The International Humanity Foundation (IHF) was founded in 2001 and works with children in impoverished communities through our Children’s Homes and Education Centers in Thailand, Kenya, and Indonesia. Our mission is to educate impoverished children—activating their highest potential—and also to educate global citizens through real life experiences, about the realities of impoverished communities and the value of other cultures.

Our At-Home Volunteers support this work remotely, from their homes around the world. An At-Home volunteer should have access to a dependable computer, wifi connection, and experience with Google Suites applications is a plus.

Details of all our volunteer programs can be found on our website

HealthProm has launched a new initiative aimed at supporting migrant women from Eastern Europe and Central Asia living in London.

We are looking for volunteer ESOL teachers to teach classes at our office in Islington during term time starting in September.

Ideal time commitment: two hours weekly, ideally a minimum of 6 months, preferably 1 year

Desirable requirements: 

• ESOL qualification or equivalent experience (CELTA, PGCE, DTLLS with a specialism in ESOL/Literacy) 

• Ability to differentiate for learners of different abilities in the same class 

This role would suit a newly qualified or trainee teacher or a retired ESOL Practitioner. In return, you will gain valuable teaching experience in the charity sector in a supportive environment. 

Travel expenses are paid.

International Humanity Foundation (IHF) is seeking forward-thinking, dynamic individuals of all ages and backgrounds to contribute to our international centers as part of our Voluntourist program. This is a great opportunity to gain valuable hands-on experience with an international not-for-profit organization at the ground level and contribute your time and talents to help provide opportunities for our wonderful children. This is an ideal opportunity to gain first-hand experience in international development, but still have time to explore Kenya’s Rift valley, the lakes and African wildlife. 

IHF’s mission is to educate impoverished children; activating their highest potential, and also to educate global citizens about the realities of impoverished communities and the value of other cultures.  Your knowledge, skills and experience can support this mission to care for and educate children born into poverty.

International Humanity Foundation (IHF) is seeking forward-thinking, dynamic individuals of all ages and backgrounds to contribute to our international centers as part of our Voluntourist program. This is a great opportunity to gain valuable hands-on experience with an international not-for-profit organization at the ground level and contribute your time and talents to help provide opportunities for our wonderful children. This is an ideal opportunity to gain first-hand experience in international development, but still have time to explore Kenya’s Rift valley, the lakes and African wildlife. 

IHF’s mission is to educate impoverished children; activating their highest potential, and also to educate global citizens about the realities of impoverished communities and the value of other cultures.  Your knowledge, skills and experience can support this mission to care for and educate children born into poverty.

Do you know how to use Skype? Do you do your shopping online? Did you know that 25% of people with a registered disability are offline compared with 6% of the rest of the UK? Help bridge the digital skills gap and learn new skills by joining our team today.

You will make a difference by helping clients, coaching people on how to use the internet, and email, building digital confidence and troubleshooting basic IT issues.

We need friendly, patient people with a basic knowledge of IT to support disabled people to access the digital world. You don’t need to be an IT expert, the most important qualities our volunteers need are patience and an ability to explain things people may be unfamiliar with.

You will gain experience working with disabled people, training people, as well as learning about the developing field of assistive technology. And if you volunteer with us, you have the satisfaction that you have used your IT skills to support a disabled person keep in touch with loved ones, apply for a job and pursue their interests. Ongoing training and support will be provided along with expenses, as it’s important to us that our volunteers are not out of pocket because of volunteering with us.

We are look for a volunteer who can give one day or two half days, any day Monday to Friday. We’d like a volunteer who can give a commitment of at least six months.

Please note that we are looking for volunteers 18 years and older for this role.

As part of RedR UK’s ongoing capacity development programming we are currently conducting research into the learning needs of individuals and organisations working in humanitarian response in Indonesia. This includes any local, national, international, or UN organisation looking to develop the capacity of staff in any sector. If you or your staff could benefit from training in Indonesia, please click the button "Apply on website" and let us know which topics, locations, and languages are most relevant for you. The survey shouldn’t take more than 10 minutes and we appreciate your input. Thank you for your time!

As part of RedR UK’s ongoing capacity development programming we are currently conducting research into the learning needs of individuals and organisations working in humanitarian response in Indonesia. This includes any local, national, international, or UN organisation looking to develop the capacity of staff in any sector. If you or your staff could benefit from training in Myanmar, please click the button "Apply on website" and let us know which topics, locations, and languages are most relevant for you. The survey shouldn’t take more than 10 minutes and we appreciate your input. Thank you for your time!

A charity  based in  Croydon, Surrey UK is looking for 5 Charity Workers; to work as Youth and Community Workers, to volunteer 30 hours per week. The Charity serves a multi ethnic community especially people from West Africa. 

Responsibilities:

• To teach young people and children age between 4 to 15years African dance, drumming and drama infused with street dance in the Croydon area.
• Assistance in project and schedule planning including setting up and clearing up
• To assist in ensuring that activities are executed safely
• To assist in managing and coordinating initiatives, events and activities to encourage the involvement of children and young people.

Person Specification:

• Someone enthusiastic and creative who is committed to working with children and young people
• Good communication skills. The ability to listen and relate to children and young people of different ages in appropriate style and language.
• A sound understanding of equality issues, respecting and valuing individual’s diversity and the variety of their contributions.
• Understanding of the importance of participation among children and young people and a respect for their views and opinions.
• Experience of involvement in or working with youth groups and organising activities for children and young people desirable.

Strong knowledge and ability to speaking, reading and writing in English language is essential.

This is a non-paid position but accommodation and maintenance will be provided.

All interested candidates are required to send us a letter of application, a resume, and contact .If your application is accepted, you will be invited initially to an online interview. If you pass this interview, we will then contact you for a face to face interview unless you are overseas application. Any applications received after the closing date will not be considered unless we have been unable to find a suitable candidate for this vacancy.

Successful candidates will require a DBS/police check and references prior to commencement.

Time commitment: Fridays, 10.30am – 1.30pm

About the New Roots Team

New Roots is a project funded by the European Commission’s Asylum, Migration and Integration Fund (AMIF). It includes three separate teams:

• Engage - providing welfare and housing advice and private rented scheme
• Connect - delivering social integration activities
• Aspire - providing employment support

ESOL provision falls into the Connect element of the project which aims at helping refugee clients develop their language and soft skills; orientate themselves in London; engage with their local community; and learn about their rights and entitlements in the UK. Current, past and future Connect’ s services include: English conversation clubs, a knitting group, an English-for-work course, a Digital Skills course and social outings for clients and their families. 

What will I be doing?

You will support the Social Integration Coordinator in the delivery of weekly classes to refugee mothers and their children  (aged 0-4 years). The classes will deliver functional language skills in combination with health and parenting information in a ‘stay and play’ format. Sessions will focus on aspects of family life, such as health, housing, shopping, and consist of infant-centred activities, taking place in a fun, relaxed environment where mothers can learn with their children .

Tasks will include:

• Assisting the Social Integration Coordinator in delivering the class and, after the 12-week trial period, taking on the delivery of the class when the course is repeated.
• Setting up the room and clearing up after the group has met.
• Ensuring materials for the sessions are printed.
• Helping the Social Integration Coordinator with creating materials for the sessions.
• Completing necessary administrative duties (e.g. attendance register, simple records of work, paying travel expense to attendants).
• Monitoring progression and feeding back any issues.
• Complying with Refugee Council’s confidentiality, data protection and safeguarding policies and procedures.

Useful skills and experience

• ESOL and/or English Language teaching qualification or Adult PGCE - ESSENTIAL
• Previous teaching experience of groups of people from refugee, asylum seeker or migrant backgrounds and from diverse communities is desirable but not essential.
• An interest in working with children.
• Ability to work independently and unsupervised.
• Excellent communication skills, including empathy and patience.
• Enthusiasm and creativity.
• Be able to hold and respect confidences and behave in a respectful and appropriate manner while dealing with sensitive situations.

This role is subject to a satisfactory Disclosure and Barring Service check. Checks will be arranged by Refugee Council at no cost to the volunteer.

What support will I receive?

• An induction to the work of the Refugee Council.
• Regular support from the Social Integration Coordinator and the Volunteer Coordinator.
• Travel expenses up to £10.

What will I get out of it?

• The opportunity to use your teaching skills for a worthwhile cause.
• The opportunity to help some of the most isolated women in our society improve their language skills and fight social isolation.
• The opportunity to learn more about the life of refugees in the UK.

We are looking for outstanding candidates to support pupils for a full academic year in schools across the country. Our volunteer mentors act as role models and near-peer mentors to children in schools in disadvantaged communities, helping them to reach their full potential. 

City Year UK's volunteer mentors are integral to the school day. As part of a team, they encourage pupils both in and out of the classroom to engage with and enjoy learning, providing 1:1 and small group support in class and running breakfast and after school clubs. 

As role models, our mentors are uniquely well-placed to create meaningful relationships with children who need help to do well at school. They bring a new perspective to learning and boost pupils’ confidence, while improving behaviour, creating no-bullying cultures and helping pupils to feel safe, empowered and happy. 

Our volunteer mentors embody a powerful culture which runs through everything they do, and our distinctive uniform helps them be highly visible role models around the school and wider community. 

City Year UK is a leadership development programme and we take the personal and professional development of our volunteer mentors very seriously. As a way of measuring development we create specially tailored Professional Development Programmes for each volunteer mentor to help them develop the key skills and competencies that employers are looking for - things like planning and organisation, communication, problem solving, taking the initiative, resilience and self-awareness. 

Responsibilities 

In-school 

● Build meaningful trusting, coaching relationships with targeted pupils to tackle frustration, isolation, anger, low self-esteem, attention seeking and distraction before they lead to acting out in the form of disruptive or negative behaviour. 

● When required, work alone with a designated list of pupils requiring more intensive 1:1 mentoring support. Run a range of interventions in English and maths using teaching and learning content provided by the school. 

● Support teachers in class by working at tables of four or five pupils. 

● Model good behaviour for all children in classrooms, corridors and outside areas through structured break time activities, eating lunch with pupils and reinforcing school expectations. 

● Help encourage attendance and punctuality in all pupils. 

● Encourage library use, supervise homework or study clubs. 

● Supervise fun before-school activities for the whole school such as breakfast clubs to get pupils energised and ready for school. 

● Run a range of extra curricular clubs, e.g sports, music, homework, debating etc to help build children’s confidence. 

● Support the school with the creation of displays, the coordination of special events and trips, the sorting or marking of books or materials, or the entry of valuable pupil data. 

● Plan special projects to engage parents and the local community. 

Outside of school 

● Attend occasional training, coaching and career development sessions outside of school 

● Represent City Year at external events with our business partners or influential figures to help raise our profile 

● Attend recruitment events to inspire and tell prospective volunteers all about what they’re signing up for 

● Take part in volunteering days with our funders 

● Work shadowing opportunities with our staff and business partners 

● Access to a mentor 

Skills, abilities and qualities 

● Passionate about wanting to tackle educational inequality and work with children 

● Desire and ability to be a role model for others 

● Good written and verbal communication 

● Responsible in nature 

● Willing to demonstrate taking the initiative 

● Committed and willing to push through challenges 

● Empathetic, reflective and thoughtful 

● Self-aware and open to learning 

● Adaptable and willing to challenge own comfort zone 

● Experience working - whether voluntary or paid - with children or young people (desirable) 

Reporting to Volunteer mentors are line managed on site by one of our school-based programme staff team who will have oversight of their day-to-day training and development in and outside of school. 

Hours The City Year UK volunteer mentor role is full-time, Monday to Friday during term time only. A typical school day begins between 7.30am and 8am (depending on your school or rota arrangements with your team). During term time you need to be available from first thing in the morning until 3.30 - 5pm. 

Expenses We are able to offer some support to help Volunteer Mentors; who will be entitled to claim reimbursed living expenses. This is not a salary and should not affect the receipt of state benefits (if applicable to your personal situation) for things like housing, free prescriptions etc. In addition to living expenses, we will reimburse the exact amount of money spent on using the most reasonable method of transport to get to and from school and the City Year office. 

Background checks Appointment is subject to clearance through the Disclosure and Barring Service and receipt of satisfactory references. This role involves contact with children and young people which by law is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974. Prospective candidates are not entitled to withhold information and must declare all convictions, including spent convictions, cautions, reprimands and final warnings. Any information given will be completely confidential and will be considered only in relation to any application or positions to which the Order applies. 

We are looking for volunteer Eco-Schools Green Flag Assessors

Location: Across England

Salary: Voluntary – travel expenses are paid

Keep Britain Tidy is an iconic and dynamic charity providing first class solutions to environmental challenges. For more than 60 years, we have campaigned for cleaner, greener places. As the country’s anti-litter charity, we work tirelessly to combat waste and neglect so that everyone can love where they live. Using our world-class research and working with partners, we develop game-changing programmes that fly the flag for clean, accessible and attractive beaches, parks and green spaces and are proud to inspire and educate millions of children through our Eco-schools programme. The work of Keep Britain Tidy has never been more informed, important and urgent.

Volunteer role

• Are you passionate about environmental education?

• Would you like to help encourage young people to become more environmentally responsible?

• Would you like to help create great community cohesion in your Local Authority?

• Would you like to encourage schools to become more sustainable and environmentally aware?

If you’ve answered ‘yes’ to any of these questions, you may be interested in becoming an Eco-Schools Green Flag Assessor.

The Eco-Schools programme is the largest sustainable schools programme in the world. The Eco-Schools Green Flag is an international award schools attain to show their commitment to the environment. To gain the Green Flag, the school must be assessed by an Eco-Schools Green Flag Assessor. This process involves the assessor reading the school’s Green Flag application documents, and then visiting the school to meet the Eco-Committee and Eco-Coordinator to assess whether the Eco-Schools ethos is embedded throughout the school.

What will I be expected to do?

• Using application documents and by conducting a visit, you will assess the school against the Eco-Schools Green Flag award criteria
• Following this you will complete an assessment form
• You will be fully trained to undertake assessments
• You will satisfy the Eco-Schools Safer Recruitment and Safeguarding procedures and follow Keep Britain Tidy’s Safeguarding Policy

To apply:

• For more information visit our website 
• Simply fill in the application form on our website and return to us at the email address held.
• We will then contact you with further information
• You can contact us for more details via the contact details held on our website.

Volunteer with Explore and make a difference to young people's futures

Hampshire, Derbyshire, North West, North West Home Counties, Kent, Essex, Berkshire, Wiltshire and Bristol

Time commitment: approximately ½ day per three months / 2 days per year during school term time

We are seeking volunteer facilitators to help us in our mission to empower young people to explore what is involved in creating and sustaining a healthy, loving and long-term relationship.

Explore is a relationships education charity, set up in 2000, which delivers sessions in schools for years 9-13 that help young people discuss, evaluate and explore the life skills needed for long-term, healthy relationships. By exploring the meaning and significance of long-term relationships, marriage and the importance of the family unit, we help young people adjust any pre-conceived ideas to create aspirations about their future relationships. Through our sessions, young people are able to challenge media stereotypes about relationships, and any negative experiences of their own, to gain self-awareness, confidence, understanding and hope for their own future happiness.

We apply the principle of learning by experience, where young people lead their own dialogue to investigate the relationships of ordinary couples who, in response, offer experiences from their own relationship.  Marriage is used as a case study for a long term committed relationship since it is easily definable and is considered a key building block in our society. Our young people are prepared and supported to draw conclusions from these dialogues as to the moral components and life skills that produce enduring and healthy relationships, family life and marriage in today’s society.

We are looking for facilitators to run our sessions. You will be responsible for introducing the topic, engaging the students, introducing volunteer couples involved in the session, ensuring the sessions keeps to time and summarising the session at the end. The sessions typically run with a class of up to 30 students for between 1 hour and a half-day.

This is an ideal opportunity for trainee teachers or youth workers, and will provide classroom experience to enhance your CV.

Skills, experience and personal qualities:

• Full training given
• All Explore volunteers are required to complete a full DBS check
• Experience of facilitation, coaching, mentoring and / or teaching required (including through teacher training work experience)
• Experience of working with young people in some capacity
• Personal qualities of patience, listening skills, sense of humour, excellent communication and presenting skills

The Ministry of Stories is a local writing and mentoring centre in east London, where anyone aged 8 to 18 within our local community can come and discover their own gift for writing. We provide a safe space for our young writers to explore their creativity, and help build their confidence in finding their voice.  Join us as our work takes us beyond our headquarters on Hoxton Street and into schools in Hackney, Tower Hamlets & Islington.

No previous experience necessary.

Your Role as a Writing Mentor
Writing mentors are key in providing one to one attention to the children in our clubs. They help the young writers to come up with ideas during the group writing part of the workshop. Later in the workshop, they sit with two or three participants, supporting them with their writing and encouraging them to come up with imaginative ideas for their story.

Writing Clubs
Writing clubs meet each week which enables volunteers to build a rapport with the children and have the opportunity to see them grow in confidence and imagination over time.

Each term, our clubs do a different project in a new writing genre. Past projects include Poetry, Picturebooks, Podcasts, Audio Books, Animation, Songwriting and Recipe Books. 

Published Authors: Each term long project finds completion in a professionally finished medium; the children really get a great sense of how the written word can be appreciated in many forms.

One-off workshops
You will also have the opportunity to volunteer on school visits to the Ministry of Stories, where classes become authors in imaginative two-hour sessions.

Expectations
We expect all of our volunteers to commit to a minimum of six sessions every six months. Workshops are approximately two hours long, during the day, with 30 minute briefing and debrief sessions before and after. We are especially keen to take on volunteers who can commit to our longer-term projects and volunteer each week, or every few weeks.

Most clubs take place on weekday afternoons we have only one club on the weekend, that's on Saturday mornings.

We need around 100 volunteers each week in order to provide the one to one attention each child needs in these workshops. We currently run nine clubs every week as well as one-off workshops.

Join our team of writing mentors and help us to encourage confidence, creativity and a sense of play in our workshops where the children have fun with the written word by creating oodles of work appreciated by all.

The International Humanity Foundation (IHF) has been active in Kenya for over 20 years working with local tribes, caring for and educating children born into poverty and providing a place where international knowledge and skills can be employed to support the local community. Volunteers who sign up to donate their time at our IHF Kenya Center make a very real impact during their stay participating in any or all of the following local tasks:

• Provide hands on help with the Center's day-to-day operations

• Participate in a cultural exchange, organizing special games and activities with our children

• Support our sustainable Peace Farm Project and learn how agriculture is still a vital part of everyday Kenyan life

• Help supplement our children’s education by joining in with our evening reading and study programs