Age & Opportunity ~ Main Street Senior Centre

1065 Main Street ~ Aileen George: Centre Facilitator,  ph 942-7486

Age & Opportunity Inc. is a social service agency that offers life-enhancing programs and services to older adults. Through Age & Opportunity’s programs and services, Main Street Senior Centre helps to support and enhance the physical, intellectual, emotional, social and spiritual lives of older persons and actively promote participation in all aspects of community life.  All adults 55+ are welcome. 

This North End location has a strong social aspect to its programming. Cards, bingo, meetings with presentations and parties are held routinely, as well as active living programs including carpet bowling and exercise classes; all having snacks or meals available for a small charge. Age & Opportunity also provides numerous social service programs such as Safety Aid, legal services, income tax preparation, housing consultations and counselling.

 Many of our members come from Ukrainian roots but they are by no means the only ethnic group represented here: everyone with roots here in the oldest neighbourhood in the city, combined with the desire to revitalize it, are at the heart of our Centre.

Volunteer Opportunities:

Main St. Senior Centre:

• Volunteer office staff 

•  A fitness leader, for regular fitness activities for seniors, classes and training available.

• Friendly visitors, companionship, sit and listen, help garden, have tea, phone them just to say hi

• Snow shoveling in the winter - need someone they can trust who’s available.

• Someone to play cards with

• A walking club

• Literacy/English language training for seniors A&O has free classes, class helpers needed

• Computer coaches, able to assist older adults with questions about using their computers

Point Douglas Seniors Coalition

Aileen George ~ 772-0886 ~

 Volunteer Opportunities:

• Volunteer drivers for older adults who can’t drive, to get them to things they’d like to go to as well as things they need to go to; grocery shopping, social events

• A fitness leader, for regular fitness activities for seniors, classes and training available.

• Need dietician advice, volunteer could work with dietician

• Educators -  people willing to go out and show a video and chat, e.g. home safety, avoiding falls, etc.

• Someone to go to appointments with seniors

• Someone to play cards with

• Snow shoveling in the winter - need someone they can trust who’s available

• Volunteers to teach prevention; interaction between medications and alcohol, health issues

•  A van to take volunteers to the grandma/kid swim program, from this community

• Home cleaning, handyman for things that need doing once in a while, fridge, stove, basement cleaning, garage, helping through times of illness, newspaper pileup etc.

• Escorting people to community events

• Food security; for people who live alone, not inspired to eat or shop properly, help in planning menus, cooking with seniors

• Someone to organize distribution network for getting news out to seniors when needed

• Someone to organize a walking club

• Computer coaches, able to assist older adults with questions about using their computers

 Historic Point Douglas – Where Winnipeg Began