22nd August2014
Hello there!
Many thanks for your interest in applying to be a Reel Equality film club committee volunteer with Equation. This application pack will tell you a bit more about us, explain the voluntary role we are looking to fill, and help you decide if you’d like to apply.
About Equation
Equation has over 20 years' experience in challenging domestic abuse across Nottinghamshire. We are a small but efficient charity based in Nottingham City who work with over 9,000 local people each year on domestic abuse prevention and response training. We aim to equip, empower and enable communities to enjoy healthy relationships, free from abuse. Our work involves:
• Prevention work with children and young people, including the award-winning GREAT Project
• Campaigns to change damaging attitudes about gender and relationships
• Training community professionals such as police officers, social workers and medical staff to offer fast and effective responses to domestic abuse
• Producing help and support information for people experiencing domestic abuse
• Direct practical and emotionalsupport to men experiencing domestic abuse.
Equation campaigns and awareness-raising
Equation’s work on domestic abuse prevention includes promoting a culture of respect for, and positive appreciation of, women and the value they add to society. To expand this work in Nottingham we have launched the city’s first film club with a focus on gender equality: the Reel Equality Film Club. We organise monthly screening in different locations around Nottingham for people who love film and hate sexism. We show great movies that tell women-centred stories, and challenge the gender stereotypes dominating the mainstream. Screening events are open to everyone and aim to be more than just film showings, providing a chance to gather, eat, drink, dance, debate and chat about film and gender - and occasionally engage in a bit of dressing up!
Wehave begun our first season of 6 films. We are looking for some active, creative and passionate volunteer assistance to help shape the upcoming screenings into interesting and engaging events and then plan the next season of screenings in Spring 2015.
The volunteer role
We are looking for volunteer(s) to join a small committee, co-ordinated by Equation’s fundraiser, to help run and develop the Reel Equality Film Club. We need helpers who have a strong sense of creativity, are passionate about gender equality and work well in a team but aren’t afraid to use their initiative. This is a great voluntary project for someone who’s
interested in creative campaigning, events, film/media and social justice, and the women’s rights movement.
For more information about the kind of tasks we’d like our volunteers to be involved in and the sort of person we’re looking for, please see the role description document.
Application and recruitment process
We currently only have the capacity to support one or two volunteers in this role; we will therefore sadly not be able to accept the kind offer of help from every volunteer who is interested.
If this role sounds like something you’d like to give your time to do, then please fill in the application form, following all the instructions, and return it to .
After reviewing all the applications, we will shortlist applicants who we think would enjoy working with us and would fit the role best. We will then invite these prospective volunteers for an informal meeting. Please be assured this will not be an interview, just a chat where we can talk about the role, answer any questions you have, and mutually assess whether Equation, the role, and the prospective volunteer are a good fit for each another.
We will contact prospective volunteers as soon as possible after this meeting to inform them whether we will be able to offer a voluntary role.
Depending on the volume of applications we receive, we will not be able to give feedback to all applicants who are not shortlisted. We will give feedback to all applicants who attend informal meetings.
Questions
If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to email our fundraiser, Chloe on or call 01159 623 237.