Volunteer
Volunteering with Hutton House offers a rewarding opportunity to make a meaningful impact in the lives of individuals with disabilities while gaining valuable skills and experiences.
Volunteers play an integral role in fulfilling our mission - they help make things happen. Here’s how to get started:
Completion of an Application Form
A Reference Check
An Interview and Tour
Completion of a Police Vulnerable Sector Check
Orientation and Health and Safety Training
Placement
Learn more about the benefits of volunteering with us below!
Volunteer benefits:
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Gain personal satisfaction in helping others
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Acquire job-related skills and experience
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Make a difference in your community
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Learn about disability issues
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Meet new people
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Build self-confidence
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Improve interpersonal and communication skills
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Share your skills, talents, and interests with others
Volunteer Opportunities:
ARTworks
Cardboard Café Volunteer- Tuesday afternoon from 12:45pm-3:15pm at Wonderland Road North (Drama room): Assist facilitator to set up room with board/card games, assist with moving tables and chairs into small groups, assist in gathering ‘café’ supplies arranging mugs/cups, setting up kettles/water. During class, helping participants engage in board/card games in small groups, demonstrate appropriate social skills and game play etiquette, ensure everyone is welcome and encouraged. After class assisting the facilitator to clean up board/card games, assist with washing dishes from ‘café’, and move tables and chairs back in place. This class is very popular and often has 15+ participants in the class every season.
The Patch
Tower Garden Support: Volunteers will assistant at Nathan’s Urban Farm (Indoor Location). They will learn to care for the tower gardens and harvest produce. Volunteers enjoy learning new skills, forming connections, and supporting food donations!
Garden Support: Gardening support volunteers will work directly with the community at the Cavendish Community Food Hub. This community space is an inclusive and fun environment for volunteers to connect with others, enjoy peaceful gardening, and gain knowledge of urban agriculture from our PATCH Facilitators!
Workshop Assistant: Volunteers will gain hands-on experience in urban agriculture and facilitation. This is a leadership opportunity for community members to apply to become a workshop assistant!
Adult Education:
One-on-one tutoring - one hour per week (various times available): You will be matched with a learner and meet for one hour each week to work on their goals. Most learners are working on basic skills such as counting money, reading comprehension, spelling, solving one-step word problems, etc. Some learners are working on more advanced skills such as essay writing or working with fractions and percentages. We match tutors based on your comfort in teaching specific skills and your available time. There might be a wait for a learner if we do not have a learner with goals that match what you would like to teach at the times you are available. Training and teaching resources are provided, and ongoing support is available as needed.
The Learning Club: Assist learners one-on-one with their goals. Most learners are working on basic skills such as counting money, reading comprehension, spelling, writing paragraphs, basic computer skills, solving one-step word problems etc. The 3-hour Club is led by a Hutton House instructor, but volunteers allow us to provide more individualized support during the time that learners are working on their own goals. Participants end the hour listening to a chapter book we are reading. You can read the story aloud if you are comfortable with that. This class is on-going. Training is provided and the instructor is in the classroom.
Day Break
Volunteers at Day Break would help the participant take part in an activity or craft. May need to prepare participant food ( cutting and heating the food up). Some activity would be yoga, pool noodle drumming and book club.
For more information reach out to our Community Connector:
