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Volunteer Role (10 Positions)
Role: Community & Session Volunteer
About The Cultural Ambassadors Project
Point of Growth is launching The Cultural Ambassadors, a 9-month community project in Greater Manchester beginning September 2025. Our mission is to support newcomers and migrants settling in the UK by co-creating a culturally informed guidebook, running safe conversational and information sessions, and building peer networks. The project is centred in Oldham, Rochdale and Ashton-under-Lyne (Greater Manchester), with participants drawn from these areas. Volunteers and childcare supporters will play a vital role in making sessions accessible, welcoming, and safe.
Location: Greater Manchester (venues in Oldham / Rochdale / Ashton) — specific session venues will be shared in advance
Time Commitment:
Typically 1–2 days per month (or 3–5 hours per session). Flexibility is built in.
What You’ll Do:
- Assist with set-up, registration, and welcoming participants
- Help facilitate group conversation, ice-breakers, or small group breakout sessions
- Support digital or hybrid participants (e.g. help with online forms, Zoom links)
- Distribute materials, refreshments, and cleaning up
- Provide informal signposting or peer support during breaks
- Work under supervision and follow safeguarding and inclusion policies
What You’ll Gain / Benefits:
- A volunteer certificate and reference
- Reimbursement for travel and meal costs (within agreed limits)
- Training in safeguarding, cultural awareness, and digital inclusion
- Experience in community work and event facilitation
- Being part of a meaningful, story-sharing project
Important:
This role is voluntary (unpaid).
Travel and meal expenses will be reimbursed
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Our partner is an impactful women’s rights organisation working to empower women, offering them agency promoting gender equality in public policy. They are currently facing financial pressures and are seeking the support of an experienced finance professional, working alongside the Director of Operations.
Your role will be to:
- Assess their financial sustainability, reviewing existing financial analysis and cost recovery model, highlighting immediate areas of concern to address, and advising on how to continue operations.
- Evaluate core costs (including overhead and hosting fee costs) and identify what is affordable/a target overhead % for the organisation to maintain, and potential cost-saving opportunities
- Suggest actionable strategies to strengthen long-term financial health
- Help build a realistic and practical plan to address financial constraints
- Improve cost recovery on grants
This is a pro bono role. They are looking for someone able to start immediately, offering 4 hours of support a week over a period of 4 weeks. They will also be open to someone working from their office in London.
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Are you passionate about making a difference in your community? Are you a leader who could authentically lead and grow a movement of volunteers in a Community, including helping them navigate change? Do you have a strong commitment to educating, developing and engaging people? We are seeking a dynamic and dedicated individual to take on the role of Network Leader who can work and lead volunteering groups and leaders in their own way, supported by our central teams.
Impact
Accountable for creating a network of St John people and supporters that are empowered and enabled to deliver community impact in the form of community first aid, community education and community fundraising.
Accountable for ensuring the people within your network feel that they have sense of purpose, belonging and joyfulness, as well as access to development and growth opportunities.
Expected time commitment: 30 hours per month
Responsibilities
- Leading and inspiring a volunteer movement across a community or geography to deliver community first aid, community education and fundraising activities
- Delivering a diverse, inclusive and positive volunteering experience for those within your network
- Building strong relationships with local communities and organisations (e.g., Local Authorities, NHS, Council for Volunteering Services, etc)
- Leading your community first aid network to respond to the needs of your local communities.
What you will be accountable for
- Convening all St John people in your geography to collaboratively develop a clear plan to deliver against St John’s priorities, as set out in our new strategy.
- Delivery of collaboratively set KPIs in the following areas – Clinical cover at local events, Fundraising, Community Engagement including educating the public and communication and media, and expansion of our work with Young People.
- Developing an operating model for your geography that supports adults and young people, Priory and SJA volunteers, operational and non-operational volunteers to join in, either directly through network delivery or through associated ‘spokes’.
- Inspiring and supporting volunteers to try new ways of working to put the above in practice to deliver more impact in communities.
- Ensuring St John is represented at local networking opportunities and events to raise our profile or advocate for community health.
- Ensure that all volunteers in your network are equipped with the necessary skills and knowledge
- Ensure the work of St John and our people is rewarded and recognised
- Implement continuous improvement initiatives based on feedback and best practices, particularly feeding back on the early adopter cohort learning in establishing a network.
You will need to following (personal specification):
- Impactful leadership and people management skills
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
- Ability to motivate, inspire and support others
- Ability to build relationships with a wide range of people
- Effective planning and organising skills
- Leadership and people management skills
- Ability to work proactively and on own initiative
- Understanding of change and leading people through change empathetically
Training and Support
The training and support we will make available for you is as follows:
Mandatory:
- Welcome programme introducing you to the project & wider charity
- Training in appropriate SJA policies
- St John Safeguarding training relevant to your role
- GDPR
- Equity, Diversity and Inclusion
- Keeping you safe at St John Ambulance
- Care Quality Commission
- Leadership training
Optional
- Speaking and listening skills
- Media engagement skills
- Finance process skills.
SJA will provide uniform for this role.
Screening requirements
- Right to Volunteer check.
- Two references
Our values
This role requires the volunteer to embrace the organisation’s vision and values, which are: Communities that preserve and protect life through volunteering for health and first aid.
The way we do things as a charity is underpinned by our ‘HEART’ values. We expect all ourpeople to uphold and apply these values in all they do.
This role is exempt from the provisions of the Rehabilitations of Offenders Act.
This role profile is intended as an outline indicator of general areas of activity and will be amended considering the changing needs of St John Ambulance. It is expected that the post holder will be as positive and flexible as possible in using this document as a framework
Inclusive Boards is pleased to be supporting Child Action Northwest (CANW) in their search for Trustees.
CANW is a charity dedicated to supporting children, young people, vulnerable adults and families who need help and we’ve been doing this for 130 years.
Our history stretches all the way back to the founding of Blackburn Orphanage in 1886. A lot has changed since then, but many of the challenges facing those in need are similar today.
We have the experience and the passion to focus on the support needed by children, young people, families and communities across the North West and beyond.
CANW is seeking to recruit up to four new Trustees. Applicants should bring all of the following skills, experience and attributes:
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A commitment to the organisation
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A willingness to devote the necessary time and effort
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Strategic vision
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Good, independent judgement
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An ability to think creatively
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A willingness to speak their mind
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An understanding and acceptance of the legal duties, responsibilities and liabilities of trusteeship
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An ability to work effectively as a member of a team
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A commitment to Nolan’s seven principles of public life: selflessness, integrity, objectivity, accountability, openness, honesty and leadership.
We are particularly interested in hearing from candidates with skills in one or more of the following areas: Finance and treasury, Commercial Law, Business Development and Growth, and Digital.
At CANW, we know diversity fosters creativity and innovation. We are committed to equality of opportunity, to being fair and inclusive and to being a place where all belong. We are keen to ensure our board membership reflects our values and therefore particularly encourage applications from candidates who represent faith and cultural communities and from young people especially those who may have lived experience of the care environment.
By joining our board, you will contribute to a cause that truly matters and have the opportunity to make a lasting difference in the lives of the children, young people, vulnerable adults, and communities we serve.
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Our partner promotes access to specialist reconstructive surgical care and professional training in low income countries through volunteer led programmes that build local capacity and improve patient outcomes worldwide.
They are seeking a Treasurer to join the Board and strengthen financial oversight as the organisation works to simplify its accounting processes and manage expenditure more efficiently. The role involves reviewing systems, supporting financial planning and reporting, and ensuring compliance with charity regulations.
The ideal candidate will be a qualified accountant with strong analytical skills, attention to detail, and experience in charity finance or audit. The ability to communicate clearly with non-finance trustees and to recommend practical, proportionate improvements will be key.
The Board meets remotely, with one in-person meeting each year in London. The expected commitment is around two to three hours per week, with occasional peaks around Finance Sub-Committee meetings.
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For more Trustee and Treasurer roles please visit the AfID website.
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Our partner supports the creative regeneration of historic buildings and community assets, transforming underused heritage spaces into sustainable hubs for work, culture and community activity.
They are seeking a Treasurer to join the Board and play a key role in ensuring sound financial governance and supporting the organisation’s continued growth. Working closely with the senior team, the Treasurer will oversee financial management, strengthen internal controls and reporting, and advise the Board on strategy, budgeting, and compliance.
The ideal candidate will bring accounting or treasury experience, strong analytical and organisational skills, and an interest in regeneration, community enterprise, or heritage-led development. Experience of Xero or financial oversight within a Community Interest Company would be an advantage.
The Board meets remotely, with occasional in-person meetings in Ramsgate. The expected time commitment is around one to two days per month, including meeting preparation and liaison with the executive team.
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For more Trustee and Treasurer roles please visit the AfID website.
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Our partner is an international development charity improving lives in Zambia through construction, training, and community projects. Since 2006 they have trained over 2,200 people in building skills and completed 58 schools, health clinics, and other community facilities, benefiting more than 400,000 people.
They are seeking an experienced finance professional to join their UK Board as Treasurer and Chair of the Finance & Audit Committee. Working closely with counterparts in Zambia, the Treasurer will help ensure the charity’s financial integrity, sustainability, and compliance, providing strategic oversight and guidance on financial policy, risk, and reporting.
The ideal candidate will be a qualified finance professional with senior-level experience and strong governance understanding. You should bring the ability to communicate complex financial matters clearly, support effective Board decision-making, and provide independent challenge where needed.
The Board meets four times per year, usually in London although remote attendance is possible. The expected time commitment is around 1–2 days per month, including additional time for Finance & Audit Committee duties which meets online.
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For more Trustee and Treasurer roles please visit the AfID website.
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In this role, you will build relationships and connect with people, places and organisations to raise awareness of stroke and of the Stroke Association within the community. By building these relationships you will contribute to improving the experience of people affected by stroke where they live and work.
What would you be doing
- Providing a valuable extension to our teams based within local areas across Wales.
- Build relationships with people, places and organisations to raise awareness of stroke and the Stroke Association.
- Engaging with your local community to represent the Stroke Association. This could include delivering presentations or talks (either face to face or digitally), attending fundraising events or sharing your experience of stroke to others.
- Helping to set up and support Stroke Café Groups.
- Attending information points at community events or at local hospitals.
What will you bring to the role?
You have…
- The passion and enthusiasm to raise the awareness of stroke and the Stroke Association.
- Ability and willingness to share how people affected by stroke can access support from the Stroke Association.
- An enjoyment of talking to people and communities, either one to one, or presenting to groups. This includes speaking to groups or individuals face to face or online digitally. (This is available to you only if you feel confident to do so – it is not a strict requirement of the role).
- A keenness to demonstrate our values, and to help improve care and support for stroke survivors.
- The ability to travel to venues and events by yourself.
- A willingness to use technology e.g. Zoom and Microsoft Teams to engage with people outside of your local area, and our intranet and learning platform to access resources and training
Requirements of the role:
- Must be 18+
- Ability to travel around your local community.
- Have empathy and compassion for stroke survivors.
- Enjoy interacting with stroke survivors, community groups and local businesses.
- Ideally have lived or personal experience of stroke.
- Availability of a minimum of 2 hours on a weekly basis.
What the role can offer you personally
- Support with learning new skills – Full training provided.
- Meeting new people, building a network and engaging with your local community.
- In this role, you will build relationships and connect with people, places and organisations to raise awareness of stroke and of the Stroke Association within the community. By building these relationships you will contribute to improving the experience of people affected by stroke where they live and work.
- You’ll have an opportunity to get together (either face to face/digitally) with other Community Connectors from your locality to discuss local priorities and opportunities
Interested in applying?
If you are interested in applying, please contact:
- Sally Head, Volunteer Manager.
Our vision is for there to be fewer strokes, and for people affected by stroke to get the help they need to live the best life they can.
Our core purpose is to be the trusted voice of stroke survivors and their families. We want to drive better outcomes in stroke prevention, treatment and lifelong support for everyone affected by stroke.
This role is advertised as part of TPP's Free Giving Back Services. This volunteer advertisement copy has been supplied to TPP and applicants apply direct to the organisation. Please contact the organisation directly if you have any questions about this volunteer role.
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Our partner is a student-led charity that supports a large student body in the South East. They focus on enhancing academic success, fostering social inclusion, and preparing students for future success.
The Finance Trustee will oversee financial strategy, including advising on budgeting, reserves policy, and reporting. As Deputy Chair, the successful candidate will assist the Chair in providing leadership, chairing meetings, and ensuring strong governance. They will also mentor fellow Trustees and contribute to strategic planning.
The ideal candidate will bring financial expertise, preferably from outside the Students' Union sector, and have experience in governance roles, such as chairing or deputising. Strong interpersonal skills are essential to foster effective relationships with the Board and stakeholders.
The Board meets 4-5 times per year, with additional sub-committee responsibilities. Meetings are typically in person in Portsmouth, with online options available. Trustees are expected to commit 1-2 days per month, including meeting preparation and key initiatives.
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For more Trustee and Treasurer roles please visit the AfID website.
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Our partner works to transform higher education into a force for peace. They campaign for universities to end ties with the global arms trade and instead become champions for justice, equality, and social good.
They are seeking a Treasurer to join the Board and play a key role in ensuring financial sustainability and good governance. The Treasurer will maintain oversight of the organisation's financial affairs, ensure compliance with legal and regulatory standards, and support sound financial planning and reporting.
The ideal candidate will bring experience in finance, governance, or charity management, with the ability to review budgets and accounts, advise on policy, and communicate clearly with fellow Trustees and staff. A shared commitment to peace, justice, and education reform is essential.
The Board meets once annually in London and once online in May, with an additional online AGM early each year. The expected time commitment is around one day per month, including meeting preparation and liaison with the executive team.
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For more Trustee and Treasurer roles please visit the AfID website.
Our partner is a long-established charity providing vital advice, support, and advocacy for refugees, asylum seekers, and migrants in South East London. They help people to know and exercise their rights, rebuild their lives, and thrive as part of an inclusive and welcoming community.
They are seeking a Treasurer to join the Board and play a key role in ensuring effective financial management and governance. Candidates should be qualified finance professionals, ideally with knowledge of charity finance and a commitment to the organisation’s mission of justice, inclusion, and empowerment for migrant communities.
As Treasurer and Trustee, you will support the Board in fulfilling its financial responsibilities including advising on financial strategy, budgeting, and reserves policy; reviewing management accounts and annual reports; overseeing audit processes; and ensuring effective systems of financial control. You will also contribute to wider Board discussions, bringing financial insight to strategic planning and risk management.
The Board meets quarterly (alternating between online and in-person evening meetings in London), and Trustees typically devote around 1–2 days per month to their duties.
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For more Trustee and Treasurer roles please visit the AfID website.
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Join Us as Chair of Trustees
SEAS Sailability & All Afloat – Merging for Greater Impact
About SEAS All Afloat
SEAS Sailability and All Afloat, two well-established charities operating across Wales since 2017, are merging to combine their experience, resources, and passion for inclusion on the water.
SEAS Sailability has built a successful partnership with a commercial activity provider, delivering weekly evening sessions and monthly weekend activities during the spring and summer months for disabled people, their families, and carers. Over the past five years, SEAS Sailability has secured approximately £200,000 in grants and donations to support this work.
All Afloat has focused on breaking down barriers to water sports and expanding access to sailing and boating for disadvantaged young people and those with disabilities. The charity has supported ten RYA Training Centres across Wales, delivering more than £150,000 worth of projects, providing over 4,500 sessions for more than 3,500 young participants, opening clear pathways to RYA qualifications from introductory sailing through to Dinghy Instructor certification.
As the new merged organisation, SEAS All Afloat will build on this strong foundation to secure sustainable funding that maintains current activity while enabling the growth of similar partnerships across Wales. Our ambition is to use our combined experience, equipment, and networks to expand opportunities for people of all ages and backgrounds to enjoy the water safely and inclusively.
Through community projects and activity clubs, we will continue to deliver safe, engaging, and inclusive on-water experiences that build confidence, develop skills, and foster wellbeing — particularly for those facing barriers to participation.
The Role of the Chair of Trustees
Our volunteers and trustees play a vital role in steering the charity and ensuring we deliver on our mission.
The Chair of Trustees provides leadership to the Board, ensuring effective governance and strategic oversight. Working collaboratively with trustees, volunteers, and partners, the Chair helps set the vision and direction of the charity and acts as a key ambassador.
The Chair ensures that the Board operates effectively, decisions are well-informed, and the charity remains compliant with all legal and regulatory requirements. They also represent SEAS All Afloat publicly, championing its values and strengthening its relationships with stakeholders.
About You
We are looking for someone with:
- A passion for making outdoor activities accessible for all.
- Strong leadership and governance experience (charity, corporate, or public sector).
- Excellent communication and people skills, with the ability to build consensus.
- Confidence in representing the charity externally and acting as a spokesperson.
- A collaborative and inclusive approach.
Experience in sport, youth development, disability inclusion, or fundraising would be an advantage, but is not essential.
What We Offer
- The opportunity to lead a newly merged organisation at a pivotal stage in its journey.
- A meaningful and rewarding role that makes a real difference to people’s lives.
- The chance to work alongside a dedicated team of trustees, staff, and volunteers.
Time Commitment
This is a voluntary role, with reasonable expenses reimbursed. The time commitment is around 6–10 meetings a year, plus regular contact with the leadership team and occasional events.
Chair of Trustees - Role Description and Person Specification
Key Responsibilities
- Leadership of the Board:
- Provide leadership to the Board, ensuring trustees fulfil their responsibilities for governance, strategy, and oversight.
- Facilitate effective, inclusive board meetings—ensuring decisions are made collectively and in the best interest of the charity.
- Provide leadership and clarity of purpose in decision-making.
- Strategy and Governance:
- Work with the board, staff and service users to develop and agree the charity’s long-term vision, strategy, and goals.
- Oversee compliance with governing documents, charity law, and regulatory requirements.
- Safeguard the charity’s assets and ensure sound financial and risk management.
- Promote effective governance practices and continuous improvement of the Board’s performance.
- Lead the recruitment, induction, and development of new trustees. Encourage succession planning and development within the Board.
- Representation and Advocacy:
- Act as a spokesperson and ambassador for SEAS All Afloat.
- Build and maintain relationships with funders, regulators, and community partners.
Specific Tasks
- Chair regular trustee meetings and the Annual Wash-up.
- Work with the operations manager and secretary to set agendas and circulate meeting papers in good time.
- Monitor and follow up on Board decisions and agreed actions.
- Ensure financial reports and budgets are presented and understood by the Board.
- Act as the main contact with the Charity Commission on governance matters, ensuring annual report and accounts are submitted as required.
- Lead an annual review of SEAS All Afloat policies and procedures, ensuring that they meet best practice and the requirements of the Charity Commission, Welsh government and any specific grant funding bodies such as the National Lottery.
- Ensure fundraising processes (e.g. grant applications and reporting) are in place, appropriate, accurate, and delivered to a high standard.
- Represent SEAS All Afloat at external events, meetings, and within the community.
- Provide support and oversight to operations manager and senior volunteers involved in day-to-day operations.
- Be available to trustees and volunteers for ad hoc discussions between formal meetings.
Person Specification
- Essential Skills and Experience:
- Proven leadership ability, including chairing meetings and facilitating consensus.
- Understanding of trusteeship and charity governance (or willingness to learn).
- Strong strategic thinking skills with experience shaping vision and direction.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, able to represent the charity externally.
- Commitment to equality, diversity, and inclusion.
- Ability to analyse information, assess risks, and make impartial decisions.
- Strong teamworking and collaboration skills.
- Willingness and capacity to commit sufficient time to the role.
- Desirable Skills and Experience:
- Understanding of, or lived experience with, issues relating to disability and accessibility, especially in the context of outdoor or water-based activities.
- Experience or awareness of fundraising and income-generation processes, including grants and reporting.
- Previous experience as a trustee, chair, or senior volunteer.
- Ability to communicate effectively in Welsh (spoken and/or written)
- Maritime, water sports, or youth development experience (professional or voluntary).
- Local community links and networks to strengthen partnerships.
- Advocacy and influencing experience with funders or stakeholders.
- Personal Qualities:
- Passion for the mission of SEAS All Afloat.
- Integrity, objectivity, and openness.
- Ability to inspire confidence and trust.
- Respectful of diverse views and skilled at building consensus.
- Resilient and able to handle sensitive matters with discretion.
This role is advertised as part of TPP's Free Giving Back Services. This volunteer advertisement copy has been supplied to TPP and applicants apply direct to the organisation. Please contact the organisation directly if you have any questions about this volunteer role.
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Coffee Shop Volunteer - Prevent Breast Cancer
Commitment/Hours
Morning 9.30am-1pm Afternoon 1pm-4pm
Purpose/summary of the role
Assisting in the running of the Coffee Shop in a methodical and organised way.
The Coffee Shop plays a significant role in the promotion of the image and work of Prevent Breast Cancer whilst providing a vital service to patients of The Nightingale Centre and Prevent Breast Cancer.
The profits generated are used to support research into breast cancer prediction and prevention.
With this in mind, please find below a list of tasks/ activities which the Prevent Breast Cancer Volunteer will undertake in this area.
Main duties & responsibilities
- To assist and serve customers with food items and beverages.
- To ensure food safety and food hygiene at all times.
- To handle cash and card payments securely.
- To keep the Coffee Shop and areas around, clean and tidy throughout the day.
- To check, use by and sell by dates on all perishables and notify at the end of the day.
- Ability to work on own initiative regarding the upkeep of the Coffee Shop.
- To monitor and record fridge temperatures.
Training will be given on all aspects
- An e-learning course to be completed
- Health & hygiene in regard to serving food and beverages
- Customer service
- Daily cleaning
- Handling cash and card payments, including training on using a tablet and card reader
- Monitor and recording of fridge temperature levels
Prevent Breast Cancer’s Volunteer Person Specification
Experience/Knowledge & Skills
Essential:
- Good communication skills
- Empathy with patients, carers and visitors
- Integrity
- Good verbal and basic written skills
- Commitment to tasks involved
- Patient, pleasant manner
- Caring, compassionate and confident
- Honest and reliable in order to maintain confidentiality
- Respect for the dignity, needs and decisions of customers
- Provide information to customers
- An understanding and considerate attitude towards patients, visitors and staff
- Pride in Prevent Breast Cancer, MFT and the NHS and the work volunteers carry out
- An interest in Prevent Breast and vision to prevent breast cancer for the next generation
- Patience and tolerance
- Ability to work on own initiative
- Desire and ability to liaise and work alongside hospital staff
- Good personal presentation and personal hygiene
- Willingness to attend meetings or training sessions requested by the Volunteer Management Team
Desirable:
- Willing to get involved with other Prevent Breast Cancer events and other volunteer roles, as and when requested
- To have previously volunteered in a medical or care environment
- Willing to shadow another volunteer and to allow new volunteers to shadow
This role is advertised as part of TPP's Free Giving Back Services. This volunteer advertisement copy has been supplied to TPP and applicants apply direct to the organisation. Please contact the organisation directly if you have any questions about this volunteer role.
Heartwood House is a dynamic education charity that supports young people who self-exclude from school and are missing education because of bullying or other trauma. They provide both an academic and therapeutic programme to enable their students to get back on track and reconnect with society. Heartwood House has been delivering services in NW London for 20 years. They have supported many students in their return to mainstream education, further education and employment. They work with many local authorities such as Harrow, Hillingdon, Hertfordshire, Brent, Ealing, Barnet, Camden and many more.
Heartwood House (based in Harrow) is now looking to strengthen its Board and we are seeking a Legal Trustee – you will bring insight and understanding of charity law, Charity Commission legal regulations, Company Legislation and best practice.
Trustees have a duty to ensure that the charity is well run, solvent, legally compliant, and working towards the charitable purpose for which it was established, and Trustee roles are an important and a highly rewarding way to support an organisation. Please note that Trustee roles are unremunerated voluntary positions, although reasonable travel expenses will be paid.
Heartwood House is committed to equality of opportunity, supports, and encourages under-represented groups, and values diversity. We seek people from a wide range of backgrounds, who will bring a fresh perspective to the Board, and having reviewed existing Trustee's diversity, skills, and experience, Heartwood House are keen for the Board to reflect the diversity of the communities that they work with and therefore welcome applications from all sections of the community.
Please contact Heidi Earp, Director of Langton Not 4 Profit our retained consultants for further information on the role.
Bring your AI and digital expertise to the Board at Ada by becoming a Governor and working to support our mission ‘to educate and empower the next generation of diverse digital talent’.
Time commitment: up to 10 hours per month.
Location: Greater London and Manchester
Who we are
Ada is a specialist further education college, whose mission is, ‘To educate and empower the next generation of diverse digital talent.’ Every sixth form student takes Computer Science, and every diverse higher-level and degree apprentice works in skills-shortage disciplines within innovative, blue-chip companies.
The UK has 800,000 unfilled IT jobs, and the digital skills gap is costing the UK economy an estimated £63 billion a year in lost GDP, but young people are not being adequately supported to bridge this gap, with over 50% of secondary schools in the UK not even offering Computer Science.
Ada seeks to fill this skills gap, but in a different way: one that ensures young people are being equipped with the skills industry actually needs and one that empowers young people who are currently underrepresented in UK tech. Ada’s core focus is on reaching individuals from low-income households, young women and those from ethnic minority backgrounds to address the diversity challenges in tech-focused roles.
About the role
The College is seeking a strategic and forward-thinking individual to join our Governing Board as a Governor with expertise in artificial intelligence (AI). This role is critical in helping the college navigate the opportunities and challenges presented by AI, ensuring our curriculum, infrastructure and strategic direction remain relevant and future-focused.
Do you see technology fundamentally changing the economy and world around you and care passionately about building an organisation to educate and empower those currently least likely to benefit from these developments? Ada does and it has big plans.
Working closely with its many high-profile partners, Ada seeks to harness tech as a positive tool for social mobility and improve the gender balance in tech-focused roles.
Who we are looking for
We are seeking an experienced and forward-thinking professional to join our Governing Board as an External Member, bringing insight and strategic guidance on artificial intelligence (AI) and digital innovation.
As the College continues its digital transformation, this role offers a unique opportunity to shape how emerging technologies enhance our teaching, learning, operations and community impact. We are looking for someone who can help the College navigate the opportunities and challenges of AI responsibly, ethically and effectively — ensuring we remain at the forefront of innovation in further education.
You will bring a strong understanding of artificial intelligence and its applications across education, industry or public services, coupled with the ability to think strategically and provide effective governance oversight.
Your expertise will support the Board in embedding AI within the College’s long-term vision and strategic planning, ensuring alignment with our mission, values and commitment to inclusivity and excellence. You will help ensure that innovation is pursued responsibly — with attention to ethics, data governance and the broader societal implications of technology in education.
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