The Dover Detainee Visitor Group
Registered Charity N^o106667 Patron: The Most Rev’d Rowan Williams Archbishop of Canterbury Who we are How you can help Links Home	Patron:		Now Recruiting New Visitors! No special qualifications required! Visitors receive free training, expenses paid and on-going support You would be part of the Dover Detainee Visitor Group, which is committed to helping Immigration Act Detainees at the Dover Immigration and Removal centre. There is a need for volunteer visitors who can visit and befriend the detainees, and the Group’s Coordinator helps support both visitors and where appropriate, detainees. Great emphasis is put on training and supporting the volunteer visitors, and there are regular, local support groups. This has been recognised by the award to DDVG of the ‘Investing in Volunteers’ Quality Mark. Could you be a visitor? YES! If you like making new friends, enjoy stories of life, good and bad, in far off lands; if you relish a challenge, don’t judge people but take them as they come. You will receive free training and ongoing support in exchange for one or two hours a week (you set your own timetable visiting a detainee at the Removals Centre in Dover. Currently holding up to 317, the centre was formerly the Borstal on Western Heights. Can you imagine being imprisoned in a foreign land? Somewhere where you have committed no offence? Somewhere far from family and friends? The Dover Visiting Group make regular visits to people in the Removal Centre – why don’t you find out more by ringing 01304 242755 or email email: DDVG or write to us at: DDVG, PO Box 294, Dover, Kent CT17 9GY Training days are held regularly. There are also monthly support group meetings for all volunteers when they have the opportunity share their experiences and celebrate their work. Top