Volunteering Opportunities

Volunteering is at the heart of our communities. It is an excellent way to meet new people, gain the skills and experience needed to advance your career, improve your well-being, and connect with people in your neighbourhood

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Become a volunteer mentor Ongoing

Become a volunteer mentor

MCR Pathways is an award winning charity that provides a school-based 1-2-1 mentoring programme for care-experienced and disadvantaged young people, helping them to realise their full p...

How you can help: Volunteer - practical skills

Open a book, open a world! Ongoing

Open a book, open a world!

Become a volunteer school reader and make a difference to a child's life story.

Social inclusion service for lonely and isolated people Ongoing

Social inclusion service for lonely and isolated people

The Solace Centre, Equinox combats loneliness and isolation for clients with long and enduring mental health diagnosis needing social inclusion, building confidence, stability, and independence, reducing escalation and hospital relapse.

How you can help: Tools & equipment, Volunteer - creative skills, Volunteer - practical skills

Overnight watch for homeless shelters Ongoing

Overnight watch for homeless shelters

We run a roving shelter for homeless people in church halls during the winter months. There are 23 different venues, and each gives a few nights hospitality with dinner, bed and breakfast as well as some company.

How you can help: Volunteer - practical skills

Carers Corner – The Dig Ongoing

Carers Corner – The Dig

Join us at Carers’ Corner, where nurturing caregivers and the environment is our focus.

How you can help: Volunteer - creative skills, Volunteer - practical skills

HostNation befriending Ongoing

HostNation befriending

HostNation connects lonely asylum seekers and refugees who are referred to us by friendly, local people, so as to improve their experience of life in London.

How you can help: Volunteer - practical skills

Workshop facilitators needed for children’s climate action campaign Ongoing

Workshop facilitators needed for children’s climate action campaign

A chance for you to inspire children and their families to take action on climate change by reducing their carbon footprints and leading a more climate-friendly lifestyle.

How you can help: Volunteer - creative skills, Volunteer - practical skills

Sustainable Wellbeing Ongoing

Sustainable Wellbeing

These Wednesday morning sessions are ideal if you're looking to volunteer! Our Sustainable Wellbeing sessions will combine a bold site makeover (garden DIY, sustainability improvemen...

How you can help: Tools & equipment, Volunteer - creative skills, Volunteer - practical skills

Ealing Youth Justice Service volunteer opportunities Ongoing

Ealing Youth Justice Service volunteer opportunities

Ealing Youth Justice Service (YJS) aims to prevent young people aged between 10 and 17 years from offending, and to reduce re-offending by young people already known to the police and t...

How you can help: Volunteer - creative skills, Volunteer - practical skills

Mentoring Programme – Hope for the Young Ongoing

Mentoring Programme – Hope for the Young

We are a community of mentors, staff, young people, and volunteers who are passionate about welcoming young refugees to the UK and ensuring they are given every opportunity they need to...

How you can help: Volunteer - creative skills, Volunteer - practical skills

Crosslight – Debt and Benefit Advice Ongoing

How you can help: Volunteer - practical skills

Home-Start Ealing – supporting families with young children Ongoing

Home-Start Ealing – supporting families with young children

Home-Start Ealing recruits and trains volunteers from around the borough of Ealing. We then carefully match the volunteer with a family in need of support. Volunteers are from all walks of life, each and every one a parent or even grandparent, all with a little free time available each week to help provide emotional and practical help to local families.

How you can help: Volunteer - practical skills