Brake is a charity that provides driver awareness training at no charge to the students in schools and to the community. We need volunteers.
BRAKE is currently staffed and developed by a small band of volunteers who need assistance. We are looking for people with a passion to keep our young people safe. The BRAKE program is presented in schools by the teachers over eight modules. To expand the program to other areas we are looking for people to volunteer with a variety of skills required.
Why doesn’t BRAKE charge students?
Road safety is a community problem as well as an individuals and family responsibility. We do not want anyone to miss out if they cannot afford to attend.
Mostly though, BRAKE works with the community. BRAKE believes that road safety for our young drivers comes from the commitment of the community, parents and young people themselves.
BRAKE has demonstrated the fundamental success of the program over the past five years and the time is now to offer it to the wider community.
What our volunteers do
So if you’re interested in volunteering time and skills to reduce the deaths and injuries from car crashes to young people please keep reading.
Administration
Includes data entry, letters/correspondence, file development, electronic data storage. Newsletter coordinator and writer, press releases.
Filming & movie making skills
BRAKE is soon to undergoes a review of the program where it will include “ pieces to camera” of specific messages . If you’re interested or have skills in script writing, filming and editing please give us a call.
Research
The success of BRAKE is due to its research prior to its development. With this in mind it is still vital that we research the latest studies on road safety to see how we can continue to keep our you people safe on he roads. Interested in helping? Please give us a call.
Training & development
A broad role to review the effectiveness of the program, recommend changes as required for approval, develop new strategies be part of the team to develop the program.
IT & web management
BRAKE has embraced modern IT to deliver it’s road safety message as that is what young people understand. We would welcome people with IT skills, Web skills.
Power point expertise
BRAKE is a power point based program to ensure it is a easy as possible to deliver in schools. If you have experience here in the finer arts of power point please give us a call.
Fundraising & grant writing
We are looking for people with skills in grant writing and fundraising at a higher level. We cannot survive without funding and have a real need for support.
BRAKE Liaison people
A wide spectrum of roles however all rewarding.
Policy writing & review
As BRAKE grows there is a need to review current policies and introduce new ones. As you would be aware these take skill and time. Interested in helping? Please give us a call.
The BRAKE team will welcome your input, assistance and advice.
Some volunteering roles are suited to working from home and meeting on a regular basis with other team members while others will defiantly require a team approach.
Whatever takes your interest, please let us know as the safety of our young people on our roads is so very important.
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