Nonprofit
Published 5 months ago
Beacon Friendship Center - Kitchen, Activity, Meal Prep and/or Clean Up
On-site, Volunteer must be in or near Beacon, NY
Details
Available Times:
Weekdays (daytime)
Commitment Details:
Varies, whatever you can do would be a great help. The staff at the Friendship Center is just 1 person so any help would be wonderful! Wednesday, Thursday and/or Friday only!
Recurrence:
Recurring
Volunteers Needed:
5
Cause Areas:
Community Development, Hunger, Food Security, Seniors & Retirement
Good For:
Kids, Teens, Public Groups, Age 55+
Description
We are recruiting volunteers to help on Wednesday, Thursday or Friday!
Many positions are available:
- Suggest and run an activity like Bingo or Arts & Crafts. We are open to suggestions too!
- Serve lunch to seniors at the Friendship Center by carrying trays to tables.
- Visit with the seniors, talk about their interests etc....
- Prepare packaged meals to be delivered to seniors
- Assist in putting prepared food in tins or putting lids on the tins for the home delivered meals. Gloves must be worn and will be supplied by the center.
- Packing
- Assist packing coolers by putting hot plates and ice packs in delivery bags with dinner trays and lunch bags. Packing hot meals in bags.
- Clean up the kitchen.
- Wash a few pans, put ice packs in the freezer and hot stones in the oven. Put the coolers and bags back on the shelves.
- Back-up Volunteers - would you be willing to be a back-up volunteer? We will call you to volunteer if a volunteer is unable to make their day/time.
We ask all volunteers to commit to/select the "job(s)" and day(s) each month that they would like to volunteer so that the Director has a schedule.
The Friendship Center is open from 10:00am - 2:00pm Mon - Fri and most volunteer positions are an hour or less. Of course, we welcome our volunteers to stay longer and help with whatever is needed.
Location
On-site
1 Forrestal Heights, Beacon, New York, US
