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St Andrew’s House Care Home Drop-In Cafe

Make friends, enjoy a cup of tea or coffee, and make a difference to the St Andrew’s House Care Home residents. You and other volunteers will join in on the care home’s weekly drop-in cafe, working together to bring a little happiness and joy to their lives. These sessions tend to last an hour and a half and can vary on who you speak to. But no matter who you talk with, you’ll be having a meaningful impact on a resident's life. No specific skills are needed, all that is needed is an open approach, patience, and genuine curiosity about each of the residents’ lives.  

The sessions are every Wednesday from 2-3:30 pm. There is no weekly commitment. However, volunteers are recommended to try to turn up to at least 1 session a month during term time.  

Logistics 

• Comfortable talking with residents  

• Sessions from 2-3:30 pm on Wednesdays 

• Can continue through summer if the volunteers wish 

Directions 

In town, Near the Morrisons 

Bus: 

Take the 90A/91A or 64 or X58 and get off at the community hospital  

10-20 minute journey from the St Andrews bus station 

Graduate Attributes Examples:  

Integrity, Ethical awareness, local and global good citizenship, forming productive relationships through empathy, tolerance, honesty, and respect, active listening, attending to others’ points of view, asking questions, & making positive changes. 

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Memory Makers

Open to helping the Laidlaw Music Centre to run weekly sessions for those with dementia and their carers? Weekly sessions will consist of fun activities that you as a volunteer will help in running. Volunteers will need to have patience and be able to deal with the members of the sessions with a caring and understanding approach. Tasks for volunteers would include helping to set the room up, making refreshments, keeping registers, helping participants around the building, chatting and socializing and joining in with the activities.

Sessions run in blocks starting in September, October, and January. Ideally volunteers should come to every session in the block as not to confuse the participants involved in the program. 

Logistics 

• Tuesday, 2.30-4pm        

• Block 1: 9, 16, 23, 30 September 2025             

• Volunteering is in the Laidlaw Music Centre!

Graduate Attributes Examples: 

Oral communication, integrity, socially responsible, Ethical awareness, local and global good citizenship, forming productive relationships through empathy, tolerance, honesty, and respect, active listening, attending to others’ points of view, asking questions, & making positive changes.