Witness support volunteer volunteer roles in canary wharf, greater london
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The Coroners' Courts Support Service (CCSS) is a registered Charity whose trained volunteers give emotional and practical support to bereaved families and other witnesses attending an inquest.
We need volunteers to provide emotional support and practical help to bereaved families, witnesses and others attending Inquests at Coroners' Court. Our volunteers at court also provide help and assistance to the Coroners' Officers, as and when required.
We are looking for reliable, supportive people with excellent communication skills. A mature and calm attitude is needed in order to be able to talk to people during a sometimes bewildering and emotional experience. Volunteers must be willing to undergo a period of observations and shadowing, as well as attend a 3 day training course. A minimum commitment of one day (9:00am - 5:00pm) per fortnight is asked for. Training and mentoring is provided and travel expenses to the court are reimbursed.
New volunteers should possess good communication and listening skills and the ability to empathise with people they support.
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We are seeking a volunteer with experience in Salesforce (backend/database support). This to aid in queries and requests when necessary from the team at Paintings in Hosptials.
Please apply for the role if you match the following criteria:
- Proficient in Salesforce administration and backend configuration
- Comfortable working with Salesforce Data Loader or similar tools
- Attention to detail
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills
- Salesforce Admin certification (a plus, not required)
About Paintings in Hospitals:
Paintings in Hospitals supports the health and wellbeing of people who need it the most, through the life-enriching power of art. Every day we witness the significant physical, mental, and emotional impact of our work on the lives of people in need around the UK.
Established in 1959, our charity is now the UK’s leading arts in health organisation. Six decades of experience and expertise have enabled us to develop a unique art collection of over 3,000 original works, alongside art projects and engagement activities that transform the experiences of patients, service users, and staff.
We know that art reduces length of hospital stays, whilst also improving people’s mental health and physical symptoms. We continually evaluate our work across a range of settings, including hospitals, hospices, care homes, GP surgeries, and community spaces.
Paintings in Hospitals is recognised by the Department of Health, NHS England, and Arts Council England as a leading provider of arts in health services. We have previously worked with national museums and galleries, such as the V&A, The National Gallery, and The Wallace Collection.
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Do you want to see more happiness and kindness in the world? We’re looking for dynamic Volunteers to be part of creating exactly that!
About the Role:
Our volunteers bring people together for shared online learning experiences, based on positive psychology, that boost the wellbeing of everyone involved.
- The amazing 6-week Happiness Habits Course is designed to be run by pairs of volunteers. It features expert videos, science-backed exercises and the chance to form meaningful connections. Our course has been specially designed to gather the insights of the world's leading experts on six fundamental aspects of a happy and meaningful life: Gratitude, Self-Care, Relationships, Resilience, Kindness, and Meaning. It is a very impactful (many say life-changing) experience.
- Alternatively, you can get involved by supporting a Monthly Group, bringing like-minded people together to learn evidence-based tools for creating a happier and more meaningful life. Explore the monthly themes and encourage people to set personal actions towards happiness, that support both themselves and others.
Volunteering with Action for Happiness is a path of action that consistently feels like you are making a difference in the world. You don’t have to be an expert - or be happy all the time. If you are a warm and enthusiastic person that is more than enough to get started.
Why Volunteer with Us?
Do something that matters: spreading happiness and witnessing people transform for the better is a huge source of meaning.
Grow your skills: inspiring others, learning together and reinforcing your own happiness skills all contribute to personal growth.
Build community: meeting like-minded people, building lasting friendships and belonging to a global community contributing to a better future for all.
How do I know it’s right for me?
Try out free VOLUNTEER TRAINING via the Action For Happiness website and decide for yourself.
We've designed it especially to help you answer questions like this as it explains thoroughly what being a volunteer involves and helps you reflect on your readiness.
What is the time commitment?
You'll need to set aside a couple of hours for the training initially and a few more for planning your course or group and connecting with your co-volunteer. Then you'll need a couple of hours per session for facilitating (x6 weekly sessions for a course, or x1 session per month for a group).
- Apply today! Together, we can inspire change that ripples out through people’s lives, communities and the world.
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About the Chair of Trustee Role
Role Overview
The Chair of Trustees ensures effective governance and strategic direction for Rebuilding Lives UK. They provide leadership to the board, oversee decision-making, and act as a key ambassador for the charity. The Chair supports the Chief Executive while ensuring accountability and compliance with regulatory requirements. A key responsibility of the Chair is to ensure that all trustees are actively engaged in their roles, fulfilling their responsibilities, and participating in training.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead the board to ensure strong governance, accountability, and strategic leadership.
- Ensure that all trustees actively fulfill their roles, contribute to decision-making, and engage with the charity’s work.
- Provide mentorship and oversight to the Chief Executive.
- Hold trustees accountable for attending training and participating in board activities.
- Ensure that safeguarding measures are implemented across the charity.
- Oversee board meetings, ensuring productive discussions and informed decision-making.
- Represent the charity externally and strengthen partnerships with key stakeholders.
- Support financial oversight, ensuring sustainability and compliance.
- Be actively involved in the charity’s operations where possible, offering support beyond governance.
- The Chair plays a key role in providing strategic direction and supporting the CEO through regular mentoring and guidance. While the board collectively oversees the charity’s performance, the Chair works closely with the CEO to ensure they are supported in their role, offering insights and fostering a collaborative relationship between the CEO and trustees.
Who We Are Looking For
Essential Skills & Experience:
- Experience in chairing boards or senior governance roles.
- Strong strategic leadership and decision-making abilities.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
- Commitment to equity, diversity, and inclusion (EDI).
- Minimum of 10 hours per month dedicated to board duties.
What You’ll Gain from This Role
Becoming a trustee with Rebuilding Lives UK is more than just a governance role—it’s an opportunity to be part of a team dedicated to creating real, lasting change. As a trustee, you will:
- Play a vital role in supporting survivors and helping them rebuild their lives.
- Be part of a passionate and driven team working towards a shared mission.
- Gain valuable leadership, governance, and strategic experience.
- Develop transferable skills in decision-making, safeguarding, and advocacy.
- Expand your professional network and engage with like-minded individuals.
- Have access to training and development opportunities to strengthen your expertise.
Mandatory Training Requirement
All trustees, including the Chair, are required to complete trustee governance and safeguarding training within the first three months of their appointment. Additional training will follow as needed.
Terms of Appointment
The Chair serves an initial one-year term, with the option for renewal up to a maximum of three years.
Voluntary Role
All voluntary roles are subject to satisfactory references and an enhanced DBS check.
This is an unpaid remote position (UK Based); however, reasonable expenses will be reimbursed.
Time Commitment:
- 10 hours per month, including:
- Monthly board meetings (held via Zoom).
- Providing strategic leadership and guidance to the CEO.
- Annual half-day strategy session and leadership planning.
- Regular check-ins with trustees to ensure engagement and accountability.
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About the Safeguarding Trustee Role
Role Overview
The Safeguarding Trustee ensures Rebuilding Lives UK meets all safeguarding obligations and promotes a culture of safeguarding at every level. They provide expert oversight, policy guidance, and ensure best practices are embedded across the organisation. The Safeguarding Trustee works closely with senior leadership to ensure the organisation remains compliant with safeguarding regulations. Trustees are expected to be actively involved in the charity’s work, providing hands-on support where appropriate.
Key Responsibilities
- Ensure robust safeguarding policies are in place, regularly reviewed, and adhered to.
- Provide safeguarding advice to the board and senior leadership.
- Ensure all trustees and staff receive appropriate safeguarding training.
- Oversee risk management relating to safeguarding, ensuring all cases are handled correctly.
- Promote a safeguarding-first approach across the charity’s activities.
- Ensure compliance with relevant safeguarding legislation and guidance.
- Act as the board’s safeguarding lead, providing regular updates and reports.
- Trustees share collective responsibility for the charity’s governance, ensuring the charity’s mission is achieved and its operations are effective. Trustees support the CEO by contributing to strategic planning, offering expertise, and working together to provide the necessary oversight and direction for the charity’s growth and success.
Who We Are Looking For
Essential Skills & Experience:
- Professional experience in safeguarding children or adults.
- Strong communication skills and the ability to advise on safeguarding matters.
- Awareness of safeguarding regulations in the charity sector.
- Ability to ensure safeguarding remains a board-level priority.
What You’ll Gain from This Role
Becoming a trustee with Rebuilding Lives UK is more than just a governance role—it’s an opportunity to be part of a team dedicated to creating real, lasting change. As a trustee, you will:
- Play a vital role in supporting survivors and helping them rebuild their lives.
- Be part of a passionate and driven team working towards a shared mission.
- Gain valuable leadership, governance, and strategic experience.
- Develop transferable skills in decision-making, safeguarding, and advocacy.
- Expand your professional network and engage with like-minded individuals.
- Have access to training and development opportunities to strengthen your expertise.
Mandatory Training Requirement
The Safeguarding Trustee must complete trustee governance and safeguarding training within the first three months of appointment. Additional training will follow as needed.
Terms of Appointment
Trustees serve an initial one-year term, with the option for renewal up to a maximum of three years.
Voluntary Role
All voluntary roles are subject to satisfactory references and an enhanced DBS check.
This is an unpaid remote position (UK Based); however, reasonable expenses will be reimbursed.
Time Commitment:
- 8 hours per month, including:
- Monthly board meetings (held via Zoom).
- Active involvement in governance and decision-making processes.
- Annual half-day strategy session to contribute to the charity’s direction.
- Engagement in charity activities beyond board meetings, as appropriate.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
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2025 is a pivotal time for our small, family centred Charity as we move into our 22nd year. This year our Board will be defining our new mission and preparing for implementation. We're seeking new trustees to join us to contribute to our new mission and define the Charity's direction as we conclude our first mission in late 2025.
The Muscle Help Foundation (MHF) is a small multi-award winning, family-centred charity, delivering both in-person and virtual interventions and experiences in the UK - these moments-in-time are called Muscle Dreams, designed specifically for children & young people (8-28yrs) with the muscle wasting disease, Muscular Dystrophy (MD).
MHF’s impact is felt by beneficiaries and their families across the UK – from improved confidence, greater self-esteem, and an increased sense of hopefulness to a powerful shared identity that connects families, giving a platform to share knowledge, memories and establish lasting friendships.
DETAILED DESCRIPTION
We are looking for Trustees who have a passion to take the charity forward, to grow impact, to leave a personal legacy and to feel the sense of personal fulfilment from the time they volunteer.
AS A TRUSTEE, YOU WILL
- Have an opportunity to help improve the lives of children, young people and their families
- Contribute to the governance of our small, well respected, national charity
- Have strategic responsibility for a specific skill area
- Act as an advocate/champion in promoting the charity's work across your network
- Receive induction, support and training
- Bring your lived experience, in using and further developing your skills for the benefit of others
- Be a part of the team that will help the charity achieve its overarching 657 Muscle Dream mission
REQUIREMENTS + KEY CRITERIA
Commitment to the charity’s values, bags of enthusiasm, an understanding and passion for our work, great comms skills and a real desire to want to make a difference to the lives of our vulnerable community. You may have experience of living with muscular dystrophy, other disabilities or life limiting conditions, but this is not essential.
MAIN BOARD MEETINGS + EXPENSES
Trustee Board meetings take place virtually. They are usually 2hrs. Over and above this time commitment, trustees on average, depending on their role, may give additional time in being directly involved in occasional ad projects – MHF Trustees ‘own’ a ‘bucket’, in other words, an area of responsibility like HR, Fundraising, Safeguarding, Marketing, Finance, Digital, Risk or Campaign Management that allows an individual to bring their skills, experience and talents to the charity. Reasonable expenses will be covered.
WHAT ARE WE LOOKING FOR – PERSON SPECIFICATION
- Absolute belief in the cause
- Desire to learn the trustee role, previous governance expertise is an advantage
- Excellent communicators with great listening, responding and interpersonal skills.
- Ability to both empower and challenge supportively.
- Strong commitment to equality, and an understanding of disability and how for example this may impact on the quality of life and life choices for disabled people and their families.
- Commitment and time to dedicate to the role and responsibilities of being a Trustee.
- Commitment to the charity’s vision, mission and values.
- Strong desire to make a difference to the lives of our vulnerable beneficiary community.
- Understanding of the context/environment in which the charity works - it is estimated that some 96% of MHF's beneficiaries are those with Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy (DMD), the most severe variant of muscular dystrophy - it is life limiting.
- Understanding the importance of ensuring public confidence and trust in the charity.
- Collaborative working (part of a team), using sound independent judgement and collective decision making.
- The capacity to grasp issues outside ones personal experience.
- The ability to think creatively both in terms of high level strategy and development.
- Commitment to equality and diversity with other trustees, staff, beneficiaries and other stakeholders.
WHAT DIFFERENCE WILL YOU MAKE?
To provide strategic leadership in line with our values and goals. Trustees will use their knowledge, skills, passion and experience to ensure that the charity achieves its objectives – as a Trustee, you will represent the interests of all stakeholders and act as an ambassador.
AN AMAZING OPPORTUNITY TO BRING YOUR UNIQUE SELF
As an MHF Trustee, this is an exciting opportunity to bring your unique skill set to help the strategic progression of the charity in reaching its overarching goal to deliver 657 Muscle Dream interventions, that's one experience for every muscle in the human body, cherished moments-in-time that truly changes lives and give hope, and beyond as we reach this goal.
IN RETURN FOR YOUR COMMITMENT
- You will have an opportunity to help improve the lives of children, young people and their families
- Be part of a team all supporting the charity and rowing in the same direction
- Contribute to the governance of a national charity, that's worked tirelessly over the past 20 years
- Have your voice heard and listened to
- Attend events, meet beneficiaries & families and directly witness the impact of the charity’s work
- Have strategic responsibility for a skill area such as: HR, Fundraising, Corporate Partnerships etc
- Network with other like-minded individuals with common values
- Receive induction, support and training
- And much more…
INCLUSION - PROUD OF OUR BOARD DIVERSITY
Our greatest strength as a board and as an charity is in our community's diversity. We are particularly interested in hearing from applicants with diverse skills and experiences that reflect the diversity of our beneficiaries and welcome applications from first time Trustees.
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USPG is looking to appoint 3 Trustees (lay or ordained) committed to global mission within the Anglican Communion. At this time, we are seeking to appoint a qualified accountant and two trustees with significant regional knowledge (Caribbean/ Latin America, Middle East, East Asia or Africa) to serve from July 2025.
About You
In recruiting Trustees at this time, we are looking for individuals with the following skill sets and experience:
- Accountancy: A qualified accountant with current experience of scrutinising accounts of organisations of the scale of USPG (at least) is sought. The person appointed will become a member of USPG’s Finance & Audit Committee as well as contribute to the strategic discussions of the Trustee board.
- Global knowledge and understanding: A couple of trustees with significant regional knowledge, especially of the Caribbean/Latin America, but also of the Middle East, Asia or Africa. That understanding may come from working with the churches or from professional experience outside of the Church.
The role is not paid, but necessary expenses incurred for attending USPG meetings will be reimbursed.
About USPG
The United Society Partners in the Gospel, known widely as USPG, is the Anglican mission agency that partners churches across the Anglican Communion in rethinking mission, energising church and championing justice. Click here to find out more.
USPG is actively seeking a diverse board with a balance of gender, ethnicity and age.
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We bring people together from different parts of the global Church in mutually enriching conversation and profound encounters.
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Are you passionate about improving healthcare in your community? Do you have expertise in fundraising, philanthropy or corporate partnerships and want to use it for good? Join St George’s Hospital Charity as a Trustee and help us deliver transformative change for patients, families, and NHS staff.
Why Join Us Now?
St George’s Hospital Charity supports St George’s University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, home to world-leading care and the setting of 24 Hours in A&E. Following the voluntary merger on 1 August 2024. City St Georges University has become one of the largest higher education destinations for London students, and a powerful multi-faculty institution with a distinctive focus on professional education and research at the frontier of practice.
This is a pivotal moment to shape the future of our fundraising and impact for 10,000 staff members and 1 million patients we serve every year.
We’re Looking for a Fundraising-Focused Trustee
We are seeking a new Trustee to bring insight, experience or networks in one or more of the following areas:
- Major gifts and high-net-worth individual (HNWI) engagement
- Philanthropy and strategic giving
- Corporate partnerships
- Business development or entrepreneurial leadership
You’ll work alongside our dynamic Board and Executive Team to shape and strengthen our high-value fundraising strategy. Your input will help us grow income from £3 million to £5 million over the next four years.
What You’ll Bring
You don’t need to be a seasoned fundraiser—but you do need to bring passion, strategic thinking, and a desire to use your skills to support transformational change.
We're particularly keen to hear from candidates who:
- Live locally or have strong connections to the communities we serve
- Have professional expertise in business, finance, philanthropy, or communications
- Can champion our work and help expand our reach and influence
- Reflect the diversity of our communities, especially individuals from Black, Asian and global majority backgrounds, those living with disabilities, or across a broad age range
What’s In It for You?
Make a Lasting Impact – Help shape how we care for patients, families, and NHS staff.
Grow Strategically – Influence a growing charity with ambitious goals and strong leadership.
Develop Your Skills – Enhance your governance, leadership and strategic thinking.
Join a Passionate Team – Be part of a warm, supportive and committed Board of Trustees.
Time Commitment
- 4x Board meetings per year (in person, Tooting)
- 4x Fundraising Sub-Committee meetings (online)
- 1x annual strategy day
- Occasional attendance at fundraising events or activities
About Us
St George’s Hospital Charity funds projects that go beyond the NHS—enhancing care, supporting staff wellbeing, and funding cutting-edge research and equipment. We support St George’s Hospital in Tooting, Queen Mary’s Hospital in Roehampton, and community services across South West London.
Recent milestones include our largest-ever appeal, Time for a Change, to transform children’s services and our continued investment in the arts, wellbeing and mental health support for NHS staff. Read more about our impact: Reports and Financial Statements - St George's Hospital Charity
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