Farleigh Hospice
This opportunity is ongoing, with no end date.
The volunteer roles within Farleigh Hospice are as diverse as the volunteers themselves. Volunteers play a vital role in everything we do at Farleigh Hospice.
Volunteer Roles include:
For more information about the currently available volunteer roles and the application process, please click the ‘Apply’ button.
InterAct
At InterAct we deliver support where it is needed most – in the heart of the community. Our work is challenging, but extremely rewarding. Volunteers are crucial to the work we do – bringing a fresh perspective and much needed resource.
• Garden Volunteer • Group Activities Volunteer
Sanctus Homeless Charity
Sanctus is a vital charity which feeds the growing number of homeless, hungry and vulnerable individuals in our city. We run a free café offering breakfast, hot and cold drinks, snacks and a cooked homemade lunch. We are also able to help by offering 1:1 support and counselling, group sessions, training courses and a range of enrichment activities including a Book Club, Music Club and Allotment Project. Sanctus have a key team of invaluable volunteers ranging from students to trained service users, professionals and other members of the local community. We need people to help in a variety of front line services
Sanctus Volunteering Roles include:
Volunteer Café Assistant – Supporting in the homeless day centre, completing tasks such as food preparation, cooking, serving, washing up, cleaning and sorting donations.
Allotment Volunteer – Supporting at Sanctus’ local allotment, helping to maintain the site and grow fruit and vegetables which will be used in Sanctus’ café meals.
Food Collections Volunteer – Collecting food donations from local businesses and delivering them to the Sanctus café.
Charity shop volunteer - helping in our new charity shop, completing tasks such as replensishing rails with stock, customer service.
For more information about the currently available volunteer roles and the application process, please click the ‘Send me application details’ button.
1st Broomfield Scout Group
Section Assistants help the groups Section Leaders to deliver the Scouting programme to its young members. This will include running games and activities as part of the weekly section meetings and other extra events. Assisting the Scouts to achieve badges and awards. Assisting with residential experiences for the section and also helping with the wide variety of events and activities offered to the group.The group meets on a Wednesday 6.45pm - 8.15pm.There are also opportunities for you to join in with the groups Scouts ages 11-14 years and the Beavers ages 6-8 years. If you are interested in these age groups we can put you in touch with the relevant groups in the same area.
IntoUniversity Clacton
At IntoUniversity, we believe that providing better education for all is the key to unlocking the potential in every young person, and the bedrock upon which we can improve society. We are on a mission to help widen access to higher education across the UK, and we need your help to keep us moving forward!Our mentoring scheme matches you with a young person, who you will meet with virtually for a one-hour session a month, helping them to explore their future and develop their social skills. Not only a great opportunity to build your CV, mentoring gives you the chance to inspire real change. In 2021, over 65% of our school leavers progressed to higher education, compared to 28% from similar backgrounds. Your role as a mentor is fundamental to that success, so now’s your chance to get involved and change a young person’s life!
For more information about the currently available volunteer roles and the application process, please click the ‘Apply’ button. This programme is ongoing and can continue into the Summer and the next academic year.
Free Rice
Free Rice is an online microvolunteering quiz which is owned by and supports the United Nations World Food Programme.
Expand your general knowledge whilst donating for a fantastic cause. You can answer questions on a variety of topics including French, the English Language or Science!
Simply pick a catagory of questions, answer as many questions as you can, and for every correct answer you collect, you will donate 10 grains of rice for the World Food Programme.
This opportunity is perfect for a spare 5 minutes, so get answering questions now!
Simply head to freerice.com to get started, or download the app onto your phone to play on the go.
Post Pals
Post Pals, the charity helping you to ‘Post a Smile on a Sick Child’s Face’ by the sending of cards, letters, emails and little gifts to seriously ill children and their siblings in the UK. It couldn’t be easier for anyone of any age to get involved, requires no commitment and costs only a stamp and 5 minutes of your time.
Three simple steps to brighton a sick childs day.
1. Click on ‘Find Pals’, select a child and read their page
2. Send a cheerful card, letter, email, or even a little gift to the child via the address on their page
3. Sit back and know that a child's day will be brightened because of YOU
Cambridge Rape Crisis Centre
This is a volunteering opportunity to help run Cambridge Rape Crisis Centre's helpline, email and live chat support services for women and girls who have been subjected or are being subjected to sexual violence and abuse. This involves providing emotional support over the phone, email and live chat. The support is conducted from Cambridge Rape Crisis Centre and remotely from a private and confidential space, depending on volunteers' preferences. Comprehensive training is provided for the role but volunteers can decide which service(s) they would like to volunteer on. You will receive training on counselling skills and many different forms and contexts of sexual violence and abuse and their impacts on women and girls. This is an emotionally demanding but highly rewarding role, and we'd love you to get in touch with us if you're interested.Cambridge Rape Crisis Centre can contribute to childcare costs and reasonable travel expenses to enable women to volunteer on the helpline, email and live chat.
We don't require previous experience. If you would like to talk through your circumstances, please feel free to get in touch.
Candidates who may wish to volunteer remotely must have access to a private, confidential space from which to attend deliver support, that is not their bedroom.
This opportunity takes place from 17 Aug 2018
As a fundraising volunteer you will attend meetings once a month to plan events and initiatives to raise money for Cambridge Rape Crisis Centre. There are many different ways to get involved including organising events such as Firewalks and Zumbathons, representing CRCC at local community events, sourcing raffle prizes, getting Cambridge Rape Crisis Centre nominated as a local chosen charity, designing posters, and counting and banking money. As a fundraiser you will be part of a team that helps with: • Donations - overseeing the collection tins, counting and banking donations. • Retail - sourcing raffle prizes from local shops, and nominating Cambridge Rape Crisis Centre for local charity of the year and similar initiatives. • Events - plan events and oversee them on the day (in the past these have included Firewalks, Zumbathons, Quizzes, a ceilidh (a Scottish Social Event)), representing Cambridge Rape Crisis Centre to the public at things like the Mill Road Winter Fair and the Pink Festival. • Publicity - ensuring the public know about Cambridge Rape Crisis Centre's events and initiatives.
Due to Covid-19 and our responsibility to protect the wellbeing of our volunteers, our community fundraising group is currently meeting and planning fundraising events and iniatives online.