Edinburgh volunteering opportunities
Retail Volunteer - Edinburgh Newington
Chest Heart & Stroke Scotland
We currently have around 50 shops/ community hubs across Scotland. Our shops and hubs help us raise funds so we can provide our services to the people who need us. Every one of our stores relies on a team of volunteers to help run it and support our staff. Quite simply, we cannot provide our services or raise funds without the amazing support of our volunteers. The time, support and the work they do is vital to us and the people we help. By helping out in one of our stores, you can make a difference to people and their families in Scotland who are isolated, scared or anxious about their condition.
Chair of the Executive Committee
30th Craigalmond Scout Group
The Chair leads the Executive Committee, ensuring that it fulfils its responsibilities within the group in accordance with the policy, organisation and rules of The Scout Association. The chairperson provides direction, sets the agenda, facilitates the monthly committee meetings and monitors activities. Tasks are split between all the committee members including the Treasurer, Membership Secretary and Group Scout Leader.
Family Befriender
Safe Families
Once approved volunteers can look after a child who has been referred to us and invest time with them by taking them out for a few hours to do fun activities. If they have a spare room they may be able to host them overnight. Others meet up with parents or carers and go to the shops, go out for a walk or help with paperwork but above all else take time to be a listen and support. Resource Friends may do some painting, joinery, gardening or anything practical that helps out.
Home Visitors (Radio Support)
British Wireless for the Blind
This role involves visiting blind and partially sighted people in their homes, installing their new radio and teaching them how to use it as well as providing ongoing support, where needed. This role also involves a small amount of admin.
Home Visitor/Buddy
Blind Veterans UK
The role is to develop a Befriending relationship for an older visually impaired male needing some companionship. We are looking for a friendly person with a couple of hours to spare on a week day, once a week or fortnight.
This is a challenging role which would suit a champion, an empathetic experienced volunteer who enjoys conversation and reminiscence. This veteran is in the early stages of dementia. This role is providing some friendly social contact and not a Care role.
Volunteer Buddy
Volunteer Edinburgh - Health and Wellbeing
You can help change someone’s life through volunteering. We are looking for volunteer buddies to be matched with potential volunteers who need some support to volunteer because of a disability, mental health issue or other barrier. Depending on the needs of the volunteer you will possibly accompany the volunteer to meet the organisation, volunteer alongside them and continue to support them through meetings, phone calls, texts, emails etc. Full training and support will be provided.
Retail Volunteer
Move On Wood Recycling
Staffing the MoveOn Wood Recycling shop, helping customers, taking orders and payments, making sure the items in the shop are priced correctly, listing appropriate items on social media/gumtree/ebay etc.
Caring Christmas Trees Volunteer
Bethany Christian Trust
Ever year, Caring Christmas Trees could not run without the support of volunteers. Our volunteers ensure that the collection sites run smoothly and people receive their Christmas trees with an easy and safe experience.
This includes:
Greeting the customers
Checking their name and order
Helping customers select their tree, and take it to the car
Demonstrating the tree sizes
Netting trees
Care Van Cleaning Volunteer
Bethany Christian Trust
General responsibilities:
Inside the van:
Cleaning all surfaces including inside. cupboards, boxes and shelves.
Brushing and mopping floor.
Refilling spray bottles.
Tidying cupboards.
Removing rubbish.
Brushing drivers cab and removing any rubbish.
Inside the kitchen:
Removing discarded food from shelves and fridge.
Cleaning shelving units, sink area and inside of fridge.
Removing rubbish from inside of kitchen and the area outside.
Brushing and mopping floor.
Volunteer Support Bethany Christian Centre
Bethany Christian Trust
The primary purpose of the role is sleeping over at the Centre to provide support should the waking night staff require it, and to participate in recreational activities with residents and staff. Other duties may be required and will be discussed at interview.
Click and Connect Computer Drop-In Volunteer
Bethany Christian Trust
Volunteers should;
Foster a supportive and encouraging environment; welcoming people to the group, facilitating social interactions through discussions and offering a listening ear.
Offer digital support to those attending the group, as well as offering advice and support on issues such as CV writing, health and well-being, filling out online forms etc.
Help with the set-up and clean-up of the group, arriving on time in order to do so.
Alert staff of any concerns.
Volunteer Director
Aerial Art House
We are now seeking to appoint a Volunteer Director to work alongside the Board. This is a strategic role, responsible for ensuring that there is coherence across all the companies activity. The role will provide leadership in the areas of business planning, partnership development, and fundraising, and overall management of AAH programme. Our ideal candidate will be dynamic and flexible, with the ability to seek out opportunities for the company and genuinely interested in arts/circus arts.
Fundraising Group Coordinator
Guide Dogs
Be the key contact for fundraising in your local community to raise money from a variety of activities such as collections, social events and Tea Parties.
• Organising and attending events such as the Great Guide Dogs Tea Party, Pub Quizzes and collections in your local area
• Encouraging local businesses, schools and groups to name their own guide dog puppy
• Building relationships with local networks, socials groups, schools and businesses to encourage them to host their own event in support of Guide Dogs
• Working as part of Guide Dogs’ fundraising team with staff and volunteers
• Liaising with Community Fundraiser informing them of events in your area
• Making sure your fundraising policies and procedures are followed.
• Ensuring income raised from events is banked in a timely manner.
• Ensuring that any information provided by Guide Dogs is cascaded to relevant supporters or volunteers.
Garden Assistant
Newhaven Heritage Community Gardens & Friends of Newhaven Gardens
Helping with looking after all the patches of garden in the old Newhaven area around Newhaven Main Street including the Old Burial Ground, the Fernery, the garden on Newhaven Main Street, the planters and window boxes and the vegetable plot. Creating happy spots for people to enjoy and developing the garden and glasshouse and compost heap. Liasing with the local primary school children and the local community.
Research Participant
School of Philosophy, Psychology & Language Sciences
As a volunteer you: play a vital role in our research, since many of our studies rely on collecting data from human participants.
Can take part in research studies online and in-person at our research facilities.
Choose which studies you want to get involved in.
Can withdraw from the research at any time.
We email our volunteers with information about our current studies and they decide if they wish to take part.
EaRN Project Assistant
Equality and Rights Network (EaRN)
The role varies, but can include: administrative tasks such as writing up notes or inputting data; communications and social media; organising, promoting and running events; desk research on particular issues or themes; facilitating discussions or workshops; gathering stories; liaising with public sector representatives.
Green Classroom Assistant
LOVE Gorgie
You will be working in local schools to lead fun, outdoor sessions with children, engaging them in learning opportunities such as building raised beds, gardening, and nature connection games and activities.
Participate in training which will familiarise you with permaculture philosophy and teaching methods, enhance gardening knowledge and skills, and give you experience in leading outdoor sessions in schools.
When trained, lead sessions with children using session plans provided to you.
Maintenance Volunteer
LOVE Gorgie
This role will be to assist our maintenance employee in his various duties, including fixing equipment, fences, painting, checking on health and safety procedures and fire safety policies, masonry, joinery, plumbing, refurbishment projects and general site upkeep.
Kitchen Assistant
Empty Kitchens, Full Hearts
This is an excellent opportunity for anyone looking to gain valuable kitchen skills. We are looking for volunteers who enjoy working in a fast paced team and are keen to learn. This position is physical by nature and will involve some lifting, so please consider this when applying. In return we will provide on-site training from our team of volunteer professional chefs and will help you to gain a level 2 Food Hygiene qualification.
Kitchen Porter
Empty Kitchens, Full Hearts
Kitchen Porters support the chefs to free up their time to focus on cooking. KPs assist with basic food preparation such as washing, peeling and chopping vegetables. It also involves cleaning areas of the kitchen including sinks, walls and floors, and anything else that gets dirty. There can be some heavy lifting of big pots, and using an industrial dishwasher. There will always be a lead chef (our equivalent to a team leader) who will coordinate the KPs and chefs during the shift.
Volunteer LEARN Trainer, Understanding Borderline Personality Disorders (Much More Than a Label)
CAPS Independent Advocacy
The role involves sharing your own experiences of living with Borderline Personality Disorder with groups of participants and helping to facilitate training workshops. You will need good communication skills, lived experience of BPD , and be willing to share personal experiences with people from a variety of different backgrounds. A strong sense of commitment and willingness to travel throughout the Lothians are also important.
CAPS /LEARN will provide training and mentoring for this role.
Due to Covid 19 CAPS we have had to alter the way we work. Groups and volunteer roles are currently taking place online until we can resume face to face meetings.
Fundraising Group Members (Penicuik)
Marie Curie (Midlothian)
Every day of your life matters – from the first to the last. That's why the right care at the end of your life is so important. With other group members from your local area, you will organise fundraising events, collections and bring your community together in supporting Marie Curie. The group meets approximately every 6 weeks to organise 2-4 events per year.
Due to Covid-19 at present all volunteer fundraising is being carried out virtually.
Supportive Flatmate
Rock Trust
This is a live-in volunteering role. Volunteers will live with and support 3 young people who have/are experiencing homelessness. The aim is to provide safe, well-managed supported accommodation. Supportive Flatmates help to create this environment by being a responsible presence, providing practical support around the flat. A budget of £200 per month is available to plan activities with young people. Free rent, bills and internet are included.
Volunteer Film Maker
RSPB Scotland
At RSPB we know that young people are a key stakeholder to drive our mission to address the climate and nature emergency we face. We wish to support and empower young people to bring about the nature-positive future that they hope for The Education, Families and Youth team's core aim is to facilitate saving nature through our young people.
We understand that the medium of film is how many young people now learn in their schools, access, absorb and share information, build their online networks and fight for causes important to them. To this end, we wish to offer an experienced film and communications specialist the opportunity to raise the profile of youth voice within RSPB Scotland and ensure that young people's stories are told wider across the sector and beyond.
- Hold meetings with key RSPB departments to develop ideas.
- Develop initial story or concept into a production-feasible, fully planned project.
- Work with Education, Families & Youth colleagues and provide feedback on the further development of scripts.
- Seek out youth stories across Scotland to develop youth-led content.
- Ensure safeguarding measures, consent and data protection measures are in place.
- Identify and select suitable locations for filming.
- Supervise all creative aspects of the production.
- Direct participants during the filming.
- Edit footage to present the final version of the film to team.
- Select music for the final film and/or work with a composer to decide on the musical score.
- Build and develop a network of contacts to ensure powerful youth stories are being told.
- Maintain contemporary technical skills.
- Have an awareness and knowledge of emerging industry trends.
What's in it for you?
The RSPB is an active and exciting conservation charity, the largest in Europe! We can help you gain skills and give you a valuable insight into our work.
- You will be joining a great, friendly and supportive team working for nature.
- An induction to the reserve and to the RSPB, it's vision and ways of working.
- An opportunity to be part of the country's largest nature conservation charity.
- Regular line management support.
- Opportunities to have fun in an outdoor learning environment with young people.
- Opportunities to share/gain natural history knowledge.
- Relevant health and safety training.
- An RSPB uniform and name badge.
- A chance to travel around Scotland to take part in a range of different projects.
Heat Heroes
Changeworks Ltd
Our Heat Heroes help those at greatest risk of fuel poverty, to help them access support and manage their home energy more efficiently. Our volunteers undergo an extensive training programme in order to provide energy efficiency and behaviour change support and coaching to help people gain skills and improve the warmth of their homes. Anyone needing in-depth advice is referred for specialist help. Volunteers have the opportunity to provide advice face to face and remotely.
Volunteer Team Recruiter
Save the Children
We are looking for someone who can support with the recruitment and welcome of Shop Volunteers at the Save the Children Shop in Nicolson Street. The role would involve managing our online recruitment process, conducting phone calls and promoting the volunteer roles on external websites - ensuring we are able to welcome a diverse group of people to our team.
Fundraising Group Member
Crisis Skylight Edinburgh
Join people with a common interest to start a Crisis Fundraising Group. Plan and organise fundraising events and collections with group members. A group could be any number of people from 3 upwards, and we expect the group to organise 3 events per year (e.g coffee morning, Bag pack, Quiz, cake bake, book club, Outdoor collections). Keeping records of the group’s financial activities and arranging submission of funds raised. Ensure all supporters have a positive experience of supporting the char
Volunteer Fundraising Group Member
NSPCC
Are you looking for a flexible and varied volunteering opportunity which allows you to be part of a team? Could you champion the work of NSPCC Scotland in your local area, helping us to raise funds to support our work and keep children in Scotland safe?
We’re looking for friendly, enthusiastic volunteers from across Scotland to create fundraising groups within their local communities. You’ll have the chance to shape and drive the activities of the group and raise vital funds for children.
Football & Edinburgh Memories Volunteer
Big Hearts Community Trust
Big Hearts’ Memories is a reminiscence project aimed at older people living with dementia or at risk of social isolation.
Welcoming participants to the sessions and making them feel comfortable.
Talking to participants and encourage conversations around helping with the creation of reminiscence resources used at the sessions.
Supporting the group on away trips to places of historical interest.
Retail Volunteer-Edinburgh, Wester Hailes 559276/A8
Barnardo's Scotland
Our amazing team of vibrant & diverse volunteers helps us run over 700 shops. Our stores sell lots of great donated & new goods to help raise vital funds to make a real difference to disadvantaged children, young people and families across the UK.
Our retail stores are the face of our charity on the high-street and in local communities. We have loads of amazing stock donated to us every week, and this all needs to be sorted, tagged and put on the shop-floor for sale!
Making sure our shops look fantastic is another task you can get involved with. You may also be required to help out on the till too, but we will show you how that works during your time volunteering with us. We value the contribution of everyone who supports Barnardo’s.
You will be a friendly face of Barnardo’s by volunteering in one of our shops. It would be great if you could volunteer one shift a week (or even more if you want) but we’re always happy to be flexible to work around your availability.
Why we want you:
Our amazing team of vibrant & diverse volunteers helps us run over 700 stores. Our stores sell lots of great donated and new goods to help raise vital funds to make a real difference to disadvantaged children, young people and families across the UK.
What you will be doing:
Work on the till processing sales and returns
Prepare stock, including sorting, steaming and pricing
Create stylish window displays
Replenish stock on the shop floor
Stock-take and other administrative tasks
The skills you need:
Friendly and helpful
Happy to be part of an amazing team of staff and volunteers
Enthusiastic about the work of Barnardo’s
Flexible and willing to do a variety of the shop tasks
What's in it for you:
Have fun and meet new people
Develop skills for your CV including confidence, teamwork and problem solving
Make a difference to the lives of children, young people and their families
Learning and development opportunities through our Volunteer Academy which includes access to Level 2 Qualifications and other accredited courses
Full training and experience of working in retail as a volunteer
Other information:
Minimum age 14
Shop based
Location: Unit 14b Westside Plaza, Wester Hailes, Edinburgh, Midlothian, EH14 2SW, United Kingdom
Disclaimer
We look to recruit a diverse range of volunteers. If your skills don't fit the above, please do not let this put you off as we are able to be flexible with most of our roles. If you are unable to apply online through the link on this page, please visit your local store for a paper application form or contact the Barnardo's Volunteering Team on volunteering@barnardos.org.uk
Retail Volunteer-Edinburgh, Shandwick Place (Pop Up Shop) 55386/A8
Barnardo's Scotland
Our amazing team of vibrant & diverse volunteers helps us run over 700 shops. Our stores sell lots of great donated & new goods to help raise vital funds to make a real difference to disadvantaged children, young people and families across the UK.
Our retail stores are the face of our charity on the high-street and in local communities. We have loads of amazing stock donated to us every week, and this all needs to be sorted, tagged and put on the shop-floor for sale!
Making sure our shops look fantastic is another task you can get involved with. You may also be required to help out on the till too, but we will show you how that works during your time volunteering with us. We value the contribution of everyone who supports Barnardo’s.
You will be a friendly face of Barnardo’s by volunteering in one of our shops. It would be great if you could volunteer one shift a week (or even more if you want) but we’re always happy to be flexible to work around your availability.
Why we want you:
Our amazing team of vibrant & diverse volunteers helps us run over 700 stores. Our stores sell lots of great donated and new goods to help raise vital funds to make a real difference to disadvantaged children, young people and families across the UK.
What you will be doing:
Work on the till processing sales and returns
Prepare stock, including sorting, steaming and pricing
Create stylish window displays
Replenish stock on the shop floor
Stock-take and other administrative tasks
The skills you need:
Friendly and helpful
Happy to be part of an amazing team of staff and volunteers
Enthusiastic about the work of Barnardo’s
Flexible and willing to do a variety of the shop tasks
What's in it for you:
Have fun and meet new people
Develop skills for your CV including confidence, teamwork and problem solving
Make a difference to the lives of children, young people and their families
Learning and development opportunities through our Volunteer Academy which includes access to Level 2 Qualifications and other accredited courses
Full training and experience of working in retail as a volunteer
Other information:
Minimum age 14
Shop based
Location: 42 Shandwick Place, Edinburgh, Midlothian, EH2 4RT, United Kingdom
Disclaimer
We look to recruit a diverse range of volunteers. If your skills don't fit the above, please do not let this put you off as we are able to be flexible with most of our roles. If you are unable to apply online through the link on this page, please visit your local store for a paper application form or contact the Barnardo's Volunteering Team on volunteering@barnardos.org.uk
Retail Volunteer-Portobello High St 55959/A8
Barnardo's Scotland
Our amazing team of vibrant & diverse volunteers helps us run over 700 shops. Our stores sell lots of great donated & new goods to help raise vital funds to make a real difference to disadvantaged children, young people and families across the UK.
Our retail stores are the face of our charity on the high-street and in local communities. We have loads of amazing stock donated to us every week, and this all needs to be sorted, tagged and put on the shop-floor for sale!
Making sure our shops look fantastic is another task you can get involved with. You may also be required to help out on the till too, but we will show you how that works during your time volunteering with us. We value the contribution of everyone who supports Barnardo’s.
You will be a friendly face of Barnardo’s by volunteering in one of our shops. It would be great if you could volunteer one shift a week (or even more if you want) but we’re always happy to be flexible to work around your availability.
Why we want you:
Our amazing team of vibrant & diverse volunteers helps us run over 700 stores. Our stores sell lots of great donated and new goods to help raise vital funds to make a real difference to disadvantaged children, young people and families across the UK.
What you will be doing:
Work on the till processing sales and returns
Prepare stock, including sorting, steaming and pricing
Create stylish window displays
Replenish stock on the shop floor
Stock-take and other administrative tasks
The skills you need:
Friendly and helpful
Happy to be part of an amazing team of staff and volunteers
Enthusiastic about the work of Barnardo’s
Flexible and willing to do a variety of the shop tasks
What's in it for you:
Have fun and meet new people
Develop skills for your CV including confidence, teamwork and problem solving
Make a difference to the lives of children, young people and their families
Learning and development opportunities through our Volunteer Academy which includes access to Level 2 Qualifications and other accredited courses
Full training and experience of working in retail as a volunteer
Other information:
Minimum age 14
Shop based
Location: 196 Portobello High Street, Edinburgh, Midlothian, EH15 1EX, United Kingdom
Disclaimer
We look to recruit a diverse range of volunteers. If your skills don't fit the above, please do not let this put you off as we are able to be flexible with most of our roles. If you are unable to apply online through the link on this page, please visit your local store for a paper application form or contact the Barnardo's Volunteering Team on volunteering@barnardos.org.uk
Retail Volunteer- South Queensferry Donation Centre 55127/A1
Barnardo's Scotland
Our amazing team of vibrant & diverse volunteers helps us run over 700 shops. Our stores sell lots of great donated & new goods to help raise vital funds to make a real difference to disadvantaged children, young people and families across the UK.
Over 60 donation centres receive and distribute 100’s of bags of stock every single week. All of these donations need to be lifted and shifted so they end up in the right shops - we don’t require a weightlifter, but you will be need to be physically fit to help move the many donations we receive.
As well as working up a sweat, our donation centres also sell a variety of stock which all need processing and putting on the shop floor. Making sure our shops look fantastic is another task you can get involved with. You may also be required to help out on the till once in a while, but we will show you how that works during your time volunteering with us. We value the contribution of everyone who supports Barnardo’s.
You will be a friendly face of Barnardo’s by volunteering in one of our shops. It would be great if you could volunteer one shift a week (or even more if you want) but we’re always happy to be flexible to work around your availability.
Why we want you:
Our amazing team of vibrant & diverse volunteers helps us run over 700 stores. Our stores sell lots of great donated and new goods to help raise vital funds to make a real difference to disadvantaged children, young people and families across the UK.
What you will be doing:
Sorting large amounts of donations and stock
Work on the till processing sales and returns
Prepare stock, including sorting, steaming and pricing
Create stylish window displays
Replenish stock on the shop floor
Stock-take and other administrative tasks
The skills you need:
Friendly and helpful
Happy to be part of an amazing team of staff and volunteers
Enthusiastic about the work of Barnardo’s
Flexible and willing to do a variety of the shop tasks
What's in it for you:
Have fun and meet new people
Develop skills for your CV including confidence, teamwork and problem solving
Make a difference to the lives of children, young people and their families
Learning and development opportunities through our Volunteer Academy which includes access to Level 2 Qualifications and other accredited courses
Full training and experience of working in retail as a volunteer
Other information:
Minimum age 14
Shop based
Location
The Loan, South Queensferry, EH30 9SD, United Kingdom
Disclaimer
We look to recruit a diverse range of volunteers. If your skills don't fit the above, please do not let this put you off as we are able to be flexible with most of our roles. If you are unable to apply online through the link on this page, please visit your local store for a paper application form or contact the Barnardo's Volunteering Team on volunteering@barnardos.org.uk
Trustee
Pilton Equalities Project
Set and maintain PEP's vision, mission and values, support strategic development of services, establish and monitor policies, monitor employment procedures alongside Manager, support the Manager, promote the organisation.
Care Assistant / Passenger Assistant
Libertus Services
This opportunity is about building relationships with our members and to help them carry out everyday tasks within the day care centre. Your Role would be to support and encourage our clients in their activities assisting them with mobilisation and general comfort. Communicating with them and help them build their confidence and self-esteem. You would also be required to assist on our buses by helping passengers get on and off the vehicle ensure they are secure along with any wheelchairs, baggag
Activities Helper / Befriender
Libertus Services
Libertus is a South Edinburgh based charity. We are looking for enthusiastic people to help us with some of the activities & projects which we run. These range from creating bi monthly radio shows, producing films & documentaries, annual theatre productions, intergenerational projects, alternative therapies, exercise & arts and crafts. You will be working with older people, younger people and people living with special needs. Particularly interested in hearing from people with web based skills.
Pre-School Children Family Befriender
Home Link Family Support.
Every family needs something different, but they all love someone to talk to who isn’t going to judge or criticise them. The children are under 5 so they just want to play, sing, hear stories and run about outside. By turning up once a week for 2 hours you can help to de-stress a family and help them to enjoy their kids, because you are there to take a little of the pressure off. By regular visiting you will help families connect with their communities, feel more confident and be more resilient.
Day Care Assistant - Thursday Club
Calton Welfare Services
Volunteers would help to organise games and activities to stimulate and provide exercise for dementia sufferers. Would also help to provide lunch and breakfast, by making food, clearing tables and washing/drying dishes. A rota system is in place so everyone takes a turn at different duties. There would also be a chance for conversation and reminiscence, to enable the volunteer to get to know everyone better. The atmosphere is one of fun and laughter and provides a great deal of satisfaction.
Befriender
Positive Help
As a befriender you will build a relationship with a child or a young person who is affected by HIV and/or Hepatitis C. You will meet fortnightly for 3-5 hours to spend one-on-one time together. Together you will come up with fun activities you can do during the befriending sessions, such as visiting art galleries or kayaking. You will usually also share a meal together. Our Children’s Services require a minimum commitment of 1 year.
Community Cafe Assistant
Ripple Project
Hubgrub cafe, based in Restalrig Lochend Community Hub, cooks and serves fresh, home-made soup, light meals, toasties and home baking. Hubgrub cafe provides local people with the opportunity to meet in friendly, spacious surroundings and enjoy tasty, freshly prepared food at affordable prices. We are looking for people who can help with a variety of tasks including food preparation, customer service and clearing up duties. Volunteers must be able to work independently and unsupervised. This is a
Mentor/Befriender
LINKnet Mentoring
Through a range of support structures and services, LINKnet aims to provide a quality experience for volunteer mentors/befrienders and successful outcomes for mentees. Your commitment as a mentor/befriender will be two or three hours per week, spread over a day or two for a few months, not exceeding six months. One to one mentoring is found to be one of the most effective methods of people development . Befriending is a rewarding, personal gratification experience.
Fundraising Assistant
LINKnet Mentoring
A fantastic ethnic minority charity is looking for enthusiastic minority ethnic volunteers (from all ethnic groups) to join the Fundraising team. You will be part of the team to raise fund to support volunteer mentoring and befriending services. You will be adding value to LINKnet by supporting the Fundraising team and maximizing the efficiency of the fund raising process through creative thinking, creating fundraising opportunities, carrying out administration duties and networking with key contacts.
Admin Volunteer
LINKnet Mentoring
LINKnet are looking for minority ethnic volunteers to support paid staff with the smooth running of mentoring and befriending services. This is a great opportunity to gain work experience and develop your skills in various fields of work as the roles at LINKnet will be varied. Volunteering involves once a week (5hrs per day).
Assistant Scout Leader
64th Stockbridge Scout Group
We are looking for new volunteers both male and female to help restart our Scout Troop. The Scout Troop will be part of an active Scout Group - together with Beavers (ages 6-8) and Cubs (ages 8-10) ensuring a regular stream of new entrants. We plan to meet regularly on a Friday evening, but will also take part in various activities involving other Scout Troops including Swimming and Camping Competitions, indoor football and "Unihoc". The Troop had a reputation for going camping frequently during
Sales Assistant
Hospice of Hope Shop, Gorgie
We are looking for friendly, creative & reliable people in our busy shop to help serve customers, operate the till and prepare, price & display stock. Hospices of Hope is the leading palliative care charity in South Eastern Europe. We think everyone deserves the best possible care at the end of life but in countries like Romania, Serbia and Moldova, many people still die in pain without physical, spiritual or emotional comfort.
After School Club / Playscheme Support
Venchie Children & Young People's Project
To work with children in a variety of settings which might include group work and individual support. To help ensure overall smooth running of club activities including the setting up preparation and the serving of snack as directed by the senior staff
Scout Leader / Assistant Scout Leader
19th Pentland Scout Group
The planning and delivery of the Balanced Programme, with the help of Assistant Section Leaders, Section Assistants, Young Leaders and members of Scout Active Support as appropriate. Some of the tasks for which the Section Leader is responsible may be delegated to others in the Section, including other Section Leaders, Assistant Section Leaders and Section Assistants.
Conservation Volunteer
Water of Leith Conservation Trust
Help look after the Water of Leith. Volunteers carry out practical conservation tasks along the river and walkway in conjunction with City of Edinburgh Council Natural Heritage Service. This could be a river clean-up, tree or wildflower planting, meadow cutting, invasive plant control (May-July), vegetation control, footpath maintenance. Children of all ages are welcome if supervised by an adult.
Retail Stock Room Assistant
British Heart Foundation Shop (Leith)
If you’re a keen rummager and like things to be neat and tidy, then we have a role for you Helping in our retail stock room to sort the fantastic donations we receive behind the scenes.
Ageing Well Volunteer
Edinburgh Leisure
Lead or support activities for older people in local communities. Activities include walking, cycling, seated exercise, gardening, indoor curling, swimming, dancing and singing. A social element provides opportunities for participants to share experiences and develop new friendships. Many volunteers choose to undertake additional training to lead or support activities amongst their peers. Other volunteers help out supporting promotional events.
Gardener
Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop
Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop (ESW) is looking for volunteers to help with maintaining the grounds around our building which will include weeding and clearing foliage, some trimming of hedges and other similar jobs. Time commitment requirement is dependent on the person applying and their availability, even just 1 day would be good and we are also open to people coming regularly over the summer.
Friendship Caller
Age Scotland
The purpose of a Friendship Caller is to provide calls of companionship to different people each week who are 50 and over, who may live alone or feel alone and would benefit from a chat. Having a conversation can have such a positive impact, we can talk about many things that aren’t Coronavirus related for example, current interests, hobbies, top tier biscuits – the list is endless!
CARDS Volunteer Befriender
Rowan Alba
Human contact is vital. As we are all finding out, without it, life changes.
Community Alcohol Related Damages Service is a befriending service run by Rowan Alba. Health care specialists, GP’s, hospitals and mental health services refer individuals to our service. These people, for various reasons have been living the way we experienced during the COVID-19 pandemic. Some of them for most of their lives. We need to recruit and train volunteers now so we can respond to those that have been referred to us during this time.
Gig Buddy
Gig Buddies – Thera (Scotland)
Gig Buddies aims to link people with a learning disability with volunteers who share a common interest. A Gig Buddies role can involve anything that those two people share an interest in. This could include a music gig but could be any other activity they enjoy doing together, it’s whatever your ‘gig’ is! You'll build a relationship with the person you are paired with to get a good understanding of what events the two of you go to.
IT Tutor
Scottish Seniors Computer Clubs - Edinburgh
The club runs for 2 hours each week. Tutoring is on a one to one basis if possible and can cover all types of device from laptops running different versions of Windows to different types of tablet (IPAD, andriods. Hudl). The subjects that our members wish to learn range from an introduction to computing to browsing the internet to find information plus online shopping.
Grant Writing Volunteer
Aerial Art House
Aerial Art House is currently looking for a volunteer to assemble and submit grants requests for our community projects.
Responsibilities:
• Research and identify sources of funding and grants that match the company’s objectives
• Write high quality and winning grant proposals
Requirements:
• Excellent writing and verbal skills
• Result oriented and persuasive
• Good interpersonal skills
• Prior experience of fundraising is desirable but not compulsory
Volunteer Receptionist
Space and Broomhouse Hub
As a volunteer receptionist you will be the first point of contact for the organisation.
Main duties include
Answering phone calls in a polite and friendly manner, directing enquiries to the correct member of the team.
Welcoming visitors to The Broomhouse Hub.
Answering email enquiries.
Receive deliveries and distribute incoming mail.
Maintain the reception area, ensuring it is clean & tidy.
Assist with some basic administration tasks including printing/photocopying.
Trustee
FENIKS
The Board of Trustees are responsible for the overall governance and strategic direction of Feniks, developing the organisations aims, objectives and goals in accordance with the governing document, legal and regulatory guidelines.
We are looking for enthusiastic board members who would support our fundraising; finance and strategy development endevours.
The full role description is available here https://www.feniks.org.uk/document/role-description-board-member/
Volunteer Advocacy Promotion
CAPS Independent Advocacy
CAPS are looking for a friendly and approachable individual to provide information on Advocacy Services in the Lothians. You will help others by signposting them to appropraite services and explain how Independent Advocacy might help. You will be offered the opportunity to promote CAPS Independent advocacy at events throughout the Lothians. You will help to set up and man promotional stalls. To monitor leaflets /resources and inform the volunteer coordinator when resources need to be replaced.
CAPS also have a stall at the Information station Walpole Hall. The Information Station is a one stop shop acting as a source of support, information and sign posting. CAPS provides an Information Stall at this weekly event and will provide training and guidance for volunteers.
Due to Covid 19 CAPS we have had to alter the way we work. Groups and volunteer roles are currently taking place online until we can resume face to face meetings.
Collective Advocacy Participant - 'Much More Than A Label' Personality Disorder Project
CAPS Independent Advocacy
This role involves using your own lived experiences of Personality Disorder in a positive way to raise awareness and campaign for change.
The aim of the project is for people who have been given a diagnosis of a personality disorder or had experiences that they feel fit with a personality disorder diagnosis to come together, have a collective voice and create change.The group decides what it wants to do (it is experience-led) and has a CAPS staff member to enable/facilitate its decisions
Individuals can get involved in a way which suits them. Activities and achievements of the group so far have included: developing and delivering experience led training; creating films based around experiences of living with a Personality Disorder; organising various awareness events , creating leaflets and resource packs based on peoples’ lived experience, responding to and creating consultations and attending and delivering presentations at conferences.
(Collective advocacy is where a group of people who are all facing a common problem and have had similar experiences get together to work on specific issues and have their voices heard. The group as a whole may campaign on an issue that affects them. A collective voice can be stronger than that of an individual, as groups are more difficult to ignore.)
Due to Covid 19 CAPS we have had to alter the way we work. Groups and volunteer roles are currently taking place online until we can resume face to face meetings.
Patient Examination Volunteer
University of Edinburgh
These examinations require volunteer patients with clear physical signs (e.g. a heart murmur) that can be found by a skilled doctor when they examine a patient, or symptoms (e.g. breathlessness). The use of "real" patients in clinical examinations allows the candidate to discover abnormalities on examination in a way that actors and manikins cannot, and gives the students an opportunity to demonstrate their knowledge, attitudes, behaviours and skills in a much more reliable way.
Visitor Guide
St Giles' Cathedral
St Giles' Cathedral is a site of significant spiritual, historical and architectural interest. Each year it attracts over 1,000,000 visitors, drawn from many nationalities, age groups and walks of life. Our volunteer guides are the first point of contact for most visitors and play a crucial role in ensuring the quality of their experience. Feedback from visitors suggests that each encounter with the guides has the potential to make someone's visit; 'I appreciated the warm and personal tour'.
Home Support Service
Positive Help
Positive Helps's home support servive makes a very direct impact on quality of life for those affected by the symptoms of HIV or Hep C and the often debilitating side effects of combination drugs therapies. With home support our client's quality of life can be transformed on a day to day basis, for example providing them with a clean comfortable home. Positive Help offers home support on both a regular and a one-off basis.
Pantry Till Assistant
Fresh Start
As Pantry Till Assistant, this role includes a level of responsibility serving customers at the till and cash handling, a level of previous retail experience is an advantage
Cooking Class Volunteer
Fresh Start
Task Description
To assist clients in a short course of cooking lessons, courses are four weeks in length.
To follow health and safety procedures in the kitchen.
To demonstrate and encourage good Food Hygiene practices in the kitchen.
Liaising with the volunteer coordinator about the job, the client and any issues that arise.
Engaging with and supporting the clients during the cooking course.
Adhering to all Fresh Start policies and procedures, and respecting client confidentiality.
Shop Stock Assistant
Fresh Start
The aim of Fresh Start Shop in the first instance is to provide a much needed and valuable service to the local community and offer volunteering opportunities to local people, our service users and the wider community.
This role includes sorting and pricing donations and requires some creativity in displaying items to appeal to customers. Experience of working in retail or in other charity shops is an advantage.
(COVID-19) Distance Mentoring for Adults
LINKnet Mentoring
Mentors spend one hour per week supporting an adult from an ethnic minority community in the areas of language development, employability, education or personal development.
Mentor training will be provided via What’s app /Zoom/Skype. The mentors will be matched with a suitable mentee via a conference call. The weekly mentoring can be over the phone, email or zoom/skype.
Warehouse Volunteer
British Heart Foundation (Edinburgh)
The role includes Ensuring the warehouse is always kept clean and tidy.
Moving stock by manual operation.
Sorting and unpacking deliveries and assisting in conjunction with British Heart Foundation van.
Identifying poor quality donations for recycling.
Sorting and processing donated goods, this is mainly grading stock in order of quality.
Replenish sold furniture on the shop floor.
Acting as an ambassador for British Heart Foundation always.
Hot Service Volunteer
Empty Kitchens, Full Hearts
The Hot Service shift is a great opportunity to interact with our clients and see the positive impact our service has in the community. In this role you are the face of Empty Kitchens. We serve free hot meals to take away from outside the theatre, seven days a week, which allows anyone unable to sign up for deliveries to access a warm, healthy meal twice a day. Our Hot Service volunteers prepare, set up and serve the lunch and dinner meals as well as cleaning up afterwards and re-stocking.
Cleaning Volunteer
Empty Kitchens, Full Hearts
The cleaning shift involves cleaning in and around the hall, foyer, corridors, laundry and toilets. Along with general cleaning there is sweeping, mopping and sanitising involved and the shift supports all the other departments in their daily running. The cleaning volunteers are really essential to Empty Kitchens, Full Hearts operations by allowing us to maintain a hygienic food-handling environment throughout the building.
Delivery Driver
Empty Kitchens, Full Hearts
Delivery drivers and cyclists deliver meal packs across Edinburgh. A driving shift would normally contain a minimum of 20 stops, depending on your route. A cycling route would be smaller. Routes are sent out by text. Drivers and cyclists deliver directly to our client’s homes, and are therefore the face of Empty Kitchens. The role is a fantastic way to interact with people as well as really see who the packs are going to and how needed this service is. There are shifts any day of the week.
Volunteer Team Recruiter - Save the Children (Nicolson Street)
Save the Children
Our volunteer Shop Recruiters our vital to the successful operations of our shops. They promote our volunteer opportunities in their local communities as well as online, supporting applicants though our recruitment process and giving everyone a warm welcome into the Save the Children family.
We believe in changing children’s future, we operate in the UK and around the world to ensure children are safe and healthy. We support them to learn, grow and become who they want to be. Join us!
Outdoor Volunteer
Venture Scotland (Edinburgh)
Encouraging young people to participate in activities, praising them for their achievements and challenging any unhelpful attitudes or behaviour that they may display. Participating in and, when confident and competent to do so, leading fun and engaging group work, conservation and outdoor activities. You will also be involved in the planning of activities and contributing to the evaluation of each trip. More information is available on our website http://po.st/VSoutdoorvols
Retail Volunteer - Morningside
Chest Heart & Stroke Scotland
We currently have around 50 shops/ community hubs across Scotland. Our shops and hubs help us raise funds so we can provide our services to the people who need us. Every one of our stores relies on a team of volunteers to help run it and support our staff. Quite simply, we cannot provide our services or raise funds without the amazing support of our volunteers. The time, support and the work they do is vital to us and the people we help. By helping out in one of our stores, you can make a difference to people and their families in Scotland who are isolated, scared or anxious about their condition.
Beach Wheelchair Team Volunteer
Beach Wheelchairs Portobello
This role is seasonal and interested applicants should apply in Spring 2022. The role is to co-ordinate booking via calls, texts or email. Open container, greet customers, sign out wheelchairs, explain wheelchair use, complete checklists and documentation.
On their return, wipe down wheelchairs and inspect them. Report any damage or faults, also report any accidents. Return wheelchairs to container and lock container.
Leader/Assistant Cub Leader
30th Craigalmond Scout Group
Manage, lead or support the operation of the Cubs Section. In particular, supporting the planning and delivery of a full programme with a diverse range of activities, with the help of the other Section Leaders and Young Leaders and members of Scout Active Support as appropriate. Running and attending weekly meetings alongside the other Sections Leader. Opportunity to attend camps with the Section or part of the wider Group and District.
Writing Mentor
Super Power Agency
We are looking for writing mentors to support young people in our workshops to get inspired by writing and to boost their confidence. You do not have to be a writer to become a mentor, just lots of enthusiasm for working, patience and passion. Super Power Agency volunteers come from every walk of life. Some want to give back to their local community, others want to gain experience working with children and some just want to help out!
Cafe Volunteer
The Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Centre
Meet and greet all customers to the tearoom.
Serving light lunches, snacks , cakes and hot refreshments.
Clearing away of dishes and maintaining a clean and tidy tearoom. Loading and unloading of dishwasher. Cash handling for the tearoom. Stock upkeep and replenishment. Basic housekeeping of the tearoom. Maintain a consistent high standard of presentation. Keep informed of the activities of the centre.
Cafe Connect Volunteer
Eric Liddell Centre
The Eric Liddell Centre provides a number of services including a Day Care service for people with dementia, a Befriending service, the leasing of office space to several charities, as well as room hire for all sorts of different events, from professional workshops to pilates classes! The Centre is a busy place with a real buzz and a huge variety of people come through the doors each day. Café Connect is situated on the ground floor of the Centre and offers hot drinks, light meals and cakes.
Retail Volunteer-Edinburgh, Stockbridge 55973/A8
Barnardo's Scotland
Our amazing team of vibrant & diverse volunteers helps us run over 700 shops. Our stores sell lots of great donated & new goods to help raise vital funds to make a real difference to disadvantaged children, young people and families across the UK.
Our retail stores are the face of our charity on the high-street and in local communities. We have loads of amazing stock donated to us every week, and this all needs to be sorted, tagged and put on the shop-floor for sale!
Making sure our shops look fantastic is another task you can get involved with. You may also be required to help out on the till too, but we will show you how that works during your time volunteering with us. We value the contribution of everyone who supports Barnardo’s.
You will be a friendly face of Barnardo’s by volunteering in one of our shops. It would be great if you could volunteer one shift a week (or even more if you want) but we’re always happy to be flexible to work around your availability.
Why we want you:
Our amazing team of vibrant & diverse volunteers helps us run over 700 stores. Our stores sell lots of great donated and new goods to help raise vital funds to make a real difference to disadvantaged children, young people and families across the UK.
What you will be doing:
Work on the till processing sales and returns
Prepare stock, including sorting, steaming and pricing
Create stylish window displays
Replenish stock on the shop floor
Stock-take and other administrative tasks
The skills you need:
Friendly and helpful
Happy to be part of an amazing team of staff and volunteers
Enthusiastic about the work of Barnardo’s
Flexible and willing to do a variety of the shop tasks
What's in it for you:
Have fun and meet new people
Develop skills for your CV including confidence, teamwork and problem solving
Make a difference to the lives of children, young people and their families
Learning and development opportunities through our Volunteer Academy which includes access to Level 2 Qualifications and other accredited courses
Full training and experience of working in retail as a volunteer
Other information:
Minimum age 14
Shop based
Location: 29/31 Deanhaugh Street, Stockbridge, Edinburgh, Midlothian, EH4 1LR, United Kingdom
Disclaimer
We look to recruit a diverse range of volunteers. If your skills don't fit the above, please do not let this put you off as we are able to be flexible with most of our roles. If you are unable to apply online through the link on this page, please visit your local store for a paper application form or contact the Barnardo's Volunteering Team on volunteering@barnardos.org.uk
Retail Volunteer- South Queensferry 55909/A1
Barnardo's Scotland
Our amazing team of vibrant & diverse volunteers helps us run over 700 shops. Our stores sell lots of great donated & new goods to help raise vital funds to make a real difference to disadvantaged children, young people and families across the UK.
Our retail stores are the face of our charity on the high-street and in local communities. We have loads of amazing stock donated to us every week, and this all needs to be sorted, tagged and put on the shop-floor for sale!
Making sure our shops look fantastic is another task you can get involved with. You may also be required to help out on the till too, but we will show you how that works during your time volunteering with us. We value the contribution of everyone who supports Barnardo’s.
You will be a friendly face of Barnardo’s by volunteering in one of our shops. It would be great if you could volunteer one shift a week (or even more if you want) but we’re always happy to be flexible to work around your availability.
Why we want you:
Our amazing team of vibrant & diverse volunteers helps us run over 700 stores. Our stores sell lots of great donated and new goods to help raise vital funds to make a real difference to disadvantaged children, young people and families across the UK.
What you will be doing:
Work on the till processing sales and returns
Prepare stock, including sorting, steaming and pricing
Create stylish window displays
Replenish stock on the shop floor
Stock-take and other administrative tasks
The skills you need:
Friendly and helpful
Happy to be part of an amazing team of staff and volunteers
Enthusiastic about the work of Barnardo’s
Flexible and willing to do a variety of the shop tasks
What's in it for you:
Have fun and meet new people
Develop skills for your CV including confidence, teamwork and problem solving
Make a difference to the lives of children, young people and their families
Learning and development opportunities through our Volunteer Academy which includes access to Level 2 Qualifications and other accredited courses
Full training and experience of working in retail as a volunteer
Other information:
Minimum age 14
Shop based
Location
The Loan, South Queensferry, EH30 9SD, United Kingdom
Disclaimer
We look to recruit a diverse range of volunteers. If your skills don't fit the above, please do not let this put you off as we are able to be flexible with most of our roles. If you are unable to apply online through the link on this page, please visit your local store for a paper application form or contact the Barnardo's Volunteering Team on volunteering@barnardos.org.uk
Mental Health Group Worker
Living Well North Edinburgh
Living Well North Edinburgh is looking for Tai Chi Qigong instructor to run a small weekly class in their centre in West Pilton. The class would be a part of a wider community programme. We are looking for an experienced instructor, but would also be happy with someone who is still in training.
Lead Volunteer
Oxfam Shop, Nicolson St
Opening & closing the shop.
Daily admin & accountancy tasks.
Monitoring performance & training the team.
Understanding sales figures & targets.
Customer Service Volunteer
Oxfam Shop, Nicolson St
Our shops would not be able to raise crucial funds for Oxfam’s emergency and development work all over the world without volunteers.
Depending on the needs of the shop and your interest, you may be involved in the following:
Providing customer service on the shop floor.
Creating attractive displays.
Using the shop’s guidelines to sort and price donated clothes, homewares etc.
Providing customer service on the shop floor.
Promoting our Gift Aid scheme.
Animal Fosterer
Pet Care Network (Edinburgh)
Fostering with pet Care Network involves taking care of someone's pet in your own home for a week or two and to include them in your day to day routine. You may also be asked to collect and return pets to their owners after you have fostered them although alternative transport can be arranged if necessary. We are asked to care whilst owners are in hospital or respite care. The Volunteers and Fosterers from pet Care Network are ordinary people recruited on the basis of their love of animals.
Volunteer Counsellor - Sunflower Garden
Simpson House
Sunflower Garden works with children and young people aged 5 to 18 based in Edinburgh who are affected by drug and/or alcohol use within their family. We understand that the support we provide needs to be specific to the needs of each child/young person and so we offer a range of tailored therapeutic support such as: Counselling (including art and play therapy), 1-to-1 therapeutic support and group work. We are looking for volunteer counsellors to join our team.
Women's Group Facilitator
The Health Agency
The Women’s Group is a weekly wellbeing group for local women to meet new people and take part in activities of the groups own choice. These can include cooking, arts, creative writing, outings, talks from organisations, and more. The group takes place on Thursday lunch times at Wester Hailes Healthy Living Centre and we would love to find a volunteer to come along and support our facilitator. If you have experience or an interest in supporting groups, please do get in touch for an informal chat.
Volunteer Receptionist
The Health Agency
The purpose of this role is to act as first point of contact for enquiries by phone and in person as well as provide admin support to The Health Agency staff team.
Main Responsibilities
• Provide assistance by telephone and in person in a confidential and sensitive manner at all times following organisation procedures
• To provide cover for the front desk
• To ensure that records are in order and properly maintained
• To support in room bookings and making appointments
Warehouse Assistant
British Heart Foundation Furniture Shop (Dalry)
Looking for a workout? If you like to keep active and stay in shape, volunteering in our warehouse could be the answer you’re looking for. We always need helpful and active people to help keep our stock moving from the van to warehouse and onto the store and from store back to the van for delivery!
Assistant Cub Leader
64th Stockbridge Scout Group
We are looking for new volunteers both male and female to help to run a well established Cub Pack. The Cub Pack is part of an active Scout Group with Beavers (ages 6-8) and Scouts (11 to 15) ensuring a regular stream of new entrants. We meet regularly on a Friday evening, but also take part in various activities involving other Cub Packs. The main commitment needed is somebody who is going to be prepared to commit to regular attendance on a Friday evening: to get involved leading the activities.
Garden Volunteer
North Edinburgh Arts Centre
This role is for anyone interested in learning about gardening, particularly growing fruit and veg, or who want to get some exercise in the fresh air.
The main pupose of the role is to support our community gardener to maintain our large garden, and involves
Basic gardening tasks, e.g. weeding.
Growing fruit and vegetables.
Learning gardening skills.
This is suitable for all ages and abilities - we welcome beginners. We also particularly welcome volunteers from our local community.
Sales Assistant for Oxfam Bookshop
Oxfam Bookshop, Morningside
As a voluntary Sales Assistant in the bookshop, you would be required to assist customers in finding their way around the shop, answering their queries, operating the till, replenishing stock and generally exude loveliness! Each volunteer is only required to do one shift (either morning shift 9.30am - 1.00pm or 1.00pm - 5.30pm) per week. Punctuality and reliability are required in order to keep the shop open for the maximum time. this voluntary position will give you a good grounding .
Junction Youth Advisor
The Junction - Young People, Health & Wellbeing
This is a fun and supportive volunteering opportunity for 14 to 21 year olds who are interested in health and wellbeing. The Junction Youth Advisors (JYAs) meet as a group to talk about issues affecting young people's health and wellbeing in North-East Edinburgh. You'll make a real difference to The Junction by helping us to improve and promote our services. The JYAs are often asked to contribute their ideas to city-wide, national and international projects too. You can help try out our new services, create new resources like posters and videos, promote The Junction at events, take part in discussions and suggest your own ideas. This is a great opportunity to meet new people and build up your confidence in a safe and friendly group which values young people's rights and voices.
Handyman
Venchie Children & Young People's Project
To fix up some wooden toys, change light bulbs, repair locks on doors, keep our storeroom clean and tidy and do general maintenance.
Board Member
West Granton Community Trust
We’re a small community centre in North Edinburgh looking for board members who would be interested in the development of the Prentice Centre. The Trust own the building and income is self generated from grant making trusts, foundations, donations and self -fundraising activities.
The Board meet once a month, normally on a Monday lunchtime and follow an agenda which is prepared and sent out in advance. Discussions take place on various issues, eg. Development of servies, local community need, Centre programming, Staffing, funding, etc.
Fundraising Can Collector
Crisis Skylight Edinburgh
Proactively identifying local businesses or organisations that could host a Crisis collection tin, Ensure all supporters have a positive experience of supporting the charity, Emptying collection boxes, counting and banking donations, Maintain accurate records of venues holding boxes, how much each collection box placed raised. Provide feedback on local supporters, in particular any further fundraising opportunities that you may have identified. Provide banking/donations sheets and details.
Family and Household Support Volunteer
City of Edinburgh Council - Family and Household Support
Volunteers will support our vision around engaging communities by offering tailored support to those they are matched with. Volunteers will support individuals and families to work toward agreed outcomes to promote their health and well-being.
This is a fantastic opportunity for volunteers to gain valuable experience in supporting individuals and communities, work in partnership with other services and organisations and have access to excellent training opportunities.
If you’re able to spare some time to work with us, you can play a vital role in making sure we’re doing everything we can to help Edinburgh’s citizens.
Management Committee Member
Community One Stop Shop
This is a fantastic opportunity for someone who has a great understanding of charity or similar corporate governance to join our Management Committee.
You will play a critical role in leading the charity, driving our fundraising strategies and bring a solid networking background that can help us achieve our aims.
We are ideally looking for trustees with an interest in poverty and social exclusion with a social care background, and also trustees with experience of board governance.
Chat Cafe volunteer
Pilton Community Health Project
At the Chat Café, we create opportunities for women to share culture and make friends. It is a place where women can meet to learn, share news and opportunities, and chat. Please note, the Chat Café is a women-only space. We currently meet online but hope to meet in person in the future.
We need help to support the group to run smoothly, whether we meet online or in person.
Cafe Volunteer
Shrub Co-op
We are looking for personable and outgoing volunteers to join our Zero Waste Cafe team. Cafe volunteers are the first people that visitors see when coming in to our space. Cafe volunteers are essential for welcoming new people to our Zero Waste Hub as well as serving a variety of drinks and delicilous food made in-house by our cooking volunteers.
Friendship Volunteer
Vintage Vibes
Vintage Vibes is a fresh way of tackling isolation and loneliness among the over 60s in Edinburgh – who we call our VIPs.
Our goal is to tackle isolation and loneliness and to encourage VIPs to become more active in their local communities.
Tasks include:
Visiting your VIP once a week for home visit, walks, café visit.
Creating a wonderful friendship with them.
Executive Committee Member
150th Craigalmond Scout Group
This may involve helping with fundraising, publicity or ensuring the scout hall runs effectively. We have a big profile locally- our hall is used by lots of community groups and generates £3K profit pa, money which we use to fund activities. We meet every six weeks or so; there are presently 4 others on the Exec- including a Treasurer, Membership Secretary and Group Scout Leader. Our young people aged from 6 to 16, both boys and girls, love the activities, games, camps and hikes.
Shop Assistant
Dig-In
We need volunteers to work alongside our Shop Manager and Shop Supervisor. Volunteers need to be friendly and reliable team players, with an interest in healthy eating. Dig-In is a friendly place to work and we are lucky to have very engaged and supportive customers. You will work as part of a team of all ages and backgrounds! You will learn more about Dig-In through our induction sessions. You can choose a regular weekly slot or work on an ad-hoc basis.
Debt Advisor
The Salvation Army Debt Advice Service
Interview clients to gain a full understanding of their financial situation
Record financial and other relevant information accurately and summarise action points and timescales, Complete all necessary paperwork at the interview and ensure that actions are agreed with the client, Ensure all information and paperwork is given to the person responsible for carrying the action points forward, Signpost clients as appropriate, without bias, Undertake administrative tasks as appropriate.
Education Volunteer with PSPA in Scotland
PSPA
PSPA is a national charity providing support and information to people living with PSP and CBD, while funding research into treatments and ultimately a cure. We rely entirely on voluntary donations. You can see more about this here at https://pspassociation.org.uk/
PSP and CBD are rare and little known. Education Volunteers can improve this situation. Our volunteers raise awareness with health and social care professionals and in local communities by offering informative talks to interested groups. These talks are set up on an ad hoc basis, a small number of times in a year and as close as possible to the volunteers’ local area - A driving licence and access to a car is desirable.
Fundraising Collectors
Butterfly Trust (The)
The Butterfly Trust are the lead providing agency of social support for Scotland's Cystic Fibrosis community.
We are looking for pro-active, enthusiastic volunteers to support our fundraising team at public collections, bag packs and to place/collect static collection cans in the community.
The role involves:
Attending collections in supermarkets, football grounds and street collections
Attending bag packs in supermarkets
Placing & collecting collection cans in local businesses
Retail Volunteer - Edinburgh Stockbridge - Boutique Store
Chest Heart & Stroke Scotland
We currently have around 40 shops/ community hubs across Scotland. Our shops and hubs help us raise funds so we can provide our services to the people who need us. Every one of our stores relies on a team of volunteers to help run it and support our staff. Quite simply, we cannot provide our services or raise funds without the amazing support of our volunteers. The time, support and the work they do is vital to us and the people we help. By helping out in one of our stores, you can make a difference to people and their families in Scotland who are isolated, scared or anxious about their condition.
Listening Service Volunteer
The Listening Service (Edinburgh Sheriff Court)
The Listening Service Edinburgh is seeking to recruit new volunteers to join a dedicated team at Edinburgh Sheriff and Justice of the Peace Court situated in central Edinburgh. The LS volunteers offer time to listen on a 1 to 1 basis to all court users. Volunteers offer support to those who find their experience of court difficult, stressful or confusing and help court users find their way around a busy building and complex procedures. Mandatory initial training and ongoing support is provided. There are other volunteering opportunities available such as fundraising and acting as an ambassador to promote the work of the organisation. For further details please go to the Listening Service website.
Mentor
MCR Pathways
We recruit and train volunteer mentors who are matched with a young person based on personality and career aspirations. Mentors meet with their young person at their school for just one hour a week and provide a compassionate, listening ear. MCR Mentors: Build a relationship, improving the self-esteem of their young person, Help their young people discover their own passion for learning & achieving, Empower their young people to overcome the challenges thrown at them.
Charity Shop Assistant
Salvation Army - Portobello Shop
Will be there to provide support and engage with local community. This will include customer service, stock processing and visual merchandising.
Lunch Service Assistant
Marchmont St Giles Cafe
Putting out table cloths, flowers, crockery and cutlery. Serving the customers their hot meal (two courses and drinks), and making sure everyone is happy with their meal. Clearing up the room afterwards and bringing the washing through for the kitchen staff to clean. Taking cash, and recording names and numbers for contact tracing, as well as bookings for the following week.
Group Facilitator
Pilmeny Development Project
Volunteering with Weekly Older Adult’s Groups based in Leith. These lively and friendly groups meet once a week in the afternoon. The groups provide companionship, activities, a cup of tea and a catch up!
Monday - Women's Group, Tuesday - Drop-In (Male and Female - over 50s), Wednesday - Men's Group.
Intandem Mentor
YMCA Edinburgh
Intandem mentors will build a trusting relationship with the young person through weekly meetings, providing a positive role model and supporting access to hobbies and interests. The young people involved face some of the least positive outcomes in life. The ability to be consistent, non-judgemental, supportive, fun and understanding is key to helping these young people. We look for a regular commitment to meeting with the young person to motivate them to succeed in life.
Plusone Mentor
YMCA Edinburgh
We are looking for volunteers who are eager to make a difference in their own community and make a difference in the life of a young person. The mentor will regularly meet up with a young person offering a friendly ear, support and guidance and advice on making positive life choices. Full training will be given (over 5 weeks) and a PVG Scheme Record check will be required (no cost involved). You will be expected to meet regularly with the young person and do things together that are fun.
Donation Handling Volunteer
Fresh Start
The purpose of this role is to maximise the amount of excess donations Fresh Start receives which cannot go into Starter Packs and can be sold in Fresh Start Shop. The main aim is to reduce waste, recycle, reuse and divert items away from landfill. This role is based in Fresh Start warehouse.
Trustee
Prestonfield and District Neighbourhood Workers Project
We are seeking indivduals with an interest in the care of older people and experience of the operation of Day services in a community setting. Someone with a background in social care, nursing, community work or the operation of a social care business could be the ideal person for this role. Other valuable skills would include business management, social and therapeutic care, personnel or legal background.
Secretary
FENIKS
The Charity Secretary will be primarily responsible for the smooth and efficient running of meetings of the Board of Trustees and any sub-committees, providing assistance and support to the Chair of the Board of Trustees.
The Charity Secretary will be closely involved in monitoring compliance with legislative and regulatory requirements affecting the charity and its activities, ensuring that the Trustees’ decisions are acted upon, and that they are complying to the governing papers.
Volunteer Driver
Edinburgh Food Project
Our transport volunteers work in pairs, driving Edinburgh Food Project vehicles to collect food donations from supermarkets, workplaces, churches and schools and deliver supplies to the foodbank centres. The role is based at our warehouse in Broomhouse Road. This is a physical role that involves lifting crates and operating equipment including our cages and tail-lift.
Day Service Matching Volunteer
Edinburgh Headway Group
Do you want to make a difference? Could you share your interests with someone new? Do you like to go for a coffee, for a walk or shopping or visit art museum etc.? Do you have 1-2 hours a week to spare? If you have you could join our team! We can match you with an adult with an acquired brain injury, to reduce their risk of social isolation and where applicable, allow their unpaid carers to receive valuable respite from their caring role. Each match is different and can fit around your time giving you a flexible way to volunteer. PVG required.
Community Conversation Volunteer
Community Renewal - Muirhouse
Peoples Health Trust (PHT) Peoples Health Trust: Community Conversation Project.
Duties will involve door knocking within the local community to raise awareness of the project and services provided.
Accompany staff to visit residents involved with the Peoples Health Trust Community Conversation project at home and in community settings.
Assisting to organise and facilitate community forum meetings.
Support community projects involved with the community conversations project
Retail Volunteer- Trinity
Marie Curie shop (Trinity)
We are looking for volunteers who love meeting new people and want to make a difference to help us run our shop in Trinity. You will be helping us with the day to day running of the shop, sorting through donations and serving our customers on the till. If you have an eye for design then you can help us to keep our shop looking loveley so customers want to browse.
Coffee Bar Helper
Enable Scotland
At our clubs on Wednesday and Saturday evenings we run a coffee bar selling tea, coffee, soft drinks and snacks to our members, who have learning difficulties. The work involves serving customers, making tea and coffee, adding up how much is due and giving change where necessary. The Wednesday Club runs from 7pm to 9pm and the Saturday Disco runs from 7pm to 9:30pm. Coffee bar helpers are asked to arrive by 6:30pm to help with setting up the coffee bar,
Gardening and Conservation Volunteer
Youth Vision
We are looking for volunteers to work with our community gardening group developing and maintaining our garden. Our community gardening group meets on Fridays. They are responsible for the development of our garden at Threipmuir Farm Steading outside Balerno. They indirectly support our work with young people by planting vegetables which our groups harvest and cook and by keeping the garden under control so that our work can take place in a safe and inspiring environment.
Communities for Conservation Volunteer
Edinburgh and Lothians Regional Equality Council - (ELREC)
Providing support in developing services and activities with local community groups and associations, Assisting in home visits to monitor and advise on energy efficiency, Offering advice to households on fuel budget management, grants access and waste management, Working on changes in attitudes towards energy saving as well as food and travel efficiency, Actively reducing households energy consumption through energy monitoring, guides, workbooks etc.
Video and Meme Creator
Edinburgh and Lothians Regional Equality Council - (ELREC)
Volunteer for a youth led project to tackle hate speech on social media
Create 15 sec amateur videos
Create memes/ captions
Find catchy hashtags and slogans
to tackle the arguments that fuel hate speech on social media
Food Pantry Assistant
Community Alliance Trust (CAT)
The Greenhouse pantry was set up in response to the rising levels of food insecurity in the Craigmillar area of Edinburgh. Pantries are a more sustainable longer-term solution to food poverty providing members with a hand up not a hand out. Pantry assistants will help support the general day to day running of the pantry. There are a variety of tasks and these will be matched with the volunteers experience and skills.
Social Media Volunteer
Oxfam Shop, Nicolson St
Our shop has Instagram, Facebook and Twitter accounts. Social media is an important part of engaging with our customers and volunteers and we would like to find an enthusiastic person to help us reach as many people as possible, thereby helping Oxfam's work of fighting poverty and promoting Fairtrade.
Volunteer Receptionist
The Health Agency
The purpose of this role is to act as first point of contact for enquiries by phone and in person as well as provide admin support to The Health Agency staff team.
Main Responsibilities
Provide assistance by telephone and in person in a confidential and sensitive manner at all times following organisation procedures
To provide cover for the front desk
To ensure that records are in order and properly maintained
To support in room bookings and making appointments
Community Garden Team Member
The Health Agency
Calders Community Garden is a wildlife garden in Wester Hailes. We work in the garden running our project in a way that encourages birds and other wildlife. We have a small pond to encourage visits from animals. To protect the environment, we do not use chemical pesticides.
Volunteering sessions take place on Tuesdays between 1 and 4 pm. You do not need to have any previous experience to come along and volunteer, we can find tasks to suit any ability and energy level.
Pantry Assistant
Pilton Community Health Project
Welcoming customers as well as assisting members with their shopping. You’ll also be responsible for keeping the Pantry well stocked and presented at all times. To administrate the Pantry and check payments. To complete all food safety and procedural paperwork. Assist with basic cleaning duties. To ensure compliance of Covid-19 regulations put in place by PCHP. To help promote the Pantry.
Wellbeing & Activities Volunteer
Rowan Alba
You will be involved in finding out what activities our residents would like to do then help to plan, organize and make it happen for them. You will be running one to one activities with residents but also put on group events. Our aim is to encourage and support our residents to pursue what they enjoy, reduce isolation and hopefully in turn reduce their drinking by engaging them in meaningful activities.
Counsellor
Place2Be
Place2Be works with over 280 primary and secondary schools, reaching a school population of more than 116,000 children. As a volunteer counsellor you will work one to one in a therapeutic capacity with up to 3 children per week. The commitment is for one day per week, for three school terms, from 8.30am to 4.30pm to include therapy sessions and supervision of clinical work. There may also be opportunities to get involved with group work alongside the School Project Manager.
Music Volunteer - Dads Rock Academy
Dads Rock
We need volunteers for our weekly face to face music lessons, to support our lead tutors.
You will support the teaching of the basic fundamentals of music and help pupils to refine their technique. It is desirable that volunteers hold a music qualification at HND level or above and have at least one year’s previous experience providing music and instrumental tuition. You will receive an induction, training and will need to be part of the PVG Scheme.
Trustee Board Members
Rock Trust
We are looking for people who can help us expand the range of skills around the table. At this time, we are seeking individuals between the ages of 16-24 with entrepreneurial / social enterprise skills or IT development / website development experience.
Candidates do not need experience or knowledge of homelessness or youth work but must be committed and passionate about making a difference for young homeless people.
Retail Volunteer- South Bridge
Marie Curie
We are looking for volunteers to join us in our charity shop on South Bridge, to help us raise funds so we can continue to support our patients and their families. This is an ideal role for someone who likes meeting new people and wants to learn new skills in a friendly and welcoming environment.
You will be helping us with the day to day running of our shop, including sorting, preparing and pricing donated items ready for display on the shop floor, serving our customers on the till and helping us spot unusual or valuable hidden gems among donations. If you have a passion for making a difference and are looking for a new challenge then this could be the role for you.
Helpline Volunteer
People Know How
We’re looking for volunteers to operate our national helpline, supporting individuals over the phone. You’ll provide support for people who have received a digital device as part of Connecting Scotland, supporting the most vulnerable to get online. Queries range from enquiries about the programme, to basic support with turning on or using a device. We call these volunteers Digital Champions. This role is done remotely at the moment due to COVID-19 but there is possibility to work from our Edinburgh office in the future. The role is open to the whole of Scotland.
The role tasks include: covering a minimum of one weekly 2-hour helpline shift, providing responses to enquiries and basic digital support to callers, logging any calls that require follow-up , supporting our staff in obtaining monitoring details from callers.
Driver
The Turing Trust
We need the help of a volunteer driver with their own car to help us collect donations of ICT equipment. This role is vital to our work in getting thousands of computers into African schools, enabling otherwise waste computers to have a second life in a classroom.
The role is quite flexible as we can coordinate collections of computers to suit you. To support us in this role you must have access to your own vehicle, have a valid UK driving license and be able to lift 20kg. For application details please go to: https://turingtrust.co.uk/how-to-help/volunteer/apply-to-volunteer/
Grassroots Campaigner
RESULTS UK
RESULTS grassroots campaigners take action locally to fight global poverty – using their voices to change the world. They receive training and support to become skilled advocates, from influencing MPs to policy makers, and engaging others within their community.
By joining a local group you will support our campaigns on global health, education and economic opportunities.
You'll take campaign actions with us, from publishing articles in the media to meeting your MP, or organising local events.
Cafe Volunteer (Crofter)
St Andrews and St Georges West Church
Volunteer Catering Assistant in church cafe.
Providing friendly welcome to customers, showing to tables, serving at tables, taking orders, taking payment (after training).
Serving hot drinks and soup, using coffee machine, and providing take-away drinks and soup.
Assisting in kitchen (optional) with baking, preparing soups and sandwiches etc.
Cleaning at end of day including kitchen, tables, coffee machine, servery.
Seaview Garden Volunteer
Friends of Seaview Charitable Trust
We are looking for volunteers to be involved in gardening at our garden at Seaview Children’s Unit. Seaview is a residential and respite centre for children and young people with severe needs. Volunteers will work with the gardener to maintain and develop the garden doing weeding, watering, planting, propagation and creative projects. The garden offers a therapeutic space for the children and young people, staff, parents and visitors to Seaview. Gardening experience is not required.
Advocacy Psychosis
CAPS Independent Advocacy
The role involves using personal experiences of living with Psychosis as part of CAPS collective advocacy group (Experiences of Psychosis); to raise awareness of Psychosis, promote understanding, fight against stigma and campaign for change. The group have made films, produced a training workshop, attended conferences & are working on awareness raising around psychosis in the local community and beyond.
Retail Volunteer Newington
Chest Heart & Stroke Scotland
This is an opportunity to undertake a satisfying and rewarding role. As part of our team of volunteers, you will provide customer support, whilst working in a friendly atmosphere, providing an extremely useful and appreciated service to the Charity. The role includes: welcoming and assisting customers, customer service and sales service, stock control, sorting donations, hanging and ticketing stock and helping to keep the shop clean and tidy.
Retail Volunteer - Edinburgh Davidson Mains
Chest Heart & Stroke Scotland
We currently have around 40 shops/ community hubs across Scotland. Our shops and hubs help us raise funds so we can provide our services to the people who need us. Every one of our stores relies on a team of volunteers to help run it and support our staff. Quite simply, we cannot provide our services or raise funds without the amazing support of our volunteers. The time, support and the work they do is vital to us and the people we help. By helping out in one of our stores, you can make a difference to people and their families in Scotland who are isolated, scared or anxious about their condition.
Retail Volunteer - Bruntsfield Edinburgh
Chest Heart & Stroke Scotland
We currently have around 40 shops/ community hubs across Scotland. Our shops and hubs help us raise funds so we can provide our services to the people who need us. Every one of our stores relies on a team of volunteers to help run it and support our staff. Quite simply, we cannot provide our services or raise funds without the amazing support of our volunteers. The time, support and the work they do is vital to us and the people we help. By helping out in one of our stores, you can make a difference to people and their families in Scotland who are isolated, scared or anxious about their condition.
Home Demonstrator
British Wireless for the Blind
We are looking for people to help us give out and demonstrate our sets to recipients in their local area. This role involves visiting blind and partially sighted people in their homes, installing their new radio and teaching them how to use it as well as providing ongoing support where needed. This role also involves a small amount of admin.
Call Companion
Re-engage
As a call companion, you will make regular telephone calls to a lonely and isolated older person. These calls 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. Tasks include committing to calling the older person you have been matched with two to four times per month at an agreed time and following the guidance in our call companion training modules.
Home Visitor/Buddy
Blind Veterans UK
If you are a friendly, chatty and reliable person we are looking for you to provide a weekly or fortnightly social visit on a Tuesday, Thursday or Friday. Drop round for a cuppa and a chat. This person has an interest in HAM radio.
The veteran is visually impaired but does have some peripheral vision.
Welcome Centre Cleaner
Bethany Christian Trust
The Rapid Re-accommodation Welcome Centre is a free service offering food, sleeping facilities and a high level of support to people who do not have any accommodation and otherwise would be sleeping rough. Volunteering as a cleaner for just one hour a week can help support this vital service.General responsibilities;
Change bedding;
Clean the bathroom including the floor;
Clean the surfaces in the room;
Vacuum;
Bag up any belongings that have been left behind.
Bridge to Freedom Volunteer
Bethany Christian Trust
Across all three sites, we are looking for volunteers to support the running of the group, and volunteers to befriend attendees on a 1-2-1 basis. The group has Christ at the centre, and group volunteers need to have a Christian faith with a church connection. For those engaging in 1-2-1 support, a strong Christian faith is required, ideally with lived experience of addiction or experience of working in this area. All volunteer should help attendees feel welcomed and comfortable, whilst also maintaining appropriate boundaries, e.g. chatting and contributing to the group discussion.
Shop Assistant
Cats Protection - South Clerk Street Shop
Would you like to be part of our amazing volunteer retail team?
You’ll develop new skills, make new friends and help raise the funds needed to help thousands of cats and kittens each year.
We have several volunteer roles in our shops, so you can pick whichever appeals to you most!
Trustee
The Joshua Nolan Foundation
In partnership with the other trustees, you will be responsible for the governance of the
charity, including:
Exercise overall control of the organisation’s current business operations
Manage the charity’s resources responsibly and with absolute confidentiality and
discretion
Set the strategy and oversee its implementation
Ensure that the needs of the organisation’s beneficiaries are put first
Keep the charity true to its purpose.
Shop Volunteer
Oxfam (East Lothian)
Here at Oxfam we're dedicated to fighting poverty and inequality. Oxfam is a global movement of millions of people who share the belief that, in a world rich in resources, poverty isn't inevitable. we respond fast in emergencies, work on long-term projects with communities and campaign for genuine, lasting change. Our volunteers, staff, and those we aim to influence are all guided by our values of empowerment, accountability, and inclusiveness.
You can help behind the scenes or on the shop floor and you can branch out different areas and do extra training. for example, team leader, online retail, social media, admin & accountancy roles, community outreach, events organising.
We want to hear from you if you are:
- Reliable and honest
- Willing to learn new skills
- Interested in working with a team
We are extremely flexible around health, parenting, employment, education, or any commitments you may have.
Shop Volunteer
Oxfam (East Lothian)
Here at Oxfam we're dedicated to fighting poverty and inequality. Oxfam is a global movement of millions of people who share the belief that, in a world rich in resources, poverty isn't inevitable. we respond fast in emergencies, work on long-term projects with communities and campaign for genuine, lasting change. Our volunteers, staff, and those we aim to influence are all guided by our values of empowerment, accountability, and inclusiveness.
You can help behind the scenes or on the shop floor and you can branch out different areas and do extra training. for example, team leader, online retail, social media, admin & accountancy roles, community outreach, events organising.
We want to hear from you if you are:
- Reliable and honest
- Willing to learn new skills
- Interested in working with a team
We are extremely flexible around health, parenting, employment, education, or any commitments you may have.
Shop Volunteer
Oxfam (East Lothian)
Here at Oxfam we're dedicated to fighting poverty and inequality. Oxfam is a global movement of millions of people who share the belief that, in a world rich in resources, poverty isn't inevitable. we respond fast in emergencies, work on long-term projects with communities and campaign for genuine, lasting change. Our volunteers, staff, and those we aim to influence are all guided by our values of empowerment, accountability, and inclusiveness.
You can help behind the scenes or on the shop floor and you can branch out different areas and do extra training. for example, team leader, online retail, social media, admin & accountancy roles, community outreach, events organising.
We want to hear from you if you are:
- Reliable and honest
- Willing to learn new skills
- Interested in working with a team
We are extremely flexible around health, parenting, employment, education, or any commitments you may have.
Retail Volunteer- Morningside
Marie Curie
We are looking for volunteers to join us in our charity shop in Morningside, to help us raise funds so we can continue to support our patients and their families. This is an ideal role for someone who likes meeting new people and wants to learn new skills in a friendly and welcoming environment.
You will be helping us with the day to day running of our shop, including sorting, preparing and pricing donated items ready for display on the shop floor, serving our customers on the till and helping us spot unusual or valuable hidden gems among donations. If you have a passion for making a difference and are looking for a new challenge then this could be the role for you.
Volunteer Business Mentor
Sported
Our volunteer business mentors are paired with community sports clubs who need expertise in a particular area e.g. business planning etc. Sported works closely to support our volunteers throughout the process, and the opportunities available are very flexible, this could range from answering a 15 minute call from a club leader who has a particular question, to delivering a workshop or a 6 month mentor placement.
Heriot's Beavers and Cubs Assistant
7th Braid Edinburgh (George Heriot's School) Scout Group
The Heriot's Beavers and Cubs groups need help! They meet on a Friday evening between 18:30 and 20:00 at George Heriot's School. Cubs are aged 8-10 and Beavers 6-8 years old. The Assistant Leader will support the operation of the group, in particular the planning and delivery of a balanced programme with the help of the Section Leaders. They will actively support and promote the achievement of badges and awards and support the delivery of a safe, exciting and stimulating balanced programme.
Nightstop Host
Rock Trust
To provide safe overnight accommodation and support for a young person using the scheme including a meal and washing facilities.
To support young people to feel relaxed and comfortable in the accommodation.
To introduce a young person to the household and make them aware of essential routines and act upon any relevant information.
To operate creative methods of assisting young people to articulate their needs.
To ensure a safe, secure and respectful environment within the scheme.
Communications Volunteer (6 month placement)
Volunteering Matters
We are recruiting a full-time volunteer for a six-month placement within our Communications team, funded by the European Solidarity Corps! You will sit within our wider communications team focusing on our ProjectScotland brand’s communications, as well as providing some support to our wider work across Scotland and the UK. You’ll have plenty of opportunities to get involved in a varied range of tasks that interest you and you’ll help to promote the work we do to the public, potential volunteers, other charities and even funders. Whether you’re helping to raise the profile of a brand new project by coming up with exciting social media content, writing case studies of volunteer experiences or supporting the wider comms team with a nationwide campaign, this is an amazing opportunity to gain some real experience in the world of communications in a dynamic organisation!
This placement is based in Edinburgh, accommodation with another volunteer and a weekly allowance will be provided.
Want to know more? Get in touch! alice.carbone@volunteeringmatters.org.uk
Swapshop Volunteer
Shrub Co-op
Key tasks: We have a number of different roles available from shop floor volunteers (Welcoming and informing customers at the Shrub, working on the till, keeping the shop floor tidy, chatting to customers about carbon literacy and sustainable fashion ) to pricing and sorting (helping in the stockroom, sorting and pricing donations, working out which things to keep and which things to pass on) as well as helping with merchandising and displays. We would also love to have some volunteers with particular interests (e.g. graphic design, photography, organisation skills).
Reception Volunteer
The Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Centre
A customer-oriented role with an emphasis on high standards of presentation and a genuine welcoming approach to serving customers in a beautiful prestigious west end building.
Key Responsibilities:
Greeting visitors to the building and providing up to date information our activities and services that we offer.
Answering phone calls and dealing with enquiries, or passing these to the appropriate team member.
Answering email enquiries.
Basic office admin duties.
Big Hearts Befrienders
Big Hearts Community Trust
Big Hearts Befrienders provides one-to-one befriending for children and young people aged 7-14 in kinship care, through supporting them to learn new skills and provide a social experience. Through the befriending relationship the child / young person and the befriender may touch on topics such as increasing self-esteem; dealing with worries; respect for others, with the main aim of building a trusting and reliable relationship with an adult and working towards set outcomes.
Befriender for Carers
Eric Liddell Centre
Befriending aims to remove or lessen isolation that carers may experience as a result of their caring role. We welcome volunteer befrienders who ideally have an understanding of dementia and carer's needs, and are willing to spend time listening to, encouraging and supporting a carer. Befrienders support carers to become more engaged with the community, or simply have a break from caring for a little while. Some carers like to get out and about and attend activities of interest.
Befriender
Oxgangs Befriending Service
Befriender for the over 60s who live in EH10 or EH13 and are at risk of suffering from loneliness and isolation. Volunteers are matched with an older person to provide company and to engage in social activities or accompany someone to a group.
Conservation Volunteer
Lothians Conservation Volunteers
No long term commitment, you can do just one day and there is no application process, simply call us with the date you want to come and we will book you a seat on our minibus. The work carried out by our volunteers can make a positive difference to an area immediately benefiting the environment, wildlife and people. It's worthwhile, fun and sociable. We do practical activities such as tree planting, tree weeding, control of invasive species, pathwork, pondwork, meadow raking, fencing and more.
Supported Shopping Volunteer
Positive Help
The Supportive Shopping Service offers assistance with shopping to people who are living with HIV and/or Hepatitis C. Our clients often struggle to manage to get their shopping independently due to poor physical/mental health, limited mobility, social anxiety or literacy issues.
Befriending & Mentoring
Firsthand Lothian
You will be matched with a child/young person ( 6 to 18 years ) who has additional support needs e.g. Learning Disability, Autism, ADHD, Asperger’s or their siblings. Spending regular 1:1 time with you, weekly for 3 or 4 hours, they will become more confident and have fun in the process. You will develop a positive and trusting relationship with the child you are matched with, encouraging and enabling them to go to places and try new things that interest them with you. Due to the ongoing pandemic, sessions are not taking place inside the family home. However socially distanced activity out with the home where practical and possible and via online tools such as FB Portals (which we will supply), Zoom, What’s App and Face Time are being used to deliver activity and engage with children on a weekly basis.
Project Development Assistant
LINKnet Mentoring
LINKnet is looking for minority ethnic volunteers (from all ethnic groups) to become development assistants to support the development team in the evaluation and prioritization of volunteer mentoring and befriending services. Through a range of support structures, the voluntary job is likely to include: Assisting the development process of various projects, Helping in completing all project-related documentation, Working with the development team in project initiation.
Listening Volunteer
Edinburgh & The Lothians Samaritans
The volunteer will join about 150 other Samaritans in the Branch which operates round the clock - 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. The volunteer will support people in crisis, either on the phone, in person at the Samaritan Centre, or by email. Each year we expect to receive about 25,000 phone calls, 300 personal visits, and over 2,000 emails from all over the world. There are also opportunities to take part in running the Branch and in our growing outreach programme.
Befriending and Support
Pilmeny Development Project
Supporting and encouraging older people to engage with local groups and services, in the community or the older person's home. The role is 1:1 support, with full training given and regular supervision meetings with the Development Worker.
We ask volunteers to commit 1 or 2 hours for at least 3 months.
Trustee
North East Edinburgh Counselling Service
We are looking to recruit Board Members specifically with accounting and marketing experience, to add to our team. The role involves: ensuring effective management of the charity and its resources, providing support and guidance to staff and volunteers and helping with long term planning to ensure the future of the charity.
ESOL Tutor
Edinburgh College - Community Based English as a Second Language
Volunteering as an English tutor could be for you if you have good English and communications skills, You have an interest in language, You would like to teach in the future and need to gain some practical experience. You would be comfortable going into students' homes to teach them one-to-one. We are looking for volunteers who are interested in teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL). We are looking for people with good communication skills and an interest in language learning
Concert Steward
St Giles' Cathedral
St Giles’ at Six concerts are at 6pm every Sunday, and are free to enter, with a collection at the end for anyone who wishes to donate. As a Concert Steward, you would be responsible for several duties, including welcoming the audience and showing them to seats, assisting with the Test and Protect system, and helping with general queries on the night. It’s a great opportunity to do some volunteering in Edinburgh’s historic High Kirk, whilst experiencing music from performers across the globe.
Volunteer Gardener
Drylaw Neighbourhood Centre
The aim of this project is to bring people together of all ages to grow and share the harvest from our community garden. Crops harvested from the garden will be used to create simple healthy meals or snacks. Tasks involved are basic gardening tasks (no prior knowledge needed), planting seeds, potting up, weeding, watering and harvesting of the crops. For the more experienced gardeners propagation and pruning techniques will be taught.
Visitor Centre Cafe Assistant
Water of Leith Conservation Trust
Greeting Water of Leith walkway users and local customers. Serving drinks, cash handling, giving advice about the walkway, clearing and cleaning tables, answering incoming telephone calls.
Visual Display Merchandiser
Oxfam Shop, Morningside
Do you like fashion? Do you have a creative spirit? Oxfam needs you! Come and join our friendly team to become an actor on the Oxfam stage, lifting people out of poverty. We offer you the opportunity to use your artistic and fashion spirit to dress the windows display. You'll be involved in the shop, merchandising and displays to ensure our stock is most attractive layout possible. Assisting customer is also a major part of the work; we need you to be cheerful and outgoing.
Volunteer Bookseller
Amnesty International Scotland
The Amnesty International Bookshop in Marchmont, Edinburgh requires volunteer booksellers.
Main responsibilities include:
Selling books.
Answering customer enquiries about stock and Amnesty International.
Till work.
Cash balancing.
Stock management.
Display and presentation within the shop
Relief Mini-Bus Driver
Northfield & Willowbrae Community Services Group
We are a small voluntary group supporting older people by bringing them to day centres and giving entertainment and company. We require a minibus driver (ages 25 - 68) with a D1 entitlement on the licence (most who passed driving test prior to 1997 will have this automatically). The MIDAS certificate is necessary but we will pay for this if the driver will give a reasonable commitment (6 months).
Telephone / Admin Volunteer
British Heart Foundation Furniture Shop (Dalry)
Are you calm, collected and happy to chat on the phone? We’re always looking for friendly, confident and helpful people to join our team and become the voice of your local shop. You will be the first point of contact for our customers helping them with any enquiries and arranging collections for donations.
Assistant Beaver Leader
64th Stockbridge Scout Group
We are looking for new volunteers both male and female to help to run the Beaver Colony. The Beaver Colony is part of an active Scout Group - together with Cubs (ages 8-10) ensuring a regular stream of new entrants. We meet regularly on a Wednesday evening, but also take part in various activities involving other Beaver Colonies. The main commitment needed is somebody who is going to be prepared to commit to regular attendance on a Wednesday evening: to get involved leading the youngsters.
Children and Families Garden Volunteer
North Edinburgh Arts Centre
North Edinburgh Arts seeks enthusiastic people who would like to get experience working with children, young people & families in an outdoor environment. The volunteer would support our children & families gardening worker with our regular sessions, focusing on gardening, nature, the environment and conservation. Main tasks are setting up, assisting , tidying up after & evaluating session and other gardening work. Some sessions may take place offsite as part of a trip.
Committee Member
Enable Scotland
1. To assist with the governance of the Branch; in particular by attending the monthly meetings of the Management Committee and by taking responsibility for agreed tasks suited to their abilities. 2. To be one of the key-holders responsible for opening and locking the building before and after club meetings. 3. To help with our three clubs (which include a disco, indoor games, arts and crafts, Scottish country dancing).
Stock Assistant
Community Alliance Trust (CAT)
You will be responsible for receiving deliveries, liaising with suppliers and ensuring that produce is stored correctly and in accordance with the Pantry's FIFO procedure (first in first out). Another key role is to ensure that the stock room and shop floor are kept clean, tidy and well organised. This role requires some heavy lifting and manual handling. There is scope here for the role to be more practical or more creative based on preference and skills.
Romanian Interpreter / Translator
Crisis Skylight Edinburgh
Interpret during member and staff appointments so the members receive the fullest support
• Interpret during phone calls between staff and members to clarify advice given, appointment dates and times
• Translate key advice documents that explain basic housing options, benefits, immigration and other services that can help
• Potentially accompany staff and members on external meetings including to the Job Centre, council / local authority, night shelter or hostel interviews
Comradeship Circles Volunteer
Age Scotland
To support the Age Scotland Comradeship Circles service, which offers older members of the ex-service community the opportunity to enjoy regular group friendship by telephone. You will support the Veterans Friendship Circles Facilitator on group phone calls, which last up to an hour, helping to facilitate discussion, developing resources to enrich Circles in response to members' interests, and providing pre and post call administrative support.
Italian Teacher Assistant
Girotondo Italian School
We are looking for volunteers to assist teachers in Italian language courses for children and teenagers aged 4 to 17.
The assistant will help the teacher in the management of the class, in carrying out the activities and in the care of the children.
Kitchen Trainee Support
Space and Broomhouse Hub
The role is primarily to support Space Kitchen Training Project trainees with their tasks and helping them have a positive experience while doing their traineeship. The Space enterprise delivers our community cafe and supplies food and drink for outside catering deliveries through the city. In addition, we are developing a pizza delivery business. Food Hygeine qualification is required (can be completed within the role) and relevant experience in a kitchen role is essential.
Trustee
Space and Broomhouse Hub
We are looking for people who are local to South West Edinburgh to join our board of trustees.
Trustees play an integral part in shaping what we do at Space and ensuring we can continue to offer much needed services to the community in South West Edinburgh.
Our Trustees meet every 2 months for a full board meeting lasting approx 2.5hrs
Each Trustee also 'adopts' one of our projects, meeting with and providing support to the Project Manager and their staff team.
Befriender
Space and Broomhouse Hub
Space at Youth Befriending provides one-to-one befriending for children and young people aged 5-16 though supporting them to learn new skills and provide a social experience for children and young people who are experiencing difficulties in their lives due to parental drug and alcohol use. Through the befriending relationship the child / young person and the befriender may touch on topics such as increasing self-esteem; dealing with worries; respect for others.
Befriender/Cook
Meal Makers
Meal Makers is a local neighbourhood food-sharing project that connects people with a love for cooking who are happy to share an extra portion of home cooked food with an older neighbour (or “diner”) who might be unable or lack the motivation to prepare a meal for themselves. Meals can be shared once a week, once a fortnight or every now and then, at times to suit. It is designed to be a flexible volunteering opportunity based on an everyday activity.
Match Day Support
Edinburgh United FC
Match day support
Turnstile operative
Pie hut assistant
General match day helper
Kit manager
Retail Team Volunteer - Mary's Living and Giving Shop
Save the Children
Your donation of time, creativity and kindness can help us change the word! Volunteering as a part of the Retail Team in the Stockbridge Mary's Living and Giving Shop for Save the Children is a fantastic opportunity to get involved in customer service, visual merchandising and working as part of a large and diverse team.
We aim to change the world via fabulous fashion and sustainable shopping! Join us and help make a difference!
Donation Centre Shop Assistant
Salvation Army Donation Centre
The Salvation Army is opening a brand new Donation Centre which we hope will become a re-use hub for the local area and beyond. Reducing how much we all send to landfill is so very important and we will offer people a convenient hub to donate items that still have re-use potential. As well as collecting donations we will have a small charity shop. We are looking for someone who loves to engage with people and has an eye for detail to help maintain our shop and till areas and serve customers.
Advocacy Ethnic Minorities and Mental Health
CAPS Independent Advocacy
The role involves using personal experiences of living with a mental health issue as part of CAPS collective advocacy group; to campaign for change, raise awareness and promote understanding of the challenges and stigma faced as a member of an ethnic minority group when accessing mental health services. The group will create educational resources, deliver training workshops, attend conferences & other activities involved with raising awareness.
Community History Project Participant
CAPS Independent Advocacy
Oor Mad History is a community history project, led by people with their own personal lived experience of mental health, using oral history to record and promote the history of activism and collective advocacy by people with mental health issues. We have also developed a short course in “Mad People’s History and Identity” at Queen Margaret University. As a participant with us you will be able to get involved in all aspects of the project.
Advocacy Peer Educator Psychosis
CAPS Independent Advocacy
The role involves sharing your experiences of living with psychosis with groups of participants to help facilitate creative training workshops aimed at raising awareness of the diversity of perspectives of psychosis. You will need good communication skills, lived experience of living with psychosis and willingness to share your experience with people from different backgrounds. A sense of commitment and willingness to travel locally are important.
Shop Volunteer
DebRA Shop - Stockbridge
The is a varied role and could include lifting heavy furniture and electrical items, electrical testing ( testing our donated electrical items to make sure they work), customer service, helping to keep the shop spick and span,
making our donated stock and shop floor clean and presentable, handyperson tasks (includes assembling and dismantling as necessary, occasional repair work), helping with rotation of stock, pricing, operating the till and visual merchandiser tasks such as creating displays.
Gardeners
Friends of Granton Castle Walled Garden
Who can resist the chance to help restore a 'lost' 15th century walled garden here in Edinburgh? Or to get fit without paying gym costs? We are keen to recruit volunteers for a wide variety of gardening tasks. You don't have to have specific gardening skills – enthusiasm counts. A wide variety of activities are involved in the restoration project – digging, clearing, weeding, planting, general repair and maintenance of sheds, greeting, helping with planning, harvesting seasonal produce being some of them.
Retail Volunteer - Edinburgh Portobello
Chest Heart & Stroke Scotland
We currently have around 40 shops/ community hubs across Scotland. Our shops and hubs help us raise funds so we can provide our services to the people who need us. Every one of our stores relies on a team of volunteers to help run it and support our staff. Quite simply, we cannot provide our services or raise funds without the amazing support of our volunteers. The time, support and the work they do is vital to us and the people we help. By helping out in one of our stores, you can make a difference to people and their families in Scotland who are isolated, scared or anxious about their condition.
Trustees/Board Members
Harmeny Education Trust Limited
This is an exciting opportunity to join a team of Trustees in a friendly organisation making a difference to the lives of vulnerable children in Scotland. Support and mentoring can be provided to those who are interested but may be early in their careers and/or lacking experience in acting as a board member.
Harmeny is committed to equality of opportunity and the promotion of diversity, including in relation to its Board. While we welcome applications from all parts of society, we are particularly interested in receiving applications from candidates from racially diverse backgrounds, younger candidates and those who are care experienced (such as someone who has been in care or the parent or carer of such a person). We welcome individuals contacting us to discuss whether they might be suitable.
A fuller job description and person specification can be provided by request or here http://www.harmeny.org.uk/jobs. Harmeny is a values-led organisation and a good fit with our ethos is as important to us as having relevant experience.
Handyperson/Painter
Rock Trust
Looking for a handy person/painter to provide 1-2 days per calendar month (availability to be discussed) to help with minor repairs in residential properties, such as general maintenance, basic plumbing and electrical work. Own transport necessary.
Welfare Volunteer
Shrub Co-op
Welfare Volunteers work together helping to ensure the mental, physical and emotional wellbeing of volunteers and members of the SHRUB Coop. This could include helping create accessible welfare policies, assisting with workshops and drop in sessions and arbitrating conflicts and complaints - not all volunteers have to take part in all tasks, giving the volunteers opportunity to focus on their interest areas. We ask for a minimum commitment of 6 months of volunteering, approximately 2-3h/week.
Dispatcher
HcL Handicabs
To take passenger bookings, arrange journeys, deal with enquiries and to provide information when requested. To ensure the smooth scheduling of journey requests. General clerical work, including filing, correspondence, and day to day running of the office, including preparation of drivers sheets. Using various office equipment correctly, including computers, telephones, fax machine and photocopier. To undertake any induction and in-service training program required.
Eco-Christmas Gift Swap Fundraising Event
Feed the Minds
*Are you hoping to save time and money this holiday season?
*Are you trying to lessen your impact on the environment?
*Are you keen to declutter your home?
*Are you looking for a creative way to support a worthwhile charity?
Give new life to the books, toys, and clothing that are cluttering your home by hosting an Eco-Christmas Gift Swap fundraising event! Your friends and family will love the gifts that will be new to them, and you and your friends will love saving money and time. And as if that wasn’t enough, your fundraiser will help support the amazing education projects funded by Feed the Minds throughout the world!
How:
-Go through your home and collect all the unused items (that are still in very good condition), all the gifts you were given but never use, all the clothing that you meant to take back but forgot to, all the puzzles you’ve already done, the books your kids have already read, (etc., etc.). Then, invite your friends to do the same!
-Make a plan about where and when to meet so that all those treasures can find new, loving homes, and you and your friends can raise money for some very worthwhile projects. It’s a win for you and your friends, a win for the planet, and a win for people experiencing extreme poverty throughout the world!
Where:
-Would you and your friends like to meet in a community hall on a weeknight? Or maybe you’d all prefer a small gathering at someone’s home? Or maybe the local pub could be hired? Or maybe you’d all feel more comfortable meeting outside in the garden? Maybe you could gather right after the school run? The possibilities are endless….
When:
-Because Christmas shopping seems to happen earlier and earlier every year, sometime in November would be ideal. That way, people will be able to relax knowing that they’ve gotten all the gifts they need very early in the holiday season.
Options for fundraising:
*Attendees could donate what they think is fair, based on all they’ve chosen to take and what they can afford.
*Beyond the gift swap, you could also hold a bake sale, a craft fair, and/or a raffle to raise even more money for our projects!
Leader/Assistant Scout Leader
30th Craigalmond Scout Group
Manage, lead or support the operation of the Scouts Section. In particular, supporting the planning and delivery of a full programme with a diverse range of activities, with the help of the other Section Leaders and Young Leaders and members of Scout Active Support as appropriate. Running and attending weekly meetings alongside the other Sections Leader. Opportunity to attend camps with the Section or part of the wider Group and District.
Resource Befriender
Safe Families
Resource Befrienders may do some painting, joinery, gardening or anything practical that helps out the family on a practical level.
Study Buddy
Positive Help
As a Study Buddy you will support the learning and development of a child or a young person who is affected by HIV and/or Hepatitis C. You will meet weekly for 1-2 hours to spend one-on-one time together. Together you can work on homework or development of relevant skills, such as developing the child’s motor skills by doing crafts or doing physical activity. Our Children’s Services require a minimum commitment of 1 year.
Family Support Volunteer
Firsthand Lothian
If you want to gain experience in childcare or disability then this role is the one for you! You will be matched with a child or young person who you will meet with on a regular basis spending 1:1 time with them, having fun whilst doing things and going places that they enjoy. Many parents are isolated and have no family living locally or friends who they can ask to help them out in times of need. Families with child/ren with a disability struggle to have any time away from their caring role. Due to the ongoing pandemic, sessions are not taking place inside the family home. However socially distanced activity out with the home where practical and possible and via online tools such as FB Portals (which we will supply), Zoom, What’s App and Face Time are being used to deliver activity and engage with children on a weekly basis.
Shop Stock Assistant
Fresh Start
The aim of Fresh Start Shop in the first instance is to provide a much needed and valuable service to the local community and offer volunteering opportunities to local people, our service users and the wider community.
This role includes sorting and pricing donations and requires some creativity in displaying items to appeal to customers. Experience of working in retail or in other charity shops is an advantage.
Pantry Till Assistant
Fresh Start
As Pantry Till Assistant, this role includes a level of responsibility serving customers at the till and cash handling, a level of previous retail experience is an advantage
Dementia Day Care Worker
Prestonfield and District Neighbourhood Workers Project
Specific Duties - along with Project staff collecting transport lists from office and then going with vehicle and driver to collect clients from their home, physically assist them onto the vehicle and ensure they are properly seated and securely fastened in. Clients are then brought to the Neighbourhood Centre, assisted in alighting from the vehicle into the Centre and seated for the daycare, lunch and social activities The volunteer will assist the social care workers in the general operations.
Awareness Raising Volunteer Assistants: Oral Health
LINKnet Mentoring
LINKnet are looking for volunteers to support paid staff to increase awareness of oral health among ME (minority ethnic) communities by bringing the communities in and delivering oral and wider health improvement messages in an accessible manner. “Edinburgh Smile”, is a project of LINKnet that partners MEHIS (Minority Ethnic Health Inclusion Service)- NHS. The successful candidates will be involved in the development and coordination of activities to raise awareness.
Day Care - Club Assistant
Pilton Equalities Project
Set up dinner plates and cups etc, help with co-ordinating games or activities organised for that day, assist service users when playing board games or bingo, clear away and assist with washing cutlery and plates. Must be willing to undertake a disclosure through the PVG Scheme
Participant Midlothian Voices Collective Advocacy Project
CAPS Independent Advocacy
Midlothian Voices is a Collective advocacy group of people in Midlothian who identify as having Mental Health issues. CAPS facilitate their group to enable them to come together to achieve their goals. The group is fairly new but since getting together as the end of last year they have identified three goals for the group to work on: To engage with services at a strategic level by attending meetings and events where decision making happens, to work on topic specific issues that are important to people such as Welfare Reform and reducing stigma and to bring people in Midlothian together around these issues.
So far members of the group have attended Lothian wide events on Human Rights and the reform of the Scottish Health Council and have looked at how these issues are relevant in Midlothian and fed back through the Mental Health Strategy group on their thoughts. They have also been part of a sit down with the Minister for Mental Health at the NHS annual conference to ask questions about Mental Health services in Midlothian
Midlothian voices describe themselves as a go-getting friendly group and have many ideas on issues they would like to work on in the future, they are very much looking forward to welcoming new members of the group and generating new ideas. Individuals can get involved in the project at a level that suits their own abilities, skills and commitments. Meetings usually take place every six weeks.
Due to Covid 19 CAPS we have had to alter the way we work. Groups and volunteer roles are currently taking place online until we can resume face to face meetings.
Volunteer Exhibition Assistant
Talbot Rice Gallery
We are looking for volunteers to get involved in every exhibition at the Talbot Rice Gallery as Volunteer Exhibition Assistants. Our team of volunteers are crucial in the success of our exhibitions and provide essential and valued support. All volunteers receive training for their role and a high level of support from the Gallery team throughout their time volunteering with us. We offer practical experience of working in a contemporary gallery space, public engagement and the opportunity to meet artists. Our next exhibition opens on October 1st 2021, and we are looking for support. For more information, please check our website about this opportunity: https://www.trg.ed.ac.uk/get-involved/volunteering
Call Companion Coordinator
Re-engage
The call companions idea is very simple; a volunteer call companion calls the same older person between two and four times a month at a mutually agreed time for an informal chat.
As a call companion coordinator, you will be the main point of contact for all of the call companions and older people in your group. This is a challenging, rewarding role which might be a bit busy initially but will take up less of your time once your group is established.
Home Visitor
Pet Fostering Service Scotland
Our Home Visitors play a vital role in delivery of our service by visiting potential volunteer pet foster carers to assess their house, home situation and the fosterer.
You will be contacted by PFSS when there is a need for a home visit in your area.
Main tasks:
Contact the potential fosterer and arrange a time for the home visit to take place
Carry out the home visit following the guidelines provided by PFSS.
Complete the home visit report and return a copy to the Home Visit Coordinator
Bookshop Volunteer
Bethany Christian Trust
The first Bethany Book shop is more than a place to buy books. It is a community hub to chat, relax and grab a coffee!
What will the volunteering role look like?
- Assisting customers in the shop in a friendly and professional manner, whether that be answering enquiries or just having a chat.
-Sorting donated goods. This a large part of every retail role.
-Pricing donated goods
-Replenishing and changing the stock on display.
-Operating the till.
Homework Club Volunteer
Bethany Christian Trust
The BME (Black Minority and Ethnic) Homework club is an after school club for families who have English as a second language. Volunteers will be involved in planning, preparing and supervising activities for the children. They will also be working one to one with families and carers, to help them to support their children complete their homework and improve their English. Volunteers will help to prepare snacks and drinks and encourage attendees to engage with activities.
Retail Volunteer
Bethany Christian Trust
Retail volunteers are the backbone of our shops. A day can include sorting donations, operating the till or pricing stock- but every day, and every shop, is different! Each volunteer brings their own skills, experience and character to a role.
Passing the Baton Befriender
Bethany Christian Trust
We are looking for a trustworthy and compassionate individual, willing to befriend a person who is socially isolated and may also struggle with addiction, homelessness and mental health issues.
General responsibilities:
To develop a companionship level relationship with a befriendee;
To accompany the befriendee to social activities and community groups;
To participate in an induction and on-going training as appropriate and adhere to all procedures and policies
Packing Volunteer
Empty Kitchens, Full Hearts
Packing shifts are perhaps the most varied and consist of turning the cooked meals into individual portions and meal packs. Split over three shifts, the packing role involves tasks such as assembling the daily meal packs and ensuring they are ready for collection by our delivery volunteers, portioning meals for the following day, ensuring all allergens are being catered for and unloading and organising food deliveries from shops or supermarkets.
Volunteer Driver
NappiRunz
We are looking for someone with spare time to help us with our collections and deliveries. The position mainly involves.
Picking up donations from our various points
Dropping donations in store
Delivering donations to the charities we support
Keeping good records of our outgoing and incoming donations
Work closely with the charity trustees and volunteers.
Retail Team Volunteer (Stockbridge)
Save the Children
Mary's Living & Giving for Save the Children is unique - a vibrant result of the generous gifts of local individuals and companies being turned around by the skills and passions of volunteer teams, to create a destination retail experience. Selling womenswear, menswear, shoes, and bags to household goods, our shops bring in vital funds and awareness for Safe the Children.
We are currently looking for people who are able to donate their time, creativity and kindness on a Monday.
Young Humanist Ambassador
Humanist Society Scotland
Young Humanist Ambassadors play a vital role in representing the charity, primarily online, but also at local events and functions, speaking about our work and the importance of our campaigns.
You can help to further Humanist Society Scotland’s objectives; grow our youth membership and engage young people in a meaningful way; enable young humanists to meet socially and discuss relevant issues; and help promote national campaigns and fundraising initiatives. Volunteers for this role must be in the age range 18-25.
General Admin Duties
You're Never Too Old
You’re Never Too Old is a charity which supports the elderly and vulnerable in our local community. We are looking for a volunteer to join us for three hours per week, on a Monday or Tuesday helping to build our presence on social media and general admin duties
Social Media Skills, Admin skills, accounting would also be beneficial but not necessary
We have a very friendly and dedicated team of volunteers supporting the group.
Group Support
You're Never Too Old
Volunteers role – Passenger assisting by support old people getting on and off transport. Carry out various activities, i.e., arts and crafts, gentle exercise, board games, dominoes, quizzes, singing, we do indoor bowling and Kurling we also go on outings. Help by serving lunch and clearing up. Bringing their own skills to the group would also be welcomed. This is a group enjoy the social interaction. The group is on a Monday and Tuesday for passenger assist 9am-3pm for group support 10am-2pm.
Donation Centre Logistics Assistant
Salvation Army Donation Centre
The Salvation Army is opening a brand new Donation Centre which we hope will become a re-use hub for the local area and beyond. Reducing how much we all send to landfill is so very important and we will offer people a convenient hub to donate items that still have re-use potential. Part of our work will be to offer to collect donations of furniture from people’s houses and deliver some sold items. We are looking for a volunteer to assist in this work.
Assistant Scout Leader
150th Craigalmond Scout Group
Assist other leaders with running the Cubs (kids aged 8-10) or Scouts (10-14) groups. Help young people have new experiences and adventures. Have fun, make friends and develop new skills. Volunteers will develop teamwork, confidence and leadership skills. Meetings are usually held in our Scout Hall at Saughton Crescent, Edinburgh but we often go on trips to local parks and woods as well as other places of interest.
Advocacy - Eating Disorders
CAPS Independent Advocacy
This role involves using your own lived experiences of eating disorders in a positive way to raise awareness, fight against stigma and campaign for change. Working as a team, 'Seen but not Heard' eating disorders collective advocacy have developed training around eating disorders, two films, awareness events, attended conferences, responded to/developed consultations and have produced leaflets and resource packs.
Learn Volunteer - Personality Disorder
CAPS Independent Advocacy
The role involves sharing personal experiences of living with Borderline Personality disorder with groups of participants & helping to facilitate training workshops, aimed at raising awareness of BPD. You will need good communication skills, lived experience of living with a Personality Disorder, & be willing to share experiences with people from different backgrounds. A sense of commitment & willingness to travel locally are important.
Advocacy - Personality Disorders
CAPS Independent Advocacy
The role involves using personal experiences of living with a Personality disorder as part of CAPS collective advocacy group (Much More Than A Label); to raise awareness of PD, promote understanding, fight against stigma and campaign for change. The group have made films, produced a resource pack & training workshop, attended conferences & are working on awareness raising around personality disorders.
Scout Leader
85th Braid Scout Group
We are looking for 2-3 motivated volunteers who would enjoy working with young people (10 ½ - 14) to be leaders of our Scout Troop, planning and delivering the Scouting programme over the year. Primary task is to plan and deliver the "Scouting programme" (a mixture of games and activities that work towards the many badges Scouts can earn), alongside the other leaders in the team. This involves attendance at our Wednesday evening meetings (during term time only), etc.
Shop Volunteer
DebRA Shop - Stockbridge
The is a varied role and could include lifting heavy furniture and electrical items, electrical testing ( testing our donated electrical items to make sure they work), customer service, helping to keep the shop spick and span,
making our donated stock and shop floor clean and presentable, handyperson tasks (includes assembling and dismantling as necessary, occasional repair work), helping with rotation of stock, pricing, operating the till and visual merchandiser tasks such as creating displays.
Trustee
Pasda
The main tasks are attendance at the monthly meetings, except August and December. This involves reading the reports and following up any allocated tasks. If volunteer trustees are available to attend other relevant meetings eg autism Cross Party Group, trustee training or staffing at awareness events that is welcome. Campaigning is part of our objectives and any skills in this area would be useful.
Spreading the Word SuperStar
Vintage Vibes
This is a role that is all about finding and telling interesting stories. We need someone who will help us find great stories about our VIPs, our volunteers and also about issues surrounding isolation and dementia. You'll also be finding interesting and valuable information to create tips and tricks for our volunteers, such as free things to do with VIPs in the city. You'll be looking at new methods to spread the word such as Instagram and Facebook Live. You'll be pulling together blog posts.
Admin Support - 11401
Royal National Institute of Blind People
Do you have administrative skills? Would you like to contribute to RNIB's mission to make life better for people with sight loss? The technology project team is looking for a volunteer to provide admin support for their project work in Edinburgh.
Trustees
Lothian Autistic Society
Board members are the strategic drive for the organisation and are expected to show a commitment to the organisation’s values. The board meets once a month to oversee services and finances, ensuring that each are aligned with the strategic business plan. The plan is reviewed annually and renewed every three years. Board members provide guidance and support to the organisation’s staff through the CEO, provide a link with the society’s membership and ensure the needs of our service.
Shop Volunteer- Morningside
Save the Children - Morningside Shop
All you will need is some enthusiasm and a desire to make a difference. The role is diverse, taking place on the shop floor and behind the scenes. Volunteer tasks include anything from sorting donations, steaming clothes, pricing products, managing the till, and helping with the window displays.
EL Carer Befriending Service
Eric Liddell Centre
Our Carer Befriending Service aims to breakdown the isolation experienced by carers in providing them with a volunteer befriender. The role is flexible, allowing the volunteer and carer to negotiate when and where, and how often, they will meet. What they do in that time depends on what the carer needs from the relationship. This may involve joining in an activity, going for a walk or to the cinema or just having time for a chat and coffee in a local cafe.
Retail Volunteer-Edinburgh, Crighton Place 55915/A8
Barnardo's Scotland
Our amazing team of vibrant & diverse volunteers helps us run over 700 shops. Our stores sell lots of great donated & new goods to help raise vital funds to make a real difference to disadvantaged children, young people and families across the UK.
Our retail stores are the face of our charity on the high-street and in local communities. We have loads of amazing stock donated to us every week, and this all needs to be sorted, tagged and put on the shop-floor for sale!
Making sure our shops look fantastic is another task you can get involved with. You may also be required to help out on the till too, but we will show you how that works during your time volunteering with us. We value the contribution of everyone who supports Barnardo’s.
You will be a friendly face of Barnardo’s by volunteering in one of our shops. It would be great if you could volunteer one shift a week (or even more if you want) but we’re always happy to be flexible to work around your availability.
Why we want you:
Our amazing team of vibrant & diverse volunteers helps us run over 700 stores. Our stores sell lots of great donated and new goods to help raise vital funds to make a real difference to disadvantaged children, young people and families across the UK.
What you will be doing:
Work on the till processing sales and returns
Prepare stock, including sorting, steaming and pricing
Create stylish window displays
Replenish stock on the shop floor
Stock-take and other administrative tasks
The skills you need:
Friendly and helpful
Happy to be part of an amazing team of staff and volunteers
Enthusiastic about the work of Barnardo’s
Flexible and willing to do a variety of the shop tasks
What's in it for you:
Have fun and meet new people
Develop skills for your CV including confidence, teamwork and problem solving
Make a difference to the lives of children, young people and their families
Learning and development opportunities through our Volunteer Academy which includes access to Level 2 Qualifications and other accredited courses
Full training and experience of working in retail as a volunteer
Other information:
Minimum age 14
Shop based
Location: 26 Crighton Place, Edinburgh, Midlothian, EH7 4NY, United Kingdom
Disclaimer
We look to recruit a diverse range of volunteers. If your skills don't fit the above, please do not let this put you off as we are able to be flexible with most of our roles. If you are unable to apply online through the link on this page, please visit your local store for a paper application form or contact the Barnardo's Volunteering Team on volunteering@barnardos.org.uk
Customer Services
Oxfam Shop, Morningside
Do you like numbers? Do you like helping people? We have a job for you, join our lovely team and become an actor on the Oxfam stage, lifting people out of poverty. This opportunity will require someone with strong communications skills and a cheerful personality. You will be in charge of the till and will be trained on the features of the till and OXFAM policy and procedures. You have to enjoy helping customers and donors, and assist to merchandise the rails of clothes.
Treasure Seeker and Antique Appraiser
Oxfam Shop, Morningside
Frames, prints, photographs? Delve into treasure trove of the items given to us by the Morningside community and select the items that will lift people out of poverty. We need someone to sort our huge array of frames, paintings & prints and photographs, to hang them up to their best advantage, to change our gallery on a weekly basis and finally to sort and to select the best inclusion in auction room sales.
Befriender (Adults and Elderly)
City of Edinburgh Council - Health & Social Care Department
The COVID-19 crisis is difficult for us all but people with caring responsibilities (unpaid carers) are under even more pressure and stress. Reduced/closed services mean that many carers have no choice but to care round the clock for loved ones without any hope of break.
Once the support is restored, many carers will feel burnt out and physically and emotionally tired. We hope that this is where you can step in. As a volunteer you will be spending 1:1 time with the person to give their carer a break
Cashier Sales Assistant Volunteer
British Heart Foundation Shop (Leith)
Engaging with customers and serving them in a helpful and friendly way.
Communicating with fellow volunteers about what has sold and needs re-stocking.
Honing your retail and cashier skills behind the till and taking payments.
Helping with administration and reception duties around the till area.
Promoting Gift Aid and sales campaigns, and chatting to customers.
Acting as an ambassador for the British Heart Foundation.
Movement For Memories Volunteers
Edinburgh Leisure
In the Movement For Memories programme you will have the opportunity to support those living with dementia to access physical activity opportunities. You will work on a 1:1 basis with a person living with dementia to help them access swimming, tennis, golf, the gym, or fitness classes. You will offer them support and encouragement to help them enjoy and participate in their chosen activity. You will also complete observation sheets so we can see how the participant is getting on.
Peer Support Volunteer (English & Polish)
Turning Point Scotland (Edinburgh)
Peer support volunteer (English and Polish speakers required)
The Peer Supporter will provide support, encouragement and inspiration to clients attending the Recovery Hub. The Peer Supporter will make informal contact with clients when they attend the service. The Peer Supporter will listen to clients and use their own experience of addiction and recovery to provide support as appropriate. They may take on other roles as their confidence and skills expand like co facilitate groups, shadow one to one engagements and needle exchange. We are looking for native English speakers and native Polish speakers who can understand and communicate in English.
Charity Shop Volunteer
Corstorphine Youth and Community Centre
Customer service role to assist the public with their purchases. Using a till, handling cash, working with other volunteers, re-stocking items for sale, sorting out donations to sell in the shop.
Store Merchandiser
British Heart Foundation Furniture Shop (Dalry)
Do you have a knack for presentation, an eye for detail and enjoy making things look their best? We’re looking for people like you to volunteer in our F&E stores to help make them look as appealing and inspiring as possible. You can expect to be helping out with visual merchandising, making sure everything is displayed to its full potential; you will also be involved in creating eye catching displays in our homeware department ensuring the items are clean and labelled.
Retail Volunteer - Haymarket
British Heart Foundation Furniture Shop (Dalry)
Do you always have a welcoming smile on your face and love getting in to conversations? Why not get to know the people from your community with this versatile volunteering role. You will be serving customers, helping to promote our stock and awareness campaigns and encouraging every donor to become part of our Gift Aid scheme.
Gardener
Venchie Children & Young People's Project
Do you have green fingers, do you enjoy making green spaces neat and tidy. You would be required to cut grass and weed borders, help plant out seasonal plants and sweeping up of leaves and rubbish. We are a children and young people?s project based in East Edinburgh.
Garden Volunteer-Craigmillar Growers
Community Alliance Trust (CAT)
Craigmillar Growers is establishing a network of community gardens for local residents to grow vegetables and fruit together. Produce is shared among participants, used for cooking regular community meals, and donated to local community food projects, addressing food insecurity in deprived neighbourhoods. As a volunteer, you would assist with supervising work sessions, delivering gardening workshops and contributing to the development and growth of the project.
Peer Support Volunteer - CARDS
Rowan Alba
Many of our clients who engage with the CARDS Service become curious about or wish to engage in recovery or with dedicated recovery services. In response to feedback from clients and volunteers we now have dedicated Peer Volunteers who themselves are in recovery and have lived experience of that journey and can provide our clients with hope and belief that they can make a positive change.
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This opportunity is about building relationships with our members and to help them carry out everyday tasks within the day care centre. Your Role would be to support and encourage our clients in their activities assisting them with mobilisation and general comfort. Communicating with them and help them build their confidence and self-esteem. You would also be required to assist on our buses by helping passengers get on and off the vehicle ensure they are secure along with any wheelchairs, baggag
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Libertus is a South Edinburgh based charity. We are looking for enthusiastic people to help us with some of the activities & projects which we run. These range from creating bi monthly radio shows, producing films & documentaries, annual theatre productions, intergenerational projects, alternative therapies, exercise & arts and crafts. You will be working with older people, younger people and people living with special needs. Particularly interested in hearing from people with web based skills.
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As a volunteer you: play a vital role in our research, since many of our studies rely on collecting data from human participants.
Can take part in research studies online and in-person at our research facilities.
Choose which studies you want to get involved in.
Can withdraw from the research at any time.
We email our volunteers with information about our current studies and they decide if they wish to take part.
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We are looking for volunteers to work with our community gardening group developing and maintaining our garden. Our community gardening group meets on Fridays. They are responsible for the development of our garden at Threipmuir Farm Steading outside Balerno. They indirectly support our work with young people by planting vegetables which our groups harvest and cook and by keeping the garden under control so that our work can take place in a safe and inspiring environment.
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Lead or support activities for older people in local communities. Activities include walking, cycling, seated exercise, gardening, indoor curling, swimming, dancing and singing. A social element provides opportunities for participants to share experiences and develop new friendships. Many volunteers choose to undertake additional training to lead or support activities amongst their peers. Other volunteers help out supporting promotional events.
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We are recruiting a full-time volunteer for a six-month placement within our Communications team, funded by the European Solidarity Corps! You will sit within our wider communications team focusing on our ProjectScotland brand’s communications, as well as providing some support to our wider work across Scotland and the UK. You’ll have plenty of opportunities to get involved in a varied range of tasks that interest you and you’ll help to promote the work we do to the public, potential volunteers, other charities and even funders. Whether you’re helping to raise the profile of a brand new project by coming up with exciting social media content, writing case studies of volunteer experiences or supporting the wider comms team with a nationwide campaign, this is an amazing opportunity to gain some real experience in the world of communications in a dynamic organisation!
This placement is based in Edinburgh, accommodation with another volunteer and a weekly allowance will be provided.
Want to know more? Get in touch! alice.carbone@volunteeringmatters.org.uk
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We are looking for personable and outgoing volunteers to join our Zero Waste Cafe team. Cafe volunteers are the first people that visitors see when coming in to our space. Cafe volunteers are essential for welcoming new people to our Zero Waste Hub as well as serving a variety of drinks and delicilous food made in-house by our cooking volunteers.
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Key tasks: We have a number of different roles available from shop floor volunteers (Welcoming and informing customers at the Shrub, working on the till, keeping the shop floor tidy, chatting to customers about carbon literacy and sustainable fashion ) to pricing and sorting (helping in the stockroom, sorting and pricing donations, working out which things to keep and which things to pass on) as well as helping with merchandising and displays. We would also love to have some volunteers with particular interests (e.g. graphic design, photography, organisation skills).
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Welfare Volunteers work together helping to ensure the mental, physical and emotional wellbeing of volunteers and members of the SHRUB Coop. This could include helping create accessible welfare policies, assisting with workshops and drop in sessions and arbitrating conflicts and complaints - not all volunteers have to take part in all tasks, giving the volunteers opportunity to focus on their interest areas. We ask for a minimum commitment of 6 months of volunteering, approximately 2-3h/week.
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