Working for the Alliance

There’s never a quiet day in the Alliance office. We have a tiny staff team, so things are busy all the time. Of course, from time to time, we also have fantastic part time volunteers, but we make sure that they can get on with their own projects, rather than dealing with the overflow of everyone else’s work! (Click for a list of our staff and trustees)

In a typical month at the Alliance office we receive just under 900 emails and several hundred phone calls. We speak to people with Syringomyelia, Stroke, Trigeminal Neuralgia, Dyspraxia, Multiple Sclerosis, Chronic Daily Headache, Epilepsy, Charcot Marie Tooth, ME, Peripheral Neuropathy, Dystonia, Encephalitis, and many others. We listen. We tell them where to find help. We tell them when there’s nowhere left to go for help.

We have sent out over 30,000 copies of Getting the Best from Neurological Services in the last year alone. In an average month we attend around 30 meetings. We feedback on opinions, new research and policy updates to over 60 member charities. We update our regional alliances on new initiatives and things that might help them and then they feedback to us.

We monitor our publications’ success by logging feedback forms and noting advice for revisions. We research new members and invite them to join us and strengthen our voice. We plan conferences to keep people informed and we fundraise. We try to recruit more volunteers and to get as much free stuff as we possibly can.
We cost new projects, draw up reports of ongoing ones and create toolkits from them. We update our website and send out our newsletter to 500 people.

Then… we take a deep breath…. and make more new contacts, run consultations, ensure that we are up to date on data protection and other laws, arrange executive committee meetings and report back on our progress, arrange and attend regional forums and nsf interest groups………………….we could go on, but the question is, do you fancy joining us?

If you do, take a look at our paid and volunteer vacancy pages?

[ Page updated on 15/04/05 ]