Able2Enable Referral Form | Communities 1st

Volunteering should be accessible and open to all individuals that wish to volunteer. Sometimes people need a bit of extra support to volunteer and to overcome barriers such as a lack of confidence and motivation, difficulty communicating, problems completing application forms or anxiety about travelling to unfamiliar venues and meeting new people.

Our Able2Enable project provides supported volunteering, helping individuals find volunteering opportunities that have specific support structures in place that respond to an individual’s specific needs. This project will be operating across St Albans, Hertsmere, Welwyn Hatfield, and East Herts. For more information please email: able2enable@communities1st.org.uk.

Client Email

Important: If you are filling out the form for someone else, please don't put your own email in "Client Email" or the referral/support will be assigned to you instead of the client.

If you don't have an email for them, please leave that box blank, as we will check the referral details below if we need to contact you.

Street Address Line 2

Name of Referrers Agency

Relationship to Client

Referrers Phone number

Do you feel volunteering is an appropriate next step for you or your client? Why?

Do you have any ideas about what you or your client would like to do or any particular interests? Please outline

Why do you or your client want to participate in the Supported Volunteering project?

What barriers do you feel you or your client faces to getting into volunteering?

Do you or your client consider themselves to have a disability?

Physical/mobility impairment, such as a difficulty using your arms or mobility issues which require you to use a wheelchair or crutches Visual impairment, such as being blind or having a serious visual impairment

Hearing impairment, such as being deaf or having a serious hearing impairment

Mental health condition, such as depression or schizophrenia

Learning disability/difficulty, such as Down’s syndrome or dyslexia or a cognitive impairment such as autistic spectrum disorder

Long-standing illness or health condition, such as cancer, HIV, diabetes, chronic heart disease or epilepsy

Other (Please specify below)

Threats/Threatening Behaviour

Threats/violence to children

Significant damage to property

If any of the above have been ticked, please give brief details below:

Have there been any known incidents of serious risk behaviour to self or others?

If so, please give brief details here, including dates:

Are there any other risk factors that may affect you or your client when volunteering?

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