Here is this week's selection of volunteer roles. You can search through other volunteer opportunities on our website here.
🦋 Downlands Partnership has a great opportunity for anyone that loves the outdoors. Conservation Volunteers carry out environmental management tasks on countryside sites across East Surrey. You can join a task day as a one-off or make it a regular activity. Join as an individual or bring family, friends, or colleagues.
📥 Furnistore has an opening for an Admin volunteer to answer the phone, respond to messages, and book collections and deliveries. Travel fares on public transport will be reimbursed and a light lunch provided.
🎤 Leonard Cheshire's Community Speaker role is the perfect opportunity if you are passionate about equality and inclusion or someone who loves presenting. Join a network of speakers to deliver presentations about Leonard Cheshire and/or support disabled people to deliver disability, equality and inclusion sessions.
💻 Leonard Cheshire Digital Champion Lead is a great role for someone who is comfortable using computers and online channels, and who would like to help disabled people to harness the power of technology. It is expected that the Lead Volunteer will support up to 10 volunteers delivering digital sessions to clients as well as delivering some sessions themselves.
💷 Include Choir is looking for a creative thinker and someone who has a flair for fundraising. The Online Fundraising Officer will help plan, design, and deliver Include Choir's online fundraising calendar for 2021 and beyond.
🌻 Growing Redhill is looking for a Community Gardener to help carry out practical 'transformational' gardening tasks and operate demonstration gardens and spaces. (Projects include the planters at Merstham Station.)
📄 Growing Redhill is also looking for a Secretary, an organised person who can prepare agendas and take minutes. There is the option to extend the role: managing group events and publicity, developing policies and/or updating the website. However, this is not essential.
💼The Independent Mental Health Network (IMHN) is looking for a Chairperson. for a Mental Health Stakeholder Group for East and Mid Surrey. The Group provides a forum to discuss how mental health services are delivered locally. The Chairperson must have personal experience, either directly, or as a carer of someone with mental ill-health/mental illness.
👩 Streetlight UK is looking for female Streetlight UK Volunteers across Surrey to support women and help them overcome emotional and practical barriers that they face that limit their life choices. All relevant training will be provided and volunteers will be supervised at all times.
🦯 Sight for Surrey support people with a visual impairment, many of whom feel isolated. They are seeking Befrienders to visit people in their own homes and help them stay connected. It is requested that volunteers offer a minimum of a year's time commitment, due to the nature of the role.
🛍️ Scope relies on income raised through their charity shops to fund their work. With this opportunity for a Retail Assistant in Horley, you can take pride in knowing you've made a difference to disabled people and their families at a time of need. Tasks will include: operating the till, keeping the shop floor presentable, window dressing, sorting through donations, hanging clothes, and steaming them ready to go on the shop floor.
🧑🏫 Yes Futures are looking for passionate and dedicated individuals to be part of the Yes Futures program as a Volunteer Youth Coach from September 2021 to March 2022. As a One-to-One Coach, you will work online with secondary school students from across the South-East. This is a remote coaching role.
🙂 The Forward Trust is a national charity that helps people to move beyond addiction, offending or related issues. It is seeking volunteers in Surrey for a variety of roles - these are particularly suitable if you would like a development role that may help prepare you for work. Volunteer roles include: supporting clients on their first day of release from prison; mentoring; and volunteering alongside Drug & Alcohol Practitioners. There is also a remote volunteering opportunity: Reach Out Volunteer responding to clients and relatives who contact the online chat service, providing information and guidance.
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