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Volunteer as a courtwatcher and become the eyes and ears of your community in your local magistrates’ court.
CourtWatch is a mass court observation project, where citizen volunteers observe the daily hearings in court and write down what they see. The real-time data and stories volunteers collect will shine a spotlight on what really happens in our local courts, expose shortfalls and highlight systemic injustices. The CourtWatch project is run by Transform Justice, a charity that works for a fairer, more compassionate criminal justice system.
Volunteer responsibilities:
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visit your local magistrates’ court for half a day (or a day) at a time, on any weekday. Ideally volunteers will courtwatch for a minimum of two days (or four half days)
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observe criminal hearings happening in the court and write down what happens in the hearings you observe, using a form provided by the CourtWatch team
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write up your notes into an online form after your visit (if you don’t have easy access to a computer, we can work around this)
Benefits of being a courtwatcher:
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learn about what happens in the magistrates’ courts
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develop new skills including research, attention to detail, observation, insight
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help build a picture of what’s happening in your local magistrates’ court, expose systemic injustices and help make courts fairer and more compassionate
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be part of community of people who share a passion for justice
Skills and experience:
Anyone can courtwatch! You do not need any knowledge or expertise in law or criminal justice to be a courtwatcher. You just need to be passionate about justice and equality, and keen to create positive change in your community.
We will provide you with all the training you need on what happens at court, what to look out for and how to document what happens. Training will be online and likely take place over two sessions. There will also be regular check-ins and debriefs where you can talk with the CourtWatch team and other volunteers about what you saw and heard.
Other information:
Criminal hearings take place on weekdays between 10am and 5pm, with a break for lunch 1-2pm, and Saturday mornings 10am - 1pm.
Within the times above, and once you’ve completed the training, you can go to court when it is most convenient to you. You might want to buddy up with another volunteer for your first visit while you learn the ropes; we can help arrange this.
You can courtwatch any time from when you’ve completed your training to 30 November 2026 – we hope you’ll become a regular! – after which we will use data you have collected to produce a report. We may also use some of the stories and data you collect to communicate about what’s happening in courts while courtwatching is still underway.
Transform Justice will cover reasonable expenses that you incur while courtwatching, for example for travel and lunch, upon production of valid receipts and in line with our expenses policy.
Transform Justice will make reasonable adjustments for people with disabilities who would like to volunteer. Please get in touch and we will discuss with you how to achieve this.
Before you begin courtwatching we will ask you to complete our volunteer training and a pre-courtwatching survey, and sign our volunteer agreement.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
Thank you!
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Help a not-for-profit reach more people who need affordable counselling. Run the outreach and listings that connect struggling adults to qualified, low-cost support.
What you will do.
Referral partnerships (the main task). Each week, email a small batch of relevant organisations (charities, social prescribers, advice services, housing providers, universities) to introduce Flourish as a referral option, using our ready-made templates and contact list. Follow up once and track responses. This is friendly relationship-building, not hard selling.
Directory listings. Create and keep Flourish's profiles up to date on counselling and wellbeing directories, using our master profile copy so everything stays consistent.
Reviews. Run our gentle, ethical review-request process and keep a simple record.
Drafting for the founder to approve. Draft short responses to journalist requests and occasional LinkedIn posts in the founder's voice, ready for her quick sign-off. We provide an expert toolkit, including bios and key messages, to make this easy.
Light reporting. Keep a simple tracker of activity and enquiries so we can see what is working.
You will not be asked to provide counselling, give clinical advice, or speak publicly as an expert yourself; the founder remains the named voice.
Who we are looking for.
Organised and reliable, comfortable working through a list methodically.
Confident, warm written English; able to write a friendly, professional email.
Comfortable with spreadsheets, web forms and email; quick to learn simple online tools.
Self-motivated and able to work independently and remotely.
In sympathy with our mission of accessible mental health support.
No counselling or marketing qualification is needed. Experience in admin, communications, community work, fundraising or customer service is welcome but not essential.
What you will gain.
Real, visible social impact: your work connects people to affordable support.
Practical experience in outreach, partnerships, digital marketing and communications.
Flexible, fully remote hours that fit around your life.
A reference and demonstrable results for your CV or portfolio.
Being part of a friendly, values-led not-for-profit.
Time commitment and format.
Around half a day to one day a week, flexible, at times that suit you.
Fully remote, anywhere in the UK.
Voluntary role (unpaid). We will cover any agreed expenses.
We ask for a minimum commitment of around three months so relationships can build.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
Thank you!
The national charity for the Neighbourhood Watch Movement is seeking new trustees – could you be one of them?You’ve probably heard of us. You’ve probably seen Neighbourhood Watch signs. But you might be surprised at the range of work our volunteers carry out.
As the national umbrella organisation of the largest voluntary movement for crime prevention in England and Wales, we support people to prevent and reduce crime by coming together with their neighbours to create safer, stronger and active communities. We estimate that our 93,000 Neighbourhood watch Groups engage with over two million people in a spirit of local activism that can address the issues that often give rise to crime and anti-social behaviour and help prevent them from becoming more serious. In the past year we have partnered with the Suzy Lamplugh Trust to provide training on being an “active bystander” and our “Are You OK?” campaign that showed how to respond in the event of witnessing aggression aimed at women, racial minorities or LGBTQ+ people. During 2022/23 we also launched a Community Safety Charter which has been endorsed more than 2500 times by Police Forces, local authorities and many different public and commercial organisations as well as by individuals and local communities.
Neighbourhood Watch Network supports these activities through a small central team of dedicated staff, led by our Chief Executive. Our work is funded mostly by grants from government, trusts and foundations, and partnerships with businesses but we are also developing ways for individuals to contribute to our work.
Registered Charity
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Our mission is to support and enable individuals and communities to be connected, active and safe, which increases wellbeing and minimises crime.
