Volunteer Centre Glossop

History of Volunteer Centre Glossop

Volunteer Centre Glossop was founded in 1979 as an initiative of Guy Hall, the then Director of Social Services. He seconded a woman from the Manpower Services Committee, Audrey Lloyd, to see if a Volunteer Bureau would be viable in Glossop.

Audrey turned out to be dynamic and persuasive and within months had recruited a small number of forward-looking local activists to become a steering group.

‘I have so many memories it is a little difficult to know where to start.

I suppose the most vivid concerns the struggles in the early days to obtain funding. After we seemed to have exhausted all potential funding sources I remember raising the viability of establishing a bureau with Audrey, the original Coordinator. She literally fell to her knees in my office in front of me and said "We will succeed if we all believe strongly enough that we will". She worked for sometime afterwards without payment. It is perhaps this sort of determination that enabled the early 'movers and shakers' to succeed.’ - Guy Hall, August 2004

Early records suggest that meetings were ‘lively’, possibly in part because they were held in local pubs! There was a drive to establish much-needed services for local people and continual struggles to raise funds.

‘Once we’d hit double figures for volunteers, Derbyshire County Council gave us a grant of £1,000. We did two things. Firstly, we opened the Volunteer Bureau on Henry Street (it’s an Ice-cream parlour now), and we employed our first Manager, Margaret Anderson.

From there, we gathered a team, and five years on were organised enough to be offered the first Community Transport bus in Derbyshire. It became clear that we needed larger premises, with somewhere to park the bus, so we moved to Chapel Street.’ - Alan Garlick, founder and board member until 2008.

Over the last twenty plus years, the Centre has grown and changed. We now have a number of projects that support people to get involved in volunteering, create new opportunities or develop our support to organisations. New projects are coming up so check back for our latest news soon.

Victim Support High Peak, the Glossopdale Furniture Project and the High Peak Council for Voluntary Service are now thriving organisations in their own right.

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	Last Modified: 20 Jan 2010