TOCAG Needs You

Become a volunteer

We are actively looking for volunteers and trustees to join us in our work towards saving Thundridge Old Church.

We need people who can help with:

  • Fundraising – developing campaigns, managing donor relations, helping with grant applications (including NLHF), and more
  • Secretary – organising board meetings and minutes, supporting policy compliance and governance processes, and maintaining statutory records and filings with regulators beyond financial ones
  • Project Management – someone with project management and/or construction experience to help with getting quotes and organising holding repairs, especially for the roof
  • Events – organising TOCAG events, and being a point for community members organising events at the tower
  • And lots more – if you have an interest in helping, we can find a role for you! See below for ideas.
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What is involved?

  • We welcome both in-person and remote volunteering.
  • TOCAG meets monthly (hybrid meetings) and you will be welcome to attend these.
  • We are open to short project-based/one off positions, and long-term volunteer positions.
  • We are flexible about what your volunteer position entails. You are interested in fundraising but can only work on social media campaigns a few hours a month and that is all? That is fine! We will work with you to create a volunteer position or project that works for you.
  • You must be 18 or older to volunteer with us.
  • We are not able to offer work experience placements.
  • All volunteer roles are unpaid.

Are there other ways I can help besides volunteering?

Yes! So many. 

  • Attend our events and bring your friends and family
  • Follow us on social media (Instagram and Facebook) and share and like our posts
  • Sign up to our email list to receive news about our work
  • Please comment on what are we doing well and could do more of, and how we might do things better or differently.  Email us with suggestions. 
  • Share your thoughts and memories – what does the church mean to you and wow would you feel if it was gone or behind private walls? We welcome thoughts, stories, anecdotes, information, theories, pictures – anything that helps us build a picture that this is a place that anyone cares about and why – however ‘ordinary’ that might seem (walking the dog, reading the gravestones, etc), it is still a part of people’s lives and thoughts. We can keep these private or publish them on our TOCAG Archives site.
  • Share your photos – do you have photos or video of Thundridge Old Church, the churchyard, or surrounding landscape that you’d like to have included on the TOCAG Archives site? Send us an email and we’ll send you instructions for submitting your photos.

Are there any historical projects that need volunteers?

Yes! We are working towards telling the story of Thundridge Old Church from as far back as possible, and of the surrounding communities and the people in them. Below are some of the historical volunteering opportunities.

  • We currently are working on a large gravestone research project and can always use more help to piece together gravestone fragments (digitised) and research the people they belonged to.
  • Become a detective: share your questions and help unravel conundrums.
  • There are plenty of online documents and monuments to decipher; family trees to fathom; field finds and lumps and bumps to rediscover.
  • We have and are building contacts with a number of British and international university History, Archaeology and Philosophy Departments; but never underestimate the amateur local historian, detectorist, or curious key stage or U3A contributors.
  • If you are interested in curating a virtual exhibition, our TOCAG Archives site is the perfect venue. 

More examples of how you can help

  • Are you creative? Can you draw, produce graphics, photograph, write, edit or educate? 
  • Do you have IT skills? can you improve published content, use of the web, email or social media? 
  • Can you organise? can you assist with events, advertising, complete forms, get quotes, buy things, produce reports?    
  • Do you have experience in Finance, Purchasing, Property, Business or Legal work? These skills will be vital to help TOCAG manage custodianship of the site, raise funds, and conform to legislation. 
  • Are you an outgoing networker? Someone who can help share our message and mission; enthuse and encourage support; utilise contacts who can help. 
  • Are you practical? Would you be able to help maintain the churchyard, make noticeboards, clean graffiti?
  • Could you supplement our leadership team or board of trustees? Our current core group are a happy, welcoming team – there might even be biscuits and tea on offer.    
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