The Ranger Cadets is a new independent not for profit uniformed youth development organisation that is being set up to work with young people aged 13 to 25 years old across England in a new cadet organisation, providing new opportunities and experiences, such as life and social skills, team work, community engagement, training, fun, community spirit and personal development at weekly unit cadet meet ups which will take place one night per week normally held between 7pm and 9pm in which young people (Cadets) will take part in fun, challenging and rewarding activities, they also will get to complete missions and challenges in order to earn and receive badges for their uniform, gain accreditations in a wide range of topics and feel a sense of belonging and achievement. We aim to ensure young people are “Prepared for Life” and all the challenges that they may face as an adult.

As well as attending weekly unit cadet meet ups, Cadets will get involved within the community at weekends attending and supporting public community events as well as attending camps, residentials, trips and other youth development activities.

We are a non-political and non-religious youth organisation that is open and welcoming to everyone regardless of their background. Our overall aim is to prepare our next generation of young people preparing them for their adult lives and give them the tools and skills to live independently and successful.

We are seeking a volunteer who has the skills and experience, as well as the software to help us design and create a number of illustrated images of what our cadets would look like in uniform for all our promotional materials that we will use to promote our new youth organisation.

​Help us make a difference to young people’s lives but also to our community and our country.

To apply, please email us along with your work portfolio and please let us know which of the designs above you are interested in designing for us.

Thank you for your time.

This project is looking for long-term interns (six months) to help with the daily feeding and care of many animals, including sloths and macaws. Duties range from providing enrichment for the animals to training new volunteers.

Interns are provided with a unique experience and will gain an in-depth understanding of wildlife rescue and rehabilitation work. Interns work 5 days per week from 7am to 3pm.

Interns require basic Spanish, enthusiasm and a desire to help wildlife. Preference is given to interns with animal related education/training or experience.

Students seeking to earn credit with their university are welcome.

There is no cost and interns receive free accommodation and meals.

A full project description is provided on the Volunteer Abroad section of our website, including contact details and web address.

This project in Costa Rica is looking for Research Assistants for its green sea turtle monitoring program. Research Assistants will be trained in sea turtle monitoring techniques and work under the supervision of field coordinators. Research Assistants are responsible for tagging nesting turtles, collecting biometric data from females, recording nesting activity during track surveys, and other pertinent data collection. 

Past Research Assistants have gone on to work for conservation organizations, universities and government agencies worldwide. 

Research Assistants are needed from early June to late August, 2021 (Group 1) and mid-August to early November, 2021 (Group 2). The application deadline is March 12, 2021.

Research Assistants receive free board and lodging for the entire duration of their stay at the field station.

ROLE DESCRIPTION

Young Roots runs English support groups which during lockdown have really increased in popularity. Young refugees and asylum seekers join one to one or small group sessions led by you, to improve their English, get help with homework and improve their social skills.

English levels can be very varied- we have many young people who speak confidently and need extra help with reading and writing, as well as some young people who have just arrived in the UK and need to start at the beginning.

This volunteer Language Mentor will be able to call on the support of a Young Roots member of staff throughout the sessions, and this staff member will coordinate the attendees and set up the sessions for you. You will be responsible for creating content, leading the session and feeding back to staff on attendance levels, engagement and progress of students.

All volunteers will need to provide 2 references, undergo a Young Roots DBS check and attend Young Roots safeguarding training.

In this role, you will also:

• Provide a safe and welcoming environment for young asylum seekers and refugees
• Respect confidentiality and Debrief any issues to staff including any concerns
• Help group attendees get on well

PERSON SPECIFICATION

You will need to be able to demonstrate the following: 

Essential

• Ability to deliver resources in an informative, informal and imaginative manner

• Enthusiasm and commitment to supporting young refugees and asylum seekers

• Ability to express yourself clearly and simply, ideally with experience in ESOL teaching

• Good organisational skills

• Good team working and interpersonal skills

• Have a flexible approach

• Be able to commit for 6 months

• Understanding and commitment to youth participation principles, as outlined in Young Roots’ Youth Participation statement

• Willingness to take part in training

Desirable

• Understanding of some of the challenges faced by refugees, asylum seekers and migrants in the UK, and sympathy for clients facing such challenges

• Experience of working or volunteering with young people

• Experience of teaching English as a second language

• Ability to speak refugee community language(s) (Pashto, Dari, Arabic, Tigrinya, Vietnamese, Sorani, Amharic and Albanian)

"Capitalism is the most successful economic model our planet has ever known. It's also the one that's destroying it. Together, we're going to change that."

Citizen Shareholders is a radical new approach to investing that enables people to use their pensions and investments to change the behavior of the corporations that dominate our planet. Our platform is a way to get the issues that matter to you on to the only corporate agendas that count, the legally binding AGMs.

PUBLIC POLICY

• We want to develop a program for elected representatives to commit to supporting their constituents' right to vote the shares they own through their collective investments.

• Volunteer 5 hours per week

"Capitalism is the most successful economic model our planet has ever known. It's also the one that's destroying it. Together, we're going to change that."

Citizen Shareholders is a radical new approach to investing that enables people to use their pensions and investments to change the behavior of the corporations that dominate our planet. Our platform is a way to get the issues that matter to you on to the only corporate agendas that count, the legally binding AGMs.

MARKETING

• Help one or more NGOs (we call them Default Advisors) to begin using our platform as a way for creating change.

• Volunteer 2-4 hours per week

Using their interpersonal and organisational skills, our Administration Volunteers are the lynchpin for all local group activity. They act as the first point of contact for the group and play an important role in keeping the group’s data and details up to date to comply with data protection legislation.

Across the UK, our 270 local groups play a vital part in supporting people affected by MS. They provide sense of belonging, unity and friendship. And they deliver services and support for their local MS community.

We are looking to recruit an Administration Volunteer for the Taunton and District Group. Our Administration Volunteers are the lynchpin for our local groups’ activities. They act as the first point of contact and they make sure all relevant information is circulated to other volunteers and members. And they play an important role in keeping our data and details up to date to comply with data protection legislation.

In this role you’ll develop your administration and organisation skills. Most importantly you’ll be help your local group run efficiently, so they can keep providing valuable services to our MS community.

Time Commitment

We estimate this role will need around 2 hours a week. Our roles are flexible and aim to fit around you. Time commitments for this role may vary depending on your activities. This is an ongoing role.

This is a great opportunity to gain experience within a large charity and develop your existing skills and learn new ones. We need you to get involved and help make positive changes to the lives of people affected by MS.

About you

You’ll have an interest in the MS Society and the work that we do, as well as the enthusiasm to represent both us and our values locally. You will understand the needs of people affected by MS in your area and be sympathetic to the needs and motivations of volunteers. You’ll be confident using Microsoft Office, the internet and email. You’ll be able to apply disability, equality and inclusion practices and understand and apply our risk management system. Ideally you’ll understand the local area and organisations that provide local services.

You will be reliable and easy to contact and you need to live in or near the area the group to carry out this role.

Making sure our volunteers and members are kept up-to-date with both local and national news is vital. Our communication volunteers use social media and newsletters to make sure everyone from our MS community is informed about any MS Society updates as well as upcoming activities or events.

Across the UK, our 270 local groups play a vital part in supporting people affected by MS. They provide sense of belonging, unity and friendship. And they deliver services and support for their local MS community.

We are looking to recruit a Communications Volunteer for the Taunton and District Group. As our Communications Volunteer you’ll make sure people know they have a local MS Society group to turn to.

In this role you’ll be able to develop your writing skills, and gain an experience of communicating across a range of digital channels. 

Time commitment

We estimate this role will need around 2 hours a week. Our roles are flexible and aim to fit around you. Time commitments for this role may vary depending on your activities. This is an ongoing role.

This is a great opportunity to gain experience within a large charity and develop your existing skills and learn new ones. We need you to get involved and help make positive changes to the lives of people affected by MS.

About you

You’ll have an interest in the MS Society and the work that we do, as well as the enthusiasm to represent both us and our values locally. You will understand the needs of people affected by MS in your area and be sympathetic to the needs and motivations of volunteers. You’ll be confident using Microsoft Office, the internet and email. You’ll be able to apply disability, equality and inclusion practices and understand and apply our risk management system. Ideally you’ll understand the local area and organisations that provide local services.

You will be reliable and easy to contact and you need to live in or near the area the group to carry out this role.

Making sure our volunteers and members are kept up-to-date with both local and national news is vital. Our communication volunteers use social media and newsletters to make sure everyone from our MS community is informed about any MS Society updates as well as upcoming activities or events.

Across the UK, our 270 local groups play a vital part in supporting people affected by MS. They provide sense of belonging, unity and friendship. And they deliver services and support for their local MS community.

We are looking to recruit a Communications Volunteer for the Hillingdon Group. As our Communications Volunteer you’ll make sure people know they have a local MS Society group to turn to.

In this role you’ll be able to develop your writing skills, and gain an experience of communicating across a range of digital channels. 

Time commitment

We estimate this role will need around 2 hours a week. Our roles are flexible and aim to fit around you. Time commitments for this role may vary depending on your activities. This is an ongoing role.

This is a great opportunity to gain experience within a large charity and develop your existing skills and learn new ones. We need you to get involved and help make positive changes to the lives of people affected by MS.

About you

You’ll have an interest in the MS Society and the work that we do, as well as the enthusiasm to represent both us and our values locally. You will understand the needs of people affected by MS in your area and be sympathetic to the needs and motivations of volunteers. You’ll be confident using Microsoft Office, the internet and email. You’ll be able to apply disability, equality and inclusion practices and understand and apply our risk management system. Ideally you’ll understand the local area and organisations that provide local services.

You will be reliable and easy to contact and you need to live in or near the area the group to carry out this role.

Talking Tree is a Community Interest Company (CIC) established by a group of people concerned about the climate emergency and the urgent need to take positive action to reduce CO2 emissions and establish a different relationship with the Earth on which we all depend. 

As a newly formed CIC we are looking for a Treasurer to

• Oversee the financial affairs of the organisation and ensure they are legal, constitutional and within accepted accounting practice.
• Ensure proper records are kept and that effective financial procedures are in place.
• Monitor and report on the financial health of the organisation.
• Oversee the production of necessary financial reports/returns, accounts and audits.

We are about to open a cafe based at 91 High Street, Staines Upon Thames, TW18 4PQ but this is a remote role. The time commitment is approx 2 hours per week and there will be a regular monthly meeting to attend.

A Treasurer Trustee to help us to delivering arts, culture and outreach programmes we've run for 50 years engaging the local community, nurturing local talent and benefitting the local economy through festivals and concerts. 

The Treasurer will join the Board and oversee the production of annual budget; monitor income and expenditure; produce financial reports, returns, accounts and audits and advise on the financial viability of the organisation. 

1. Maintain up to date and accurate financial records, including detailed cash book.

2. Liaise with all matters relating to the bank. Reconcile bank accounts monthly.

3. Make online/telephone banking payments.

4. Bank cheques received.

5. Administer Paypal account and raise requests for payment.

6. Prepare annual accounts on an accruals basis and present to the AGM.

7. Liaise with independent examiners.

8. Prepare and present accounts for Committee meetings. Attend the meetings (about 4 a year).

9. Give financial advice on matters affecting the Society.

10. Liaise with other Committee members as appropriate.

11. Prepare annual publication costs schedule for the Czech Embassy.

Please contact GORDON WATTS for further information and indications of interest. 

Medical Justice seeks a Trustee and a Chair of Trustees to navigate though a changing landscape of immigration detention, to ensure we scrupulously challenge the policy of detention, and assist as many detainees as possible.

Medical Justice – a stable, successful and effective charity

Set up in 2005, Medical Justice provides independent medical advice to immigration detainees, uses medical evidence to document the harm experienced by those in immigration detention, and challenges the use of immigration detention. We are the only charity to do so. Using its medical evidence, Medical Justice has secured lasting change through combinations of research, policy, parliamentary, and media work, as well as strategic litigation.  Medical Justice now has 11 members of staff, 85 volunteer clinicians and 100 volunteer interpreters.

New challenges emerging

Medical Justice has had a well-defined and focused remit which has served our aims well for 15 years. That said, we effectively expanded our activity in 2019 to include acting as the secretariat for the newly formed All Party Parliamentary Group on Immigration Detention.  In 2020 we were granted Core Participant status in the public inquiry into the mistreatment of detainees at Brook House IRC.
 
Unprecedented change and unmet need may necessitate change at Medical Justice

The Home Office has increased its use of charter deportation flights in recent months. Also, those recently arrived across the Channel in small boats have been kept in military barracks under a regime that reeks of detention but without its formal status. We are monitoring this changing landscape. We may need to think about the scope of what we do and assess possibilities for further collaborations with other charities working to challenge immigration detention.

About our trustees

The Board of Trustees is the governing body of Medical Justice and is responsible for the overall management of our charity. All our trustees are volunteers. Any single trustee does not need to know how to do everything, but the board should be made up of people who can each bring something different, and who can work together. Trustees should have links into relevant wider networks.

The Board currently meets from 6–8.30pm once a quarter. There may be some involvement in between meetings, including a quarterly Executive Committee meeting. It is expected that the Chair will be in regular contact with Director and, as necessary, with the other Trustees.

We are keen to recruit trustees from all sections of our community

Three of our trustees have lived experience of detention – we would like to increase this number. We are looking for trustees who share our values of human rights and equality.  You should hold a vision of radical change. Whatever your background, who you are, your experience and your commitment is what we are interested in more than anything and we look forward to hearing from you.

This is an extremely rewarding but voluntary position and is unremunerated.

Medical Justice also seeks trustees without officer roles (i.e. not the Chair, Treasurer or Secretary). There is scope for a new trustee to act as chair designate for a few months until comfortable about taking the chair role.  If you are interested in an informal discussion about becoming a trustee or the Chair of Trustees, please contact Emma Ginn, the Director by Friday 12th February 2021 to arrange a call with her and Dr Hilary Pickles, our Acting Chair.

Volunteer Office 365 Administrator (Remote)

Homebased

Unpaid

Voluntary

Expenses: This is an unpaid position, but we do reimburse reasonable out-of-pocket expenses such as travel and lunch in line with Cheka Sana Foundation's expenses policy.

Deadline: Ongoing

Interviews are scheduled as the applications come in. So apply now!

About the role 

We now have an exciting opportunity for a Microsoft 365 Administrator/1st Line Support to join Cheka Sana Foundation. The Microsoft 365 Administrator will administer and maintain Cheka Sana Foundation's cloud-based applications and end-user services. 

The right candidate will be able to provide support for a user base of approximately 50 users. This is a big challenge, so the right candidate should be resourceful. Furthermore, the Microsoft 365 Administrator will be able to diagnose and resolve problems quickly. In this role, it will be necessary to communicate with various interdisciplinary teams and users. 

Responsibilities: 

• Configure and maintain Microsoft Environment, e.g. Azure AD, Exchange Online, Teams, SharePoint, and Power Platform 
• Manage shared mailbox access 
• Manage user and system accounts 
• Troubleshoot technical problems and provide technical support to users 
• Ensure security through access controls and backups 
• Build and maintain an org-wide communication site on SharePoint to keep our volunteers up to date 
• Build an internal wiki with technical documentation, manuals and IT policies 

Requirements: 

• Knowledge of Microsoft 365 systems administration and cloud-based applications 
• Experience with Microsoft Teams and Management 
• Experience with Microsoft SharePoint 
• Excellent communication skills 
• At least one year of relevant experience 
• Available to volunteer at least 7 - 10 hours a week 

What we offer you: 

• Free training and learning opportunities 
• An opportunity to build your work experience within the field of Microsoft Administration 
• An opportunity to be part of a team that is changing lives in Africa 
• We provide work reference 

Learning & Development:

To enable you to take part in this opportunity, Cheka Sana Foundation will provide: 

• A detailed induction to provide you with an overview of Cheka Sana Foundation
• Training and shadowing providing all the information and skills needed to fulfil the role 
• A dedicated member of staff to provide ongoing support and supervision
• Payment of "out of pocket" expenses in line with Cheka Sana Foundation's expenses policy
• A volunteer handbook that outlines all of the policies and procedures you will need to be aware of whilst volunteering

Get in touch

• We look forward to receiving your application