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Volunteering With The MDT ~ MDT Gwirfoddoli

Our Community - Your Development Trust

Ein Cymuned - Eich Ymddiriedolaeth Datblygu

2011 is a big year for voluntary organisations and in no small way for the Mumbles Development Trust. The Year of European Volunteering is an international celebration and recognition of the importance of Voluntary Work and the Mumbles Development Trust has embraced this celebration as part of our ambitious volunteer expansion programme for 2011 - 2012.

The Mumbles Development Trust has worked hard over the last twelve years to initiate community projects which most of us are familiar with in areas of the Environment, Arts & Culture and the Media. 2011 is the platform where we spring from and extend a whole hearted invitation to all who would like to become involved with the Our Community - Your Development Trust initiative.

Evidence of what the Mumbles Development Trust has contributed to the community is all around us. Building on the work which started in 1999 the Mumbles Development Trust are launching a year long recruitment campaign for volunteers to help contribute to the next twelve years of Community development and beyond.

Volunteering for the Mumbles Development Trust is a very rewarding experience and the breadth of roles, achievement and fulfilment is wide and varied. We can really help you make a difference to the community and the benefits of Voluntary participating with the Mumbles Development Trust can often make a difference for you.

There’s no limit to what you can do as a volunteer with the Mumbles Development Trust 

 Such as dressing up as a duck in the MDT administration office when the phone isn’t ringing like an unnamed Oriel Bach volunteer (. . . Danielle Charles) or getting your hands dirty along with volunteer Robin Bonham as the Mumbles Green Action Team join community school children in a tree planting exercise at Clyne  

 Interview performers and produce your own show on Radio Oystermouth like Amy Sinha or get creative like our volunteer face painter and balloon designer at the Mumbles Local Produce Market 

Enjoy the great green community spaces of Mumbles with our Broadleaf Woodland Enterprise volunteers or feel the herieth and lead the way like volunteer Karen Miller during the St. David’s Festivities

Develop your writing skills like Mumbles Matters Editor and occasional Radio Oystermouth presenter volunteer Joel Bennett or approach the MDT with a project idea of your own as Oriel Bach volunteers Kat O’Brien, Leezanne Davies and Danielle Charles did out of nothing at the MDT headquarters at Dunns Lane

 Mumbles Local Produce Market

Month after month The Dairy Cark Park, Oystermouth becomes awash with people as the community and its visitors enjoy the very best of local produce from Mumbles & Gower and some from further a field as well.

The Mumbles Local Produce Market also enjoys four festivals every year with plenty of stalls and entertainment for all the family.

It takes a lot of work to put on the produce market and volunteers are most welcome whether it is on the day, helping with stewarding and rigging up the stalls to taking part in the marketing and all the other duties that go into providing the community with this real shop window for the very best in local produce.

To find out how you can help in a great project to be involved with just call in to see us at the MDT headquarters on Dunns Lane or call us by telephone. Why not pop down to the market yourself or visit the MDT website for a flavour of the flavours.

 Broadleaf Woodland Enterprise & Mumbles Green Action Team

Broadleaf Woodland Enterprise is a social enterprise, which grew out of a successful programme of environmental improvement activities undertaken by Mumbles Development Trust, with the support and involvement of the community since 2000.

Known as the ‘Mumbles Green Action Team’, the Trust’s environmental work has substantially improved community awareness of the importance of, and access to, the green space of Mumbles.

Over the years, this work has been funded piecemeal each year by: The Gower Society, Environment Wales, Keep Wales Tidy, The Heritage Lottery, Cydcoed Phase I, and the help and support of the City and County of Swansea.

As a volunteer with either the Broadleaf Woodland Enterprise or Mumbles Green Action team you can get out there and enjoy the open air through talking part in activities such as Beach Cleaning and Woodland Tree Planting to getting involved further with biodiversity management. Both projects offer a lot more volunteer opportunities than those mentioned and we also offer free ‘workshops’ and training in Woodland Management and other areas.

If you see yourself as an environmental volunteer we would love to meet you at the MDT headquarters in Dunns Lane for an informal chat. You can ring us for further information or visit our website pages at   http://mumblesdevelopmenttrust.org    

Just some of the benefits to becoming a volunteer

• Your chance to make a real difference to someone’s life
• Builds a caring society of active citizens
• Widens participation and tackles social exclusion
• Makes an economic impact; volunteering contributes £4.8 billion to UK GNP and is the fastest growing job sector
• Opens up an exciting network of people and experiences
• Is a tool for personal development; improves many skills
• Enhances your employability.
• It can influence your career choice
• Opens up a whole range of new opportunities

 Mumbles Musical Mile Festival

This enormously popular music festival signals the beginning of Summer and brings a sense of New Orleans to South Wales as Mumbles welcomes thousands of visitors to one of the principalities leading music events.

This year The Mumbles Blues & Jazz Festival, which has been a successful MDT festival quite cleverly decided that because of the economic downturn that we would concentrate more on ‘free events’ which suits us all because it opens up the community even more to more hosting events than previous years.

The Mumbles Musical Mile Festival will end 2 May this year and work for the following years annual big weekender starts the day after on 3 May.

Wherever your skill and interests lie the Mumbles Musical Mile Festival has a home for your volunteer contribution. We can help you gain experience in all aspects of event management or maybe you already are experienced and want to join in to even further our happy team. We offer stewardship training, marketing, web design, commercial management, publicity making and distribution. If there is anything else that you would like to add to all the fun of the Mumbles Musical Mile Festival then get in touch and we would gladly like to meet you for a chat. Pop into the MDT Headquarters at Dunns Lane for a chat and we can be up and running in no time.

For a flavour of the Mumbles Musical Mile Festival check out our Website http://mumblesmusicalmile.co.uk

 Mumbles Movies

The Mumbles community’s very own cinema is administered from the MDT headquarters at Dunns Lane and the carefully selected movies are shown at the Ostreme Centre. We offer our volunteers all the roles that you would expect from being involved with the Cinema including Technical experience using some of the most state of the art equipment on the market, reviewing movies, working on the movie selection team, to working at the refreshment stands on the big movie night.

Whatever your interest in Cinema is we can use your help and expertise and the beauty is you don‘t need to be experienced. Whatever you would like to do at Mumbles Movies is welcome and we can train you up where necessary and look forward to welcoming you to a great project to be involved with. Explore our website for a flavour or pop into the Dunns Lane office and say hello http://mumblesmovies.co.uk

 St. David’s Festivities

The shortest in duration of any MDT project but the one with equally as much time and preparation in its planning. This extremely popular, much loved Day of Celebration is centered around the ‘Dragon Parade’ and the community is literally a town painted red.

Volunteer roles with the St. David’s Festivities are numerous and the planning starts on 2 March for a 1 March start! Volunteers can enjoy experience in Event Management, working alongside schools and business and other organisations in the community, dealing with the media with plenty of leg work in publicity distribution and of course getting involved with the maintenance of the Dragon itself.

The St. David’s Festivities are managed from the MDT headquarters At Dunns Land and if you would like to get involved come over for a chat or give the MDT a ring.

You can see our presence on the MDT website here   http://mumblesdevelopmenttrust.org   and we look forward to hearing from you

 Oriel Bach Art Gallery

The very popular Oriel Bach Art Gallery is located at the MDT headquarters at Dunns Lane with exhibitions booking up months in advance.

Volunteering with the Oriel Bach is very rewarding and very popular. You can learn a lot by volunteering with the Oriel Bach and learn all there s to learn about the art world.

Education is very much a part of the Oriel Bach experience whether it is in the the appreciation of art shown by its thousands of exhibitors to the Key Skills qualifications that the Oriel Bach are working towards offering volunteers.

Volunteers are welcome in the areas of Gallery management, marketing and just about every area you can think of that encompasses the world of art. Volunteers need not be experienced and a warm welcome will be given to all who wish to get involved with the successful Oriel Bach gallery.

Drop into the Oriel Bach Gallery for an informal chat or give us a ring. You can catch up with the Oriel Bach on Facebook and Twitter and to find out more check their Website http://orielbach.com

   Oystermouth Radio

This new and exciting MDT initiative is an online audio project (an internet radio station) which serves the Mumbles Community and beyond. We are out of the Genesis stage of the project and with our Website all ready to go we are busy recruiting volunteers who may wish to work in Broadcasting, Resaearch, Interviewing, Studio Management, Producing and all the back room stuff which is essential for the smooth running of Mumbles first Community Radio station with the possibility of FM broadcasting always on the horizon.

First, we need to get the product (Radio Oystermouth) right and this is where you, our bright new face comes in to help us achieve this.

Whatever your skill level, experience and indeed non - experience you are more welcome to join a great fun environment and a project within a Trust which is really going places.

We are a complete community service so we would love to hear from ALL community members regardless of your taste. Whether it’s in music, chat, current affairs, sport and entertainment or maybe there is something that we have not got in our programming schedule that you would like to start up yourself.

The world’s your Oyster (mouth)!

Radio Oystermouth has its own purpose built studio at the MDT Headquarters in Dunns Lane and it is there where our broadcasting, in house interviewing and administration takes place.

There is always something to do at Radio Oystermouth and we offer training at facilities and with equipment which is improving and building all the time.

Drop around to Dunns Lane for an informal chat, give us a ring on the number above or e mail Radio Oystermouth direct at     http://oystermouthradio.com

Mumbles Matters Magazine

We are a text version of our good friends Radio Oystermouth - same thing without the music really. Mumbles Matters Magazine was relaunched last year after taking a break and is now a hugely popular online Community magazine which shares space on the MDT website, has its own Blogsite and will shortly be producing its own Website and this is where you come in.

We are busy recruiting volunteers who may wish to work in all aspects of magazine production. Whether creative writing is your thing, journalism, editing, illustrations, web design or whatever you feel you would like to contribute to this popular, cosy project then we are there for you and the Mumbles community and beyond.

If there are issues bothering you that effect the community and want to help put them right or feel there is something missing this is the way to go. You have the freedom to really express yourself here and you’ll not be short of training, help and guidance.

Mumbles Matters Magazine In association with pesky little brother Radio Oystermouth is currently launching a campaign to connect with Mumbles Ex Patriots who are missing home, have stories and advice to give and generally assist the people of the Mumbles community.

Don’t worry about a lack of experience. We are here to help so pop across to Dunns Lane, where we are based and feel free to have a chat and see how we can help you achieve what you want to achieve. Give is a ring if you prefer.

Get a feel of Mumbles Matters Magazine by visiting our online presence at http://mumblesmatters.com

 Village Diary

This is the smallest but biggest of the MDT Projects because it seems anyone who wants to know anything about the whole months community events. The Village Diary is administered by two people who answer the phone, speak to visitors and pick up e mails from people wanting to tell the community what’s going on and likewise, from people wanting to tell the community what’s going on.

If you would ,like to get involved in the administration or fancy a bit of ‘keep fit’ through distribution of the Village Diary then pop across to Dunns Lane or give us a ring. You can find the Vilage Diary at the Mumbles Development Trust or Mumbles Tourist Information Centre or online at     http://mumblesdevelopmenttrust.org    

We’d love to see you at the Village Diary, train you up and you never know what is going to happen next.