Five Banbury and District Samaritans trainee listeners have now graduated to become full volunteers.
Back in early autumn 2020 we interviewed a new group of prospective volunteers who then started their Core training in October. Several weeks later they were taking their first "live" telephone calls in our duty room supported by their mentors and proving that they are a great asset to the branch. Embedding training followed with mentoring continuing and this week they completed their last embedding session to become fully qualified listening volunteers.
Covid restrictions have meant that our recruitment and selection teams and trainers have had to do all of this work via Zoom but everyone has pulled together and we now have five more brilliant fully fledged volunteers.