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New year, new challenge - Are you interested in becoming a Community Champion?

Happy new year to you all!
I hope everyone has had a great christmas and new year, @Alex and I are back and raring to go, we are looking forward to a wonderful 2018. We also have @PippaScope returning next week and our new intern @Lasian_Scope joining the team.
The community team are supported by a group of fantastic volunteers called Community Champions.
A community champion is a user who has volunteered to help welcome new members, offer responses to posts, engage in discussions, and to generally work with the community team to make sure that the community is safe and supportive.

One of our champions @CaderMac says:
@mossycow says:
If you are interested in finding out more, then get in touch with us at [email protected]
I hope everyone has had a great christmas and new year, @Alex and I are back and raring to go, we are looking forward to a wonderful 2018. We also have @PippaScope returning next week and our new intern @Lasian_Scope joining the team.
The community team are supported by a group of fantastic volunteers called Community Champions.
A community champion is a user who has volunteered to help welcome new members, offer responses to posts, engage in discussions, and to generally work with the community team to make sure that the community is safe and supportive.

One of our champions @CaderMac says:
My favourite thing
about volunteering for the community is being able to signpost somebody who’s
in need to somewhere where they might be able to find support or just something
that might lift their mood a little bit, often I don’t have specialist advice
but I can say hello, you know, let them know that people are interested and
that there are people who can help them.
@mossycow says:
Im not an
expert, that is not my job. My job is to
meet and greet people on the forum. Id
like to feel that I know how they feel, that I can be empathetic to their
worries and their fears, definitely fears and the idea is that I’m a warm,
hopefully welcoming presence. Perhaps if they’re on in the middle of the night
and you lovely people aren’t at work to catch them and I can refer them on
possibly to the helpline or to other points of information on the website.
I really am enjoying this voluntary job, partly because I am able, somehow, to give back when in a lot of other aspects I am not able to do my proper job which is as a music teacher, but I can hopefully give back.
I really am enjoying this voluntary job, partly because I am able, somehow, to give back when in a lot of other aspects I am not able to do my proper job which is as a music teacher, but I can hopefully give back.
If you are interested in finding out more, then get in touch with us at [email protected]
Scope
Senior online community officer
Senior online community officer
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I look forward to chatting with lots more of you in 2018 x
Senior online community officer
I hope though that others respond to this and help,
TK
I have edited your post as you cannot share posts requesting money on the online community.
Thanks for understanding.
Senior online community officer
Senior online community officer
So may still be worth asking about? But obviously that won't work for everyone.
"I'm trying to live like a random poem I read that ended 'to bloom where we are planted"
There are also times when I read a post or talk to someone irl and they compare their backache or muscle problems to real disablement issues and I simply no longer have the strength and forgiveness in me to be nice to them about themselves and their overestimate of the support they are entitled to. Sometimes I cannot even tell whether they are telling the truth or not anymore.
TK
Gosh, you spund like you feel like utter crap*. I know what you mean about reading others posts. I find that hard.... I can't even open the ones about benefits as it's mental torture.
You having a total crap* time?
*please enter a much stronger word here....
"I'm trying to live like a random poem I read that ended 'to bloom where we are planted"
I hope you find some volunteers?
I was made a community champion for 5 yrs I'm my last job
It was Good fun and very rewarding.
Good luck
TK
How do I become a community champion for Scope. This is something that I would love to be involved in. At the moment i am working for a local charity helping the community in all different areas of life, from making them a cup of tea to helping with benefits etc.
Can you email us on [email protected] ?
Thanks!
Senior online community officer
Senior online community officer