• Our volunteers identified their training needs, which resulted in successful training days. Volunteers received training on assertiveness to build their skills and confidence in accessing employment and training
• Confidence Building Training was delivered to volunteers in 2009 with the intention of building up volunteer skills and presentation skills. This, in turn, could then be passed onto clients through volunteers facilitating groups or working 1-1 with clients
• As a result of the Confidence Building Training 2 of our volunteers have run 3 Confidence Building Groups for clients and these have been very successful. They also delivered a workshop in Maidenhead for a women's group and hope to run other groups for Mothertongue in the near future.
• Some of our volunteers worked with a youth group to engage with young asylum seekers, producing a leaflet giving tips on stress management for young asylum seekers in Albanian, Arabic, Swahili, Farsi and French
• Volunteers remain an integral part of the organisation and attend as many of our calendar functions as possible to lend their support
• The Queen's Award for Voluntary Action, awarded to Mothertongue in 2009, is a tribute to the work that the Mothertongue volunteers past and present have contributed to the organisation over the years

Interested in volunteering with us?
We ask all our volunteers to complete our three-day training course, during which you will learn how to:

• Help people from diverse cultural backgrounds access mainstream services such as education, training and medical services
• Learn about professional guidelines and behaviour when supporting clients in a Health and Social Care capacity
• Learn how to support group facilitators and learn how to run groups
• Communicate effectively in English and other languages you may speak
• Put into practice equal opportunity policies
• Support people who are feeling vulnerable