The Adviser role is interesting, challenging and very rewarding.  You will be making a real difference to people's lives and will be part of a very happy team of volunteers and staff. No experience needed as full training and support is provided.

Citizens Advice Runnymede and Spelthorne (CARS) need volunteer advisers for 1 full day or 2 half days per week for our Sunbury office.  You will interview clients, provide advice and practical help using a variety of sources with support from the Advice Session Supervisor. 

CARS is a registered charity providing local people with free information and advice to help them solve their benefits, debt, employment, and other problems.

We welcome applications from all sections of our community and are committed to equality and diversity. Please contact us for more information.

Our volunteer Assessors talk to clients over the phone or face to face at our drop in sessions to explore what problems they've  come for help with.  Assessors find and provide information and practical help from a variety of sources with support from the Advice Session Supervisor.  No previous experience is necessary as full training and support is provided.

Our advice sessions run from 10am - 12.30pm and 1.15pm - 3.30pm, we ask for our Assessors to be available for 2 sessions per week, either 1 full day or 2 half days.

The Assessor role is interesting, challenging and rewarding.  You will be making a real difference to people’s lives and will be part of a very happy team of volunteers and staff.

Runnymede and Spelthorne Citizens Advice has offices in Addlestone and Sunbury on Thames.

Runnymede and Spelthorne Citizens Advice are looking for a Receptionist to organise our waiting room at our Sunbury Office.

The post involves greeting clients and entering their details onto our database, managing clients' expectations - especially when the session is busy and lots of people are waiting, organising appointments with Advisers and helping to organise our drop in sessions.  The Receptionist is a vital role to our service as it is often the first point of contact for our clients with Citizens Advice, so excellent customer service is vital.  

We are looking for a volunteer to work 9.30am - 3.30pm on Thursdays, our advice session runs from 10am - 12.30pm and again from 1.15pm - 3.30pm

No experience is necessary as full training is given.

We’re a registered charity providing people with free information and advice to help them solve their benefits, debt, employment, and other problems.

We welcome applications from all sections of our community and are committed to equality and diversity. Please contact us for more information.

We are passionate about supporting people who have been affected by human trafficking and/or modern slavery with practical support at a local level.

We cannot do this without the help of enthusiastic volunteers so would you like to come and join us?

This role offers an exciting opportunity to come alongside survivors of modern slavery who have transitioned out of crisis and are moving toward rebuilding their lives and settling into Nottingham.

The Salvation Army is growing a network of community–based support, which provides survivors of modern slavery with a link to their local community and signposting to the range of available support they may need.

This daytime session will be on a specified weekday and will run for approximately 2 hours - further information will be provided to potential applicants. It gives survivors continuity of support as they are served in a group setting at the corps (church) /centre in a drop-in style format that will follow a formal programme to accommodate clients’ needs.

As one of our volunteers, you will receive specialised training and regular support from our Community Hub team.

Role: Support Volunteer (reception, room host, refreshments, help desk or crèche staff)

Location: Nottingham based - further details of the location will be given to successful applicants

Availability: Daytime session on a specified weekday over the total period of 3-4 hours with a preferred 12 month commitment period. Must also be able to attend initial training as well as further ongoing support/training.

Meet the people that make a difference every day, you can be one of them!

Would you like an opportunity to grow? Have you thought of building on or gaining knowledge, skills and experience, but also helping to make a different to the lives of some of Scotland’s most vulnerable children within your community? 

Join us and explore our beautiful thirty-five-acre woodland estate, at the foot of the Pentland Hills, which includes residential accommodation and school, community garden, orchard, wildlife habitats, children’s play areas.

Harmeny Education Trust is a sector leading children’s charity providing therapeutic care and education for children who have experienced early years trauma. We are looking for you to join our volunteering team.

There are many opportunities that you can get involved with, for instance:

• Events days, such as preparation for the Christmas show, Coffee Morning and Sports Day and more
• Contributing to the community garden 
• Assist with bike maintenance 
• Helping with the children 
• Use your photography skills to capture life at Harmeny
• Hanging out with groups

We are committed to your development and you will be supported to gain new knowledge, skills and experience.

We are asking you to commit for a minimum of 1 year, where applicable. During this time you will benefit from full induction training, training opportunities and supervision. 

Start creating your unique volunteering experience at Harmeny by coming to find out more about the difference you can make and work you can be involved with at our information drop in Open Day on Tuesday 19th November from 1.30pm – 4.30pm.

We would love to hear from you, please get in touch via our website to find out more about the information day. 

Reach are working with Disability Equality North West (DEnw) in the recruitment of a new Marketing and Communications Trustee.

DEnw delivers user led services across Lancashire to enable disabled people to live independently and be active in their communities. Your marketing and communications expertise will advertise our services to new users and help attract funding.

The Role

DEnw is seeking a trustee with marketing and communications skills, and knowledge of fundraising and bidding, to raise our profile, to show the difference that we make and to attract more unrestricted funding and contracts.

Responsibilities as a Trustee of DEnw:

• To work collaboratively with the other trustees, keeping with and furthering DEnw’s charitable objectives;
• To contribute actively to the board of trustees’ role in giving firm strategic direction to DEnw by setting overall policy, defining goals, setting targets and evaluating performance against agreed targets;
• With other trustees, to ensure that the policy and practices of DEnw are in keeping with its aims; and
• With other trustees, to ensure that DEnw functions within the legal and financial requirements of a charitable organisation that strives to achieve best practice.

Specific Responsibilities of the Marketing and Communications Trustee:

• Marketing of DEnw to the general public, local authorities / elected members, businesses and organisations (locally, regionally and nationally) and develop working partnerships that may lead to funding;
• Develop messaging systems to communicate DEnw’s work and achievements;
• Develop case studies for use in bids for funding;
• Seek patrons for DEnw;
• Provide training and thought leadership around issues relating to marketing, messaging and to liaise with trustees and staff;
• To support yearly strategic/business planning, monitoring and review; and
• Draw on your networks to support our work

Person Specification

Essential

• Successful track record of marketing, messaging and communications in a business, the public sector or a charity;
• Knowledge of fund raising and generating new revenue streams;
• Experience of working at a senior management / leadership / trustee level;
• Ability to work as part of a team and willingness to take collective responsibility for the governance of our charity;
• Ability to work at a strategic level, think creatively and criticise constructively.
• Good, independent judgement and a willingness to speak your mind;
• A firm belief in and commitment to DEnw’s mission;
• Commitment to Nolan’s seven principles of public life: selflessness, integrity, objectivity, accountability, openness, honesty and leadership; and
• An understanding of the legal duties, responsibilities and liabilities of trusteeship.

Desirable

• Experience and knowledge of the day to day issues facing disabled people;
• Experience and knowledge of other support services for women, men and children/young people; and
• Understanding of the voluntary sector, social services and education.

Personal Characteristics

• Empathy with disabled people
• Passion to champion the charity
• Enthusiasm, integrity, honesty and flexibility
• Ability to work effectively as a member of a governance team
• Ability to maintain constructive relationships with other trustees, the Chief Executive, other members of staff and volunteers

What difference will you make?

• DEnw has numerous videos, pictures but lacks a consistent and effective marketing and communications strategy. 
• Your ideas will advertise the services to new users and help attract funding, sponsorship and donations. 

What’s in for the volunteer?

• The satisfaction that comes from playing an active role in helping disabled people to lead independent lives.
• An opportunity to gain new experiences and utilise your skills and experience in a different setting. 

Other information

• This is a voluntary unpaid position; however reasonable travel and subsistence expenses will be reimbursed.
• The length of the appointment is three years, initially as a co-opted trustee.

How to apply

Please send a CV (no more than three pages) and a supporting statement (no more than two pages) explaining why you wish to become a trustee and how you meet some of all of the person specification.

Shared Interest is a UK based organisation, which aims to alleviate poverty by helping people in remote and disadvantaged communities, to trade, and earn a living.  We use investment from people living in the UK to provide loans to fair trade businesses worldwide. 

The majority of our customers are based in Africa and Latin America and so speak either English, Spanish (Latin American) or French as a first language. Because of this, it is important we have various documents and our full website available in both French and Spanish (Latin American) as well as English.  

We are looking for volunteers to support us with the translation of materials on an ad hoc basis.

The role will involve translating word documents from English into Spanish (Latin American) and will require you to use your own computer or laptop. 

Although this role is home based, volunteers will be supported remotely by a dedicated member of staff and email, phone and / or online communication will be required.

You will have the opportunity to utilise or develop your translation skills through supporting us in developing our communications and you will get the chance to understand how our organisation engages with our customers.

We would love to hear from you if you:

• Are a native Spanish (Latin American) speaker
• Have strong written and spoken English
• Share our goal of making a positive impact for our producers
• Can demonstrate accuracy and attention to detail
• Have access to a computer to carry out the translation
• Are self-motivated to carry out tasks independently

We will support you with the following:

• Ongoing support with a staff contact
• Induction training / orientation
• Basic reference (if requested)

About our Event Researchers

Shared Interest has a new volunteer opportunity for you, which allows you to volunteer when it is convenient for you.  Event Researchers carry out online research to identify potential event opportunities for us to attend across the UK, from local fairs to national conferences.  You will be helping us raise our profile here in the UK, enabling us to reach and support even more fair trade producers across the world.

About Shared Interest

Shared Interest transforms the lives of smallholder farmers and artisans.  Based in the UK, we aim to alleviate poverty by helping people in remote and disadvantaged communities in developing countries, to trade, and earn a living.  We use investment from people living in the UK to provide loans to fair trade businesses worldwide.  Last year we made payments of over £60 million to nearly 400 organisations across 63 countries. 

About the role

You will carry out research online, using search engines, social media and online event listings, to shortlist events for Shared Interest to consider attending. 

Working from home at a time convenient to you this role is flexible around your other commitments.

We will provide online orientation and guidance on identifying appropriate opportunities. 

Building on the pioneering and effective work of Circles UK, Respond is able to offer Circles of
Support & Accountability to young people and adults with learning disabilities and/or autism who have sexually harmful behaviour.

A ’Circle of Support and Accountability’ is a group of 4-6 volunteers from the local community which forms a Circle around the person with the sexually harmful behaviour, known as the ‘Core Member’. The Circle provides a supportive social network that also requires the Core Member to take responsibility (be ‘accountable’) for his/her on-going risk management.

The Circle aims to prevent future sexual offending by reducing social isolation and supporting the
Core Member to live safely. Within the Circle, the Core Member can grow in self-esteem
and develop healthy relationships, maximising his/her chances of successfully re-integrating into the community in a safe and fulfilling way.
 

Who can apply?

You must be over 21 and prepared to make a commitment to the project for about 18 months. Volunteers would need to commit to 2 hours a week (one weekday evening).

We are looking for individuals with good communication skills and a high capacity for empathy. A positive approach to team work and collaborative working is also essential. We need volunteers from all walks of life since the Circle represent a kind of "mini-community" within the wider society. We particularly encourage male individuals to apply as most of our Core Members are male themselves.

Full training will be provided, along with regular on-going support and supervision from the CoSA coordinators.

We are looking for an exceptional and dynamic individual to Chair the organisation.  This is a significant opportunity to shape the future direction of Design Council which is an agile and globally-recognised design body with a 75-year legacy.

Design Council champions the power of design in tackling the biggest challenges of our time, bringing about positive change in people’s lives. Every day we consult with industry, government and individuals to advise them on how design can improve the things that matter most to us.

The organisation is at an exciting stage in its development as we approach our ten-year anniversary of becoming an independent charity and having established and grown our services and programmes. Our next strategy which starts in April 2020 will build on this success and will focus on having an impact on big global challenges which affect products, places, processes and performance.

The role presents a chance to work with business, government and the third sector to make the case for design, influencing and shaping and the design economy. The Chair should be able to engage with our stakeholders and influencers. An understanding of charity governance is key as well as the ability to lead a diverse and collaborative Board. You will bring experience and knowledge from your own professional life and be able to open doors for us to new partners.

If you are interested in applying, please download or application pack and apply no later than 17 November 2019.

Volunteer with Sleep Walk, London!

We are looking for volunteers to cheer on and greet our amazing Shelter walkers, at Sleep Walk London on the evening of Tuesday 3rd December 2019.

Our walkers are coming together with friends, family and colleagues to brave the winter cold and raise money to fight homelessness.

Sleep Walk is a 10km walk, taking place in the city of London, the evening of Tuesday 3rd December, from 5pm and we need your help to make it a memorable evening for our amazing of 2,500, raising over £500,000 for Shelter.

Walkers will set off from 6pm at Waterloo, the route will loop around some of London’s most iconic sites such as Tower Bridge, St Paul's through Covent Garden Christmas markets, over Westminster Bridge finishing back at Waterloo.

We need you to help at our two cheer points along the route, handing out branded materials for our walkers to wear at the start, greeting our supporters at the end of the walk with a mince pie and plenty more.

When: Tuesday 3rd December 2019

Locations:

• 26 Leake Street SE1 7RY – Start and Finish, 17:00 – 22:00
• St Paul’s Churchyard EC2M 8AD – Cheer point, 18:00 – 20:00
• The Queen’s Walk SE1 2AA – Cheer point, 18:45 – 20:45

What will you be doing?

We have plenty of exciting roles to fill throughout the day including:

• Welcoming walkers
• Handing out scarves, route maps
• Cheering, looking after refreshments mid-way, selfie-stop
• Cheering and welcoming at the finish
• Handing out medals
• Handing out (and overseeing) mince pies!

Please specify which location of where you would like to volunteer. We’ll do our best to keep groups together. If you have any medical concerns which need to be considered for role allocation, please let us know.

Get Involved!

If you are interested and want to get involved, click 'Fill in an application' or drop an email to our Events Team.

Thank you again, we couldn’t do this without you!

As a First Aider at Events, you’ll help St John Ambulance provide first aid at large and small events within the community. You’ll be part of a team of volunteers delivering help where it’s needed, dealing with everything from a sprained ankle to a cardiac arrest.

The experience you gain could lead to more advanced roles, including patient transport, cycle response, advanced first aid and emergency response. You’ll make a real difference to your community and have a huge impact on the nation’s health. 

As a First Aider at Events, you’ll get a huge sense of satisfaction and pride delivering an essential service. It’s great for you, great for your community and great for our nation, and it requires only a small commitment of your time. 

We will make sure you will have access to a proper induction to volunteering with SJA and the training you need for the role you take on. We will also provide you with a supportive environment while you are volunteering with us. Information about our volunteer roles are included in the role descriptions. What you can expect from SJA, and what we expect from those who volunteer with us, is included in the volunteer charter.

Selection Event Details: The Selection and Induction event will be held on 18th January 2020 at 9.30am at St John Ambulance, One Fox Crescent, Chelmsford, Essex CM1 2BN. We have First Aider vacancies at: Basildon, Bishops Stortford, Castle Point, Chelmsford, Clacton, Colchester, Grays, Halstead, Little Thurrock, Harlow, Rochford, Maldon, Manningtree, Saffron Walden, Southend, Stanway & Coggeshall, Wickford, Witham

Welcome Event Details: If successful in the Selection event, you will be required to stay on in the afternoon to complete the Induction programme. Tea, Coffee will be provided, but please bring your own lunch. Induction will take place during the afternoon of 18 January 2020 at St John Ambulance, One Fox Crescent, Chelmsford, Essex CM1 2BN

Training for role and Course details: The First Aid Course will take place in a different location to that of the Selection/Induction Event. The First Aid course will take place at: St John Ambulance, 18 Rochehall Way, Purdeys Industrial Estate, Rochford, Essex SS4 1LB Dates: 1st / 2nd February and 15th /16th February 2020 Candidates must be able to attend all four days

Closing date for these opportunities is: 3rd January 2020

No one should die because they needed first aid and didn’t get it. St John Ambulance teaches people first aid so they can be the difference between life and death, and you can help us do this.

As Unit Manager you will be responsible for the overall management of your St John Ambulance Youth unit. You will do this by leading weekly meetings, organising other youth development activities and actively participating in the recruitment, training and retention of the young people and volunteers in your unit. You will ensure that they have a positive and rewarding experience in St John Ambulance, by equipping them with the necessary skills to fulfil our vision; ‘Everyone who needs it should receive first aid from those around them. No one should suffer for the lack of trained first aiders.’

Badgers are our youngest volunteers, aged 7 to 10 years. They follow a varied programme based on FUN. We are looking to open a new Badger unit in Spalding, Lincolnshire. Unit meeting night and time to be agreed with successful person. We are looking for an enthusiatic person to lead and organise the unit, to ensure our Badgers get a varied and enjoyable experience.

This role is ideal for someone who has some management experience and wants to enhance their skills while doing invaluable work. This role is exempt from the provisions of the Rehabilitations Offenders Act.

The closing date for this opportunity is Saturday 30th November 2019 and interviews will take place on Monday 9th December 2019. 

Our 93 year old member visited France regularly since before the WW2, where he served in the Royal Marines prior to a successful career in the Banking Industry.

Even though this high spirits veteran is close to his children and try to be as independent as possible, sometimes he feels a little lonely, so another face might help.

Our member is looking for a friendly, empathetic and patient volunteer who speaks French and likes to talk about France - a country so close to his heart. Also, a driver with own car to make outings easier.

If you think you can make the difference in this veteran’s life, we look forward to hearing from you. 

By providing regular companionship, social interaction and building a positive one-to-one relationship you can help to reduce the effects of isolation so commonly experienced by our veterans. Your positivity, friendliness and communication can make the world of difference to their day lives.

Volunteers need to be over the age of 18 years and able to travel independently to and from our veterans home. Reliability, punctuality and trustworthiness are essential requirements for this role as are good listening and interpersonal skills. As understanding of the importance of confidentiality and relationship boundaries is key to this role. We will give you the necessary training, induction and support to be confident and enjoy your volunteering.