

• Encourage your staff to give work time to drive for us

As an alternative to direct financial contributions you could choose to support one or more of your employees to volunteer during work time – it need only be a few hours, once a week or fortnight. This would help us take more people where they need to go, while providing a valuable experience for employees and aiding their development. You will also be able to set the costs (including wages and business expenses) against your taxable profits