Community Post Type: Volunteering

Our tea party hosts are a vital part of the Re-engage team.

Tea parties provide a lifeline of friendship for our older people, and the regular, warm, friendly chats and companionship provide a vital link with the outside world from which they have become isolated. Re-engage needs enthusiastic volunteers to work as tea party hosts.

This is a flexible, voluntary role that can easily be fitted in around your own lifestyle and availability. As a volunteer host you will run a local Re-engage tea party one to two times a year.

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Found on high streets up and down the country, our shops are great places to learn new skills and share existing ones. Join our enthusiastic teams and try your hand at all number of tasks. From serving customers on the shop floor, to learning about all the amazing things we get donated, there is truly something for everyone.

Diversity is something we celebrate. We want you to be able to bring your authentic self to the Red Cross and feel that you belong. We want to create an inclusive environment, and promote and spread the power of kindness. As part of creating an inclusive space we have an expenses policy that prioritises volunteers not being out of pocket for expenses linked to your role.

If up front costs are difficult, you can speak to your volunteering manager about this to find alternatives. We welcome refugees, asylum seekers and others currently in the UK to volunteer with us. We want volunteering to be accessible to everyone. **Health and Safety Statement** We take an individual approach to ensuring your safety. We may ask you to complete a simple risk assessment.

We will also have a conversation with you to discuss any adjustments you may need. As we take great care to ensure that all our volunteers are safe and supported, there may be some locations where we won’t be able to host 15-17 year olds. Please get in touch so that we can help you find a suitable volunteering opportunity. If you have any questions before applying, please contact us at volunteerrecruitment@redcross.org.uk

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Found on high streets up and down the country, our shops are great places to learn new skills and share existing ones.

Join our enthusiastic teams and try your hand at all number of tasks. From serving customers on the shop floor, to learning about all the amazing things we get donated, there is truly something for everyone. Diversity is something we celebrate. We want you to be able to bring your authentic self to the Red Cross and feel that you belong. We want to create an inclusive environment, and promote and spread the power of kindness.

As part of creating an inclusive space we have an expenses policy that prioritises volunteers not being out of pocket for expenses linked to your role. If up front costs are difficult, you can speak to your volunteering manager about this to find alternatives. We welcome refugees, asylum seekers and others currently in the UK to volunteer with us. We want volunteering to be accessible to everyone. **Health and Safety Statement** We take an individual approach to ensuring your safety. We may ask you to complete a simple risk assessment.

We will also have a conversation with you to discuss any adjustments you may need. As we take great care to ensure that all our volunteers are safe and supported, there may be some locations where we won’t be able to host 15-17 year olds.

Please get in touch so that we can help you find a suitable volunteering opportunity. If you have any questions before applying, please contact us at volunteerrecruitment@redcross.org.uk

To apply, see here

Spreading the word is key to your local community understanding what your Read Easy group does and how people can get the reading support they need or volunteer to help.

You will be creative, determined and passionate about communications, and bringing people together. You’ll be confident using local media, social media, and distributing leaflets, posters and other resources provided by Read Easy UK to help get the message out there into your community about the life-changing journey of learning to read.

Once the local community and media hear about the thousands of adults who can’t read in the area, it will be your responsibility to make sure that your local Read Easy group is able to capitalise on this attention!

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Are you a wildlife-loving content creator, skilled in graphic design, illustration, animation and/or video editing? Could you bring creative flair to help Tigers4Ever give wild tigers wild futures?

What we need

We are looking for a wildlife-loving content creator, skilled in one or more of the areas of graphic design, illustration, animation and video editing to bring creative flair to raising the profile of Tigers4Ever, our work, and why and how we strive to give wild tigers wild futures.

You’ll be passionate about creating a sustainable future for wild tigers, with a true love of nature and enthusiasm for conservation.

Who we’re looking for

We are looking for someone with creativity and imagination to create our digital materials for a range of campaigns and to turbo-charge our visibility across digital platforms.

The skills we need include:

• Competence in professional packages such as Adobe Creative packages including Photoshop, Illustrator, Premiere Pro and InDesign
• Excellent digital design and motion graphic skills
• Compelling digital infographic and design skills
• Working knowledge of Canva and template creation

What you’ll be doing

You’ll use your creative skills to produce digital content for a range of campaigns and profile-raising activities. You’ll be involved in defining campaign content and creative hooks, working with our marcomms trustees. You’ll also help us to become more consistent visually, strengthening our brand curation and governance. This will involve:

• Producing assets for various social media platforms to support four key fundraising campaigns annually and various, pre-defined awareness days throughout the year.
• growing a content flow pipeline to enable regular posting of fresh images and graphics to our channels; this is likely to include creation of a photo library and various templates in Canva
• Bringing life to presentations and other materials for use in CSR and grant applications
• Production of infographics for LinkedIn, as well as web banners and social media headers

What difference will you make?

Your work will directly impact on the future of wild tigers and their habitats in India – helping to grow our reach and raise our profile, and so contributing to a rise in donations to fund anti-poaching patrols, new waterholes and community education.

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Action Tutoring unlocks the potential of children and young people who are facing disadvantage. We are tackling the attainment gap head-on by forging partnerships with schools nationwide. Our trained volunteer tutors are empowered to enable pupils to make meaningful academic progress, opening doors to future opportunities.

The opportunity

Education in this country isn’t fair. If you are from a poorer socio-economic background, you are less likely to achieve academically than your peers.

As an English or maths tutor, you will choose one of our partner schools and work with 1-3 pupils for an hour a week, across the course 10-20 weeks. Sessions are either delivered on the school premises or online, at the same time each week. You can choose to support children preparing for their SATs (ages 9-11) or GCSEs (ages 14-16). We provide all of our tutors with training, workbooks to use in sessions, a DBS check and travel expenses up to £5 per session.

Face-to-face opportunities are available in Birmingham, Bristol, Liverpool, Southport, Wirral, Newcastle, Nottingham, Sheffield, London and Sussex. Links to our school locations can be found here at the bottom.

You can tutor online from anywhere in England, Scotland and Wales. Please note we cannot currently accept tutors who live outside the UK or are under the age of 18. Learn more about our virtual programmes here – https://actiontutoring.org.uk/reacharea/virtual-programmes/

Volunteering for just one hour per week is a rewarding way to make a difference to the lives of disadvantaged young people. You will be directly supporting them to build their confidence and help ensure they leave school with the grades needed to build a bright future, all while developing your own experience!

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Do you have a bucket load of enthusiasm, a few hours to spare and a desire to raise money for people in crisis? If so, this opportunity is for you!

Join them at one of their local collections and get ready to make a difference. Just a couple of hours shaking a bucket will help raise money to enable the Red Cross to provide the support necessary to those in crisis in the UK and across the world – whether that is food, clothing, first aid, cash, healthcare, or emotional support. Driving is preferable but not essential.

If you have any questions, please contact **bucketshake@redcross.org.uk** Diversity is something they celebrate. They want you to be able to bring your authentic self to the Red Cross and feel that you belong. They want to create an inclusive environment, and promote and spread the power of kindness.

As part of creating an inclusive space they have an expenses policy that prioritises volunteers not being out of pocket for expenses linked to your role. If up front costs are difficult, you can speak to your volunteering manager about this to find alternatives.

They welcome refugees, asylum seekers and others currently in the UK to volunteer with us. They want volunteering to be accessible to everyone. **Health and Safety Statement** They take an individual approach to ensuring your safety. They may ask you to complete a simple risk assessment and will also have a conversation with you to discuss and identify any adjustments you may need.

To apply, see here

Spreading the word is key to your local community understanding what your Read Easy group does and how people can get the reading support they need or volunteer to help.

You will be creative, determined and passionate about communications, and bringing people together. You’ll be confident using local media, social media, and distributing leaflets, posters and other resources provided by Read Easy UK to help get the message out there into your community about the life-changing journey of learning to read.

Once the local community and media hear about the thousands of adults who can’t read in the area, it will be your responsibility to make sure that your local Read Easy group is able to capitalise on this attention!

To apply, see here

The role of Local Connector is very varied, involving relationship-building with local organisations, logistical tasks and being on hand to assist Readers when required.

You will help with distributing publicity, building links with referral agencies and sourcing venues (e.g., local Libraries, banks, community centres etc.) where Reading Pairs can meet for coaching sessions or in the case of remote coaching, where a Reader can access IT equipment to log in to coaching sessions online.

Local Connectors will be on hand to support Readers working remotely for their first few reading sessions, introducing them to venue staff/volunteers, who will greet and support the Reader with any IT issues during their coaching sessions in the future. As the Reader progresses, you will meet with them to present certificates and provide resources they will need for their next level.

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The Children’s Air Ambulance are looking to create a fundraising group and are seeking volunteers to join.

Our fundraising groups form a vital network of volunteers across the country, being part of a group is a way to meet new people, make great friends and get involved in your local community, all whilst helping to keep our helicopters flying. We also rely on our fundraising groups to help organise fundraising events and activities within their local community, our groups act as ambassadors, helping to spread the word about the work of the Children’s Air Ambulance and encouraging and supporting local people, clubs and organisations to fundraise for us too.

Groups normally meet once a month and support in whatever way best suits their interests and skills to organise and support fundraising activities in their local community.

They do this by: Planning and organising fundraising events to take place across the year Meeting regularly as a group to reflect on events held and discuss future activities Developing relationships and representing the Children’s Air Ambulance in their local communities, including attending events Supporting the charities campaigns such as Wills Week, Superhero Month and Bring a £ day. Working alongside and support of a Fundraising Manager to identify opportunities.

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