Volunteering

Opportunities for Volunteers

We have a whole range of volunteering opportunities that offer something for everyone! You don’t need any prior skills to volunteer with us and there is no minimum time commitment.

We help you to develop your own unique plan of activity, progressing through different roles if you wish, to make your volunteering experience a fun, relaxed and enjoyable one!

Get in contact with us on 0161 7433537 or teresa@mcin.net or mick@mcin.net -

Community Reporters:

Have you ever wanted to tell your side of the story?

Our Community Reporters programme is a loosely structured programme that is flexible to the needs and interests of each individual. A Community Reporter is someone who is given the skills and facilities to produce regular online content – this can be thoughts and reflections on their life, reporting on events that are happening in their area or issues that affect a group they’re involved with, and can be produced as a blog, video or audio. We are linked with the BBC on this project and our reporters get to go on a behind the scenes visit to North West Tonight as part of their training. Community Reporters also have the opportunity to link with other reporters to collaborate on stories and offer peer-support.

You gain the following skills:

  • Blogging; setting up a blog / website, uploading images, linking to external websites
  • Digital photography; taking stills with a digital camera.
  • Images; Manipulating and uploading images
  • Camcorder skills; getting good pictures and sound with a camcorder
  • Editing video; using a video editing programme to create a finished video piece from original and found footage
  • Distributing video; creating DVD’s and putting video online
  • Audio recording skills; getting good sound with a recorder and microphone
  • Editing audio; using a video editing programme to create a finished video piece from original and found footage
  • Distributing video; creating DVD’s and putting video online



Internet Radio:

Have you ever wanted to be on the Radio?

We want to work with audio reports as it’s one of of the best ways to make a record of what people are getting up to. We don’t have a professional studio to work out of but we want to approach the situation differently with the following ideas.
  • Recording at Events
  • Setting up a mobile studio
  • Interviewing radio guests over the phone
We’ll get out and about to record our radio station in a range of different community venues in East Salford. Can you reccomend one?
Do you know what’s going on? Are you involved in events that would be good to promote? Tell us and every once in a while we’ll give you a ring and record the telephone call to put your news up online.




Photographer:

Have you ever wanted to publish your photos?

We run a Photo club every Friday 12-2pm.

The goal of the competition is to produce images to go on a brand new Community website and the local publication of New deal for communities. In return for your help providing images we’ll give you credit and access to equipment and training to help get your images out in the public domain.