Volunteering Opportunities
Alike
We need trustees with a diverse range of skills, experience and knowledge, and would love to hear from people who could bring one or more of the following:
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Leadership within NHS digital transformation, or commissioning, procurement and care delivery
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Experience in UK law, ideally in employment law, data protection or intellectual property
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Background in youth activism, social change or health policy and campaigning
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Senior leadership experience within the charity sector, preferably with experience of scaling
If you’re interested in joining Alike on our mission to bring comfort, support and community to the millions of people impacted by cancer across the UK, then we would love to hear from you.
You might not necessarily tick every single box - and that’s okay: if you’ve got the passion and you feel confident that this role is for you, please do get in touch anyway. You may still be the perfect fit.
No. of people required: 3
Location: London
Experience required: As above
Training/Safeguarding: None
Dates required: Ongoing, 6 board meetings per year (3 in-person meetings, 3 virtual)
Length: Ongoing
Home-Start Trafford, Salford & Wigan
Home-Start are excited to share the details of their new volunteer training happening this September at The Trafford Centre. They are looking for people to become home visiting volunteers and are searching for people who can spare just a couple of hours a week, be kind and non-judgemental, and those who are parents.
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No. of people required: 20+
Location: The Trafford Centre
Experience required: Ideally a parent
Training/Safeguarding: Training is provided, and this is face to face or online
Dates required: 26th September & 9th October
Length: One off project, 9.30am - 2.30pm
Remember My Baby
We are developing new systems and processes, and digitising our way of working. Currently we use a mixture of Facebook and WhatsApp to communicate with our volunteers and we are moving onto a CRM and looking at linking in to external platforms.
No. of people required: 1
Location: Remote
Experience required: Digital transformation experience and knowledge would be very useful to us.
Training/Safeguarding: None
Dates required: As soon as possible
Length: One off project
Give. Help. Share
As a charity which provides nutritious food parcels for children and families in need, we are always looking for volunteers to shop for food; pack food parcels; and deliver to schools. Volunteers can participate in one, two or three or these tasks.
No. of people required: 1-3
Location: Elstree, Hertfordshire, WD6
Experience required: None
Training/Safeguarding: None
Dates required: Any week days
Length: One off or recurring
Beacon Counselling
As a growing local charity, our volunteers are involved with many aspects of our work from promoting our services and fundraising in their community as well as supporting the charity within our centres through administration or reception work.
At the heart of our organisation we have a professional and dedicated counselling team of 60+ counsellors. Volunteer today and help us change lives. Whatever your plans – we’re here to support you every step of the way.
No. of people required: Up to 5
Location: Stockport
Experience required: Lived Experience
Training/Safeguarding: Trustee training given
Dates required: Ongoing
Length: 40 hours per year
Home-Start Greater Manchester
We have volunteers who support families who are in need of support for various reasons, for example: loneliness and isolation, support with the children at home with routines, homework, budget managing, mental health issues, children with special needs or multiple birth families, support following domestic abuse, etc.
No. of people required: Any number
Location: Trafford, Salford, Wigan
Experience required: None
Training/Safeguarding: We offer full training to all our volunteers, this involves completing 6 online modules at home and two face to face training days. This covers safeguarding. We complete a fully enhanced DBS for our volunteers and ask for two references. All our volunteers are fully supported by our Co-Ordinators
Dates required: Ongoing
Length: 2 hours a week for 6 months
N-Gage
Treasurer role (Board of Trustees) - A key member of the Board of Trustees, overseeing the financial affairs of the Charity and ensuring they are legal, constitutional and conform to accepted accounting practice.
No. of people required: 1
Location: Remote or Manchester (M22)
Experience required: None
Training/Safeguarding: Knowledge and experience of current and finance practice relevant to voluntary and community organisations. Knowledge of bookkeeping and financial management. Good financial analysis skills. Full role description can be provided on request.
Dates required: Ongoing
Length: Ongoing
The Choir With No Name
The Choir with No Name runs choirs and builds joyful singing communities with homeless and marginalised people, around the UK. Singing makes you feel good; it distracts you from all the nonsense in life and helps you to build confidence, skills and genuine, long lasting friendships. What we do is simple: our choirs meet once a week for a cuppa and a catch up, we then sing our hearts out for an hour and half, and sit down together afterwards for a hot meal cooked by volunteers. We perform regularly at a whole load of different places, from local homeless hostels to the Royal Festival Hall and everywhere in between.
Our choirs are a supportive, safe space for people going through a tough time to be among friends, where they can experience the joy of singing together, have fun, build confidence and skills, and feel more able to tackle life's other challenges, such as securing housing or finding work. Volunteering is a brilliant opportunity to be part of a really supportive group in your local community, make friends and have fun singing your heart out. From cooking meals to supporting members at rehearsals and gigs, it's a brilliant way to have fun, meet new people and make a difference.
No. of people required: 1-10
Location: London, Liverpool, Cardiff, Coventry, Birmingham, Brighton
Experience required: None
Training/Safeguarding: Induction, including training and safeguarding
Dates required: Varies on location
Length: Ongoing
Purple Heart Wishes
We have a kiosks at:
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The Etihad Stadium for every home game of Manchester City football. You don’t have to be a football fan just happy to meet people and serve them a pie and a pint. We get 10% of our sales. 5 hours on a Saturday, or sometimes during the week, only 1 or 2 a month would help us out a lot.
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The AO Arena where we can choose which concerts we attend, and there could be darts and boxing events too. It will be serving drinks and merchandise. Again, we will get a % of what we sell going into the pot for the charity.
No. of people required: 6+
Location: Manchester
Experience required: None
Training/Safeguarding: Online training in food hygiene and till training
Dates required: Ongoing
Length: See opportunities above
Mothers Uncovered
We have a couple of projects that could suit different skill sets. Currently we have gaps in:
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Marketing and publicity of our podcast
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Fundraising by linking in with corporate companies to shape an offer of services and create links/relationships with the right people. Or to look at writing an appeal to local businesses for a one-off corporate grant.
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No. of people required: 2
Location: Remote - based in Brighton is there is a need/preference to meet in person
Experience required: Marketing / Copywriting
Training/Safeguarding: Nothing related to the work we do with people, however the volunteers would need the relevant skill sets to carry out the volunteering roles.
Dates required: Ongoing
Length: These can both be recurring opportunities, or one offs, we are flexible therefore we can discuss the nature of how the roles could look as a one-off piece of work, or recurring voluntary work if someone would prefer something more long term.
Jessie's Fund
Jessie’s Fund was established in 1995 to help seriously ill and disabled children, and those with additional and complex needs, to communicate through the therapeutic and creative use of music.
It is our 30th anniversary in 2025 and we are starting to look ahead to event planning. Our 25th anniversary plans were impacted by the pandemic so we would like to make the most of the 30th. It would be useful to have support with aspects of marketing and PR in terms of raising profile and fundraising, for example with materials including video, storytelling, media strategy.
No. of people required: 1-2
Location: York (YO1 6ET) or Remote
Experience required: Marketing / PR / Event planning
Training/Safeguarding: None
Dates required: From available time into 2025
Length: Ongoing
Coffee4Craig
C4C is looking for a volunteer with experience in bookkeeping and specifically Quick Books. This would be to provide advice to our top team on finance and bookkeeping.
Further to this C4C are openly recruiting for a Treasurer Trustee.
No. of people required: As above
Location: Remote or Manchester (M3 1FB)
Experience required: Finance / Accountancy
Training/Safeguarding: None
Dates required: Ongoing
Length: Each role would require a few hours of dedication a month
Coffee4Craig
Coffee4Craig is looking for evening volunteers to help in their evening café for Manchester Street homeless. To allow our service to provide its full benefit a team of volunteers is needed each night to spend time supporting vulnerable Mancunians and help make their community better.
No. of people required: As above
Location: Remote or Manchester (M3 1FB)
Experience required: None
Training/Safeguarding: For evening volunteering, you will be given an introductory session and be supported through your first evening.
Dates required: Ongoing
Length: Each role would require a few hours of dedication a month