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Community Volunteers

At the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic in March 2020, OPAL started taking calls from people who were shielding or self-isolating, and who could not go out for their own shopping or prescriptions, and who did not have anyone to go out for them.

Mutual Aid Volunteer groups sprang up across the country, and in East Dunbartonshire OPAL took on the role of taking shopping- and prescription requests – as well as some of the more unusual problems that people were facing – and passing them on to the volunteers.

Moving on from the pandemic, a core of volunteers continues to provide the services mentioned above with some slight changes to the criteria,  but still for some of the most vulnerable people in the community.

Even if you don’t consider yourself a vulnerable adult, but are ill or otherwise unable to get shopping or to an important hospital appointment, or even if your regular support network has let you down, contact OPAL and we can pass your request on to your local volunteer group.

And a big thank you to G66 Community Response, G64 Community Support & G61/G62 Community Response for their ongoing efforts in supporting people in our local communities.

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