Volunteer Roles
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We are seeking a Secretary to help us support our Board and ensure smooth and efficient operations as we grow our community of Christian storytellers on the frontline of influence.
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The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
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About the Youth Team role
Youth Team Volunteers work with young people from a wide breadth of backgrounds, ensuring they really feel part of the St John family. Volunteers will help young people develop their confidence, teamwork skills, self-discipline, and generally encourage them to strive to be the best they can be.
You’ll get a huge sense of satisfaction and pride delivering an essential service. It’s great for you, great for your community and great for our nation, and it requires only a small commitment of your time.
Getting started
You will usually be able to start volunteering very quickly, joining your new youth unit, meeting the young people and your colleagues and beginning to learn on the job. However please be aware you will have some online training to do, and you will need to engage with classroom training opportunities when available. There is also optional training for those who wish to pursue higher youth team qualifications.
Pursuing the role
We do not have a fixed closing date, but we may pause recruitment if we become oversubscribed - so if you want to pursue this, please do not delay!
If you are not already a St John Ambulance volunteer, after getting some brief details we will first invite you to an interview with our Welcome Team.
When pursuing this role, we will check you meet the minimum criteria and then invite you to a Youth Team interview, after which we'll be able to tell you if you've been accepted for this role.
Thank you!
About the Youth Team role
Youth Team Volunteers work with young people from a wide breadth of backgrounds, ensuring they really feel part of the St John family. Volunteers will help young people develop their confidence, teamwork skills, self-discipline, and generally encourage them to strive to be the best they can be.
You’ll get a huge sense of satisfaction and pride delivering an essential service. It’s great for you, great for your community and great for our nation, and it requires only a small commitment of your time.
Getting started
You will usually be able to start volunteering very quickly, joining your new youth unit, meeting the young people and your colleagues and beginning to learn on the job. However please be aware you will have some online training to do, and you will need to engage with classroom training opportunities when available. There is also optional training for those who wish to pursue higher youth team qualifications.
Pursuing the role
We do not have a fixed closing date, but we may pause recruitment if we become oversubscribed - so if you want to pursue this, please do not delay!
If you are not already a St John Ambulance volunteer, after getting some brief details we will first invite you to an interview with our Welcome Team.
When pursuing this role, we will check you meet the minimum criteria and then invite you to a Youth Team interview, after which we'll be able to tell you if you've been accepted for this role.
Thank you!
Actively Interviewing
This organisation is scheduling interviews as applications come in. They're ready to hire as soon as they find the right person. Don't miss your opportunity, apply now!
The Church of England is committed to promoting a safe environment and culture.
Volunteers are expected to work within the policy and procedures and attend all required training.
Name of church/body: St Mary’s Church
Role title: Community Lunch Cook
Main purpose of the role: To cook a simple vegetarian main and/or pudding for about five families (about 15 portions)
What you will be doing:
- To help prepare, serve and clear a lunch for local families
- When and where you will be doing it: Up to 3 hrs probably Monday or Tuesday - from 1 -4 weeks per month Cooking in an Environmental Health approved kitchen such as in the Crypt beneath St Mary’s, plus attending a meeting each school term
- Meetings in St Mary’s
Disclosure & Barring Service (DBS) Requirements: Probably Enhanced: children & adult
Who you will be responsible to: Rev Catherine Shelley, Crypt team leader
Training requirements:
- Safeguarding training – online course or can be done in person
- Food safety and env health approval- home kitchen if needed
Support you will be given:
- Induction, termly meetings, feedback.
- A supportive team of up to 20 volunteers with 5-6 working each week, you will be alongside another Cook and will be offered recipes and resources required.
- Reasonable adjustments as required
Potential benefits for you:
- Enable community members to share a nutritious warm lunch together.
- Be part of a team. Enjoy a warm drink.
- Personal development opportunities
General information
Person Specification for Family Cook Volunteer
This document describes the skills, experience and attributes that a person needs to carry out the above role.
Knowledge: Confidentiality (desirable)
Skills:
- Cookery (essential)
- Customer service (essential)
- Attention to detail (essential)
- Team work (essential)
- Communication (verbal) (essential)
- Able to follow policy and procedure (essential)
- Conflict resolution skills (desirable)
- Interpersonal skills (desirable)
Experience:
- Cookery (to recipe) (essential)
- Hospitality (desirable)
Personal attributes:
- Friendly (essential)
- Responsible (essential)
- Reliable (essential)
- Consistency (desirable)
- Flexibility/ adaptability (desirable)
Qualifications/ training:
- Food safety (desirable)
- Safeguarding (desirable)
- Data Protection (desirable)
- First Aid (desirable)
Availability:
- One afternoon per month (essential)
- 1 meeting per term (essential)
- One afternoon per week (desirable)
This role is advertised as part of TPP's Free Giving Back Services. This volunteer advertisement copy has been supplied to TPP and applicants apply direct to the organisation. Please contact the organisation directly if you have any questions about this volunteer role.
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About the Youth Team role
Youth Team Volunteers work with young people from a wide breadth of backgrounds, ensuring they really feel part of the St John family. Volunteers will help young people develop their confidence, teamwork skills, self-discipline, and generally encourage them to strive to be the best they can be.
You’ll get a huge sense of satisfaction and pride delivering an essential service. It’s great for you, great for your community and great for our nation, and it requires only a small commitment of your time.
Getting started
You will usually be able to start volunteering very quickly, joining your new youth unit, meeting the young people and your colleagues and beginning to learn on the job. However please be aware you will have some online training to do, and you will need to engage with classroom training opportunities when available. There is also optional training for those who wish to pursue higher youth team qualifications.
Pursuing the role
We do not have a fixed closing date, but we may pause recruitment if we become oversubscribed - so if you want to pursue this, please do not delay!
If you are not already a St John Ambulance volunteer, after getting some brief details we will first invite you to an interview with our Welcome Team.
When pursuing this role, we will check you meet the minimum criteria and then invite you to a Youth Team interview, after which we'll be able to tell you if you've been accepted for this role.
Thank you!
About the Youth Team role
Youth Team Volunteers work with young people from a wide breadth of backgrounds, ensuring they really feel part of the St John family. Volunteers will help young people develop their confidence, teamwork skills, self-discipline, and generally encourage them to strive to be the best they can be.
You’ll get a huge sense of satisfaction and pride delivering an essential service. It’s great for you, great for your community and great for our nation, and it requires only a small commitment of your time.
Getting started
You will usually be able to start volunteering very quickly, joining your new youth unit, meeting the young people and your colleagues and beginning to learn on the job. However please be aware you will have some online training to do, and you will need to engage with classroom training opportunities when available. There is also optional training for those who wish to pursue higher youth team qualifications.
Pursuing the role
We do not have a fixed closing date, but we may pause recruitment if we become oversubscribed - so if you want to pursue this, please do not delay!
If you are not already a St John Ambulance volunteer, after getting some brief details we will first invite you to an interview with our Welcome Team.
When pursuing this role, we will check you meet the minimum criteria and then invite you to a Youth Team interview, after which we'll be able to tell you if you've been accepted for this role.
Thank you!
Actively Interviewing
This organisation is scheduling interviews as applications come in. They're ready to hire as soon as they find the right person. Don't miss your opportunity, apply now!
Our Volunteer Gardener Role requires you to visit the gardens of disabled people and perform basic gardening tasks e.g mowing a lawn, weeding, pruning, bagging up garden waste, and tidying up the garden to improve accessibility.
Volunteer Benefits
- Satisfaction from providing practical help to someone who needs it;
- Flexible time commitment: we will work around your daytime availability;
- References were appropriate;
- Improving skills, including gardening, transferable to the workplace;
- Out-of-pocket expenses (including safety equipment) reimbursed.
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Actively Interviewing
This organisation is scheduling interviews as applications come in. They're ready to hire as soon as they find the right person. Don't miss your opportunity, apply now!
The Church of England is committed to promoting a safe environment and culture.
The individual appointed to this role will be expected to work within the policy and procedures and attend all required training.
Name of church/body: St Mary’s Church
Role title: Lunch set up and clear up /serving
Main purpose of the role: To provide local families a lunch.
What you will be doing:
- To set up crockery and cutlery etc for community lunch and clear away, load dishwasher.
- To serve a lunch and pudding to families (table service).
When and where you will be doing it:
- St Mary’s Crypt
- From 1- 4 times a month, probably Tuesday /Monday (approx 3 hours)
- + 1 team meeting per term
Disclosure & Barring Service (DBS) Requirements: Enhanced child and adult check
Who you will be responsible to: Week to week Rev Catherine Shelley, Lucy Tull and the organising team; and overall to the PCC (trustees)
Training requirements:
- Induction
- Safeguarding online or in person
- Food hygiene
Support you will be given:
- Induction, training, regular check in and termly meeting
- Volunteering alongside another volunteer to set up/serve and clear away
- Reasonable adjustments as needed (but mobility is required for this role)
Benefits:
- Enable community members to share a nutritious warm lunch together
- Be part of a team
- Personal development opportunities
General information
Person Specification for Lunch/kitchen clearer/server
This document describes the skills, experience and attributes that a person needs to carry out the above role.
Knowledge:
- Safeguarding (desirable)
- Kitchen Safety (desirable)
Skills:
- Interpersonal skills (essential)
- Communication (verbal) (essential)
- Customer service (essential)
- Cleaning & tidying, setting up and clearing (essential)
- Attention to detail (essential)
Experience:
- Waiting and serving (portion control) (desirable)
- Risk assessment (desirable)
- Customer service and hospitality (desirable)
Personal attributes:
- Friendly (essential)
- Inclusive, non-judgemental (essential)
- Welcoming (essential)
- Reliable (essential)
- Flexible (essential)
- Faith/acceptance of Christianity (desirable)
Qualifications/ training:
- Equality, Diversity, Inclusion (desirable)
- First aid (desirable)
Availability:
- 1 a month, probably Tuesday /Wednesday (approx 3 hours) + 1 team meeting per term (essential)
- 4x per month (desirable)
Other
- Ability to communicate remotely eg phone &/ email
This role is advertised as part of TPP's Free Giving Back Services. This volunteer advertisement copy has been supplied to TPP and applicants apply direct to the organisation. Please contact the organisation directly if you have any questions about this volunteer role.
Thank you!
About the Youth Team role
Youth Team Volunteers work with young people from a wide breadth of backgrounds, ensuring they really feel part of the St John family. Volunteers will help young people develop their confidence, teamwork skills, self-discipline, and generally encourage them to strive to be the best they can be.
You’ll get a huge sense of satisfaction and pride delivering an essential service. It’s great for you, great for your community and great for our nation, and it requires only a small commitment of your time.
Getting started
You will usually be able to start volunteering very quickly, joining your new youth unit, meeting the young people and your colleagues and beginning to learn on the job. However please be aware you will have some online training to do, and you will need to engage with classroom training opportunities when available. There is also optional training for those who wish to pursue higher youth team qualifications.
Pursuing the role
We do not have a fixed closing date, but we may pause recruitment if we become oversubscribed - so if you want to pursue this, please do not delay!
If you are not already a St John Ambulance volunteer, after getting some brief details we will first invite you to an interview with our Welcome Team.
When pursuing this role, we will check you meet the minimum criteria and then invite you to a Youth Team interview, after which we'll be able to tell you if you've been accepted for this role.
Thank you!
About the Youth Team role
Youth Team Volunteers work with young people from a wide breadth of backgrounds, ensuring they really feel part of the St John family. Volunteers will help young people develop their confidence, teamwork skills, self-discipline, and generally encourage them to strive to be the best they can be.
You’ll get a huge sense of satisfaction and pride delivering an essential service. It’s great for you, great for your community and great for our nation, and it requires only a small commitment of your time.
Getting started
You will usually be able to start volunteering very quickly, joining your new youth unit, meeting the young people and your colleagues and beginning to learn on the job. However please be aware you will have some online training to do, and you will need to engage with classroom training opportunities when available. There is also optional training for those who wish to pursue higher youth team qualifications.
Pursuing the role
We do not have a fixed closing date, but we may pause recruitment if we become oversubscribed - so if you want to pursue this, please do not delay!
If you are not already a St John Ambulance volunteer, after getting some brief details we will first invite you to an interview with our Welcome Team.
When pursuing this role, we will check you meet the minimum criteria and then invite you to a Youth Team interview, after which we'll be able to tell you if you've been accepted for this role.
Thank you!
Actively Interviewing
This organisation is scheduling interviews as applications come in. They're ready to hire as soon as they find the right person. Don't miss your opportunity, apply now!
CHARITY SHOP ASSISTANT
Charity Shop Assistant (RSPCA Lancashire East Branch - Burnley Shop)
Our charity shop in the heart of Burnley is looking for friendly volunteers to join our team and help make our shop a huge success. Make new friends, have fun, and help us help more animals!
Overview of opportunity
As a volunteer Charity Shop Assistant, you would join a small team working with the shop manager and 1-2 other volunteers to help make it a success and raise vital funds for animal welfare.
About the RSPCA
Founded in 1824 we have been saving animals for almost 200 years and are proud to be the oldest welfare charity around. It has always been our vision to live in a world where all animals are respected and treated with compassion, so our volunteers and employees work tirelessly to ensure that all animals can live free from pain and suffering.
About Our Charity Shop in Burnley
The shop is part of the RSPCA Lancashire East Branch and plays an essential role in raising the profile of the RSPCA in our local community and funds for our branch so that we can continue our vital animal welfare work. Our shops sell a mixture of donated items, including clothes, books, bric-a-brac and collectables, and a selection of new items.
We have positions available on the shop floor and in our stock room or you could volunteer to do a mixture of both.
Volunteer Charity Shop Assistant responsibilities
- Helping customers in the shop find what they need.
- Accepting donations of items and money from the public.
- Processing sales through the till and card machine, including Gift Aid.
- Sorting through donated items to determine what we can sell.
- Preparing donated items for sale by steaming and hanging items.
- Merchandising stock on the shop floor.
- Creating attractive shop window displays.
What we are looking for in a volunteer Charity Shop Assistant
- Friendly volunteers who are confident talking to people.
- Retail experience would be ideal but is not necessary as full training will be given.
- We are ideally aiming for someone who is flexible and can offer an ongoing commitment predominately on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday.
- Good communication and numeracy skills.
- You will need to be aged 18 or over.
What we can offer you as a volunteer Charity Shop Assistant
- A way to meet new people and make new friends in your local area.
- A place where you will learn excellent new skills to add to your CV, such as customer service, multi-tasking, merchandising, and many more.
- An excellent induction and training programme relevant to your role.
- The opportunity to make a huge difference to the welfare of animals.
- Reimbursement for any reasonable travel expenses you may incur whilst volunteering with us.
We hope you are interested in volunteering for our branch!
Our voluntary roles are subject to an informal interview and trial period. We will ask you to provide contact details for two referees, and depending on the position, you may need to sign an agreement and undergo specific training before starting the role.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
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This organisation is scheduling interviews as applications come in. They're ready to hire as soon as they find the right person. Don't miss your opportunity, apply now!
About The Role
At WWT Llanelli, we shape unforgettable experiences. At heart we are warm, welcoming and genuine. In our Estuary Café we do this by offering a delicious selection of home cooked food and chilled drinks, served and assisted by our friendly team of staff and volunteers. All of which can be enjoyed overlooking the beautiful Gower Peninsula and spectacular wildlife.
We are looking for volunteers who can support our team in our Café and ensure we offer excellent customer service to our visitors.
Tasks will include
- Assisting the café team with clearing of tables
- Supporting behind-the-scenes with tasks such as washing up and loading the dishwasher
- Engaging with visitors to the café and helping with any enquiries they may have
- Assisting with recycling
- Refilling counters and displays
How will you benefit?
- This is an excellent opportunity to volunteer within an internationally important wetland site.
- Suitable uniform and a name badge is provided to all regular volunteers
- Discount is available in the café and shop on the days of volunteering
- Relevant training opportunities will be provided
- You will be part of a friendly and dedicated team with plenty of opportunities to meet new people
We want your volunteering to be a positive and fun experience. You’ll get a warm welcome, including information on training, equipment and other information you need. This will include risk assessments based on your role and any particular support you need.
Volunteers are an essential part of the WWT team. You'll get a warm welcome, including information on training, equipment and anything else you need.
About You
You will enjoy this role of you
- Have good general knowledge of kitchen etiquette.
- Have verbal communication skills
- Enjoy working as part of a team
- Are committed to excellent customer service
- Good general fitness as this role involves spending periods of time on your feet and may involve some light lifting
- Are reliable and committed to the role and the team
- Have an interest in and enthusiasm for the work of WWT
- Maintain good standards of personal hygiene.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
Thank you!
About the Youth Team role
Youth Team Volunteers work with young people from a wide breadth of backgrounds, ensuring they really feel part of the St John family. Volunteers will help young people develop their confidence, teamwork skills, self-discipline, and generally encourage them to strive to be the best they can be.
You’ll get a huge sense of satisfaction and pride delivering an essential service. It’s great for you, great for your community and great for our nation, and it requires only a small commitment of your time.
Getting started
You will usually be able to start volunteering very quickly, joining your new youth unit, meeting the young people and your colleagues and beginning to learn on the job. However please be aware you will have some online training to do, and you will need to engage with classroom training opportunities when available. There is also optional training for those who wish to pursue higher youth team qualifications.
Pursuing the role
We do not have a fixed closing date, but we may pause recruitment if we become oversubscribed - so if you want to pursue this, please do not delay!
If you are not already a St John Ambulance volunteer, after getting some brief details we will first invite you to an interview with our Welcome Team.
When pursuing this role, we will check you meet the minimum criteria and then invite you to a Youth Team interview, after which we'll be able to tell you if you've been accepted for this role.
Thank you!
Actively Interviewing
This organisation is scheduling interviews as applications come in. They're ready to hire as soon as they find the right person. Don't miss your opportunity, apply now!
Want to help your community? Why not become a Volunteer Generalist Adviser with Citizens Advice South Gloucestershire?
The rewarding role would involve training to help with a vast range of problems. These include but are not limited to benefits, debt, housing and employment.
The charity is particularly keen to encourage applications from people with a diverse range of backgrounds. This is especially the case for people from BAME backgrounds who are currently under-represented.
The role would involve giving advice to clients both face-to-face and over the telephone.
Main duties and responsibilities may include:
- Interviewing clients, both face-to-face and on the telephone, letting the client explain their enquiry and helping the client to set priorities
- Finding, interpreting and communicating the relevant information and exploring options and implications in order that the client can come to a decision
- Acting, where necessary, on behalf of the client, negotiating, drafting or writing letters or making appropriate referrals
- Completing clear and accurate case records
- Recognising the root causes of problems and participating in taking appropriate action
- Keeping up to date on important issues by attending the appropriate training and by essential reading
- Attending team meetings
Personal skills and qualities needed to become a Volunteer Generalist Adviser:
- A commitment to the aims and principles of the service
- Excellent communication skills
- Being open and approachable
- Ability to communicate clearly both orally and in writing
- Ability to sift through information and extract what is relevant
- Basic mathematical skills, including percentages
- Respect for views, values and cultures that are different to their own
- An understanding of why confidentiality is important
- Being open to using computers on a regular basis
- A positive attitude to self-development and assessment
- Ability to work as part of a team
- Ability to recognise their own limits and boundaries in the role
- Good IT skills essential – ability to use websites/ databases/ research information
Applicants should be IT competent and able to commit to two sessions per week for at least two years.
Training will be held over a full day – probably a Wednesday – each week starting in January 2025. There will be additional training time when new recruits can observe experienced advisers.
There will be opportunities to help out for a few sessions prior to training starting so that applicants can check the role is right for them.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
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Trelya are looking for new people to join our existing Board of Trustees. At an exciting time
of development, we are looking for board members who can bring their knowledge, skills
and expertise to support the charity in its mission.
Trelya (the Cornish word for ‘change’), is an award-winning charity working to improve
mental health, wellbeing, and enable positive change in West Cornwall’s most under
resourced communities. Trelya tackles the structural inequalities and barriers which fuel
cycles of deprivation head on. We aim to equip children and families with the skills and
resources they need to break free and build positive, happy, healthy and fulfilling futures.
Learning from over 20 years of grass roots experience we ensure our organisational aims
are always led by the needs of our community. Our responses are innovative, tailored, and
deliver what is really needed to enable long term, sustainable difference. We aim to find
and build on often undiscovered inner strength and resilience. Every person is treated as an
individual, we unlock their core assets and use these to ignite hope, ambition and fulfilment.
We know from experience that the children, young people and families living in our
communities are unique and skilled individuals with incredible potential. Trelya creates
opportunities to fulfil that potential through provision of a nursery (rated ‘Outstanding’ by
Ofsted), an award-winning youth work programme and ‘Gul,’ our highly successful adult
employment and training programme.
Trelya aims to break the generational cycle of social and economic deprivation. We aim to
enable children and families facing the greatest challenges, barriers and difficulties to
develop the skills, knowledge, awareness, motivation and aspirations necessary to break
the cycle. As a trustee you will become part of a dynamic and committed team providing
strategic oversight to build positive, happy, healthy and fulfilling futures.
Trelya has been part of the Penzance community since 2001. We are an ambitious and
forward thinking organisation with clear aims and objectives. We’re looking to recruit new
trustees, who have skills and experience in Finance (including VAT/ Procurement);
IT/Administration; Buildings Management; Charity Governance; Public Relations/Digital
Media who can help us to achieve our aims over the coming years by bringing enthusiasm,
personal experience and imagination.
We are looking for trustees with a commitment to the mission of Trelya, who can work well
in a small team of trustees, with good judgement, diplomacy, the ability to think strategically
and communicate effectively. We wish to strengthen and diversify our Board and extend
representation within Trelya to ensure that the board has insight from a range of
communities. We welcome applications from anyone, regardless of their age, disability,
ethnicity, heritage, sexuality, gender and socio-economic background. Trelya has a board
of up to 12 trustees.
For more information on Trelya please visit our jobs page on our website.
How to apply
To apply please email Trelya enclosing your CV and a letter of introduction responding to the following questions:
Why have you applied to become a trustee?
How will your skills, knowledge or experience strengthen Trelya’s board?
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.