Become a volunteer

If you would like to become a volunteer at Trafford Rape Crisis then please get in touch.  Volunteers will work on the telephone helpline but will also contribute to publicity, administration and fundraising. 

Our training is delivered by highly experience trainers in rape crisis work.  We ask for a commitment to work on the helpline once training has been completed. Our next training programme is to take place in October 2010.

 October training programme (provisional dates) 

 Preliminary meeting: weekend of 2 / 3 October, time to be arranged

Intro session	Sat 9 Oct 10 am - 4 pm	Rape Crisis philosophy, intro to TRC, first steps in listening skills, aims of Rape Crisis phone work.
Session 2	Tues 12 Oct 6 - 9 pm	Challenging rape myths, more on listening skills.
Session 3	Tues 19 Oct 6 - 9 pm	Sexual abuse of girls, work with adult survivors of childhood abuse.
Session 4	Sat 23 Oct 10 am - 4 pm	Anti-oppressive working, Race/sexuality/age/class/disability.
Session 5	Sat 30 Oct 10 am - 4 pm	Support services for women, TRC development work, legal framework on rape.

After each training programme there will be a review with each volunteer and an induction session before women begin work on the line.

If you are able to commit to us, then please email us at traffordrapecrisis@googlemail.com for more information.  

Make a donation

If you can make a donation, no matter how large or small, we would love to hear from you via email to traffordrapecrisis@googlemail.com

Tell us about your organisation

We want to work closely with other community and support groups, so we are collecting information about other groups in Trafford and Greater Manchester, so please get in touch to let us know what your organisation does.