Volunteer Roles

Charity: Future Talent
Position: Trustee (2 vacancies from September 2024)
Location: UK-wide (meetings in London and virtually)
Type: Volunteer, part-time
Application Deadline: 9am, 22 July 2024

Future Talent is a dynamic charity dedicated to nurturing and supporting the musical talents
of young people from low-income backgrounds. Founded by HRH The Duchess of Kent and
Nicholas Robinson in 2004, as we approach our 20th anniversary in November, we are
expanding our board to include two new Trustees. This is a pivotal moment for our charity,
marked by exciting developments including an album release and a concert at The
Roundhouse, Camden, to showcase our young musicians and shine a spotlight on the
charity’s work.

Our Vision
Future Talent currently supports 115 young musicians annually through our regional clusters
across the UK. We collaborate with regional music hubs, schools, arts organisations, and
funders to build a sustainable network of support. Our goal is to have a regional relationship
manager in every UK region and to double the number of young musicians we support over
the next three years.

Role and Responsibilities
As a Trustee, you will play a crucial role in guiding Future Talent’s strategy and operations.
Specific responsibilities include:
• Contributing to the development and implementation of the charity’s strategic plan
• Supporting fundraising efforts through leveraging personal and corporate networks
• Championing Future Talent’s mission and advocating for our young musicians
• Attending quarterly board meetings and participating in sub-committees as required
• Ensuring the charity complies with its governing documents, charity law, and other
relevant legislation/regulations

Ideal Experience and Skills
We are seeking Trustees with experience in one or more of the following areas:
• Strong individual and/or corporate networks with a willingness to support
fundraising

• Networks/experience in music genres beyond classical/jazz
• PR and media relations
• Establishing youth voice structures in youth-led organisations
• Expertise in campaigning, influencing, or advocacy
• Charity law and regulation

Other useful skills/experience include:
• Third Sector contacts/affiliations
• Health, safety, and wellbeing
• Influence and advocacy
• Cyber security
• Volunteer management
• Change management
• Data protection

Commitment to Diversity
Future Talent values diversity and inclusion, and we need a diverse board to reflect that. We
are currently underrepresented by individuals that identify as female/ from the global
majority and/or deaf and/or d/Disabled. We also encourage applications from those who
have faced financial barriers or lack of opportunity.

Why Join Us?
This is an exciting opportunity to make a meaningful impact on the lives of young musicians.
With our 20th anniversary on the horizon, you will be joining a forward-thinking organisation
at a time of significant growth and development.

Future Talent is committed to equality of opportunity for all staff, trustees and volunteers,
and applications from individuals are encouraged regardless of age, disability, sex, gender
reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, and
marriage and civil partnerships.
Join us in inspiring gifted young musicians from low-income backgrounds. Apply today!

Frequency: minimum 1 hour per week, for 2 months initially

Reports to: hub Lead Editor

Location: Based from home

• Do you want to gain experience working for a charity?
• Do you want to make a difference to patient safety?
• Do you have good writing and research skills?
• Are you confident with computers and enjoy tasks involving attention to detail?
• Are you an active user of social media?
• Do you have an interest in health and social care?

If so, we'd love to hear from you. Patient Safety Learning is looking for volunteers to give a minimum of 4 hours a month to source and upload content to the hub, our award-winning online platform to share learning for patient safety, and to help us with our Instagram account.
 

What you could be doing:

• Researching and sourcing relevant patient safety content.
• Uploading content to the hub, ensuring it follows our editorial guidelines.
• Moderating content submitted to the hub from external contributors.
• Uploading content to our Instagram account.
• Engaging those with an interest in patient safety through our Instagram account.
   

In return we will provide you with:

• Experience of working on an award-winning website.
• Ongoing support and training in moderating and uploading web content.
• Regular catch ups and keeping in touch webinars.
• The potential to learn new skills and broaden the scope of your involvement.
• The opportunity to help to shape the current discourse around patient safety in the UK.
• The opportunity to work with a small friendly team passionate about patient safety.

This role would suit someone who is looking to work in the patient safety area or to work for a charity, or someone looking for experience in digital communications or content management. You don’t necessarily need a clinical background, although if you have then that’s great. We welcome people from diverse backgrounds to apply. You will need your own computer.

If you are interested in volunteering some of your time, please email with your CV and a brief covering letter (250-500 words) saying why you would like to volunteer and how many hours a month you are able to commit. 

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.

It’s fantastic that you’d like to find out more about volunteering at St Mungo’s. We are looking for volunteers to facilitate regular gardening sessions for our clients, guided by St Mungo’s values. This will be a great opportunity to share your talent for and interest in gardening. We’re seeking someone who is open to helping clients learn at their own pace, and take pride in their achievements. You will also support in planning the gardening sessions to meet the needs of the participants and take a creative approach to how these are facilitated.

Please see all locations and the time commitments we are currently recruiting for in this role:

• Hounslow-Monday-Friday, 2pm-4:30pm, One day per week
• Westminster-Monday-Friday, 9am-5pm, 2-4 hours per week
• Lewisham- Friday afternoons, 2 hours per week

In this role, you will be supporting us with all or some of the following tasks: 

• Supporting clients to learn at their own pace and take pride in their achievements. 
• Planning the gardening sessions to meet the needs of the participants and take a creative approach to how these are facilitated. 
• Facilitating regular gardening sessions for our clients. 
• Teaching clients how to grow plants/herbs/vegetables. 
• Empowering clients to care for their garden. 
• Liaising with the staff around maintenance, ordering seeds etc. 
• Maintaining the garden to keep the space tidy and accessible to residents (e.g. weeding, lawn mowing, weeding, trimming, pruning, and clearing up leaves) 
• Operating tools including lawn mower and hedge trimmers. 

Do I need to have any specific skills?  

• A passion for gardening and knowledge which you are keen to pass on to others. 
• Plenty of patience – this role is about encouraging others to take part and try something new. 
• Client and customer focused. 
• A friendly personality, good interpersonal skills, enthusiasm and motivation. 
• Willing to learn and develop within the role. 
• Collaborative with good communication skills. 

Interested in volunteering with Cumbria Wildlife Trust on the ‘The Bay: A Blueprint for Recovery’ project? The Bay is a nature and wellbeing programme of events, offering people living around Morecambe Bay area, the opportunity to get outdoors, connect with nature, and take part in a range of activities. Barrow-in-Furness is at the northernmost point of the Bay project area. Assist with group nature and wellbeing sessions in the Barrow area with The Bay team.

Do you love wildlife? Experience and share the joy of the rich variety of habitats and wild plants and animals that live in The Bay, with session attendees.

Are you a people person? An approachable and friendly manner. Have confidence in talking to members of public, of varying ages and backgrounds.

 Becoming a nature and wellbeing volunteer, is a unique opportunity to learn new conservation and people skills. Evidence shows that a thriving, wildlife-rich environment benefits both physical and mental health. People with nature on their doorstep are more active, mentally resilient and have better all-round health. Nature and wellbeing volunteers help to connect people to nature and also help people take action to protect wildlife.

The Bay project run weekly two-hour long Nature and Wellbeing sessions using the coastal environment and natural world to positively impact people’s health and mental well-being. We are seeking volunteers to support Nature and Well-being Officer to run the sessions.

Group activities range from conservation, growing, arts and crafts, mindfulness and nature walks. The group participants will be working towards a John Muir Award, you could get yours too! Your role will involve helping to set up, support the running of the activities and packing up of the event.

No prior experience is required, however ideally the volunteer would be able to give their time regularly each week so that they can form relationships with those in the group.

You don’t need to be a wading bird or starfish expert, just have a natural enthusiasm for the all the wildlife that you and session attendees will encounter.

Travel costs will be reimbursed and lift sharing can often be arranged on request.

 Please note DBS (paid by Cumbria Wildlife Trust) may be required.

Is this for you? Want to learn more about this role? We'd love to hear from you.

Interested in volunteering with Cumbria Wildlife Trust on the ‘The Bay: A Blueprint for Recovery’ project? The Bay is a nature and wellbeing programme of events, offering people living around Morecambe Bay area, the opportunity to get outdoors, connect with nature, and take part in a range of activities. Barrow-in-Furness is at the northernmost point of the Bay project area.

Do you love wildlife? Experience and share the joy of the rich variety of habitats and wild plants and animals that live in The Bay, with event visitors.

Are you a people person? An approachable and friendly manner. Have confidence in talking to members of public, of varying ages and backgrounds.

Becoming a community events volunteer, is a unique opportunity to learn new conservation and people skills. Community event volunteers help to connect people to nature and also help people take action to protect wildlife.

We are looking for volunteers to help set up and support the delivery of events which may include coastal stargazing, UV rock pooling, guided walks, codebreaking, egg case hunts, and craft activities. We also go into organisations such as care homes with our ‘portable rockpool’ to bring a little bit of nature to people who would struggle to get outdoors.

You don’t need to be a wading bird or starfish expert, just have a natural enthusiasm for the all the wildlife that you and event visitors will encounter.

This community focused role is based indoors or outdoors.

This is a very flexible role.

You can choose the events you’d like to help with.

Training, hot brews and support will be provided.

Travel costs will be reimbursed and lift sharing can often be arranged on request.

 Please note DBS (paid by Cumbria Wildlife Trust) may be required. Safeguarding training will also be provided.

Is this for you? Want to learn more about this role? We'd love to hear from you.

Fancy doing something different and making a difference?

Explore and record our coastal and marine wildlife.

All welcome!

Our marine projects (‘My Local Catch’ and ‘The Bay’) run a range of regular coastal surveys along the Cumbrian coast.

From ‘Shoresearch’ citizen science projects, rocky shore walkovers, sediment cores, plankton surveys, shark egg case hunts and land-based dolphin spotting, there are many ways you can volunteer and learn about our amazing coastal and marine life.

For our organised coastal events, please wear suitable outdoor clothing and stout footwear.

If any of these events are for you, then we’d love to hear from you.

Fancy doing something different and making a difference?.

Help to keep our beautiful Cumbrian beaches clean and free from litter that could harm wildlife.

Abandoned fishing gear, plastic and other debris in the oceans poses a key threat to marine life.

We organize regular events up and down the Cumbria coast

For our organised beach cleans, all you need to do bring is with a pair of gloves. Wear suitable outdoor clothing and stout footwear.

We provide litter pickers and bin bags for you to use.

We will do quick analysis of rubbish. Prizes will be awarded for the most litter collected and the most bizarre item found!

There will also be the opportunity to learn about Cumbrian marine life.

If this role is for you, then we’d love to hear from you.

Can you lead the way by helping to set up a new Wildlife Watch club for young people in your local area?

Help us engage the next generation in taking action for wildlife!. We are looking for people to help with our existing groups in Barrow, Cockermouth, Gosling Sikes (Carlisle), and Grange. We are also looking for a Watch leader and helpers for our Penrith group.

What is a Wildlife Watch Leader Volunteer?

Wildlife Watch is the junior branch of the Wildlife Trusts and is the UK's leading club for young environmentalists. Our local Wildlife Watch clubs across Cumbria run a varied programme of fun environmental and wildlife focused activities, aimed at 6–12 year-olds and their families.

As a Wildlife Watch Leader you will be a key player in Cumbria Wildlife Trust’s work with young people. You will have the opportunity to engage with a group of young people  on a regular basis, to getting to know them and helping to shape their learning and understanding about the environment. This role can extremely rewarding for you.

 What’s in it for you?

• Becoming part of a friendly and dedicated team of volunteers and staff at Cumbria Wildlife Trust

• Getting out and about in nature

• Health and wellbeing benefits

• Passing on your wildlife knowledge and enthusiasm to our next generation environmentalists

• Learning new conservation, administration and life skills that will help your future career/learning opportunities.

• Access to support and resources from Cumbria Wildlife Trust. Materials and training will be provided. Helpers will also support you with planning, preparation, delivering and administration of activities

What’s involved?

As a Wildlife Watch Leader you will:

• Publicise the presence of the group to local children, young people and their families

• Plan and organise a fun programme of activities throughout the year with, and for, the group, using themes relevant to Cumbria Wildlife Trust. You will deliver regular, hands on, informal outdoor activities, enabling young people to explore the wildlife around them more closely

• Adopt guidelines to assist you in running safe and enjoyable meetings. These include safeguarding, H&S, risk assessments and participation registration

• Promote Wildlife Watch and Cumbria Wildlife Trust, using templates and posters provided

• Keep in regular contact with Cumbria Wildlife Trust, young people and their families

• Support young people gaining Wildlife Watch awards, celebrating their activities and achievements

Who would suit this role?

This role will suit anyone interested in volunteering with Cumbria Wildlife Trust, who loves wildlife and wants to make a real difference in their local community. It would especially suit those who:

• Are keen and confident working with young people

• Have a natural enthusiasm for wildlife and nature of Cumbria (You DON’T need to be an expert)

• Are full of creative and fun activity ideas

• Are willing to learn how to organise and plan the leadership of safe sessions

• Able to work well with other volunteers and share tasks as a team

• Eager to have a real impact to support our next generation environmentalists

• Enjoy working in an outdoor environment (in all weathers!)

 This is a very flexible volunteer role. As a leader you can decide with your helpers how often - and when - you wish to run sessions

Volunteer handbook and Trust induction.

Health and safety and safeguarding training will be mandatory.Risk assessment, participant registration, Wildlife Watch templates, posters, email etc.. will all be provided

Volunteers are able to receive travel expenses of 0.45p per mile agreed in advanced with their staff contact.

First aid training will be provided for volunteer leaders.

The Trust will apply for a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check for volunteers undertaking this role because it involves working with children and young people or vulnerable adults.

In the second stage of the volunteer recruitment process, we will take up two references.

 Is this for you? Want to learn more about this role? We'd love to hear from you.

Do you enjoy looking for wildlife while out walking? Do you have an attention to detail? Then why not visit our wildlife walk sites to assess whether all the guide information written about them is still valid.

Cumbria Wildlife Trust have created a number of ‘great places to see’ and ‘wildlife walks’. The locations cover a range of beautiful landscapes and habitats across Cumbria, many off the beaten track, from fell top to seashore.

Visitor information guides to these walks, are available on our website and publications. These guides are great for visitors who want to get back to nature  and want to check out certain aspects, before visiting.

Your role includes visiting these sites, checking that all the guide information is both up to date and correct. This will involve looking at flora and fauna species, visitor access, parking locations and a whole host more which will vary between each site.

Frequency: you will need a full day to visit one site.

This role will involve lone working in remote places, sometimes with poor mobile signal.

You will be provided with an emergency plan and a buddy for each session to ensure you carry out the assessment, safely.

There will be a requirement to walk on rough and uneven terrain, be able to identify UK flora and fauna species.

You will also need to get to these sites, which are often in remote places away from public transport networks.

We will provide ID sheets, maps of the reserves as well as copies of the current publications and features to look out for.

If you love nature and interested in helping, please get in touch!

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 Camden Group. Our Administration Volunteers are the linchpin 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.

Please apply online.

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

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 Support Volunteer for the Camden Group. As our local group Support Volunteer you’ll help people affected by MS find information about local and national services. That could be helping someone access local information about the care or benefits they need or giving them a hand with a grant application. See a video about one of our Support Volunteers here.

In this role you’ll be able to develop your listening and communication skills, as well as your knowledge of local services. Most importantly you’ll help people affected by MS to access the help they need. 

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 local area the group to carry out this role.

Apply 

1. Read through the role description carefully

2. Please apply online

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

Are you looking for a dynamic and rewarding role working for an organisation with the feminist agenda at the core of its ethos? Then Advance Charity could be the career choice for you!

We are looking for a Treasurer

Salary: Travel expenses can be claimed

Hours:   x 5 Board meetings per year

Location: London

About us

The Board of Trustees at Advance are looking for a Treasurer.

At Advance, our vision is a world where women and girls lead safe, just and equal lives.

We are a women’s organisation, delivering systems change and trauma and gender-informed community-based support for women and girls affected by domestic abuse, including those in contact with the criminal justice system.

We work nationally through our innovative, best-practice approaches and systems change initiatives. We deliver wraparound frontline services across the South and East of England, including Greater London.

Our expertise lies in decades of providing specialist support by women and for women and girls, to achieve safety, justice and equality at the intersection of domestic abuse and the criminal justice system.

About the role:

Required Experience

We are looking for a qualified senior finance professional who has several year’s experience at Director of Finance / COO level. Whilst not-for-profit experience is desirable, it is not essential. More important is a passion to make a difference, the ability to see the bigger picture, but a willingness to roll your sleeves up at times, and an inclusive and optimistic outlook. You will be joining a dedicated and committed Board of Trustees and a highly renowned organisation that makes a difference to many thousands of women and children every day.

How to apply:

Please submit your up to date CV along with a covering letter to the Chair of the Board of Trustees email address  - PLEASE WRITE THE JOB TITLE IN THE *SUBJECT* 
 

· Closing Date for Applications: Sunday 21 July 2024@ 23:59

· Interviews are taking place on a rolling basis 

*Advance reserves the right to close the advert early, or on the appointment of a candidate.

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Under the Equality Act 2010, we are required to make any reasonable adjustments. If you have a disability as defined under this act and/or have special needs, please email the Talent Acquisition Team via the Advance website and will aim to make the necessary arrangements to accommodate your needs.

Diversity, Inclusion and Equal Opportunities

We are committed to providing equality of opportunity and actively seek to recruit people from groups underrepresented in our current team. We have policies and processes in place to ensure that all employees are offered an equal opportunity in recruitment and selection, promotion, training, pay and benefits.

Safeguarding

Advance is committed to safeguarding and creating a culture of zero-tolerance of harm and expects all staff, including volunteers to share this commitment. We believe all individuals have the right to live their life free from violence and abuse and the right to feel and be safe.  We have a suite of safeguarding policies, procedures and practice guidance, accessible to all staff, which promotes safeguarding and safer working practices across all our services and activities. When we recruit staff, we follow rigorous safer recruitment practices, this involves carrying out pre-employment checks including references, Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) checks, and identity checks.  We ensure all staff undertake mandatory safeguarding training relevant to their role and responsibilities, to empower them to be competent and feel confident in recognising and responding appropriately to safeguarding issues and promote wellbeing.

This role will involve supporting people in emotional distress or needing somebody to talk to. This opportunity is ideal for those wanting to improve their listening skills. All training provided including mental health awareness and telephone listening. Gain personal satisfaction and a sense of achievement by experiencing the diversity of telephone support. Applications are encouraged from people who have had experience of mental distress or have an understanding of what mental distress may mean for others. 

This role will involve supporting people in emotional distress or needing somebody to talk to. This role requires you to commit to supporting the line four evenings a month (8pm-11pm) and attending our monthly group supervision. 

Mindline Trans +

Mindline call handlers will have the opportunity to volunteer for our Mindline Trans + helpline as a progression opportunity. You will need to attend Trans Awareness training. You will be offering emotional support to transgender people, their family and friends. Mindline Trans+ operates every Friday 8pm – 11pm. Minimum commitment for Mindline Trans+ 2 x 3hr shifts per month.

Person Specification 

Essential: 

PC / Laptop with good internet connection

Positive team-working skills 

Flexible approach

Demonstrable IT knowledge/experience using Microsoft Packages 

Willingness to learn (including independently) to extend their knowledge 

Desirable: 

Understanding of the need for good record keeping and GDPR 

Equal Opportunities:

Mind in Somerset is fully committed to the principle of equal opportunities in employment and opposes all forms of unlawful or unfair discrimination, direct or indirect. All employees and volunteers are expected to promote and work fully in line with the company’s Equal Opportunities Policy. Mind in Somerset is a Disability Confident employer and welcomes applications from disabled people. If disabled applicants meet the minimum criteria for the job, they can request and will be offered a guaranteed interview. Should applicants require reasonable adjustment support for the interview/Volunteer meeting, please contact Mind in Somerset.

Join Us: Volunteer Fundraiser Needed at Vibes in Care CIC

Vibes in Care CIC was founded by Arshan, a care-experienced social entrepreneur, to address the needs of young people in care and at risk. In its early stages of development, the organisation is dedicated to raising the standards of care through educational programs, innovative practices, and advocacy. With a strong focus on collaboration, Vibes in Care CIC aims to build a network of care-experienced individuals and organisations, fostering a community that shares resources and best practices. Through targeted training and continuous research, the CIC seeks to transform care experiences and outcomes, ensuring that young people receive the support they need to thrive.

Vibes in Care CIC seeks a dedicated Volunteer Fundraiser to support our work. This role is ideal for someone passionate about social change, with a flair for creative fundraising.

Key Responsibilities:

• Plan and execute fundraising campaigns and events.
• Engage with the community and local businesses to increase awareness and raise funds.
• Oversee event logistics to ensure success and target achievement.
• Build and maintain relationships with donors and sponsors.
• Accurately record fundraising activities and manage donations.
• Regularly update and provide feedback to the team.

Requirements:

• Experience in fundraising is preferred but not mandatory.
• Strong organisational and event planning skills.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Creative thinker and proactive problem solver.
• Committed to the mission and values of Vibes in Care CIC.
• Able to work flexibly and as part of a team.

Benefits:

• Develop professional skills in a supportive setting.
• Gain experience in nonprofit fundraising.
• Make a significant impact on the lives of young people in care.
• Eligible for references and recommendations after successful role completion.

Interested in making a difference? Join us to help change lives through care!