RNIB's Sight Loss Counselling Team is an established team of telephone counsellors. Accredited by the BACP, we offer free and confidential counselling and emotional support to people affected by sight loss. Volunteers will either be qualified counsellors/psychotherapists; having completed a BACP accredited training or equivalent OR be students in the final stages of counselling or psychotherapy.

Thirsk Community Care Need Volunteer Drivers

Do you live in the Thirsk area, have access to a car and a few spare hours?

We desperately need volunteer drivers for our social car scheme to transport individuals who are unable to access other transport to reach services such as doctors, hospital appointments, day services, health clinics or dentists. We also help to maintain independence and promote social inclusion through transport to shops, libraries, hairdresser appointments, attend leisure activities and make visits to family or friends.

In August 2019 alone our volunteer drivers carried out 682 journeys!

Journey bookings are managed from the office and journey rates are very low, just enough to cover the volunteer’s mileage and the administration of the bookings.

You don’t have to commit to a minimum number of hours, and you decide when you would like to drive and which journeys to take on. We appreciate any help. All you would need to agree to is to have a DBS check and we will carry this out and no cost to you at all.

For more information please contact the office or come along to one of our volunteers drop in sessions which we run every Wednesday between 2:30 – 4:30 at the Thirsk Community Care office (14a Market Place, Thirsk, YO7 1LB) and find out more about this and all our other volunteering opportunities.

Would you like to help blind and partially sighted people in the Swansea area? Do you enjoy driving and meeting new people? RNIB wants you to be a Volunteer Driver.
For the people they help, our volunteer drivers provide a friendly face and that personal touch to brighten their day and help get them to where they need to be.
Our drivers can become a regular part of someone’s life and for some their journeys together may be the only chance an RNIB customer has had to get out of their home for some time.
If you are friendly, courteous and reliable then this is the opportunity for you.

Do you want to make a world of difference and help an overseas development charity build livelihoods and transform lives?

We are a small, dynamic charity, specialising in livelihoods and rights for some of the world’s most vulnerable people.  Our work is currently focused in Sub-Saharan Africa.  We have a small UK team of 5, based in Pershore, Worcestershire and we pride ourselves on keeping small and lean so that most of our funds go out to our overseas partners who can apply them where they are most needed. 

We are looking for trustees who have the skills and expertise for the role indicated below, attending Trustees’ Meetings at least three times a year (either personally or via skype) and assisting with ad-hoc issues in-between times related to their skill area. We see these roles as a strategic lead, providing oversight and a sounding board to the relevant staff and Chief Executive.

We are looking for individuals with skills and expertise in a number of areas to join our team of Trustees. We are specifically looking for those with experience of

• Livelihoods Development
• IT/communications
• HR & governance 

We are also looking for individuals with local (Worcestershire) networks and commercial links.

Action on Poverty trustees have

• A passion for livelihood development in the global south
• Relevant skills in areas such as business, global development, fundraising, organisational development, marketing or HR  
• An interest in and an understanding of the transformative change that Action on Poverty’s work brings about in the countries in which we work
• A questioning and inquisitive approach about the work of the charity, challenging the normal and setting ambitious goals for the organisation
• An ability to act as a critical friend to staff and to the Chief Executive in particular and identify both opportunities and threats to the charity
• A willingness to give up three or four afternoons a year for Board meetings which take place in Action on Poverty’s offices near Pershore, Worcestershire and provide advice and inputs in between meetings according to their skill area. Attendance by skype can be arranged.

Please visit our website for more information about what we do and how we do it and if you are interested please email for more information about the role of trustee or send your CV and covering letter explaining why you would like to get involved to Action on Poverty's Chief Executive Ms Alex Daniels.

Do you speak Urdu, Punjabi, Chinese or Polish, in addition to English? Do you enjoy meeting people? We need you to join us at ethnic minority events and help us provide information on the importance of Eye Health. You will be required to help out at information stalls, Eye Health presentations and help with sight screening sessions.

Staff need regular assistance with group and one to one activities at RNIB Redhill Community Living Service. You must be willing to have close contact with people with learning disabilities and complex needs by supporting them in a range of activities. This could be social, academic, creative or more general.

(This role is only available to people with Sight Loss)

Are you interested in issues that affect blind and partially sighted people? We are looking for someone to help us identify, plan and take action on local campaigning issues, organise RNIB’s campaigns at a local level and lobby MPs, NHS trusts, local authorities etc., to help make everyday better for people living with sight loss.

Trustee for Ben’s Care Services Board

Remuneration: Travel and other reasonable expenses reimbursed

Time and Commitment: 3 x Care Services Board meetings per annum and 4 x Ben Board meetings per annum - held at Head Office (Sunninghill, Ascot) or Coventry.

We are working in partnership with Ben (Motor and Allied Trades Benevolent Fund), an independent charity, to recruit one or more trustees.

Ben's purposes are to provide support for life to the people of the automotive industry and their dependants.  Everyone who works, or has worked, in the automotive industry can access the confidential, free services for themselves and their family dependants. 

In addition Ben also provides high quality care for those in later life at excellent care centres or in their own homes and, for the more independent, at Ben’s award-winning retirement village. 

Two new trustee boards have been developed to ensure appropriate focus on each of these core objectives (the Health and Wellbeing and the Care Services) which both report to the main charity board. The charity is now seeking trustees to join the Care Services Board and the Main Charity Board. 

Ben is therefore seeking to recruit Trustees with interest and experience in residential, nursing and/ or social care services for older people.  An informed understanding of older people's services is appropriate, gained by experience in a range of settings, such as nursing, housing, residential care, homecare, day care and support for older people living in the community.  Trustees will also provide strategic guidance, governance/ oversight and collective leadership for the charity; supporting Ben's CEO and Executive team to fulfil the charity’s purpose ‘support for life’ throughout the period of the 2018 - 2023 plan. 

The successful candidate/s will demonstrate:

• a background in older persons' care, with proven experience, ideally at management level
• understanding of contemporary residential care and current legislation
• relevant qualifications and/ or practical experience
• charity experience desirable, though not essential
• passion to deliver excellent customer care, making positive differences to people’s lives.

Ben seeks to create strong and lasting bonds with those it helps, those who support Ben and everyone within the organisation.  If you have these qualities and wish to be considered for the position of trustee, please get in touch and forward your CV, quoting reference JO1705.

Accounting for International Development (AfID) offers volunteer assignments for accountants and auditors across the UK, Africa, Asia & South America including Trustee/Treasurer roles and financial capacity building placements from 2 to 12 weeks.

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Our partner creates and distributes educational films raising awareness about a range of health, community development and environmental issues.

Additionally, they use film to give local communities a voice; they train individuals in filmmaking techniques, offering them the opportunity to identify, address and disseminate information about crucial issues affecting their communities.

They are seeking to recruit a Treasurer to take the place of the existing incumbent who is due to retire in December. The successful candidate will be responsible for:

• The oversight of the finances of the charity, ensuring that the charity has effective financial measures, controls and procedures in place; and that they are meeting their statutory and tax compliance requirements.
• Preparing the monthly management accounts, the annual accounts & budgets
• Reporting to the Board of Trustees at regular intervals about the financial position of the charity.

This is quite a hands on opportunity for an experienced accountant / finance professional to provide financial oversight and governance to a small organisation with an international focus. As this is quite an involved role, they anticipate that it will require a commitment of approximately 10 hours per month for the accounting, financial management & reporting, and an additional 2-3 hours per month if also doing the bookkeeping. There will be around 10 meetings (board meetings, management meetings and ad hoc strategy days) a year.

Do you enjoy researching and writing engaging and interesting stories and articles? Do you have a keen interest in people, their lives and the community they live and volunteer in?

We need a creative and motivated volunteer to help us produce regular written volunteer updates to the growing team of volunteers in our Sight Loss Advice Service.

Location either office based at RNIB (Royal National Institute of Blind People), TouchBase Pears, Bristol Rd, Selly Oak, Birmingham B29 6NA or home based within West Midlands area and occasional travel to Birmingham office.

Would you like to help blind, partially sighted and people with learning disabilities and complex needs in your community? Do you enjoy driving and meeting new people? RNIB wants you to be a Volunteer Driver.
Our volunteer drivers provide a friendly face & that personal touch to brighten their day and help get them to where they need to be. Our drivers can become a regular part of someone’s life. If you are friendly, courteous & reliable then this is the opportunity for you. We are in the Redhill area

D1 driver classification and a full clean driving license for 3 years or more required.

Do you enjoy researching and writing engaging and interesting stories and articles? Do you have a keen interest in people, their lives and the community they live and volunteer in?

We need a creative and motivated volunteer to help us produce regular written volunteer updates to the growing team of volunteers in our Sight Loss Advice Service.

Location either office based at RNIB (Royal National Institute of Blind People), TouchBase Pears, Bristol Rd, Selly Oak, Birmingham B29 6NA or home based within West Midlands area and occasional travel to Birmingham office.

Located in Stoke-on-Trent, Middleport Pottery – the last remaining working Victorian pottery factory – is a site that has changed very little since it was built in 1888

Middleport Pottery is a Grade II* listed building and contains one of the few remaining bottle ovens in existence. As a site built 130 years ago for the production of ceramics, and still producing ware to this day, many of our visitors connect to the factory through their love of ceramics or industrial heritage.

Our Factory and Heritage Tours bring to life the history and the generations of people who have worked in this fascnating building. The tours are a main source of income for the charity, UKHBPT.  All our income supports the ongoing maintainence and operations of the site.

UKHBPT seek volunteers guides to help facilitate the Factory and / or Heritage Tours.

Previous experience is not essential for this role but an understanding of Stoke-on-Trent industrial and social history is desirable. 

Please note: Factory Tours run on weekdays, Monday to Thursday: 11am and 1.45pm and Fridays 10.30am only. Heritage Tours are available every day between 10am - 4pm.

Unfortunately, the above roles are not accessible to wheelchair users or those with limited mobility needs.

Do you have excellent communication skills? Can you build a rapport with people over the telephone and put them at ease? As 'Benefits Form Volunteer', you will be telephoning people that have previously received assistance from our Sight Loss Advice Service and help them complete forms relating to their claim for Attendance Allowance, Personal Independence Payments and other benefits.

Volunteers are needed at our Birmingham office.