Volunteer Roles

The opportunity

Volunteering as an administrator within the fundraising team is a new opportunity where you will support with providing high quality service to supporters of Newlife. You will be part of the team processing the raffle tickets for our Grand Draw before September. This will include adhering to General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR). The role will initially be a fixed term until the draw in September however there will also be opportunities to extend into a regular volunteer opportunity.
The tasks, responsibilities and requirements include but are not limited to –

- Customer data entry on to an excel spreadsheet

- General administration tasks

- Good knowledge and use of IT equipment, including excel

- Understanding and adhering to GDPR processes

- Working as part of a wider team

- Understanding the importance of the role of the fundraising team, how this fits within the charity and provides high quality service to supporters of Newlife

Why volunteer with Newlife?

At Newlife, we want volunteering to be an exciting and fulfilling opportunity that allows you to gain new skills, confidence and experiences whilst making a difference to the lives of disabled children and their families across the UK.

What are the benefits of volunteering?

Volunteering provides many personal, professional, and social benefits such as building confidence, improving mental wellbeing and providing unique experiences. Newlife staff members are on hand to help you achieve all that you want to from your volunteer role and throughout your journey with us.

As a Communications Volunteer, you will help with the administration of our team newsletter NEWSROUND and our social channels. Additionally, you will support with the facilitation of our internal events. You will support the Communications Manager to communicate the great work we are doing to promote Equality, Diversity and Identity, both internally and externally.

As a METRO Youth Volunteer, you would be an integral member of the youth team in supporting the Lead and Support Workers in the delivery of the weekly groups. These are held in London boroughs and Medway, Kent. You would be responsible for tasks such as setting up the space and activities, chatting with young people and supporting the facilitation of activities. Your support would enable the lead worker to provide more one to one support as necessary and help in the overall management of some very vibrant groups as well as supporting future advertising and promotion to encourage more participants for some of the quieter groups.

Trustee – Safeguarding Lead
Contract: Voluntary (reasonable travel expenses will be reimbursed)
Commitment: Average 3-4 hours a month
Location: Dartington/Hybrid

Are you passionate about protecting vulnerable people?

We are seeking a passionate and dedicated individual to join our Board of Trustees as our Trustee Safeguarding Lead.

Since 1996 our charity has been dedicated to enriching the lives of children and adults with learning disabilities and safeguarding is at the heart of our work. We operate in three areas:

• Lifeworks College: A welcoming and lively further education college for 16-25 year-olds with a learning disability.
• Lifeworks Community: A programme of activities for children and young people with learning disabilities giving them opportunities to meet friends, improve their health, try new activities and support them to achieve their best futures.
• Lifeworks Residential: A warm and welcoming home providing 24-hour residential care and support to adults with autism and severe learning disabilities.

The Role

As a Trustee of the charity, you’ll play an important role in our success and oversee the effective and responsible management of a charity. This involves ensuring the charity operates in accordance with its charitable purpose and best interests of its beneficiaries, complies with relevant laws and regulations, and safeguards the charity's assets.

With a focus on safeguarding, you will work with the Designated Safeguarding Lead and Board of Trustees to ensure our service users are safeguarded. You will provide strategic leadership, oversee the development and implementation of safeguarding policies and procedures, and work closely with the Senior Leadership Team (SLT) to maintain a culture of safeguarding across the charity.

Key Responsibilities:

• Oversee the development and implementation of robust safeguarding policies and procedures;
• Monitor and review safeguarding practices and procedures;
• Liaise with external agencies such as social services and the police; and
• Provide advice and support to the Board on safeguarding matters

Time Commitment:

• New trustees are required to attend an induction session at Lifeworks before their first board meeting.
• Trustees must attend all five board meetings held annually during standard business hours at our Head Office, Lescaze, Shinners Bridge, Dartington. One full-day meeting is dedicated to strategic planning, while the other four meetings are approximately three and a half hours each. Meeting materials are distributed one week prior to each meeting.
• You may also be asked to join additional sub-committees.

What we’re Looking For:

We're seeking someone with experience of child and/or adult safeguarding, preferably in the education sector, and a good understanding of safeguarding legislation, policies, and procedures.

You don’t need to have previous experience as a charity board trustee – we will give you the support that you need to learn about us and your role.

We believe that having a diverse board of trustees is key to our success so we’re especially keen to receive applications from under-represented communities and people with lived experience of learning disabilities.

Building a diverse and safe team:

At Lifeworks, we're committed to fostering a workplace that reflects the diversity of our community. As a Disability Confident Employer, we actively encourage applications from individuals with disabilities who meet the job criteria, and we guarantee qualified candidates with disabilities an interview.

However, ensuring a safe environment for everyone we support is our top priority. Therefore, all trustees undergo pre-employment checks, reference checks, and an enhanced DBS check.

Apply today and tell us why you'd be a great fit for our charity!

Finance Volunteer

We’re the MS Society – a community of people living with MS, scientists, campaigners, listeners, organisers, ambassadors and fundraisers. Our volunteers are a key part of achieving our goals and their support is vital. Join us.

About this opportunity
We are looking to recruit a Finance Volunteer for our Croydon Group. As a Finance Volunteer, you would be joining a coordinating team of volunteers to plan and deliver services and activities to support people locally.

You will maintain and approve income and expenditure records and explain financial information clearly to other group members. You would ensure our financial requirements and policies are followed, and that money is spent in a cost effective manner.

This is a great opportunity to gain experience with a large charity, 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 comfortable with figures, preferably with an accounting or business background. You will live in the immediate area of the Group, allowing you to meet with other volunteers from the Group.

Apply 

Read through the role description carefully

Please apply online

The MS Society is committed to promoting diversity. We can only offer roles to over 18s.

Results UK - Role Description for a Trustee

We are recruiting up to three trustees to join our board, including one to become Chair of our HR Sub-Committee.

About Results UK

Our mission is to work with others to create the public and political will to end poverty, by enabling people to exercise their personal and political power for change.

Results UK is a movement of passionate, committed people. Together as staff and grassroots activists, we use our voices to influence political decisions that will bring an end to poverty. Our advocacy is built on global solidarity, partnership and empowerment. This is crucial to challenging the racist, colonial and oppressive narratives that have underpinned development and that help to create and maintain poverty. Results UK believes the building blocks of the end of poverty are health, education, economic opportunities and citizen voice – things that all people, wherever they live, need and have a right to. Within these four areas, we prioritise specific issues on which we have most influence to achieve progress.

Results UK was established as a UK charity in 1986 and has since grown to have an annual budget of around £1.6m. We are part of a wider network of Results’ organisations based in the USA, Australia, Japan, Canada and Mexico. Although not legally incorporated into an international entity, the global Results family has a strong joint mission and shares a vision of a world free from poverty, along with  a unified approach to bringing that vision into being. We also work closely with partners in India, Kenya, Zambia and elsewhere through the ACTION Global Health Advocacy Partnership, our principal funder. 

‘Ending poverty’ is a big and complex goal, certainly larger than any one organisation can deliver on its own. We achieve this goal through advocacy, as we firmly believe that the world has enough resources – financial, technical, and knowledge – to bring about the end of poverty. What is missing is the political will to do so.

In practice, this means we call for increases in resources, better policies, and increases in political leadership on issues of international development. We do this through smart, non-partisan parliamentary advocacy, and through well-researched and evidence-based policy advocacy, both led by staff in our London office.

In addition to policy and parliamentary advocacy, our grassroots advocacy is critical. We have volunteer groups across the UK that meet at least once a month to learn about a topical issue and take action. The dedication of our volunteers speaks to both our values and history. Results UK grassroots are ordinary people, but extraordinary campaigners that are deeply engaged, reading, learning, and actively participating in training to become experts on our issues. 

You can learn more about Results UK on our website and via our annual accounts which can be found on our page on the Charity Commission website.

Main Responsibilities of a Trustee

Each trustee has a legal responsibility towards the organisation and needs to carry out their duties competently, as set out in this guidance from the Charity Commission. Trustees also support Results UK to continually improve its impact, whilst optimising how we work internally, by contributing new or innovative ideas and providing a constructive challenge function.

Key areas of responsibilities include:

Overseeing the strategic direction of Results UK 

• Supporting the Results UK leadership team with implementing the strategic aims until 2030 which marks the start of our new strategy cycle.

• Supporting Results UK with insights on specific sectors, issue areas, trends in development/advocacy.

• Supporting Results UK with relevant connections that can help the organisation with new opportunities or to resolve issues.

Ensuring operational best practice and managing risks

• Supporting Results UK with the best policies and procedures for the organisation to flourish.

• Reviewing major risks regularly, and ensuring there is a system in place to manage and mitigate risks.

• Taking part in training and development to upskill understanding of governance and other relevant knowledge to provide appropriate oversight to Results UK.

• Maintaining good relations with the leadership team.

Ensuring sound financial management of the organisation

• Providing oversight of the management of Results UK’ financial resources.

• Ensuring Results UK long term sustainability is assured via its resource mobilisation strategy.

• Ensuring Results UK has the appropriate mechanisms to ensure it is financially resilient, including sound management of the organisation’s unrestricted reserves.

Skills and Qualities

We would particularly welcome applications from those who have skills and experience in one or more of the following areas:

• Human resources, i.e. could include but not limited to recruitment processes, HR-related policies, wellbeing, equity, diversity and inclusion;

• Personal or professional experience of the challenges faced by people in low and middle-income countries, particularly around access to healthcare, nutrition, education and economic opportunities.

No one trustee will possess all the skills and qualities needed for the tasks and duties of trusteeship, but we expect board members to work as a team, united by a shared commitment to the values of the organisation. From time to time the Board will reassess its need for additional skills and recruit new trustees accordingly. Please note that you do not need previous experience as a trustee.

Meetings, Committees and Working Groups

Board meetings are held quarterly on the first Monday of March, June, September and December, normally in the late afternoon or early evening (UK time). Meetings are currently hybrid with a pattern of meeting in person at least twice a year. However, we will ensure that there will always be an option to meaningfully participate remotely and, for trustees living outside of the UK, we will pay reasonable expenses for them to join in-person at least once per year. We estimate that the average trustee spends about 5 hours a month on Results UK.

The board has three sub-committees (Finance, HR and Anti-Oppression) that meet in the weeks preceding the main board meeting. It is expected that each trustee will contribute to at least one of these committees.

The board is a group of people dedicated to the cause of Results UK and is collaborative, open, supportive and adaptable. We welcome diverse views and are very encouraging to new board members. We enjoy a strong relationship with the executive team due to our regular and open communication.

Remuneration and Benefits

Results UK does not pay trustees: these are volunteer positions. Trustees are eligible for reimbursement of agreed expenses (for example travel costs) incurred while carrying out their duties.

Being part of the Results UK board provides the opportunity to learn, enhance leadership skills and contribute to the mission of building the public and political will to end poverty.

Trustees are appointed for a three-year term, which is extendable twice.

Equity, Diversity and Inclusion

Results UK is seeking people to join our board from diverse backgrounds and life experiences, who want to work with us to do what we can to end global poverty. We believe that equity, diversity and inclusion should be the norm: not only is this an issue of equality and fairness, we recognise that diverse and inclusive organisations are some of the most productive and impactful. We are aware of the under-representation of certain groups and communities in our sector. These include – but are certainly not limited to – people of colour, refugees and people from lower socio-economic backgrounds. The Board and Executive Team have both invested heavily in this agenda in the past three years and it continues to be a priority, not least because of its very particular significance to Results UK’s mission.  As a consequence, we actively welcome applications from people from a wide range of backgrounds, skills and abilities, recognising the value that these different perspectives bring to our organisation. If you share our core commitment, we would love to hear from you.

Induction

We provide a full induction for new trustees with informal partnering with an experienced trustee initially. The induction will include meeting the Co-Chairs, the Chief Executive Officer, the Heads of Sub-committees, an introduction to the staff and the work they do and a comprehensive induction pack which includes an overview of Results UK’s strategy, approach to governance, funding, and finance. We will be happy to discuss training opportunities.

How to apply

To formally apply for this position, we would like you to provide an up-to-date CV (maximum two pages) and answers to the following three questions (up to 250 words per answer) as a word document:

1. Why are you interested in becoming a Trustee for Results UK? If applying for the Chair of HR Sub-Committee position, please state this. 

2. How do you see your role as a Trustee for Results UK? What would you look to contribute as part of this role?

3. What might equity, diversity and inclusion look like for an advocacy organisation working on global poverty?

All applications must be submitted via our website. 

If the application looks to be a good match to the current needs of the Board, the next step will be a video call interview in the week commencing August 5th 2024.

We plan to select new trustees so they have time to read board papers ahead of our next board meeting on September 6th and Board Away Day on September 7th.

For more information or an informal chat about the opportunity please contact either the Board Co-Chairs, Motunrayo Fagbayi and Nicolas Kröger or the Chief Executive Officer Kitty Arie. We have found these conversations helpful in past recruitment rounds.

Guidance from the Charity Commission

IMPORTANT NOTE: None of the information in this document supersedes the guidance provided by the Charity Commission about what it means to be a trustee of a charity. Please make sure you have read and understood the official guidance and legal responsibilities of becoming a trustee prior to applying.

Come join our team working to help change the lives of some of the most vulnerable people in society. Ranked 2023 Q4 by Best Companies as the 8th best charity to work for in the UK, Medaille Trust is one of the UK’s leading charities in the fight against modern slavery. Our innovative model is based on three principles: Prevent, Protect and Pursue.  We are one of the UK’s largest providers of survivor services, with ten safehouses and six outreach hubs, staffed round the clock by specialist staff, working with more than 600 men, women and dependent children each year.  We work to raise awareness in the UK and to provide preventive work in source countries. Our Pursue work helps survivors to engage with police and within the legal system to seek justice and to secure convictions against their perpetrators.

Our volunteers come from all walks of life and have a wide range of experience and motivations. Whatever your reason for deciding to volunteer, we want to make sure you enjoy your time with us and know just how much we value your support.

As part of the work we do, we offer activities to service users to help them to gain skills, learn new things and create friendships.

We recognise the importance of wellbeing and being in nature and we have our own allotment to support this vision. We are looking for a Volunteer Allotment Assistant to help us maintain our allotment alongside our Allotment Coordinator and service users. Helping to teach the service users skills such as planting and maintenance of the allotment.

We are looking for a Volunteer to help support us with gardening and working alongside our allotment coordinator and service users to support them with all things gardening related, tasks will include:

· Mowing lawns and clearing grass

· Trimming hedges and bushes

· Weeding and watering plants

· General allotment maintenance

· Helping to keep the allotment tidy – litter picking

· Sharing knowledge of plant, flower and food cultivation with service users.

· To offer a safe and comfortable experience for all service users, showing awareness of service users’ varying physical and mental well-being needs.

· To provide feedback to Allotment Coordinator reporting any observations or concerns in a timely manner.

· To take part in regular supervision and support

· To regularly attend volunteer or staff meetings

· To attend training as and when required

· To work within agreed professional boundaries at all times

· To provide a safe and non-judgmental environment that promotes the core values and ethos of the Trust, in accordance with the Medaille Trust Policy, Data Protection Act, and Health and Safety Regulations.

The role would suit someone who is friendly, kind, empathetic and non-judgemental.  This position is very rewarding and would suit a person who is happy to work in a team, in a busy and sometimes challenging environment.   

This role requires maturity, and an ability to engage with adults in a trauma informed way, while working alongside staff members to deliver the activities in line with agreed procedures and systems. 

· Volunteers must be at least 18 years old.

· Volunteers will need to have a good standard of spoken and written English

· Have experience or qualifications in gardening, cultivation, harvesting of plants.

· This role requires a regular commitment- weekly

· Ability to maintain confidentiality is essential

· Volunteers to have knowledge and understanding of human trafficking issues or willingness to learn

· Knowledge of mental health issues and the challenges faced or a willingness to learn

· An understanding of the importance of professional boundaries in the role

· Must be able to get to the venue which is based in Halton

To apply, please complete an application form on our website.

An enhanced DBS check is required for this role, which we will arrange. 

The relief and rehabilitation of people with disabilities,in particular by encouraging them to lead fuller and more active lives, and, wherever possible, assisting them to cope with their disability through active participation in he visual arts.

What will you be doing?

Conquest Art (CA) is a long-established charity which runs groups offering art in a conducive atmosphere for people with various health problems and challenges.  At the regular sessions they can make friends and enjoy the benefits of creativity through art.

The charity has several groups in the Surrey area as well as throughout the UK.  Exhibitions and promotional events take place at various times during the year.

CA seeks an addition to its small team of hands-on Trustees to assist with the management of the charity and, also, with publicity and promotional activities.  Apart from good communication skills and an interest in charity governance, no special qualifications are needed.

Trustee meetings are currently held bi-monthly on Zoom.

What are we looking for?

Experience in: Communications, Finance.

What difference will you make?

Ensuring the charity continues to develop and expand its operations throughout the UK, as the need for its services increases.

Comittment

Estimate of time needed:
Zero to 5 hours per month

Before you apply

Reach Volunteering's TrusteeWorks team are assisting Conquest Art CIO with their recruiting for this tole. If you are interested in becoming a trustee, please send an up-to-date CV and supporting statement to the TrusteeWorks team via the URL provided.

We are Scotland’s charity for people living with bipolar. Our vision is for a good life for everyone in Scotland who lives with bipolar. We are member-led, collaborative, advocates of peer support, rights-based and focused on equality, and lived experience is at the heart of everything we do. 

What you'll be doing as a Faciliatator Volunteer

Alongside a co-facilitator, you will facilitate a support group once a month for 2 hours.

You’ll be welcoming people, encouraging discussion and dealing sensitively with issues or conflict that may arise within the group meeting.

You’ll play an important role in ensuring meetings run to time and that everyone has an opportunity to share if they choose to do so.

You’ll be responsible for emailing meeting reminders to group participants and submitting brief statistics to Bipolar Scotland after each meeting.

Frequency & commitment

The Inverness (Highlands and Islands) Support group take place once a month on the 1st Thursday of each month from 7pm - 9pm.

Experience required

Passion for supporting and empowering others.

We welcome applications from people living with bipolar, or experience supporting others with bipolar or another mental health condition.

Experience of engaging with groups previously would be an advantage, but not necessary.

A belief that everyone can work towards their own personal mental health recovery, and an understanding that this will look different for each person.

Excellent listening and communication skills.

Good IT skills.

The ability to commit to facilitating a meeting once or twice a month – reliability is essential.

A commitment to confidentiality.

Travel details

Inverness City Centre.

Travel expenses

Reasonable travel expenses for group facilitators to get to and from the group will be provided. This will be discussed and agreed prior to commencing the role with the Volunteer Development Officer.

Training details

Training will take place in the form of 3x 2 hour online training sessions for volunteer facilitators, which include the completion of some e-learning modules outside of that time.

Taster

Induction and on-going support will be provided.

Restrictions

Minimum age: 18
A PVG certificate / check is required to carry out this role.

Come join our team working to help change the lives of some of the most vulnerable people in society. Ranked 2023 Q4 by Best Companies as the 8th best charity to work for in the UK, Medaille Trust is one of the UK’s leading charities in the fight against modern slavery. Our innovative model is based on three principles: Prevent, Protect and Pursue.  We are one of the UK’s largest providers of survivor services, with ten safehouses and six outreach hubs, staffed round the clock by specialist staff, working with more than 600 men, women and dependent children each year.  We work to raise awareness in the UK and to provide preventive work in source countries. Our Pursue work helps survivors to engage with police and within the legal system to seek justice and to secure convictions against their perpetrators.

Our volunteers come from all walks of life and have a wide range of experience and motivations. Whatever your reason for deciding to volunteer, we want to make sure you enjoy your time with us and know just how much we value your support.

We are looking for a handyperson to be able to help us with general maintenance tasks in our London West safehouse. Tasks will include activities such as installing shelving, putting together flatpack furniture, painting, gardening etc.

We are looking for a Volunteer Handyperson to help support us with maintenance of our safehouse.

Tasks will include:

· Lifting, carrying, and transporting items in a safe manner

· General handyperson tasks such as installing shelving, putting together flatpack furniture, painting etc.

· General maintenance tasks

· Sharing knowledge of general maintenance with service users to empower them to use new skills going forward

· Only complete tasks that are you able or qualified to complete

· Maintain health and safety at all times

· Showing awareness of service users’ varying physical and mental well-being needs

· To provide feedback and safeguarding concerns to Local Coordinator - reporting any observations or concerns in a timely manner

· To take part in regular supervision and support

· To regularly attend volunteer or staff meetings

· To attend training as and when required including health and safety, boundaries, safeguarding, manual handling and confidentiality

To work within agreed professional boundaries at all times

To provide a safe and non-judgmental environment that promotes the core values and ethos of the Trust, in accordance with the Medaille Trust Policy, Data Protection Act, and Health and Safety Regulations

The role would suit someone who is friendly, kind, empathetic and non-judgemental. As well as someone who is physically fit to be able to lift and carry heavy objects. This position is rewarding and will be making an immediate difference in supporting and empowering clients.

This role requires maturity, and an ability to engage with people in a trauma informed way, while working alongside staff members in line with agreed procedures and systems. 

· Volunteers must be at least 18 years old

· Volunteers must have experience or qualifications in maintenance related skills

· Volunteers will need to have a good standard of spoken and written English

· Be computer literate to be able to complete any online training

· Ability to maintain confidentiality is essential

· Volunteers to have knowledge and understanding of human trafficking issues or willingness to learn

· Knowledge of mental health issues and the challenges faced or a willingness to learn

· An understanding of the importance of professional boundaries in the role

Please apply via application form on our website.

An enhanced DBS check is required for this role, which we will arrange.

Winterbourne Medieval Barn is looking to recruit a Trustee with specific responsibility for overseeing the activities of the Events and Publicity Committee.

Immersed in over 600 years of history and heritage, Winterbourne Medieval Barn is based in a conservation area north of Bristol.

Major building works were completed in 2020 with support from the National Lottery Heritage Fund and many other generous funders and donors to revitalise the whole Barn complex into a community heritage site promoting the knowledge of medieval history, its architecture, agricultural landscape and people.

As a multi-purpose venue, we host a range of activities for the local community including family activities, music and theatre performances, craft workshops, a monthly lecture series, and our flagship annual community events the Medieval Fayre and Orchard Harvest Day.

The private hire of the Barn and its facilities are available all year round and managed separately to the Trust events by the Venue Manager. The Barn and seminar rooms can be hired for weddings, celebration events, film shoots, and meetings.

Day to  day managenent of events is carried out by two part time staff covering events and volunteer management.

Specific Role

To Chair meetings of the Trust’s Events and Publicity Committee and ensure effective decisions are made and responsibilities for actions are carried out.

Specifically supporting the Community Events and Volunteer Coordinators in the planning and budgeting of Trust run events and related publicity.

To present a Trust events report to the Trustees at each ordinary quarterly Trustee Board Meeting.

To present a Trust events financial report to the Finance Committee at each quarterly meeting.

                    While gaining invaluable experience, practice your passion within real-life scenarios. 

We’re looking for Social Media Manager volunteers to join our team, who will play a key role in the growth of our brand messages and visions. The ideal candidate will assist us grow our on-line presence and increase traffic to our digital channels.

Responsibilities
Increase traffic to our digital channels
Grow our brand messages, visions and on-line presence.

Requirements
Working experience with online digital marketing & Social Media
Strong verbal, written, and organisational skills.
Enthusiastic, Dedicated and willing to learn.

The role could be entirely remote and is unremunerated but all reasonable expenses will be met.

About TESYouth
TESYouth (Training, Employment Opportunities & Social Development for Youth) is a NFP social enterprise which focuses on improving the rate of youth employment, through volunteering, interactive and skill-based workshops, work-experience and training programmes. Together with our strategic partners, we collaborate with organisations to provide youth to develop their skills, and to assist in achieving their career aspirations.

Refugees are people and not victims, and this is a weird job ad not a normal one. 

In Second Tree, people have always grown in the team, building skills within the organisation. It was like this when we started as four volunteers, and it is now that we are a team of 20-25 – many having been here for years – managing several projects in refugee camps in Greece and training institutions and organisations in more than 20 countries.

BUT we have been awarded the project that we’ve always dreamed of. In it we have put all our ideas on how to change the humanitarian world and refugee reception systems (yes: a very unambitious project!). So, we thought: we will need more people, with a large array of skills; people who share our objective and ethical commitment and, maybe, feel unhappy with what they are doing now?

We can offer an enormous amount of work (but for something really meaningful) for a very small salary (but the same as the CEO and all of top management).

So, if you are a disillusioned humanitarian, who is looking for a place that really cares; or you work in another sector and want to start helping, this might be for you.

YOU

We are looking for someone who has:

• Intelligence: You have changed your mind and made someone else change their mind, through rational conversations, at least once in the last two weeks.

• Honesty: There is nothing you wouldn't say, except the things you say you wouldn't say. If you mess up, you say so. If someone else messes up, you say so too.

• Engagement: When you read the Wikipedia entry for Aumann's Agreement Theorem you get excited. You don’t want to “be yourself”, and you will try to improve us.

• Ethical drive: You have decided (no matter how recently) that it’s not about what you’re good at or what you like to do, but about what is right to do.

• Sense of humour: You are ruthless. You are find offending and being offended.

US

Second Tree was founded by a group of volunteers working together in one of the worst refugee camps in Europe. Some lived in the camp, some did not. From the beginning, we realised that making such a distinction – even with good intentions – “othered”, victimised, refugees. At the time we didn’t know that this was called community engagement, we just knew that we were building a community. 

More than 8 years later. Second Tree has kept the same ethos, and has turned it into a community engagement model, a policy, and a package of training programmes for local authorities, international institutions and civil society organisations. 

We still work in the refugee camps in Greece, our root and innovation lab, where we keep learning and develop new ideas. But now we also advocate – through writing, public speaking and advocacy – for a humanitarian world and a reception system that doesn’t see refugees as victims.

Ultimately, spreading this philosophy is what Second Tree has specialised in: having trained international institutions, local public authorities and civil society organisations in more than 20 countries. It is also the basis of the Project we are recruiting for.

OUR PHILOSOPHY

The community engagement model that we have developed is called simply “Refugees Are People”, or RAP. Because, too often, in the humanitarian world and in the reception systems in Europe, refugees are not perceived and treated as people, but as victims. 

People that you need to protect, because of their vulnerability, or celebrate because of their heroism, or avoid upsetting because of the culture they are trapped into. This depiction is often used by NGOs, activists, academia, and individuals to foster support, highlight injustice and counter anti-refugee sentiment. However, despite being well-intentioned, it undermines and disempowers refugees in a similar way to how the opposite form of “othering” (perceiving refugees as invaders, thieves, etc) do. 

At Second Tree, we put significant effort into countering these victimising sentiments. It’s not easy. We all carry biases within us, and committing to this belief requires constant discussion and self-reflection.  We don’t assume people’s trauma, heroism or culture, and therefore we don’t patronise, romanticise or stereotype. Instead, we view everyone, refugees and non-refugees alike, with CARE: as Capable, Accountable, Reasonable, in one word, Equal. 

It means engaging intellectually, disagreeing, joking with refugees as you would with other people, and holding them to the same standards – not lower, not higher – as anyone else. This, the practising of joint responsibility and the same high expectations for everyone involved, is how Second Tree has managed to build strong communities. 

THE PROJECT

We’ve put into this project all of the things we’ve always wanted to do. And now that it has been approved, we have to do those amazing things! It is the continuation, but with a significant expansion in both scope and depth, of a previous project, co-funded by the European Commission. We are leading a consortium of 17 partners, plus 7 associated partners, in 11 countries, 7 municipalities, and 4 academic institutions across a 3-year timeline. 

Our community building training will provide the foundation for the creation of integration task forces in 12 territories in Europe, being the instrument through which municipalities gain relationships of trust with migrant communities. A community monitoring system developed for OSCE by a professor in our network will be implemented in the territories as a sustainability tool for the Task Forces.

There’s another component that is very exciting: the Transnational Research. One of the important features of our model is that we develop relationships with people and maintain them even after they leave Greece. We have a huge number of friends and former Second Tree students scattered across many different countries. Each of these people has seen and been able to compare the integration systems of at least two European countries, knowledge that is completely untapped by States and European institutions. 40 of them will be hired as refugee co-researchers, and will be trained by the universities in the project to interview the others. They will then analyse the data, collect that knowledge into a working paper, and present the results of their action research. By the project’s conclusion, this network of 200 refugees will be formalised into a refugee-led association in Brussels, using the findings of their research to drive advocacy and lobbying efforts for policy change at EU level.

See the roles we envisage for the project attached. 

Smile for future generation is a community based development organisation which was established in 2023 by Tanzania citizens from mainland, aiming to influence, advocating for ,building capacity for children and their community so as to explore various opportunities in different sectors. The organisation intends to start implementation of the activities to the regions around lake Victoria. 

SMILE FOR FUTURE GENERATION is located in Ilemela district, mwanza city Council in magaka village. 

Education sector is essential in realising country vision of industrialization and economy hence improved quality of life.Despite effort of the government of Tanzania in improving education services by ensuring free education to primary and secondary schools, there marginalised and vulnerable children who are not benefiting fully this opportunity. To realize this there are needed efforts from other non state actors to complement governmental efforts in enhancing good educational services for children from vulnerable families especially from rural areas majorof whom are disadvantaged.This will entail working on innovative ideas suitable for respective communities thus ensuring equitable access to education services fir school children 6_ 18 years.

  VISION STATEMENT. 

To anticipate the good educational services among children in Tanzania. 

MISSION STATEMENT. 

Glance children development and education through capacity building, infrastructure and facilities development. 

 OBJECTIVES. 

1.To support children from vulnerable families with school needs such as backpacks,shoes ,school uniforms and pens.

2.To enhance the provision of sanitary pads to the children. 

3.Encourage the participation of the the community in educational services. 

Note:An applicant must be willingly t o work in collaboration with our staff .

 Bahati Alphonce 

General director 

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