A CHARITY is appealing for volunteers to come forward to help with a counselling service.

After Adoption, a Manchester-based charity with offices in Bolton, is seeking experienced counsellors, students and social workers to help man a hotline which deals with adoption issues.

Volunteers would need to be available to give up half a day per week.

The charity is also holding a drop-in sessions for anybody who have has been affected by adoption issues at Friend's Meeting House, Silverwell Street, between 10am and 4pm on Monday, October 25.