How To Volunteer
Volunteer Centres can help you to find the right opportunity for you.
If you’re not sure what you want to do, take a look at the Do-
Alternatively, you can arrange to visit your Volunteer Centre. They will go through the different volunteering opportunities that are available, and help you to decide which opportunities you are interested in.
Some examples of typical volunteering opportunities are listed below, but this is only a fraction of what may be available:
- Supporting and mentoring young offenders
- Helping older people to remain independent in their homes through befriending, shopping, DIY, and gardening
- Supporting people with disabilities to access opportunities and services
- Driving people to hospital and doctors appointments through community transport schemes
- Cleaning up, improving and developing the local area, nature reserves, and town & village centres
- Volunteering in the local school or Children's Centre
- Helping to run local sports clubs
- Running activities & clubs for young people
There are also opportunities logged under the following headings, but there might not be an opportunity under every heading in every district:
Find The Right Opportunities Why Do You Want To Volunteer Volunteering & Benefits
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Animals
Art and Culture
Children
Disability
Disaster Relief
Domestic Violence
Drugs and
Addictions
Education and Literacy
Elderly
Emergency services
Employment
Enviroment
Families
Gay,
Lesbian, Bisexual & Transgender
Health and Hospital and Hospices Heritage
Homeless and Housing
Human and Civil Rights
International Aid
Legal Aid and Justice
Mental
Health
Mentoring
Millennium Volunteers
Museums
Music
Politics
Prisoners and Ex-
Race
and Ethnicity and refugees
Religion
Sport and Outdoor Activities
Women’s Groups
Youth
Creating Opportunities
If there is something you would like to do, but there is no opportunity available at the moment, the Volunteer Centre will do what they can to create a new opportunity to suit you, by contacting organisations and discussing your interests with them.
Adapting Opportunities
For some people, the opportunities that are available might not be suitable for a range of reasons, for example, people with health issues or disabilities might be limited as to the types of activities they do, or how many hours they volunteer for, and people with low confidence and a lack of experience might want to some extra support. Volunteer Centres can discuss your needs and requirements with you, and work with organisations to adapt their opportunities to meet your abilities and needs.