Youth Coach Volunteer Roles in Birmingham

Travel Radar provides high quality and relevant news across the Commercial Aviation & Air-Travel sectors. Having grown rapidly since 2015, we've gone on to become one of the leading providers of Aviation News available online. We bring exciting and interesting travel news 24/7 from around the globe to a reach of over 20 million users, with the aim to be a free, independent and unbiased source of news and information.

Travel Radar runs monthly internship programs inspiring the next generation to get involved in the world of journalism, reporting and marketing, and a key component of these internships is learning both hard (workplace) and soft (life) skills. We are on the lookout for 2-3 mentors/coaches/instructors to run remote based/online sessions as part of these programs. 

Responsibilities and A Little More About the Role:

✅ Deliver engaging online training sessions on key workplace and professional development skills.
✅ Guide interns through structured learning, including communication, teamwork, time management, and industry-specific knowledge.
✅ Provide feedback, support, and mentorship to interns, helping them develop confidence and industry awareness.
✅ Assist with designing and improving training materials and session content.
✅ Track intern progress and report insights to the internship coordinators

Due to the remote nature of this role, we anticipate mentors to deliver no more than 1-2 sessions per month, and expect this to be a commitment of no more than 5-10hrs per month.

Who We're Looking For:

✔ Passionate Educator – You have experience coaching, mentoring, or teaching, with a passion for professional development. OR a desire to learn too, with full mentoring training provided
✔ Strong Communicator – Excellent verbal and written communication skills to engage and motivate interns.
✔ Industry Interest – A background or interest in Aviation, Journalism, Marketing, or Business is a plus.
✔ Tech-Savvy – Comfortable using online learning tools, Microsoft Office 365 (Word, PowerPoint, Excel), and collaboration platforms.
✔ People-Focused – Strong interpersonal skills, with the ability to mentor and inspire interns at various skill levels.

Please note, full training will be provided for this mentoring role and you will only be delivering sessions you feel comfortable with - for example using LinkedIn, time management, CV writing etc.

Why volunteer at Travel Radar?

• Fully remote position
• Perkbox / Discount Program with over 4,000 deals and discounts
• Great Training and Learning Resources, including a CPD Level 5 Accreditation in Business Administration
• Option to gain a recognised CIPD award (through experience) funded by the company
• Latest Tech including free subscription to Office365, Grammarly Premium, Adobe Photoshop and Canva Pro, as well as access to company Chromebook devices and Virtual Machines

Additional Information:

Commitment per Week: 5-10hrs per month (flexible)

Reports to: Internship Coordinator

Application Deadline: 31 March 2025

Educators and facilitators wanted to help East London Waterworks Park deliver its environmental learning goals.

East London Waterworks Park is a volunteer-led charity that has won a 2024 New London Architecture award and raised £2m towards buying land from the Department for Education to transform the 14-acre Thames Water Depot on Lea Bridge Road on the border of Waltham Forest and Hackney, into a new biodiverse park with natural swimming ponds, forest schools and community spaces. 

We are looking for educator and facilitator volunteers to participate in our community-led working group, who are collaborating with schools, universities and youth groups that help the design of the park. 

Examples of projects are: 

• collaborating on nature walk activities for schools
• supporting university students interviewing teachers
• creating lesson plans to co-design the park. 

Schools, universities and youth groups we've collaborated with include:

• Buxton School, Leytonstone
• Kingsmead School, Enfield 
• UCL 
• Royal College of Art
• University of Westminster 
• Project Zero
• Voyage Youth 
• Loyola University Chicago 
• Vanderbilt University Nashville. 

We're looking for people to lead on these projects and facilitate the direction of the learning working group.

The Learning Circle currently meets monthly on a Wednesday evening at 8pm for an hour on Google Meet and spends voluntary time outside of the meeting completing agreed tasks remotely.

You should be an experienced teacher, educational consultant, forest school leader, training and development specialist, learning designer, facilitator or any other kind of role creating learning projects, programmes and experiences. Our roles are quite flexible. We hope that people bring radical imagination, peace with nature, and courageous inclusiveness to the role. 

Your support will help young people and learners improve their environmental knowledge of design and research as well as contributing to our community-owned park. This will in turn provide a sense of stewardship over the land once the park is created and student's ideas have been built into the park. 

Creating learning projects with educational institutions will also help our charity with the strategy to buy the land through showing the value of our environmental education programme before we create the park. 

Role title: 

Volunteer Classroom Assistant (Online) – English, Maths, Science  

Where: 

Online (Zoom) / Nova New Opportunities, 2 Thorpe Close, W10 5XL

When: 

Immediately, minimum commitment of 3 months. 

Support 1-2 classes a week (45 minutes per class). 

English classes are currently held on Mondays and Wednesday between 16:30 and 19:15. 

Maths and Science classes are currently held on Tuesdays and Thursdays between 16:15 and 19:45.

About Nova:  

Based in North Kensington since 1983 and serving its poorest wards & those of surrounding London boroughs, Nova works with individuals from marginalised and disadvantaged communities who are looking to develop their potential and achieve a better future for themselves. Nova brings about real and lasting change in people’s lives by addressing every person as an individual and seeking out ways to best support that person to reach their goals. We endeavour to help every person that comes to us who is motivated and committed to improving his or her life.   

Reaching 2,500+ people each year, we believe in improving people’s lives one person at a time, helping committed and motivated individuals to achieve their potential by:  

• Developing knowledge, education and confidence 

• Connecting diverse groups

• Providing opportunities 

Our work, operates on 2 levels:

• Grassroots Community Support – including responsive actions (e.g. Grenfell, COVID-19), education, IAG, family programme and volunteering  

• Wider Reaching Dialogue Events and Influencing – focussing on challenging stigma, prejudice and inequality – working with individuals, organisations, networks and decision makers to move through conversation to action 

Purpose of role: 

Support the Nova Family Programme tutors in facilitating online home school sessions.

Role Description: 

This role will be to act as a teaching assistant to tutors delivering online English, maths and science classes (for young people at Key Stage 2 and 3). With the disruption of Covid-19, many families have been thrown into the unknown world of home schooling – made even more challenging when your own education isn’t up to scratch or English is your second language. We are delivering a free programme of online home school support to those who have been most negatively impacted by being out of school. Now that Schools have reopened, we will be continuing these sessions to ensure that learners do not fall behind as Schools focus on catching up on lost learning. The aim is to support children who may be falling behind with their studies and mitigating as far as possible the widening attainment gap. 

You will: 

• Enjoy working in a team 

• Provide tutorial support 

• Position yourself as a resource for learners 

• Work one-on-one or with breakout groups of learners who need additional help 

• Facilitate the zoom classroom as required 

You need to be: 

• DBS Checked 

• Confident in the use of IT 

• Some experience of supporting learners with Maths/ English 

• Experience of working with young people 

• Committed

• Competent 

• Reliable

• Honest 

• Punctual 

• Patient 

• Fair 

• Open minded 

• Learners may come from various cultural backgrounds and face different learning challenges. You will need to be at ease whether supervising an entire class or working one-on-one with students.

• Comfortable following Nova staff directions and working independently 

Further information: 

• Induction and appropriate training will be provided.

• Teaching or coaching experience would be desirable but not essential. 

Main point of contact/supervisor: 

Matthew Barnett 

IMPORTANT: An enhanced DBS check is required for this role, and so we are unfortunately only able to accept applications from UK-based applicants or British nationals living abroad.

About the role

In England, eight Regional Lead Volunteers provide leadership to our 59 Scout Counties whose role is to inspire, encourage and support their Region's County teams to achieve UK Scouting’s strategic objectives by focusing on those priorities identified within the England Leadership Team. As part of the England Leadership Team, you will:

• Provide formal leadership to all of Scouting operating within the 59 Scout Counties within England to ensure the successful delivery of our Skills For Life strategy.
• Provide strategic leadership and inspiration to volunteers who lead, manage and deliver Scouting within England.
• Provide support, encouragement and prioritisation to ensure that UK Scouting’s strategic objectives are achieved within all Scout Groups, Districts and Counties operating within England.
• Operate as part of the UK Scouts team, championing and influencing the strategic design and development of UK Scouting’s programme, policies and services on behalf of members within England.

Key tasks

• Ensure that each County in the region has effective leadership by appointing and supporting County Lead Volunteers to lead their teams to deliver Scouting’s strategic objectives.Build and maintain a sense of regional team by holding regular team meetings with the County Lead Volunteers and Growth & Communities Team staff to collaborate and provide peer support.
• Together with the County Lead Volunteers, agree the regional priorities and produce a plan to deliver these to meet Scouting’s vision and strategic objectives. 

• Ensure that problems within the region are resolved so that an effective volunteering culture is encouraged and County Lead Volunteers feel supported to deal with challenging issues, including complaints in a timely manner. 

• Play an active part within Team England by attending 3x face to face meetings per year for Regional Lead Volunteers and twice yearly face to face meetings for Regional and County Lead Volunteers to contribute to the development of Scouting within England. 

• Represent the England Leadership Team and national Scouting within Counties and Districts by attending events.

• Support team members or other Scouts volunteers by contributing ideas or coaching them to find solutions to their challenges.

Could you help to change a care-experienced child's life by reading with them for just an hour a week over a six month period?

We're looking for new volunteers to read online. Reading Heroes is a highly individualised initiative - every book that you read has been chosen specifically for you and the child.  All books are provided, and you will receive ongoing personal support from our dedicated Reading Heroes team, as well as opportunities to meet with other volunteers.

The number of care-experienced children in the UK growing; research tells us that these children are more likely to experience social, emotional and mental health problems, so we believe that Reading Heroes is a more important project than ever.

We have found that the Reading Heroes scheme has helped the children involved with their reading and other literacy-based skills, but these are not our primary purposes. Reading Heroes simply promotes reading for pleasure, and giving some of our time to children who need a little extra support - along with a kindly, friendly listener!

As a Reading Heroes volunteer, you’ll be instilling a love of stories which can have a lifelong positive impact. 80% of participants tell us they enjoy reading more after taking part.

Find out more: https://ow.ly/FVts50SBrIm

“Thank you for helping me read better and for making reading fun and not stupid boring!" (Reading Heroes participant)