Our Brighton Shop is relaunching in March 2020 and we need your help!

Gain skills, help raise vital funds and be a disability gamechanger in your local community.

About your role

You will help raise vital income in our Charity shop, to fund our work to achieve everyday equality for disabled people. As a Volunteer for Scope you can take pride in knowing you’ve made a difference to disabled people and their families at a time of need.

You’ll be able to choose what sort of tasks suit you best from the following options:

• back of house, helping us sort donations and prepare stock out the back

• customer service, welcoming customers to the shop, answering customer queries or serving customers on the till

• department specialist, taking care of a specific area of our shop, such as our books, media, shoes or handbags

• visual merchandising, creating window and shop floor displays

• supervising, keeping an eye on the shop floor and supporting other volunteers

This is a very flexible role. We’d love your help for as little as one hour a week, but if you can give five hours, even better. We’re open seven days a week, so chat to us about the hours and days that suit you. 

Skills needed

There are no skills or experience necessary before you start volunteering in our shops. We welcome any volunteers who are interested in charity shops, passionate about disability equality, or just keen to meet people or learn something new.

Skills you’ll gain

• Shop experience

• Customer service skills

• Working the till (if you want to)

• Getting stock ready to be sold

• Creating displays

• Team work

• Confidence

• Valuable experience for your CV

• Experience in a large national disability charity

• You may be eligible to study for an NVQ in Retail, Customer Service or Team leading (if you volunteer for more than 16 hours a week and meet the eligibility criteria)

The support you will get

• Volunteer induction into Scope

• Relevant training

• One to one support and regular catch ups with your manager

• Pre-agreed travel expenses and, if you volunteer all day, lunch expenses too

• We will make accessibility adjustments to the role (if you need this)

Safeguarding

Safeguarding is everyone’s responsibility. Scope is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare and wellbeing of children and adults at risk, whether receiving services or being staff or volunteers. We expect all trustees, staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

Cats Protection is the UK’s leading feline welfare charity and our vision is a world where every cat is treated with kindness and an understanding of its needs.

Cats are at the centre of everything we do and our objectives are: homing, neutering and educating people about cats and their care.

We help thousands of cats across the UK each year thanks to our network of dedicated volunteers, staff and volunteers.

A bit about this role

Our volunteer website editors promote the activities of our local volunteer groups and teams by helping keep their websites relevant, exciting and engaging for members of the public. Local websites are often the first place members of the public will look to find out more about Cats Protection. A positive local profile can help raise funds, promote adopting a cat, promote neutering and make sure as many people as possible learn about feline welfare.

What you can expect to be doing

• Sourcing news and information for websites

• Communicating with other across Cats Protection

• Sourcing and updating information around rehoming, welfare, fundraising and volunteer recruitment

• Regularly updating and posting on your groups website

What are the benefits to you and the cats?

You will develop new skills, expand your knowledge and make a significant contribution to improving the lives of cats and kittens by making sure your local volunteer group or team’s website is exciting, current and informative. You will also meet new people, make new friends and be part of a dedicated team of volunteers.

We're looking for someone with

• Good interpersonal skills

• The ability to communicate well with a range of people

• Willingness to be part of a team

• Good IT skills

• Editorial and photo editing skills (would be an advantage)

Time expectation

Our website editor volunteers usually spend 2 to 3 hours per week in this role, which is flexible and can be shared by more than one volunteer if needed.

Additional information

At Cats Protection we believe our volunteers should be happy and confident in their roles. To make sure this is the case, we provide support and guidance both remotely from our National Cat Centre and face to face through our regional and local volunteer groups and teams. We also offer varied online and face to face training and have wide-ranging policies covering all aspects of volunteering. We hope the support we provide will ensure our volunteers have a great experience with Cats Protection.

The DAKTARI Outreach Program is an integral part of our work. This program reinforces the impact we have on the children that come to DAKTARI. We also expand our impact by empowering the local community members to lift themselves out of poverty. Your job will be to maximise this impact in ways that excite the students and community members.

This position allows you to get fully immersed in the local culture and help the communities tackle poverty. You and your local Outreach Manager will be working closely with members of the community and get to know them very well.

Your job will include

• Traveling to two of the local secondary schools and teaching the weekly Eco-Club (after school lessons on the environment)
• Creating and updating lesson plans for the Eco-Clubs – they will need to be engaging and fun for the students
• Coordinating the outreach campaigns and prepare engaging and impactful lessons for the students about wildlife crime
• Community empowerment activities, including job training workshops
• Looking for ways to measure and analyse your impact in the community
• Follow up our community impact statistics and analysis
• Organise Village Tours and Home Stays to encourage eco-tourism in the community

Criteria

• You must hold an international driving license and be prepared to drive out to schools by yourself
• You must have good time and staff management skills and the ability to focus on several projects at once
• You should be confident in preparing and teaching lessons to children who are not used to paying attention or having fun in class
• Experience teaching individuals whose native language is not English is strongly preferred
• Having previous intercultural experiences or having experienced an underprivileged African classroom is a huge plus

Gain skills, help raise vital funds and be a disability gamechanger in your local community.

About your role

You will help raise vital income in our Charity shop, to fund our work to achieve everyday equality for disabled people. As a Volunteer for Scope you can take pride in knowing you’ve made a difference to disabled people and their families at a time of need.

You’ll be able to choose what sort of tasks suit you best from the following options:

• back of house, helping us sort donations and prepare stock out the back

• customer service, welcoming customers to the shop, answering customer queries or serving customers on the till

• department specialist, taking care of a specific area of our shop, such as our books, media, shoes or handbags

• visual merchandising, creating window and shop floor displays

• supervising, keeping an eye on the shop floor and supporting other volunteers

This is a very flexible role. We’d love your help for as little as one hour a week, but if you can give five hours, even better. We’re open seven days a week, so chat to us about the hours and days that suit you. 

Skills needed

There are no skills or experience necessary before you start volunteering in our shops. We welcome any volunteers who are interested in charity shops, passionate about disability equality, or just keen to meet people or learn something new.

Skills you’ll gain

• Shop experience

• Customer service skills

• Working the till (if you want to)

• Getting stock ready to be sold

• Creating displays

• Team work

• Confidence

• Valuable experience for your CV

• Experience in a large national disability charity

• You may be eligible to study for an NVQ in Retail, Customer Service or Team leading (if you volunteer for more than 16 hours a week and meet the eligibility criteria)

The support you will get

• Volunteer induction into Scope

• Relevant training

• One to one support and regular catch ups with your manager

• Pre-agreed travel expenses and, if you volunteer all day, lunch expenses too

• We will make accessibility adjustments to the role (if you need this)

Safeguarding

Safeguarding is everyone’s responsibility. Scope is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare and wellbeing of children and adults at risk, whether receiving services or being staff or volunteers. We expect all trustees, staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

DAKTARI is looking for someone who is eager to tell our story to the world, someone who loves to wordsmith, and someone with an eye for graphic design. The communications & media manager is the voice of DAKTARI and we are looking for someone excited to take on the challenge of describing our work to a big and variable audience in a fun and engaging way.

Part of your role is to tell everyone what is happening at DAKTARI every day. That means you have a front-row seat to all of the exciting things happening at the camp!

Your job will include

• Managing DAKTARI’s accounts on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram, including posting content daily
• Keeping up to date with all current marketing trends and set up campaigns accordingly
• Creating media and marketing content for DAKTARI including brochures, merchandise, photos, and videos
• You are the link between DAKTARI and the agents. Send them monthly newsletters, maintain a good relationship and keep our listings up to date
• Writing articles for newsletters and newspapers
• Maintaining DAKTARI’s brand across all promotional materials and enforcing its use throughout the organisation
• Updating and improving DAKTARI’s website

Criteria

• You must be comfortable working with Mac computers
• You must be able to meet deadlines and manage your time well
• You must have strong writing skills and be able to work independently
• Previous marketing or communications experience is strongly preferred
• Experience with Adobe software is strongly preferred, specifically Photoshop and/or Fireworks
• Photography experience and/or experience making videos is a huge plus.

About Community Southwark 

Community Southwark is the main provider of support and advice to the voluntary and community sector (VCS) in Southwark. We are deeply committed to supporting a strong and thriving sector in the borough through our key strategic functions: 

• Offering capacity building services 
• Providing free training and workshops for the VCS   
• Advocating on behalf of the VCS   
• Supporting activism and community engagement 

Community Southwark engage the local community in social action and local activism through our digital initiative: Southwark CAN, alongside an established Twitter account and the Community Southwark Facebook page. Southwark CAN provides online resources and information such as news, events, information, and other updates that enable Southwark’s residents to engage in local issues, get involved in local activism, and make a difference. 

The project was founded to address the distinct lack of awareness on local issues in Southwark that have a huge impact on the community. We want to let communities know that their voice can make a difference, and we provide the information to let them know how they can get involved. 

Purpose of role  

We plan to expand the Southwark CAN programme to include local events about issues such as climate change, serious youth violence and urban regeneration. To do this, we want to welcome a Digital Support Volunteer into the team to help keep our online presence active, and in doing so enable the growth of Southwark CAN and its core message. 

This role is vital to maintaining community engagement and telling our followers and local organisations what decisions are being made, what changes are coming, consultations and other local campaigns and initiatives in Southwark, and indeed, how they can get involved. This is an exciting role that will expose the right candidate to the world of local democracy and campaigning. 

Main activities: 

• Research- Research new website content, i.e. community events, campaigns, consultations & other updates  

• WordPress- Upload and write brief updates for the Southwark CAN website  
• Social media - Write and schedule social media posts for Twitter & Facebook via Hootsuite  
• Newsletters- Put together content to go out to the Southwark CAN mailing list. 

What the volunteer would gain from the volunteering opportunity: 

Training in:

• Hootsuite 
• WordPress 
• MailChimp
• Digital engagement
• Other areas of interest for the candidate (i.e. policy and development)

Other experience gained:

• Office and comms experience for your CV
• Confidence, meet new people and be a part of a team
• IT
• Learn more about the Southwark Community and Voluntary Sector
• Mentoring and support

Other information: 

• Travel expenses will be covered by the organisation

Who are we looking for?  

The successful candidate will… 

• have good written and verbal skills, and an ability to write succinctly and in an engaging way 
• Good intuition and problem solving ability 
• be friendly and outgoing 

• have an interest in politics and local democracy, and desire to learn more 
• have an eagerness to learn digital engagement skill 

We are an Equal Opportunities Employer. 

We are particularly keen to ensure that our staff reflect the diverse nature of the communities in which we work. Applications from disabled people, the LGBTQ+ communities, people from ethnic minority backgrounds, South London residents and people who share lived experience with our service users are very warmly welcomed. 

We will generally offer an interview to any applicant that declares they have a disability and meets the minimum criteria for the job as defined by person specification. 

Applicants will be invited to an informal interview to chat about the role and what they hope to gain by volunteering in Community Southwark

Thank you for reading, and I look forward to reading your applications-

Myles Thorpe

Engagement Officer, Digital

What will I be doing?

This voluntary position would benefit anyone looking to take their first steps into the field of HR or a current HR student looking for relevant experience. It will provide an overall introduction to working in both a not for profit organisation and a busy HR Department.

You will be helping our HR team by:

• Assisting with the full employee life-cycle including recruitment of staff by posting job adverts, helping to organising interviews, completing contracts, offer letter and leaver letters. 
• Helping to maintain employee files and databases including creating new paper and electronic files, updating records as required and archiving leavers’ files
• Updating our HR database with sickness figures and training details
• Running reports from our HR database to help report on departmental KPI’s
• Maintaining the HR inbox
  
  How will this benefit JDRF?

This role will assist the HR team in supporting JDRF’s mission and organisational aims. 

How will this benefit me?

• Introduction to HR administration, processes, policies and procedures
• Experience of working in a busy HR department
• Full training on a HR database
• Insight into working for a charity
• Understanding of our HR supports and contributes to organisational aims

When do you need me? One day per week, for initially three months with the possibility of extension. The preferable days are Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday or Friday

Where is this role based? In our London offices in Angel, Islington

What training will I receive? Full training will be provided by the HR Manager

What Will be expected of me?

• To assist with the smooth running of administration within the HR department
• To support JDRF’s mission to cure, treat and prevent type 1 diabetes
• To put supporters at the heart of everything we do
• To work as one team towards the same end goal- to cure, treat and prevent type 1 diabetes
• Take personal accountability for own work and collaborating with colleagues
• To embrace change as we continue to grow as an organisation
• To be adaptable and willing to take on new challenges and not to be afraid of failure
• To actively promote equality and diversity

What skills and attributes do I need?

• An interest in working in and pursue a career in HR
• Have an excellent attention to detail
• Possess strong communication skills both written and verbally
• Be a team player
• Have an interest in working in the charity sector
• Be able to use Microsoft Office (Word and Excel in particular) to a high standard
• You must be willing to sign confidentiality agreement to cover the information on our HR database that you will come into contact with.

What support is available to me?

Regular 121s with HR Manager; allocated staff buddy to help better understand type 1 diabetes

Sounds great!  How do I get involved?

If you’re interested in applying, you’ll need to send us your CV and a covering letter highlighting why you are interested in this position.  Once we receive this, those shortlisted for the role will be invited for an interview, which we give us the opportunity to ask you some questions and also give you the opportunity to ask us questions too.  We want to make sure that this is the right role for you and that you’ll be happy providing this support.

Who are Stay Brave?

We’re a young charity wanting to take a modern approach to abuse and exploitation prevention. Stay Brave is for all survivors, we work to make sure that any survivor of abuse, regardless of gender or orientation, gets the help they need and respect they deserve. 

You’ll be joining Stay Brave at an exciting time as we implement and deliver on new strategy to extend our reach to better serve those we recognise as under-served (men, LGBTQ and sex wokrers) and affected by abuse and exploitation by bringing their voices and stories to the public.

What's the purpose of this role?

As a volunteer led charity, who all work remotely, we need someone to keep us coordinated and connected.  You would be responsible for the day to day administration involved in delivering our services: volunteer recruitment, supporting and helping deliver our strategic plans and making sure we have the policies and procedures in place to support our growing team.  Our Operations Manager is also responsible, alongside the Chief Executive, to help develop viable business cases for proposed projects, securing partners where necessary and procuring services to support our team. 

Who are Stay Brave?

We’re a young charity wanting to take a modern approach to abuse and exploitation prevention. Stay Brave is for all survivors, we work to make sure that any survivor of abuse, regardless of gender or orientation, gets the help they need and respect they deserve. 

You’ll be joining Stay Brave at an exciting time as we implement and deliver on new strategy to extend our reach to better serve those we recognise as under-served (men, LGBTQ and sex workers) and affected by abuse and exploitation by bringing their voices and stories to the public.
 

What’s the purpose of this role?

The purpose of Communications Manager is to be our Chief Storyteller. Through effective use of our social media, website and digital channels you will help tell survivors’ stories, raise vital awareness of issues they face, develop brand awareness and support our fundraising efforts. All whilst generating inbound traffic and increasing the reach of the charity digitally.

Working in partnership with your teammates, you will be creating, editing and publishing digital content and evaluating its impact. You will have day-to-day responsibility for our social media channels, with a remit to look wider and innovate using existing and emerging tools and channels, and to improve our ability to understand and act on online conversations.

If this role sounds right up your street, then download our Role Description and apply via our website.

Who are Stay Brave? 

We’re a young charity wanting to take a modern approach to abuse and exploitation prevention. Stay Brave is for all survivors, we work to make sure that any survivor of abuse, regardless of gender or orientation, gets the help they need and respect they deserve. 

You’ll be joining Stay Brave at an exciting time as we implement and deliver on new strategy to extend our reach to better serve those we recognise as under-served (men, LGBTQ and sex workers) and affected by abuse and exploitation by bringing their voices and stories to the public. 

What’s the purpose of this role? 

The purpose of Communications Officer (Stories) is to lead the story gathering at Stay Brave, encouraging those we recognise as under-served and survivors to share their stories of stigma and intimate abuse. We believe that by telling and sharing stories, we will be able to raise vital awareness about stigma and intimate abuse for under-served groups.

If you think this role would be for you, download our Role Description and apply via our website. 

Who are Stay Brave?

We’re a young charity wanting to take a modern approach to abuse and exploitation prevention. Stay Brave is for all survivors, we work to make sure that any survivor of abuse, regardless of gender or orientation, gets the help they need and respect they deserve. 

You’ll be joining Stay Brave at an exciting time as we implement and deliver on new strategy to extend our reach to better serve those we recognise as under-served (men, LGBTQ and sex wokrers) and affected by abuse and exploitation by bringing their voices and stories to the public.

What's the purpose of this role?

The purpose of the Events Officer role is to provide crucial support our events programme at Stay Brave, helping us both raise funds and engage our supporters through a range of event types. Supporting the Development Manager, the Events Officer will play a key role in the design, organisation and execution of our events programme, including our key Walking Brave challenge.

If you think this role is for you then please download our Role Description and apply via our website. 

Shop Volunteer
Location: Plympton Bookshop

Opening Hours: Mon-Sat 9-5 Sun 10-4

Commitment: You can get involved as much or as little as you like!

Are you the face of British Red Cross fundraising?

Our shop volunteers are the first point of contact for customers when they enter our shops, providing a warm welcome, a helping hand, and driving donations.

Being a volunteer is a unique experience where you can gain and enhance various skills, meet lots of new faces every day, and have a say in how the shop looks and feels. Your efforts will help us raise as much money as possible to help those in crisis.

You'll be perfect for this role if

You're interested in gaining experience in the retail sector. You'll be gaining valuable experience in customer service and visual merchandising, which are highly transferable workplace skills. While developing your abilities, you'll be meeting and engaging with a wide range of people from various backgrounds.

You'll possess excellent interpersonal, communication, and teamwork skills and be comfortable working alone and unsupervised as required.

We won't just leave you to it - you'll get support to develop your retail skills through our in-house retail Volunteer Journey training and our e-learning facility so you can represent the British Red Cross with confidence.

As a Shop Volunteer, no two days are ever the same.

Day to day, you'll be:

• Serving customers on the tills, cash handling and proving an excellent customer experience
• Unpacking and pricing stock when required
• Designing attractive shop and window displays
• Keeping the shop tidy, clean and well organised
• Interacting with the public

What You'll Get

• Retail experience and the chance to enhance your skills/CV
• Full support on your volunteering journey from our friendly team
• The opportunity to make a difference to the lives of the people we support
• 20% discount on in store purchases

About us

Here at the British Red Cross, our goal is to help anyone, anywhere, get the right support for them when crisis strikes. We are part of the world's largest humanitarian organisation, and with the support of our volunteers have helped thousands of people. Our goal is to connect human crisis with human kindness.

Helping people in crisis begins at your local charity shop.

Our Shops are full of gifts, clothes, and even the odd vintage gem. Our teams are passionate and bright and love providing a warm welcome.

We aim to serve every customer with a smile and to make sure everyone that visits us has a great experience. We're always aware that every penny raised in our little shop goes straight to helping someone in crisis.

Being a volunteer for the British Red Cross means that you can proudly say you are part of the world's largest humanitarian organisation, and one of our 13 million volunteers across the globe.

Connecting human kindness with human crisis

Shop Volunteer
Location: Plymouth, Cornwall Street

Opening Hours: Mon-Sat 9-5 Sun 10-4

Commitment: You can get involved as much or as little as you like!

Are you the face of British Red Cross fundraising?

Our shop volunteers are the first point of contact for customers when they enter our shops, providing a warm welcome, a helping hand, and driving donations.

Being a volunteer is a unique experience where you can gain and enhance various skills, meet lots of new faces every day, and have a say in how the shop looks and feels. Your efforts will help us raise as much money as possible to help those in crisis.

You'll be perfect for this role if

You're interested in gaining experience in the retail sector. You'll be gaining valuable experience in customer service and visual merchandising, which are highly transferable workplace skills. While developing your abilities, you'll be meeting and engaging with a wide range of people from various backgrounds.

You'll possess excellent interpersonal, communication, and teamwork skills and be comfortable working alone and unsupervised as required.

We won't just leave you to it - you'll get support to develop your retail skills through our in-house retail Volunteer Journey training and our e-learning facility so you can represent the British Red Cross with confidence.

As a Shop Volunteer, no two days are ever the same.

Day to day, you'll be:

• Serving customers on the tills, cash handling and proving an excellent customer experience
• Unpacking and pricing stock when required
• Designing attractive shop and window displays
• Keeping the shop tidy, clean and well organised
• Interacting with the public

What You'll Get

• Retail experience and the chance to enhance your skills/CV
• Full support on your volunteering journey from our friendly team
• The opportunity to make a difference to the lives of the people we support
• 20% discount on in store purchases

About us

Here at the British Red Cross, our goal is to help anyone, anywhere, get the right support for them when crisis strikes. We are part of the world's largest humanitarian organisation, and with the support of our volunteers have helped thousands of people. Our goal is to connect human crisis with human kindness.

Helping people in crisis begins at your local charity shop.

Our Shops are full of gifts, clothes, and even the odd vintage gem. Our teams are passionate and bright and love providing a warm welcome.

We aim to serve every customer with a smile and to make sure everyone that visits us has a great experience. We're always aware that every penny raised in our little shop goes straight to helping someone in crisis.

Being a volunteer for the British Red Cross means that you can proudly say you are part of the world's largest humanitarian organisation, and one of our 13 million volunteers across the globe.

Connecting human kindness with human crisis

Refuge is the country’s largest single provider of specialist accommodation and support to women and children escaping domestic abuse – a national lifeline for up to 90,000 women and children every year.  Refuge provides safe, emergency accommodation through a network of refuges throughout the country and runs the Freephone 24-Hour National Domestic Abuse Helpline taking 400 calls every day.

We are recruiting female* volunteers for the National Domestic Abuse Helpline, who will be responsible for providing support, information and a listening ear to women experiencing domestic abuse and to those seeking help on her behalf. The role involves discussing the options available and, if appropriate, referring callers on to refuges and other sources of help and information.

Our volunteers are essential in enabling us to meet the demand for the Helpline service and are a fully integrated part of the team. This is a stimulating role that offers positive challenges and rewards to the right applicants.

You will have an awareness of domestic abuse issues, together with the ability to assess the needs of callers to the Helpline. In addition you will possess excellent communication and interpersonal skills combined with empathy and sensitivity. You will be well organised and have good administrative skills. We particularly welcome applications from fluent (or near fluent) speakers of other languages and British Sign Language. A high standard of spoken and written English are also required.

Volunteers will be required to cover a weekly 4 hour shift at Refuges’ head office in Tower Hill.  Helpline volunteer training and the experience offered by the role provide a good grounding for anyone interested in moving into the sector professionally. In the last year, a third of volunteers who have completed their volunteering commitment have gone on to work within Refuge services.

Unfortunately we are unable to accept applications from individuals connected to direct funders of the National Domestic Abuse Helpline.

Training Program

Applicants must be able to attend 100% of the training program prior to volunteering on the Helpline. The mandatory training programme will take place on the following dates:

Monday 27th April, Tuesday 28th, April, Thursday 30th April, Friday 1st May and Saturday 2nd May 2020

Training will take place from 9.30am until 4.30pm at Refuge’s head office in Tower Hill.

All candidates must demonstrate a commitment to the feminist values of empowerment and equality, which underpin all of our work.

Refuge is proud to be a leader in its field and an employer of choice with leading edge systems for supervision, quality management and development. 

Closing date:1 March 2020

Interview date:W/C 30th March 2020

An enhanced Disclosure Barring Service (DBS) certificate will be required for this role.

Refuge is committed to quality, equality and diversity and welcomes applications from all sections of the community.  This post however is restricted to women due to the nature of the role. The Occupational Requirement under Schedule 9 (part 1) of the Equality Act 2010 applies.