Edinburgh volunteering opportunities
Urban Shop Volunteer - Save the Children, Nicolson Street
Save the Children
Our Edinburgh Nicolson Street Save the Children Shop is a modern, contemporary, urbanised street store, unlike any other traditional charity shop you have ever seen - We want you to join us in raising much needed funding and awareness to help improve the lives of children all over the world!
No previous experience is required as all training will be provided. Activities include customer service, creative merchandising, working as part of a large and diverse team and having fun!
Archives Volunteer
Craigmillar Now
Craigmillar Now, a new arts and heritage centre based in Craigmillar, Edinburgh, is in the process of creating the first publicly-accessible, community-led Craigmillar archive. This community-built project aims to preserve, care for, and celebrate Craigmillar's history as part of a wider programme of regeneration, and seeks enthusiastic volunteers to aid in collecting, cataloguing, and promoting the archive's growing collections.
Mondays from 10am - 5pm, with free lunch included!
Conversation Session Host
FENIKS
Running the conversation sessions on agreed times and days.
Setting up an online meeting using LCC email account (online sessions) OR setting up the space for the session (face to face sessions).
-Meeting and greeting attendees, making introduction, encouraging conversation, making sure everyone has a chance to express their views.
Full description of the role is available here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ox2wntTxkNLmIthyQn9IzJY6SWFE8-q_Zl2_-TwXKqI/edit?usp=sharing
Chair of Board of Trustees
Volunteer Edinburgh
The Convenor is appointed by Volunteer Edinburgh’s Board. The Convenor leads the Board of trustees to meet its governance responsibilities and provide strategic direction for the organisation. The Convenor works closely and productively with the Chief Officer.
The outgoing Convenor will retire later in 2023, therefore there is the opportunity for a handover period.
Responsibilities include:
- providing leadership to the Board of Trustees to ensure that they carry out their governance, legal and strategic responsibilities effectively.
- chairing meetings of the Board of Trustees and ensure meetings are prepared for and minuted effectively.
- chairing the annual general meeting and other general meetings as required.
- discharging the governance responsibilities of the Board, liaising with the Chief Officer and holding them to account for fulfilling their remit and operational responsibilities.
- providing performance appraisal and line management of the Chief Officer.
- attending meetings of the Third Sector Interface (TSI) Steering Group.
- representing Volunteer Edinburgh (in discussion with the Chief Officer). This can include chairing events and attending occasional external meetings and receptions.
Residential Community Volunteer
Cyrenians
Volunteers are peer mentors to the community residents and both live within our city and farm communities, and manage the day-to-day domestic tasks and decisions within the building, which is their home. Volunteer tasks may include: Accompanying a resident to appointments, Helping a resident to cook a meal for the whole community, Acting as a sounding board for a problem or difficult situation, Offering mature and calm guidance.
Supportive Driver Volunteer
Positive Help
Our volunteer drivers provide service users with lifts to hospital or GP appointments so that they can access vital medical care and treatment. They also help service users get to supermarkets and some other welfare appointments, as well as collecting and delivering prescriptions. Drivers quickly get to know service users and build up a rapport with them, making it a really sociable and rewarding role. Volunteers can use their own car or we can arrange a hire car.
Befriender
Positive Help
As a befriender you will build a meaningful and supportive relationship with a child, or a young person (ages 5-18) affected by HIV and/or Hepatitis C. One of our volunteers has commented on how rewarding it is to befriend a child: “Ben is a loving friendly little boy with masses of energy and a real curiosity... I feel very lucky that he is part of my life :-)”
Befriending outings are about 3-5 hours long and take place every other weekend - you can choose the day and time that suits you best. During the Befriending outings you and the child you will be matched with will go on different adventures and fun activities of your choice, such as going to the movies or kayaking.
Time for Mum Buddy
Firsthand Lothian
Female buddy/befriender required to help a mum reach a personal goal over 16 weeks.
Increase confidence building through sharing an interest and regularly meeting in the community or by videocall.
Some note taking involved.
Good verbal communication with mum and volunteer coordinator by video, text, phone or email.
Time 4 Mum focusses on helping isolated parents and carers explore what is available to them in their local area. With the support of a volunteer parent/carers are encouraged to identify and try out an activity or hobby on a weekly basis until they are confident to attend without support and have built networks of their own.
Cooking Volunteer
Fresh Start
Fresh Start's mission is to help people make a home for themselves. This includes independent living skills such as learning to cook healthy food on a budget and broadening knowledge of ingredients and how to use them.
Painting and Decorating Hit Squad Service
Fresh Start
Being given the keys for a new tenancy after being homeless can seem like a dream come true. But sometimes the dream can fade at the first sight of a flat with stained walls, flaking paint and bare floorboards. This is where Fresh Start’s Hit Squads can help. The Hit Squads are teams of volunteers who will work alongside new tenants in their home to decorate up to two rooms. If you think you can help, then please get in touch with either Chloe (07387 141060) or Dave (07387 105198) at Fresh Start.
Youth Club Worker for ages 6 - 21
Citadel Youth Centre
Volunteers are invited to get involved in our youth work programme and work in a team alongside experienced full/part time staff and volunteers. Our youth clubs offer a wide range of activities that are designed to encourage, develop and reinforce children and young people's skills and self-image in a safe and supportive environment. The youth clubs run during school term times as follows: senior Drop-In (Mon) 13-18 year olds 7pm-9pm; Junior Club (Tues) 6 - 9 year olds 5.30 – 7.30pm.
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).
Trustee
Pilton Equalities Project
As a trustee you will help support the strategic development of PEP ensure that it continues to thrive and develop for another 30 years. Trustees work with staff team to maintain high quality services, exploit new opportunities, and ensure that PEP continues to be well run and successful. You don’t need special skills to be a trustee. You do need to want to make a real difference to local people. PEP welcomes applications from people from all backgrounds and life experiences.
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.
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
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.
Digital Marketing
SSAFA - The Armed Forces charity
Could you help SSAFA reach more supporters and raise greater awareness of our services through the magic of social media and digital marketing? You don’t need a military background, just some basic digital skills, the ability to get on with a wide range of people and good written English. If you have I.T or digital marketing experience, that would be great but not essential. We’d love you to get in touch to find out more.
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.
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
Create Volunteer
North Edinburgh Arts Centre
The Saturday Arts and Dance programme allows children to participate in a relaxed yet structured environment, alternating between art and dance. The classes are split into two age groups, 5 - 7 years and 8 - 12 years. A healthy snack is provided. The sessions will involve play, movement, exploring and art making indoors and outdoors weather permitting, and often involve getting a bit messy! We are looking for volunteers who can support our sessions and have experience in this area.
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.
Youth Group Helper (Rainbows, Brownies , Guides and Rangers)
Girlguiding Edinburgh
The purpose of the role is to give girls opportunities for fun, friendship, challenge and adventure. You will support leaders to deliver Girlguiding programme activities with the girls during their meetings, including:
Supporting a safe girl-only space where girls can discover their full potential.
Supporting the delivery of an accessible and inclusive programme as set out by Girlguiding.
Completing relevant training for the role to develop your skills.
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 Activity Volunteer (Age 45+)
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.
Youth and Childrens Worker
The BIG Project
Would you like to make a positive difference to local children and young people? If you are enthusiastic, fun and engaging, maybe a role as a volunteer youth and children?s worker could be just what you are looking for. Support kids to have fun, learn, achieve and feel good about themselves. We are looking for volunteers to support in one of our three open youth clubs (Junior club for P5-7, Senior club for P7-S4 and our Roots club for P3/4).
Befriender for a young person with Cystic Fibrosis (Forth Valley area)
The Butterfly Trust
Young people living with this condition have a demanding daily treatment regime at home and sometimes experience limitations that can affect their confidence and ability to cope with the challenges of everyday living. They may also be socially isolated because of their condition. They are usually referred to us by the specialist clinical team.
Our befrienders offer one to one support to a young person aged 8 to 18, who has Cystic Fibrosis. A befriender will meet with the young person every 1 to 2 weeks, to build a trusting one to one relationship. A commitment of at least a year is sought - this will allow the young person time, space and a suitable environment to explore their feelings, discuss their fears, develop life skills and grow in the areas where they may be struggling.
Induction is one day covering the condition, the befriending process and procedures, interpersonal skills, Trust procedures. One team day per year for ongoing training. Support from befriending co-ordinator member of Trust’s staff.
Reimbursement of travelling costs, mileage (currently 30p/mile), postage/stationery, refreshments and cost of activities/materials when appropriate.
Since the role requires driving, the befriender must have held a clean driving licence for at least 2 years and have access to a smoke-free car.
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.
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.
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.
Retail Volunteer - Bruntsfield
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.
Activity Volunteer
Portobello Monday Centre
Portobello Monday Centre is a small lunch/social club which meets every Monday and gives dementia-sufferers (members) the chance to enjoy a meal and socialise with others. Volunteers help to set up the hall and serve morning tea/coffee with home baking, followed later by lunch. They assist in the running of various activities, such as, singing, quizzes, quoits and Kurling, and also help on the bus that brings members to the Centre and takes them home again at the end of the session.
Treasurer (Trustee)
Bikes for Refugees (Scotland)
We have important voluntary trustee roles available at Bikes for Refugees, supporting us in all areas of oversight and governance. Our trustees ensure that we operate in alignment with the charity’s purpose and legal responsibilities and ensure good operational and financial practice. The role might require in person travel to meetings in Edinburgh and/or Glasgow, but remote participation can be discussed. Aside from these board meetings (every 4-6 weeks), the role is home-based.
We are currently looking for a new Treasurer to sit on our Board of Trustees. The ideal candidate will be able demonstrate some of the following skills/experience:
•Accountancy experience and a finance background
•Experience of working in the charity sector
•Commercial experience, someone who can help us to diversify income
•Good communication and team-working skills
•Strong analytical and evaluative skills
Trustees meet every 4-6 weeks, with occasional meetings in-between as required. With the easing of covid restrictions, we have now resumed in person meetings, but remote participation can be discussed.
We particularly welcome interest from refugees and asylum seekers, as we look to broaden our lived experience representation on our board.
FOR APPLICATION PACK AND FORM, PLEASE EMAIL carys@bikesforrefugees.scot. We can arrange an informal chat about the role with you too.
APPLICATION DEADLINE IS 13TH NOVEMBER 2022.
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.
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.
Data Literacy Volunteer
DataKirk SCIO
We are looking for Professionals and Postgraduate Students from Data science background and other related subject areas, to help support our weekly Data literacy and analytics club in handling the following responsibilities.
Lead weekly online data literacy session.
Provide online mentoring support
Support the team in planning projects and other data events
Support in the development of learning materials
Support the lab sessions and workshops.
Life Skills Trainer/Coach
DataKirk SCIO
Leading, motivating, and coaching young learners on life skills to bring the best out of them and ensure they are actively participating in the DataKirk project. The key tasks include:
Youth leadership training programme.
Youth digital training skills.
Youth employability training skills programme.
Youth life training skills programme.
Community Support Services Volunteer - Caithness, Sutherland & Ullapool
Chest Heart & Stroke Scotland
Community Support Volunteers support people who have had one of our conditions to develop autonomy and confidence in self-management, enabling them to fully engage with their community and activities of their choosing. The service follows a pathway from hospital to community and can be delivered in a one-to-one and/or a group setting.
The service can be delivered to provide specified person-centred communication support for those with a communication difficulty and/or to support a specific physical or everyday task.
To undertake your role you will be required to undertake membership of the Protection of Vulnerable Groups (Adults) schemes in Scotland (PVG).
Board Trustee
Edinburgh and Lothian Trust Fund
Edinburgh and Lothian Trust Fund (ELTF) is looking for two or three new Trustees to join our Board. Ideally, one of them will be able to fill the vacancy for Chair that will arise in November 2023. We are looking for individuals who have a good understanding of issues relating to poverty and inequality. The Trustees meet four times a year to approve grant applications, to discuss and decide on policy, strategy and governance issues and to provide oversight of the management of the investment portfolio. Please email the Chair of the Trust chair@eltf.co.uk with a CV including details of relevant experience to discuss the role further. We are keen to improve the diversity of the Board so would especially welcome expressions of interest from individuals that would help us achieve this. The current membership of the Board can be seen on our website https://www.eltf.org.uk/trustees/ .
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.
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.
Tuesdays from 10.30 to 12.30pm.
Volunteer Support Bethany Christian Centre
Bethany Christian Trust
We are looking for volunteers to support the Bethany Christian Centre staff team in giving quality support to residents in the evening. This includes tasks such as participating in recreational activities with residents and staff, cleaning and/or cooking duties as required and general administrative duties, including answering phones and taking messages.
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.
Helpline Volunteer
Pain Concern (Midlothian)
We are looking for committed and empathetic volunteers to support people who are living with, or affected by chronic pain who access our phone, online forum and e-help support services.
This is a great opportunity to enhance your communication skills and develop an understanding of pain self-management, while providing a valued service to people living with long-term pain. By joining us you will join a fast-growing and respected service.
Due to the nature of the role, successful applicants will be required to undertake a PVG check.
What you would be doing:
· Offer emotional support and signpost resources and information to people affected by persistent pain either by phone, email or on the online forum
· You will work as part of a team of volunteers, covering a rota, ability to commit to shifts is essential
· Attend training/supervision sessions remotely
· Keep up to date with Pain Concern news and work across the UK
· Complete ‘after contact’ survey to support Pain Concern’s evaluation targets.
We would like volunteers to commit to for at least 12 months (including the training period), with the acknowledgement that your circumstances may change.
Volunteer Crew Member - Re-Union Canal Boat Project
Fountainbridge Canalside Community Trust (FCCT)
We are looking for enthusiastic volunteers who would like to support the work of our canal boat the Lochrin Belle based at Edinburgh Quay
Main tasks include:
Crewing the boat.
Being a public face of the organisation.
Welcoming people aboard.
Dealing with the needs of passengers.
Supporting the health and safety of passengers.
Helping with maintenance and cleaning.
Supporting colleagues including the skipper and other volunteer crew members.
Shop Volunteer - Edinburgh (Corstorphine)
Cancer Research UK
Volunteer in our shops
Our shop volunteers are helping us beat cancer right now.
In 2019/20, 14,000 volunteers gave 3.1 million hours of their time and sold items totalling £15million. These funds are helping us start new clinical trials and research treatments as we speak.
If you volunteer at a Cancer Research UK shop, you too could make a real difference to what we can achieve. Nothing we do would be possible without amazing volunteers like you.
You’ll also gain valuable skills to help develop your CV and experience. And you’ll volunteer alongside a wonderful team of passionate, friendly people who will support you every step of the way.
Volunteering is open to everyone and no experience is required. So, if you’re looking for a new challenge, we’d love to hear from you.
What do shop volunteers do?
Volunteering in our shops is varied, exciting and rewarding. No two days are the same and you have the chance to flex different skills regularly. There are always new opportunities to keep you engaged and help you grow and develop in your role.
While this list is not exhaustive, it gives you a flavour of some of the typical tasks in our charity shops:
Serving customers, taking payments and providing good all-round customer service
Sorting through donated items and pricing stock
Working on window and shop displays
Keeping the shop tidy, clean and well organised
Interacting with the general public
Following new health, safety and social distancing measures
You don’t need any experience to volunteer
You just need to be motivated, hardworking and enjoy being part of a team. There’ll be a full induction as well as ongoing training opportunities to make sure you’re fully confident and able to excel in your role.
Why should I volunteer?
Volunteering brings a wealth of benefits, both personal and professional.
Every volunteer hour you donate means we can sell 6 items and make £20 of income. So, if you volunteer for a 7-hour day, this can generate £140. That means that every day you volunteer, you’ll be raising more funds to beat cancer.
You’ll gain important skills that are hugely valued in the workplace such as teamwork, communication and using your initiative.
You can boost your CV by working towards an NVQ in Retail with Derby College and we'll provide you with a reference.
It will allow you to get involved in your local community and to meet new friends.
Our friendly CRUK team will be there to support you all the way – offering guidance and helping you build your confidence.
It’s fun – you’ll gain real satisfaction from volunteering alongside our warm, friendly shop volunteers who will make you feel right at home.
The minimum age for volunteering in our shops is 18. If you’re aged between 16 -18 you may still be able to volunteer in our shops, but you must be on a recognised scheme, for example, the Duke of Edinburgh.
Safeguarding Trainer
Guide Dogs
How would you like to be part of the Guide Dogs family and help people with sight loss live the life they choose? We would love to have you onboard to help with our ambition of a future where every person with sight loss has the confidence and support they need to live their lives to the full.
Did you know that we don’t just provide life-changing guide dogs, we also provide advice, skills, emotional and practical support for children, adults and their families living with sight loss to help them live actively, independently and well?
To do all this we need the support of amazing volunteers like you!
If you would like more information, are unsure or need flexibility around the role then chat to us first by emailing VolunteerScotNI@Guidedogs.org.uk and someone will be in touch.
What does the role involve?
In this role, you will support the team in delivering safeguarding training to our volunteers and staff members.
Key responsibilities:
We rely on volunteers like you to help us improve the lives of people with sight loss. In this role your support will include:
• Using Guide Dogs standards to deliver safeguarding training for your local team.
• Ensuring to keep up to date with best practice for delivering safeguarding training.
• Organising dates, times, and locations for safeguarding training with your local team.
• Organising training materials for training sessions with your local teams.
Trustee
Heart of Newhaven Community SCIO
Do you have a passion for our local community and a desire to share your skills with us? Do you live within our area of benefit?
Our vision, shaped by community consultation, is about to be turned into reality and we need help to carry it through.
The Heart is going to be a place for inspiration, exploration and enjoyment where the aim is to enrich lives through active, inter-generational learning, and discovery. Join a committed board and help shape where we go from here.
Social Media & Business Support volunteer
You're Never Too Old
We are looking for a volunteer to join us for up to 3 hours per week, 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 and board members supporting the group.
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-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
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.
Retail Volunteer - Portobello
Chest Heart & Stroke Shop - Portobello
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.
Trustee
The Salisbury Centre
If you feel aligned with our vision and purpose, could you be part of leading and setting our strategic direction for our organisation? We need people who can commit the time to attend and prepare for meetings, support the staff team, contribute constructively and creatively to discussion (offering respectful challenge where appropriate), and invest in the future of our community as we approach our 50th anniversary. We particularly welcome people from a diversity of backgrounds.
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
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.
Community Fundraising Volunteer
Eric Liddell Centre
Responsibilities:
Based on your personal interests and skills, your responsibilities could include any of the following:
Support local fundraising and awareness events.
Manning a stall at an event.
Helping at any event being held by or for the Eric Liddell Centre.
Putting up posters or handing out flyers.
Approaching individuals, schools, universities, local authorities, shops and commercial organisations for sponsorship and donations.
Trustee
Edinburgh & Lothians Greenspace Trust - ELGT
We are seeking 4 new members for the Edinburgh and Lothians Greenspace Trust (ELGT) Board. Ideally, they will contribute to Board insight and scrutiny, help shape ELGT’s vision and strategy, have knowledge of the issues facing local communities and can make a valuable contribution to our work. In addition, they will have professional and expert knowledge in these areas: health benefits of greenspace and green active travel, biodiversity policy, fundraising, urban renewal, housing development.
Section Leader and Assistant Leader
The Scout Association (Edinburgh)
The District comprises 17 Groups, most of which offer young people the opportunity to join their age section which are Beavers (ages 6-8); Cubs (ages 8-10 & 1/2); Scouts (ages 10 & 1/2 to 14) and Explorers (ages 14 – 18). The roles are for Section Leaders where you will be fully supported by the District Team
Community Volunteer
RNIB Scotland (ED)
Our amazing Community Volunteers play a key role in connecting blind and partially sighted people, awareness-raising, tackling barriers to independence and fundraising for our work.
Depending on your availability, training and interests, you will have the chance to take part in some or all of the following:
• help run events and regular groups
• give talks about sight loss, eye health, the work of RNIB and partners
• help with local campaigns
• organise fundraising events like store collections
• attend information stalls and cheque presentations, and
• make wellbeing calls to community members.
What will you be doing?
Build local links, Help organise campaign events, Attend local and regional events, Keep abreast of local issues/challenges, Organising, supporting and attending activities in your local area for blind and partially sighted people.
What skills and experience are needed?
Effective listening skills
Good communication skills
Good organisational skills
An understanding of issues affecting blind / partially sighted people
Ability to digest information
What will you gain from the role?
A chance to give something back
A chance to make a difference
Meeting new people
A chance to build a strong community
A sense of achievement
What support will be given?
Induction
Safeguarding training
Expenses
Regular updates
Supervision and help from your Manager
Training as appropriate
When will you be needed?
We encourage volunteers to commit to at least 3 hours each week but please try to be flexible.
Criminal Record Check Information
This role requires membership of the PVG (Protecting Vulnerable Groups) Scheme (Adults).
Edinburgh Marathon Festival 2023
Macmillan Cancer Support
Come and join Team Macmillan at the Edinburgh Marathon Festival 2023. As well as having fun cheering on our incredible runners, you'll be raising awareness for Macmillan Cancer Support and doing whatever it takes to support people living with cancer.
You can sign up for a cheerpoint location here - https://volunteering.macmillan.org.uk/opportunities/event-support-volunteer-edinburgh-marathon-festival-27-and-28-may-2023-2022-12-02
Edinburgh Marathon Festival 2023
Macmillan Cancer Support
Come and join Team Macmillan at the Edinburgh Marathon Festival 2023. As well as having fun cheering on our incredible runners, you'll be raising awareness for Macmillan Cancer Support and doing whatever it takes to support people living with cancer.
You can sign up for a cheerpoint location here - https://volunteering.macmillan.org.uk/opportunities/event-support-volunteer-edinburgh-marathon-festival-27-and-28-may-2023-2022-12-02
Edinburgh Marathon Festival 2023
Macmillan Cancer Support
Come and join Team Macmillan at the Edinburgh Marathon Festival 2023. As well as having fun cheering on our incredible runners, you'll be raising awareness for Macmillan Cancer Support and doing whatever it takes to support people living with cancer.
You can sign up for a cheerpoint location here - https://volunteering.macmillan.org.uk/opportunities/event-support-volunteer-edinburgh-marathon-festival-27-and-28-may-2023-2022-12-02
Pianist
Marie Curie
we are looking for someone who can play our piano. if you can play and can spare 2 hours per week we would love to have you join us a volunteer. get in touch with me if you would like some more information.
please note this role is subject to a basic disclosure check.
Fundraising Research Volunteer
Dads Rock
We are looking for a volunteer to help with our fundraising aims within the local community. This is a great opportunity for someone looking to contribute towards raising vital funds and awareness of Dads Rock in Edinburgh or Glasgow. Activities could include: Carrying out research to identify community grants & charity of the year opportunities with local businesses; researching community/social groups such as Rotary Clubs, Round Tables etc; Sourcing prizes and gifts for fundraising events.
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.
Social Media Marketing Volunteer
Miricyl Mental Illness Research in Children and Young Lives
To support the development of and to deliver a social media marketing strategy for the organisation and to implement it, by agreement.
We work with a wide range of people and want our social media and marketing to reflect our work and our community. We want a volunteer who can join us to help us to reach new people and to share our stories.
Buckstone Scout Group Beaver Leaders
Buckstone Scout Group
Being a Beaver Leader (or assistant) is awesome fun. You get to to see local 6-8 year olds try a whole range of activities, growing in confidence and ability. Do you enjoy interacting with young people? Are you a team player with a positive, can-do attitude? Do you enjoy fun activities – from athletics to astronomy from photography to pioneering? Do you want to do more? Then this is right up your street. No Scouts experience, no problem. Flexible volunteering exists to fit around you.
Funding Assistant
Shrub Co-op
Supporting writing and editing grant applications, funding-related administrative tasks, researching and liaising with suitable funders, attending our fortnightly funding working group meeting.
Youth Work Volunteer
People Know How
As a Youth Work Volunteer, you will be collaborating with and supporting a Youth & Family Coordinator to facilitate groups across Edinburgh and East Lothian. You will be supporting and facilitating children and young people in group settings to build their confidence, allow their voices to be heard and make informed choices. You may also take part in regular meetings with the coordinator to plan creative activities and develop new ideas.
Veteran Well-Being Volunteer
Royal Edinburgh Hospital
The volunteer will be based in the Veterans’ First Point Lothian. This is a service that meets the needs of veterans “whatever they may be.” The purpose of the post is to support people accessing the service. Experience in the veteran community is crucial in terms of forming meaningful trusting relationships with clients and engaging them in the service. This will include supporting the afternoon ‘drop ins’ and encouraging engagement in a range of community based activities.
Family Support Volunteer
Volunteering Matters
Volunteering Matters Overview
At Volunteering Matters we believe everyone in the UK should have the opportunity to thrive, so we bring people together to overcome some of society’s most complex issues through the power of volunteering. We partner with communities to overcome adversity, tackling social isolation and loneliness, improving health, developing skills and opportunities. And because we’re a national charity, we do this at scale, sharing our expertise and building partnerships to make an even bigger impact. We turn local knowledge and energy into action and progress, building stronger communities and a better future for all.
Project Overview
Our Family Supporters in Edinburgh project offers practical and emotional support to families across the city of Edinburgh, empowering them to face a range of life challenges. We recruit, train and match dedicated, local volunteers to help families every step of the way, spending 1-1 time together on a personalised set of goals chosen by the family, for the family.
We can help in many ways, such as improved living standards, budgeting, healthier eating, better school life and behaviour, access to health and wellbeing aid, as well as introducing parents to community resources, to name a few. So far, thousands of families across the UK have benefitted from our service and we are now delighted to extend the programmes reach to families in Edinburgh.
Who can volunteer with us?
Our volunteers are locally based people with an understanding of the challenges that families are facing. Aged 18+, each volunteer brings different life experiences and skills that they can use to help the family they are matched to, offering support on a weekly basis for an hour or so each week, usually for 6-9 months at a time that suits everyone. They build a strong relationship based on trust and mutual respect, acting as a friendly face who listens and cares about the family. All volunteers are interviewed, trained to the highest standards and undergo disclosure checks before being matched with a family. We also encourage and welcome volunteers who have the ability to speak multiple languages join our team!
What can we offer volunteers?
As well as the sense of achievement that comes through supporting a family, our volunteers will have the opportunity to learn and develop new skills, attend social events with other volunteers and enhance their employability. Certificates are provided upon completion of induction training and at the end of the commitment, with project staff happy to provide references for future studies or employment.
DIY Group Volunteer
Action Porty
DIY volunteers to meet at Bellfield once per fortnight to complete ongoing maintenance jobs: You will be working alongside 2-3 other people building skills and friendships whilst helping to maintain the building through completing jobs such as:
Painting; window frames/ walls.
Broken chairs (approx. 4-5 to be repaired).
Fitting lights.
Fixing doors, tables.
General DIY/ odd jobs.
Butterflies Cafe Assistant
Marchmont St Giles Cafe
Join our community meals team serving customers, cash handling, using a till.
Making barista style coffees
Clearing and cleaning tables
Loading and unloading a dishwasher
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.
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.
Garden Volunteer
Edinburgh Garden Partners
EGP will support you to access a local garden to grow your own produce; develop a rewarding relationship with your garden partner through regular visits to the shared garden; make a positive contribution to your community; boost your health and well-being through exercise outdoors; share your interest in growing and gardening with a dynamic community of garden volunteers across Edinburgh; enjoy freshly grown produce with your garden partner.
Shop Volunteer - Edinburgh (Davidsons Mains)
Cancer Research UK
Volunteer in our shops
Our shop volunteers are helping us beat cancer right now.
In 2019/20, 14,000 volunteers gave 3.1 million hours of their time and sold items totalling £15million. These funds are helping us start new clinical trials and research treatments as we speak.
If you volunteer at a Cancer Research UK shop, you too could make a real difference to what we can achieve. Nothing we do would be possible without amazing volunteers like you.
You’ll also gain valuable skills to help develop your CV and experience. And you’ll volunteer alongside a wonderful team of passionate, friendly people who will support you every step of the way.
Volunteering is open to everyone and no experience is required. So, if you’re looking for a new challenge, we’d love to hear from you.
What do shop volunteers do?
Volunteering in our shops is varied, exciting and rewarding. No two days are the same and you have the chance to flex different skills regularly. There are always new opportunities to keep you engaged and help you grow and develop in your role.
While this list is not exhaustive, it gives you a flavour of some of the typical tasks in our charity shops:
Serving customers, taking payments and providing good all-round customer service
Sorting through donated items and pricing stock
Working on window and shop displays
Keeping the shop tidy, clean and well organised
Interacting with the general public
Following new health, safety and social distancing measures
You don’t need any experience to volunteer
You just need to be motivated, hardworking and enjoy being part of a team. There’ll be a full induction as well as ongoing training opportunities to make sure you’re fully confident and able to excel in your role.
Why should I volunteer?
Volunteering brings a wealth of benefits, both personal and professional.
Every volunteer hour you donate means we can sell 6 items and make £20 of income. So, if you volunteer for a 7-hour day, this can generate £140. That means that every day you volunteer, you’ll be raising more funds to beat cancer.
You’ll gain important skills that are hugely valued in the workplace such as teamwork, communication and using your initiative.
You can boost your CV by working towards an NVQ in Retail with Derby College, and we'll provide you with a reference.
It will allow you to get involved in your local community and to meet new friends.
Our friendly CRUK team will be there to support you all the way – offering guidance and helping you build your confidence.
It’s fun – you’ll gain real satisfaction from volunteering alongside our warm, friendly shop volunteers who will make you feel right at home.
The minimum age for volunteering in our shops is 18 . If you’re aged between 16 -18 you may still be able to volunteer in our shops, but you must be on a recognised scheme, for example the Duke of Edinburgh
Shop Volunteer - Edinburgh (Portobello)
Cancer Research UK
Volunteer in our shops
Our shop volunteers are helping us beat cancer right now.
In 2019/20, 14,000 volunteers gave 3.1 million hours of their time and sold items totalling £15million. These funds are helping us start new clinical trials and research treatments as we speak.
If you volunteer at a Cancer Research UK shop, you too could make a real difference to what we can achieve. Nothing we do would be possible without amazing volunteers like you.
You’ll also gain valuable skills to help develop your CV and experience. And you’ll volunteer alongside a wonderful team of passionate, friendly people who will support you every step of the way.
Volunteering is open to everyone and no experience is required. So, if you’re looking for a new challenge, we’d love to hear from you.
What do shop volunteers do?
Volunteering in our shops is varied, exciting and rewarding. No two days are the same and you have the chance to flex different skills regularly. There are always new opportunities to keep you engaged and help you grow and develop in your role.
While this list is not exhaustive, it gives you a flavour of some of the typical tasks in our charity shops:
Serving customers, taking payments and providing good all-round customer service
Sorting through donated items and pricing stock
Working on window and shop displays
Keeping the shop tidy, clean and well organised
Interacting with the general public
Following new health, safety and social distancing measures
You don’t need any experience to volunteer
You just need to be motivated, hardworking and enjoy being part of a team. There’ll be a full induction as well as ongoing training opportunities to make sure you’re fully confident and able to excel in your role.
At CRUK we value diversity and we're committed to creating an inclusive culture where everyone is able to be themselves and to reach their full potential. We actively encourage applications from people of all backgrounds and cultures and believe that volunteers from diverse backgrounds will help us to beat cancer.
Why should I volunteer?
Volunteering brings a wealth of benefits, both personal and professional.
Every volunteer hour you donate means we can sell 6 items and make £20 of income. So, if you volunteer for a 7-hour day, this can generate £140. That means that every day you volunteer, you’ll be raising more funds to beat cancer.
You’ll gain important skills that are hugely valued in the workplace such as teamwork, communication and using your initiative.
You can boost your CV by working towards an NVQ in Retail with Derby College, and we'll provide you with a reference.
It will allow you to get involved in your local community and to meet new friends.
Our friendly CRUK team will be there to suppor t you all the way – offering guidance and helping you build your confidence.
It’s fun – you’ll gain real satisfaction from volunteering alongside our warm, friendly shop volunteers who will make you feel right at home.
The minimum age for volunteering in our shops is 18 . If you’re aged between 16 -18 you may still be able to volunteer in our shops, but you must be on a recognised scheme, for example the Duke of Edinburgh.
Youth Leader
10th Leith Boy's Brigade
As part of The BB you will help plan and deliver a safe and exciting programme for our young people, making sure everyone reaches their full potential and has the opportunity to gain a wide range of badges, awards, experiences, and develop skills for life. As part of our team you will be supported and empowered to deliver this and share best practice. Giving up just one hour of your week could make a huge difference.
Volunteer Gardener
Real Life Options
Choose a Volunteer role and start your day knowing that you’re making a real difference to people’s lives. Feel the fulfilment of a rewarding role – working with a great team of people to support greater independence and creating more opportunities for people with learning disabilities and autism. In planting and maintaining the gardens, main tasks include:
Planting, pruning, sowing seeds and weeding.
Edging borders, digging, ground clearance and grass cutting.
Fundraising Volunteer
Real Life Options
We are looking for friendly and enthusiastic volunteers to support our fundraising activities for our services.
The fundraising volunteer's tasks will be varied but will aim to support the service in ways such as; With support from service manager and staff team, help to plan and deliver events and activities to raise funds and awareness of the project ahead. Support fundraising initiatives by providing ideas and on going administration. Support local fundraising by promoting the campaign.
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.
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!
Men’s Group
Bethany Christian Trust
Are you a people person and enjoy mixing with people from different backgrounds? We are looking for a number of volunteers to support our Men's Group programme, which is a place for fellowship, support and encouragement in Leith, by helping make the participants feel welcomed and comfortable.
Professional Volunteer
Sported (UK)
We know representation matters, which is why we want our volunteers to reflect the diversity of the community groups we work with. We are actively encouraging applicants from ethnically diverse backgrounds and other minoritised groups to apply as we are currently under-represented in this space.
You will get to meet the inspirational faces of community groups across the UK and immerse yourself in their work; use your existing skills in a rewarding fashion whilst developing new ones; guide members to become more inclusive; network with other like-minded individuals helping grassroots sports groups survive; and so much more.
Unit Management Team
Edinburgh Trinity Sea Cadets
Edinburgh Trinity Sea Cadets are seeking new members for its management team. UMT members, trustees for the charity, are responsible for the overall safety of cadets, raising money and supporting volunteer staff and instructors. The UMT meets once a month however, membership of the team is not onerous although very important, this is down to the staff, the record of annual inspections and the management of our premises.
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/
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.
Pantry Assistant (Arabic-speaking)
Community Alliance Trust (CAT)
Meet and greet customers visiting the Pantry and assist with any purchasing questions, especially for Arabic-speaking customers with little knowledge of English.
Liaise between Pantry staff, other volunteers and Pantry members in both English and Arabic.
Check pricing and labelling.
Check food safety and procedural paperwork.
Managing stock, shelf stacking, ensuring the Pantry is kept well stocked and well presented.
Cleaning and tidying the shop floor before, during and after opening.
Community Engagement Volunteer (Home based/Scotland Wide)
Crisis Skylight Edinburgh
We’re looking for passionate, community-minded people, to help us talk about homelessness and the solutions to end it. You can be a voice for change in your community and encourage others in your area to support our work and join the mission to end homelessness!
You will contribute to ending homelessness by raising awareness about homelessness in the community. You will do this by delivering inspiring talks to varying groups, including schools and scout groups and educating the community about the causes of homelessness, the services that Crisis offers and how they can support us through volunteering, fundraising and campaigning.
You will be helping us to engage with more people, gain more supporters and achieve our mission to end homelessness.
Core Tasks:
• Deliver talks to local organisations and groups
• Be proactive about seeking out new opportunities and venues for delivering talks
• Keep up to date with Crisis’ key messages, speaker resources, fundraising initiative and news
• Encourage local organisations and groups to volunteer or fundraise on behalf of Crisis
• Provide feedback on talks and notify your Volunteer Supervisor about further opportunities for fundraising or partnership working
To apply please go to our website https://volunteer.crisis.org.uk/opportunity/CR_9QhcGqS/details
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.
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 .
Meaningful Activity Volunteer (Ellen's Glen House)
NHS Lothian Primary Care Organisation
You will carry out meaningful activities one-to-one with patients such as painting, playing board games, listening to music, looking through old photographs to reminisce, doing quizzes and crossword puzzles or completing a storybook of the patient’s life. You will also help facilitate group activities with patients during special events like afternoon teas or parties. Where trained, you may also have opportunities to take patients outside for walks and assist with feeding at mealtimes.
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.
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.
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.
Sales Assistant
Barnardo's Shop, Stockbridge
Customer service and creative focused role with in our Stockbridge Barnardos branch. Visual Merchandising, till work, preparation of stock and being part of a friendly team.
Apply here https://volunteer.barnardos.org.uk/opportunities/17926-retail-volunteer-edinburgh-stockbridge-2021-04-13
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.
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.
Golden Years Befriender
Cyrenians
Your support and encouragement could help someone to:
Remain independent at home, socially connected and engaged.
Reduce feelings of loneliness and isolation.
Increase self-confidence.
Create links with the local community.
Develop informal local support networks.
Examples of activities include;
Taking up a new hobby or interest.
Joining a local club or group of interest, eg craft, singing, gardening.
Visiting a library, church, local gallery or exhibition.
Short walks.
Golden Years Group Volunteer
Cyrenians
You'll be engaging with a group of older people together with the groups coordinator, helping participants feel welcome, improving their confidence and helping them integrate with the others in the group. Setting up and delivering a range of activities. Example group includes Nordic Walking on Wednesdays 12-2pm or Thursdays 1-3pm.
IT Tutor Various Locations
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.
Please specify which Club you are interested in joining when you apply.
Creative Writing Volunteer
Volunteering Matters
Volunteering Matters are a national volunteering charity. Our project, Getting Together Matters, helps to reduce social isolation amongst older people across the UK.
We are looking for Volunteers to take part in Creative Writing Activities, supporting the engagement of older adults across the UK. Many of these people are already recognised as the most vulnerable in society; this could be due to a range of factors, including age or a pre-existing medical condition. Your role will enable people to maintain contact with the outside world, helping them to feel less lonely and improving their general well-being.
This activity forms part of our weekly calendar of activities and events to involve older people in meaningful engagement and reduce isolation. Creative Writing is one of a few activities by phone only for those not digitally engaged. Creative writing modules are already in place with poems, themes & ideas ready to spark the imagination.
These are sent via post to individuals and the group phone calls are a chance for people to read their work to each other & chat about the theme in general. 6 weeks' worth of modules are available, but an opportunity if people want to continue if the volunteer wishes to carry on with their own themes.
Time frame: 6 Weeks minimum commitment of min 1 hour weekly, daytime support Mon- Friday via phone at a regular time slot. Ideally started beginning Feb 2023. Volunteer training (and activity specific training) will take place online.
This role includes:
1. Logging on your laptop/ computer to access the link for the phone activity. (the facilitator uses the computer, the recipient uses their phone)
2. Preparing classes in line with the agreed activity and liaising with staff to support smooth delivery (printing/ informing beneficiaries etc.)
3. Communicating with beneficiaries and GTM staff regarding starts/ breaks and class cover.
4. Support the Getting Together Matters Team to reduce loneliness and isolation
5. Keep in touch with the Project Manager.
6. Following Safeguarding / Boundaries as outlined in volunteer training.
Key attributes:
1. Good interest & experience in creative writing & helping other people to develop. No qualifications necessary but enthusiasm & interest is key.
2. Access to a computer
3. Basic IT skills essential
4. Good listening and communication skills.
5. Very patient
6. Interest in supporting older people.
7. Empathy and compassion
8. Understanding of confidentiality
9. Socially responsible
The role description is intended to include the broad range of responsibilities and requirements of the volunteering post. As our services are changing all the time, there will be regular opportunities for you to change the nature of your volunteering or to support other services in our area to help you have a good experience while you are volunteering with us.
Volunteers are the cornerstone of our work with vulnerable people in our local communities, and we are grateful that you are offering your time to help us to make a difference.
Family Support Volunteer
Volunteering Matters
Volunteering Matters Overview
At Volunteering Matters we believe everyone in the UK should have the opportunity to thrive, so we bring people together to overcome some of society’s most complex issues through the power of volunteering. We partner with communities to overcome adversity, tackling social isolation and loneliness, improving health, developing skills and opportunities. And because we’re a national charity, we do this at scale, sharing our expertise and building partnerships to make an even bigger impact. We turn local knowledge and energy into action and progress, building stronger communities and a better future for all.
Project Overview
Our Family Supporters in Edinburgh project offers practical and emotional support to families across the city of Edinburgh, empowering them to face a range of life challenges. We recruit, train and match dedicated, local volunteers to help families every step of the way, spending 1-1 time together on a personalised set of goals chosen by the family, for the family.
We can help in many ways, such as improved living standards, budgeting, healthier eating, better school life and behaviour, access to health and wellbeing aid, as well as introducing parents to community resources, to name a few. So far, thousands of families across the UK have benefitted from our service and we are now delighted to extend the programmes reach to families in Edinburgh.
Who can volunteer with us?
Our volunteers are locally based people with an understanding of the challenges that families are facing. Aged 18+, each volunteer brings different life experiences and skills that they can use to help the family they are matched to, offering support on a weekly basis for an hour or so each week, usually for 6-9 months at a time that suits everyone. They build a strong relationship based on trust and mutual respect, acting as a friendly face who listens and cares about the family. All volunteers are interviewed, trained to the highest standards and undergo disclosure checks before being matched with a family. We also encourage and welcome volunteers who have the ability to speak multiple languages join our team!
What can we offer volunteers?
As well as the sense of achievement that comes through supporting a family, our volunteers will have the opportunity to learn and develop new skills, attend social events with other volunteers and enhance their employability. Certificates are provided upon completion of induction training and at the end of the commitment, with project staff happy to provide references for future studies or employment.
Community Volunteer
Mary’s Meals
We are looking for people who are passionate about ending child hunger and ensuring that every child receives a daily meal in a place of education.
We have a range of activities that can be done from the comfort of your home, while Covid-19 restrictions are in place. They include: hosting virtual talks, spreading the word about our work on social media or holding screenings of our inspiring videos with family and friends.
Trustee – Secretary
Jock Tamson's Gairden
Support trustees & manager to ensure smooth functioning of the management committee & some day-to-day administration of the Gairden e.g. agenda & minutes of meetings, calendar of events, keeping records with regulatory bodies (OSCR) up-to-date, supporting Chair with HR, policies & records
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
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 www.venturescotland.org.uk
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.
Home Support Service
Positive Help
The Home Support service supports people affected by HIV and/or Hepatitis C to take care of their homes. When illness, mobility or side-effects of medication makes housework too difficult we can offer the support that enables people to feel more comfortable with their environment. You will work with the client to achieve goals that they have set by assisting them with cleaning and decluttering, as well as one-off tasks such as gardening or DIY (dependent on volunteers’ skills).
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
Barochamber Oxygen Treatment Operator
Multiple Sclerosis (MS) Therapy Centre (Lothian)
We have been providing therapies and support for people living with MS and other conditions since 1984 from our Therapy Centre in Leith. We actively encourage and support volunteering opportunities – they are vital to our organisation and everything we do. We welcome people from all walks of life who can support us and provide a welcoming and friendly face. You will be trained and supported in the operation and delivery of our oxygen therapy service. This is a vital and beneficial therapy for many of our clients in the management of their long-term condition. We also offer volunteering opportunities with our physiotherapy service, administration and in fundraising activities.
(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.
Family and Household Support Volunteer (Adults)
City of Edinburgh Council - Family and Household Support
Volunteers will help to support Family and Household supports vision around engaging communities by offering tailored support to those they are matched with.
As a volunteer you will help to support the adults within households or on an individual basis to work toward agreed outcomes and to promote their health and well-being. This could be helping to support the person you are matched with to applying for housing, make and or attend GP appointments, go to the citizens advice with them or allow them the opportunity for social interaction by giving them someone to talk to and to be listened to.
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.
Support Group Volunteer
Survivors of Bereavement by Suicide
Volunteers are bereaved through suicide for a minimum of *2 years, therefore, having the understanding of the type of support the client requires. Each local SoBS group is run by a team of 3: the group leader and two group volunteers. Between them, they facilitate the session, get the conversation started. The team also work together to manage the administration, fundraising and communication for the group.
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'.
Butterflies Lunch Assistant
Marchmont St Giles Cafe
This role is to welcome guests and serve a lovely lunch. It includes setting tables for a community lunch (table cloths, cutlery, plates, etc).
Serving a sit down lunch.
Taking cash payments, and bookings for the following week.
Clearing and tidying down the room.
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.
Cafe Assistant
Polwarth Parish Church
Volunteers wanted for Polwarth Pop Up Café. The role includes welcoming customers, serving pre-made food, hot drinks, clearing tables, taking payments, help to tidy away and return hall ready for other users. We are open Tues mornings with volunteers forming small teams rotating every week. Our aim is to meet members of the community, creating a safe space to come to on your own or with friends. Mindfull of isolation and loneliness, we will offer sensitivity, a listening ear and good hospitality.
Secretary
The Scottish Blind Golf Society
The Secretary shall convene all meetings of the Society on behalf of the Captain, and maintain accurate minutes of all procedures and decisions, deal with all correspondence, maintain accurate records of membership, sight classifications, contact details, and to distribute news and information, including match results and minutes of meetings, to all members as required.
Chair of the Board
Granton:hub
Provide leadership to the charity and its Board, ensuring that the Charity has maximum impact for its beneficiaries.
Ensure that the Board operates within its charitable objectives and provides a clear strategic direction for the Charity. You will be a key member of our board, who are all active volunteers within the hub, and you will join us in shaping the future of the organisation, ensuring that the hub continues to be a welcoming, creative space supporting local heritage and culture.
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.
Scout Group Secretary
Buckstone Scout Group
Buckstone Scout Group Secretary ... are you an organised person? Do you want to help? No previous secretarial experience is required, we just need someone who is good at admin support. Simples...and it only takes a couple of hours a month. No previous Scouts experience, no problem! This is a non-uniformed volunteering role. This is ideal for someone who does not wish to work directly with young people but support Scouts. Come and be part of our fun team.
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.
Board Members
Almond Housing Association
Almond Housing Association, West Lothian’s largest Registered Social Landlord, based in Livingston, is seeking applications to fill a number of voluntary Board Member vacancies from candidates with a keen interest in the activities and business of the Association.
To apply, please visit our website at www.almondha.org.uk where full details and application packs are available.
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.
Community Support Services Volunteer - Inverness & Invergordon
Chest Heart & Stroke Scotland
Community Support Volunteers support people who have had one of our conditions to develop autonomy and confidence in self-management, enabling them to fully engage with their community and activities of their choosing. The service follows a pathway from hospital to community and can be delivered in a one-to-one and/or a group setting.
The service can be delivered to provide specified person-centred communication support for those with a communication difficulty and/or to support a specific physical or everyday task.
To undertake your role you will be required to undertake membership of the Protection of Vulnerable Groups (Adults) schemes in Scotland (PVG).
Speaker Volunteer
Chest Heart & Stroke Scotland
CHSS Speakers are trained volunteers that deliver inspiring talks, to raise awareness about the services across Scotland for people with chest, heart and stroke conditions. Our Speaker Volunteers engage audiences about the important work of CHSS, inspiring them to take action, as they speak with schools, universities, businesses, youth groups, religious places of worship, service organisations, and many more community groups face to face or virtually.
Your role will include:
Alongside the fundraising team you will be supporting the team to find opportunities to share the work of CHSS with new audiences, raising the profile of CHSS.
Delivering inspiring talks to a wide rand of community groups and corporate partners
Keeping up to date with CHSS key messages, appeals, campaigns, fundraising and volunteering.
Providing feedback on talks for our fundraising team.
Demonstrating the CHSS values, leaving your audience, large or small with a positive view of the organisation and the work that we do.
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.
Talk and Support Matching Assistant -12162
Royal National Institute of Blind People
Do you enjoy speaking to people and working with computers? Are you organised? You could support our Talk and Support team to run our award winning befriending groups by matching blind and partially sighted people from our waiting list into our telephone befriending groups. You would be helping people to get into one of our groups as quickly as possible and helping to end the isolation of sight loss.
We are looking for someone who is available one day each week, preferably on a Monday or Tuesday, who is comfortable using computers and computer based telephony systems and who is familiar with Microsoft Office 365.
School Mentor
Volunteering Matters
Give the gift of your time and become a volunteer mentor for young people. It could be life changing for you both!
Would you like to support a young person in high school on their journey to gaining new skills and experience, becoming more self-confident and achieving their goals? If the answer is yes, we would love to hear from you.
We are looking for volunteer mentors specifically for our projects based in secondary schools in Edinburgh. St Thomas Aquins’ High School is near The Meadows and Castlebrae Community High School. As a mentor, you would be matched to a S2/S3 (12-14 years) young person from one of the schools. This is an amazing opportunity to support and mentor a young person who has been identified by the school as benefitting from wrap around support and a volunteering placement. The young person may experience challenges in their lives- care experience, mental ill health, low confidence and self esteem, disability, low income household, young carer, uncertainty about their future.
Why mentoring?
Mentoring is at the heart of what we do here at ProjectScotland and we offer every young person we support, the opportunity to be matched with a volunteer mentor. We are searching for people in Edinburgh who are able to offer one hour of their time once a week or fortnight for up to 12 months to help transform the life of someone else.
As a volunteer mentor, you could support your mentee with whatever is important to them. This could be: goal setting; identifying interests and strengths; confidence building; helping to establish a routine; social connections; or just someone consistent to talk to and check in with to see how they are. The support you can offer is invaluable and can be life changing.
How does it work?
• Following recruitment, we provide training, support to join the Protection of Vulnerable Groups Scheme, ongoing support, access to lots of resources and a wonderful community of mentors across the country to connect with, learn from and build friendships with.
• you are matched to one young person and meet with them once a week or fortnight for around one hour. This is likely to start at the school during school hours, however we hope once the relationship has developed, the mentoring sessions could move out with the school building to encourage the young person's independence and connection to their local community.
•matches can last from 3-12 months depending upon the relationship and the needs of the mentee
What’s in it for you?
• Help transform your mentee’s life
• Develop communication and interpersonal skills e.g. coaching, motivating others, adaptability
• Gain transferable skills and experience volunteering with disadvantaged young people
• Participate in regular support and training
• Meet new people, connect and have fun!
• Learn about yourself and gain a sense of achievement supporting others
• Learn more about your community and the challenges that people can face
More info about ProjectScotland:
ProjectScotland (now part of the Volunteering Matters Family of Brands) works with people (predominantly young people) across the country who are struggling to overcome challenges such as social isolation, mental health issues, low confidence and general uncertainty about their futures. By providing wrap around support and the chance to complete a voluntary placement with a local charity; not only can this enhance confidence and self-belief, but it gives that individual the opportunity to build on their skills and experience and potentially move on to a job, further education or training when they are ready. Everyone we work with is also offered a volunteer mentor.
Coaching Volunteer
Smart Works Edinburgh
Provide guidance and support on CV’s, cover letters and job search techniques.
Help the client understand the role and how her skills match, using the Smart Works Interview guide.
Explain what the employer is looking for.
Give an understanding of the Interview process.
Demonstrate current interview techniques and practice how to respond to questions with the client.
Boost the client’s confidence
Support office with admin such as follow up calls, filing etc.
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
Shop Volunteer - Save the Children Marchmont
Save the Children
Our Marchmont Save the Children Shop has been a much loved part of the local community for years and continues to be hugely popular with customers and supporters, thanks to the kindness and generosity of the volunteer team.
All you 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 activities include customer service, creative merchandising, preparing items for sale and working as part of a team.
Womens Group Volunteer
YMCA Edinburgh
Seeking a flexible and committed woman to assist with a wide range of activities which change every week. These will be discussed and agreed in advance with you including presenting a light pre-prepared lunch, serving hot drinks and cleaning up afterwards. To assist with an activity, particularly craft activities. The ability to chat appropriately to the women, assisting or being alongside group members who may struggle with ability or language will be advantageous. Your input and feedback on group activities will be welcome.
Intandem Mentor
YMCA Edinburgh
As an Intandem mentor you will make a difference to the life of a young person, providing a positive role model and supporting access to hobbies and interests. The ability to be consistent, non-judgemental, supportive, fun and understanding is key to success in this role. Full initial training will be provided along with ongoing support to ensure the best possible outcomes. We look for a regular commitment of around 2-3 hours per week over a minimum 12 month period. A PGV scheme record check will be required (no cost involved).
Plusone Mentor
YMCA Edinburgh
As a Plusone mentor you will make a difference to the life of a young person, providing a positive role model and supporting access to hobbies and interests. The ability to be consistent, non-judgemental, supportive, fun and understanding is key to success in this role. Full initial training will be provided along with ongoing support to ensure the best possible outcomes. We look for a regular commitment of around 2-3 hours per week over a minimum 12 month period. A PGV scheme record check will be required (no cost involved).
Retail Volunteer
British Heart Foundation Shop (Nicolson Street)
Could you be the face of your local British Heart Foundation shop? If you want to gain cashier and sales experience in a friendly environment, this is a great way to get a taste of a career in retail while helping to raise live-saving funds. With support around you, you will be processing sales through the till as a cashier, talking to customers and thanking every donor - helping us beat heartbreak forever.
Cooking Class Volunteer
B Healthy Together
The Cooking Club volunteer will assist the Community Development Worker with the delivery of cooking classes. We currently offer parent and child cooking classes.
The volunteer will help with practical tasks such as helping to set up and clear up the sessions, also to use their own initiative in seeing if any of the class needs extra help. They may also be asked to take photos or video if this iis something that interests them.
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.
Junior Choir Chaperone
Love Music
Chaperones welcome parents/guardians and children to rehearsals, working together in teams of 3 or 4 to care for up to 20 children all term. Chaperones look after the children’s safety while moving around the building, and help pass on information about arrangements. Chaperones play an essential role in the safeguarding of the children, ensuring that they only leave with known adults, and taking an interest in the children’s wellbeing at rehearsals. They also help any children who benefit from a little extra support during rehearsals. The role is non-musical.
Volunteer Befriender (Sight Scotland: Family Wellbeing Service)
Sight Scotland and Sight Scotland Veterans
We’re looking for friendly volunteers with good interpersonal skills to support people who use our services. As a befriender, you will meet a wide range of people, all living with sight loss living in our community and experiencing isolation.
This could involve meeting the client for a cup of tea and a chat or accompanying them to an activity (such as a trip to a cafe or the theatre). In some cases, you may accompany the person to the occasional hospital or doctor's appointment. There will likely be some volunteering from your own home involved, checking in with clients by telephone.
You will help us to improve the quality of life of people using our services and play a vital role in easing isolation.
COVID SAFETY: We take every precaution to ensure no one, including our volunteers and services users, is exposed to potential COVID infection. We will explain this as part of volunteer training, but we welcome any questions about this in advance of or during your application to join us. Please contact us if you would like to discuss this.
If you are interested please click the ‘Apply’ button below (available when logged in and registered). You will then be contacted by the coordinator by email or phone call. If you have not heard back after 5 working days, the first step is to contact the organisation with the contact details provided. You could also check your junk/spam folder on your emails just in case the response is there. If that doesn’t work out then please feel free to contact Volunteer Glasgow on info@volunteerglasgow.org
Lunchtime Care Van Volunteer
Bethany Christian Trust
This role includes
Stock the Care van with cups, lids, flasks and food.
Serve food and drinks to guests.
Distribute any donations of clothing.
Speak to clients; offer advice where appropriate.
Report any incidents, feedback or training needs in the report folders.
Clean the van on return to the Centre.
Drivers:
Check the Care Van for damage or issues before leaving the Centre. The same should be done on return.
Drive the Van, following the usual route & stay close to the Van at all times.
Activity Volunteer – Lunchtime Plug-in
Bethany Christian Trust
Every Thursday, in partnership with Stenhouse Baptist Church, we run a free weekly community lunch called Lunchtime Plug-in.
We are looking for volunteers to help us set up and prepare the room, welcome, chat & get to know our guests who come for lunch, serve food and help with tidying up.
It takes place every Thursday from 12pm to 2pm.
It is a safe and welcoming space for people to get to know one another in a relaxed environment. We also have a number of laptops for use while people are here and we offer budgeting and debt advice to anyone who might need it.
Leader/Helper
28th Braid Scout Group
Beaver Scout Leaders/ Helpers- working with 6 and 7 year olds. Beavers meet on a Wednesday evening from 6.30-7.30pm
Scout Leaders/ Helpers - working with 1 to 14 year olds. Scouts meet on a Friday evening from 7.15 - 9.30pm
Match Day Helper
Edinburgh United FC
Match day volunteer required to help with kit, assisting with strips and training equipment, turn style operation, pitch maintenance and general organisation.
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.
Retail Volunteer - Stockbridge
Chest Heart & Stroke - Stockbridge
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.
Sales Assistant- Newington
Hospices of Hope Shop, Tollcross
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.
Online Sales Coordinator
Hospice of Hope Shop, Gorgie
Price research, identifying best site to sell on, photography, stock prep, posting and record keeping.
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,
Building or Trades Specialist
The Salisbury Centre
Our building sub-committee oversees maintenance and building projects at the centre. We need a volunteer to help us make the right decisions to take care of our beautiful listed building so that it thrives long into the future.
Do you have experience of building projects, trades, architecture or quantity surveying and would you like to give your time and knowledge to help a community building? We would love to hear from you!
We particularly welcome people from a diverse range of backgrounds
Bingo Volunteer
LifeCare
We are recruiting volunteers to run bingo in our community café in Stockbridge. Welcoming café visitors and handing out bingo cards, calling out numbers and giving prizes. We are trying to encourage the local community to come along to bingo to break social isolation and provide a warm place for people to have fun and chat.
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.
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
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.
Fundraising Group Volunteer (Home based/Scotland wide)
Crisis Skylight Edinburgh
Enthusiastic volunteers needed to create Crisis’s first Scottish fundraising group! An opportunity to use your creativity to shape the fundraising activities in the group, raising awareness and funds for homeless people.
Our fundraising groups bring a passion for ending homelessness in their local area – they raise vital funds by putting on fundraising events, and act as ambassadors in their communities to spread the word about homelessness and the work that Crisis does.
You will contribute to ending homelessness by Joining a group of dedicated, empowered volunteer fundraisers to help raise the funds needed for our vital services. You will use your communications, events, and teamwork skills to deliver local fundraising events and collections in aid of Crisis.
The monies raised by your Fundraising Group will help fund services such as one to one support in finding a home or a job, helping people achieve learning goals, or supporting our Christmas events where we offer hot meals, access to essential services, and an introduction to our year-round services to leave homelessness behind for good.
Core Tasks:
• Attend regular Fundraising Group meetings to work collaboratively with the Fundraising Group lead and other members.
• Use your skills and knowledge to play an active role in making fundraising events and activities happen.
• Representing Crisis in your community, using your own networks to raise awareness of what needs to be done to end
homelessness. This includes sharing our broader activities such as our campaigns
• Represent Crisis by attending fundraising and engagement events organised by others
• Ensure group activities comply with relevant fundraising regulations and Crisis policies and procedures; including ensuring monies
raised are accounted for in line with agreed financial processes.
Please email volunteering.edinburgh@crisis.org.uk to register your interest in this opportunity.
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.
Online Moderator
Pain Concern (Midlothian)
Pain Concern is looking for volunteers to help moderate the charity’s online community on the Health Unlocked platform. Our forum provides peer support and a learning environment for people living with chronic pain and those who care for them. Forum moderators follow Health Unlocked guidance, creating a great culture and setting the tone for the forum.
As a volunteer moderator you will help to ensure that our online community is maintained as a safe, supportive and fun environment.
You will gather information on what issues are important to forum users. You will help to monitor and moderate user-generated content. By joining us you will join a fast-growing and respected service.
Due to the nature of the role, successful applicants will be required to undertake a PVG check and complete a 1hr Safeguarding online course.
Board Chair
Norton Park SCIO
It is an exciting time at Norton Park. With plans for future growth, Norton Park are now looking for a new Chair to direct their work. Norton Park are are seeking to complement the skill set of existing trustees and, in this recruitment round, successful candidates must be able to demonstrate leadership skills, the ability to direct and manage effective meetings and be a key contact to the Chief Executive. Applications are particularly welcome from candidates who will bring additional diversity.
Shop Volunteer - Edinburgh (Tollcross)
Cancer Research UK
Volunteer in our shops
Our shop volunteers are helping us beat cancer right now.
In 2019/20, 14,000 volunteers gave 3.1 million hours of their time and sold items totalling £15million. These funds are helping us start new clinical trials and research treatments as we speak.
If you volunteer at a Cancer Research UK shop, you too could make a real difference to what we can achieve. Nothing we do would be possible without amazing volunteers like you.
You’ll also gain valuable skills to help develop your CV and experience. And you’ll volunteer alongside a wonderful team of passionate, friendly people who will support you every step of the way.
Volunteering is open to everyone and no experience is required. So, if you’re looking for a new challenge, we’d love to hear from you.
What do shop volunteers do?
Volunteering in our shops is varied, exciting and rewarding. No two days are the same and you have the chance to flex different skills regularly. There are always new opportunities to keep you engaged and help you grow and develop in your role.
While this list is not exhaustive, it gives you a flavour of some of the typical tasks in our charity shops:
Serving customers, taking payments and providing good all-round customer service
Sorting through donated items and pricing stock
Working on window and shop displays
Keeping the shop tidy, clean and well organised
Interacting with the general public
Following new health, safety and social distancing measures
You don’t need any experience to volunteer
You just need to be motivated, hardworking and enjoy being part of a team. There’ll be a full induction as well as ongoing training opportunities to make sure you’re fully confident and able to excel in your role.
Why should I volunteer?
Volunteering brings a wealth of benefits, both personal and professional.
Every volunteer hour you donate means we can sell 6 items and make £20 of income. So, if you volunteer for a 7-hour day, this can generate £140. That means that every day you volunteer, you’ll be raising more funds to beat cancer.
You’ll gain important skills that are hugely valued in the workplace such as teamwork, communication and using your initiative.
You can boost your CV by working towards an NVQ in Retail with Derby College, and we'll provide you with a reference.
It will allow you to get involved in your local community and to meet new friends.
Our friendly CRUK team will be there to suppor t you all the way – offering guidance and helping you build your confidence.
It’s fun – you’ll gain real satisfaction from volunteering alongside our warm, friendly shop volunteers who will make you feel right at home.
The minimum age for volunteering in our shops is 18 . If you’re aged between 16 -18 you may still be able to volunteer in our shops, but you must be on a recognised scheme, for example the Duke of Edinburgh.
Grassroots Campaigner
RESULTS UK
Are you passionate about ending global poverty?
Do you have a couple of hours a month spare?
Do you want to meet like-minded people?
Do you want to gain skills in campaigning and advocacy?
Then why not join the RESULTS Edinburgh campaign group! RESULTS UK is a movement of passionate, committed, everyday people. Together we use our voices to influence political decisions that we believe will bring an end to poverty, advocating on issues such as global health and education.
Our campaign groups are connected by a passion to end poverty and to take action to influence political decisions. There are 13 campaign groups, and many individual campaigners, who make up the RESULTS UK grassroots network.
Each month our campaigners take a well-researched campaign action, which is sent out in our action materials. The 'Call to action' each month is often to write and engage with, MPs and Government Ministers. Who you write to depends on who the RESULTS UK policy and parliamentary teams think you can influence the most! There are often also prompts for taking action on social media or local media. Our recent campaigns include global COVID-19 vaccine equity, effective nutrition programmes and an ongoing campaign to save the UK Overseas Development Assistance (ODA, often known as aid) budget!
As well as taking monthly actions, the Edinburgh group regularly joins our monthly conference calls. We discuss the focus of that month's campaign action, and hear an update from around the network. We also welcome an expert guest speaker on the topic of the month. The calls are a great opportunity to learn about international development, ask questions, and connect with other campaigners.
It is an exciting time to get involved, meet likeminded people, and join a network of passionate campaigners across the UK!
Check out our Welcome Pack for an overview of what getting involved is all about:
https://www.results.org.uk/guides/welcome-pack-volunteers
Email us at join@results.org.uk. We'd Love to hear from you!"
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.
Food Sharing Stock Volunteer
Shrub Co-op
Evening volunteering is split between managing stock in the Food Sharing Hub (organising donated food stock, ensuring it is stored appropriately and distributed between our shelves and our partners, recording where food is going) and moving food between different locations (collecting food from local suppliers, dropping food off with local partners such as hostels and shelters).
Morning shifts consist of setting up our Food Sharing section in the Zero Waste Hub to make sure it is neat, tidy and that all food is safely stored/displayed.
We are particularly keen to recruit volunteers who can commit to Tuesday, Friday or Sunday mornings.
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/
Fundraiser
DataKirk SCIO
We need support in the area of income generation and building a financially sustainable project. We need help in the following
areas:
Business Development
Commissioning /Contracting
Fundraising Events
Fundraising Strategy
Researching Funders and writing proposals
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.
Community Support Services Volunteer - Dumfries
Chest Heart & Stroke Scotland
Community Support Volunteers support people who have had one of our conditions to develop autonomy and confidence in self-management, enabling them to fully engage with their community and activities of their choosing. The service follows a pathway from hospital to community and can be delivered in a one-to-one and/or a group setting.
The service can be delivered to provide specified person-centred communication support for those with a communication difficulty and/or to support a specific physical or everyday task.
To undertake your role you will be required to undertake membership of the Protection of Vulnerable Groups (Adults) schemes in Scotland (PVG).
Community Support Services Volunteer - Kirkcaldy area
Chest Heart & Stroke Scotland
Community Support Volunteers support people who have had one of our conditions to develop autonomy and confidence in self-management, enabling them to fully engage with their community and activities of their choosing. The service follows a pathway from hospital to community and can be delivered in a one-to-one and/or a group setting.
The service can be delivered to provide specified person-centred communication support for those with a communication difficulty and/or to support a specific physical or everyday task.
To undertake your role you will be required to undertake membership of the Protection of Vulnerable Groups (Adults) schemes in Scotland (PVG).
Volunteer Recruitment Support Volunteer
Chest Heart & Stroke Scotland
In your role you will support different teams across CHSS to recruit new volunteers in your local community either face to face, engaging with local community partners and utilizing online social media platforms. Volunteers are vital to the running of our services, shops and our fundraising events. With your help we can reach more people across Scotland to raise awareness of CHSS.
Your main tasks include:
* Identify suitable local organisations and networks to promote our various volunteer roles to.
* Use social media to advertise volunteer opportunities.
* Use offline methods such as presentations and posters to recruit volunteers in the community.
* Raise awareness and the profile of CHSS
Peer Support Assistant - Colinton Bowling Club Stroke Club
Chest Heart & Stroke Scotland
CHSS supports groups across Scotland to meet the needs of people living with chest, lung and heart conditions and following a stroke. Peer support groups give people the chance to share experiences with others who understand what they are going through.
Peer support groups have various reasons for coming together. It may be to meet socially, take part in physical activity or learn how to live well with their condition. Each group is unique and tailored to the needs of its local community. Everyone involved with the group will have a say in how the group is run.
Integrated Peer Support Groups are fully supported by Chest Heart & Stroke Scotland.
Tasks may include:
· Acting as contact for CHSS if the Lead Volunteer is unavailable
· Setting up and clearing the room
· Organising refreshments
· Taking the register and collecting subs
· Meeting and greeting new members
· Organising and taking part in the programme of activities
· Supporting and taking part in fundraising e.g. raffles
· Promoting the group
· Using social media on behalf of the group
· Working to the group’s health & safety and other procedures
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.
Baby & Toddler Group Volunteer
Bethany Christian Trust
General responsibilities:
Setting out the room, including choosing appropriate toys and games for free play.
Preparing teas and coffees.
Supporting the Community Builder with simple activities for the children and discussion topics for the adults.
Adhering to training and guidelines given to ensure the safety and well-being of all who attend.
It takes place every Monday during term time between 9.30-11.30am.
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.
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.
Professional Volunteer
Sported
We know representation matters, which is why we want our volunteers to reflect the diversity of the community groups we work with. We are actively encouraging applicants from ethnically diverse backgrounds and other minoritised groups to apply as we are currently under-represented in this space. You will get to meet the inspirational faces of community groups across the UK and immerse yourself in their work; use your existing skills in a rewarding fashion whilst developing new ones; guide members to become more inclusive; network with other like-minded individuals helping grassroots sports groups survive; and so much more. Our volunteers say that making a positive difference to our members is what they most enjoy about volunteering at Sported.
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!
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.
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.
Food Distribution Volunteer
Go Dharmic Welfare UK
The role is to take part in our food service aiming to help homeless and hungry people in Edinburgh. The tasks include setting up the food distribution, welcoming the beneficiaries, distributing the food available, sharing time and giving compassion to the beneficiaries or anyone who needs it. Other tasks could include collecting surplus food from supermarkets or supporting broader operations in Edinburgh in cooperation with the local team. Please note, if you are aged 16 or under you must be accompanied by an adult.
Volunteer Welcomers
Space to Be
Space to Be is a community space for use by various community organisations. There is room for meetings, group activities, meet-ups, hot-desking, exhibitions and information stalls. The role is to be a friendly and welcoming presence in the space. You will chat with people, answer questions and signpost to activities and sources of information. Occasionally tea and coffee making might also be required!
Veterans Community Support Volunteer
Royal British Legion Scotland (SL)
Volunteers are essential to Royal British Legion Scotland’s ability to support veterans in the community. We are currently recruiting volunteers for the Legion Scotland Veterans Community Support Service.
Trained and supported volunteers will be matched with Armed Forces veterans to provide a befriending relationship in the community – this could take the form of a regular social visit to relieve isolation and loneliness, or to provide assistance with more specific issues at other times. Training and support is provided and volunteers will be PVG (Protection of Vulnerable Groups) checked prior to contact with clients as well. This is not a personal care or advisory service.
A tremendous opportunity to volunteer with Legion Scotland and support veterans. All assistance makes a difference and is greatly appreciated.
For more information please contact Elliot Thomson, Veterans Community Support Co-ordinator–West Scotland, Legion Scotland at Email: e.thomson@legionscotland.org.uk or tel.: 07876 203393.
Trusts / Grants Fundraising Volunteer
Any Dog'll Do Rescue (ADDR)
We are looking for an excellent written communicator to identify and apply for trust and corporate grants. You will be researching funding opportunities and writing grant applications for the rescue, keeping records on appropriate grant giving bodies, (application closing dates and processes), and reporting back to donors the difference their grant has made. You will also keep in touch with our coordinators about the progress of applications.
Shop Volunteer
Edinburgh Children’s Hospital Charity
ECHC Shop volunteers assist in the smooth running of the hospital shop which serves the staff, patients and families in the hospital with drinks, snacks, sandwiches, toiletries, toys and more. Main duties include:
Helping customers and serving them at the Till.
Displaying Merchandise.
Checking Stock.
Assisting with deliveries.
We are looking for volunteers who are confident and friendly when meeting new people and are willing to help on different tasks.
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.
Day-Care Volunteer
Space and Broomhouse Hub
To attend the Beacon Club 10am – 2.30pm on one of the following days Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday or Thursday
To help with:
Assisting staff to set up the day’s activities and tidying up afterwards.
Escorting the members on and off the minibus safely and while they are mobilising elsewhere should they require this.
Laying tables and serving meals, observing club hygiene procedures.
Helping the members get the best out of a range of planned activities and outings.
Garden Group Volunteer
Action Porty
Volunteers needed to help the Bellfield Garden flourish.
Group meets weekly on a Friday 10am-12:30pm to develop the garden space. Any volunteers welcome. No gardening experience necessary. Typical tasks include weeding, planting, plotting etc.
Help Volunteer
Pain Concern (Midlothian)
Role purpose:
Are you a good listener? Do you have excellent communication skills? Could you support someone struggling to cope with chronic pain and help them to find a way forward?
We are looking for committed and empathetic volunteers to support people who are living with, or affected by chronic pain who access our phone, online forum and e-help support services.
This is a great opportunity to enhance your communication skills and develop an understanding of pain self-management, while providing a valued service to people living with long-term pain. By joining us you will join a fast-growing and respected service.
Due to the nature of the role, successful applicants will be required to undertake a PVG check.
What you would be doing:
• Offer emotional support and signpost resources and information to people affected by persistent pain either by phone, email or on the online forum
• You will work as part of a team of volunteers, covering a rota, ability to commit to shifts is essential
• Attend training/supervision sessions remotely
• Keep up to date with Pain Concern news and work across the UK
• Complete ‘after contact’ survey to support Pain Concern’s evaluation targets.
English Tutor
Project Esperanza
The ideal volunteer is someone who likes working with groups of women who shares our vision and willing to work in line with our mission. Experience of working with women of African heritage is most desirable. Knowledge and experience around facilitating groups is essential. Knowledge around the diversity of African cultures is essential. Must be open minded and operate from a place of cultural sensitivity. Must be a good team player. Must have empathy and kindness.
Bike Mechanic Volunteer
Bikes for Refugees (Scotland)
Our volunteers are essential in helping us fix and repair bikes to give to New Scots. Whether you are a self-taught hobby mechanic or are a bike-building wizard, we’d love to have your help in our workshops. You can practise and improve your skills alongside other friendly volunteers.
Canal Boat Trip Host
Fountainbridge Canalside Community Trust (FCCT)
This role is for volunteers to join us aboard the Lochrin Belle to offer hospitality and a warm welcome to guests. We organise a wide range of cruises on the Union Canal but we need volunteers to help support the increasing number of themed ticketed events that we organise.
Main tasks:
Welcoming guests aboard
Answering questions about the trip/boat
Directing guests to the facilities
Making drinks
Cleaning and tidying the cabin space
Supporting the on board activities
Office Administration & Reception Support
Family Journeys
Support our administration and reception staff.
Office based in Edinburgh, with experienced staff available.
As a small charity we benefit from volunteers who give their time to help our organisation and the families we work with.
Our volunteers are supported by members of staff and provided with regular in-house training.
Our ideal candidates are those who can bring energy and enthusiasm to the role.
Board Member - Edinburgh College
Edinburgh College (Midlothian)
Do you want to make a positive change to the lives of learners across Midlothian? Then come and join the Board of Management of Edinburgh College.
The Edinburgh College Board of Management currently seeks to fill four non-executive vacancies before its scheduled meeting on 28 March 2023.
The Board of Management would particularly welcome applications from individuals with:
· A formal Accounting Qualification ideally combined with relevant experience in the fields of accountancy, Audit and Risk Assurance Committee experience or financial management.
OR
· Experience in one or more of the following fields: Education and training (across Further or Higher Education, schools and/or other training providers), SME and local business / enterprise, and/or expertise within an area of the College curriculum.
Successful applicants will have the ability to contribute to a dynamic board, which deals with a variety of complex and interesting issues and promotes the highest standards of governance.
Applications are also encouraged from groups currently under-represented on Scotland’s public bodies.
Kitchen Assistant
North Edinburgh Dementia Care
This is a fantastic opportunity for someone to join our kitchen team at North Edinburgh Dementia Care, a day care centre for people with dementia. We are looking for an enthusiastic person to assist our staff and chef in our day care centre kitchen. Specifically the individual will assist with catering for our members and ensuring a clean and controlled kitchen environment is maintained.
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.
Caseworker
SSAFA - The Armed Forces charity
Caseworkers visit clients to work out what type of help they need. Next, they find the right sources of support and arrange for clients to access it. This might be funds for special equipment for someone with a disability, adaptions to a property so an older client can remain at home or funds for a rental deposit. Caseworkers also sign-post clients onto specialist local services for advice on benefits, housing, mental health, debt, finding work etc.
The essential part of the role is interacting with clients, so you may be visiting clients or doing this virtually. As part of your local branch you might have access to an office, but many volunteers are based at home.
What does this role involve?
• Contacting clients and arranging to meet them at a mutually convenient time either face-to-face or remotely
• Liaising with clients and completing a form to assess their circumstances
• Sign-posting clients onto local services providing specialist advice
• Applying on the client’s behalf to military and non-military sources of charitable funding
• Arranging for the purchase of goods and services
• Keeping in touch with the client so they know how their case is progressing
• Keeping in touch with your branch so they know your availability
• Keeping up to date with training and SSAFA news so that you are best able to support clients
• Being a positive ambassador for SSAFA remembering that anyone you meet could be a potential client, volunteer or fundraiser
• Volunteering within the standards and values of SSAFA including observing our policies such as the
Volunteering policy and data protection policy (these will be covered in your training and local induction.)
What can you gain from this volunteering role?
• Support people in your community with a military background
• Use your skills, knowledge and life experience to benefit others
• Support and friendship from your local SSAFA branch and the wider SSAFA community
• Experience, training and skills that you can highlight on your CV and in job interviews
• Better physical and mental health – studies show that volunteers live longer and experience lower levels of stress and depression!
Minimum Age: 18
Is a criminal record check required? Yes
Caseworker
SSAFA - The Armed Forces charity
Caseworkers visit clients to work out what type of help they need. Next, they find the right sources of support and arrange for clients to access it. This might be funds for special equipment for someone with a disability, adaptions to a property so an older client can remain at home or funds for a rental deposit. Caseworkers also sign-post clients onto specialist local services for advice on benefits, housing, mental health, debt, finding work etc.
The essential part of the role is interacting with clients, so you may be visiting clients or doing this virtually. As part of your local branch you might have access to an office, but many volunteers are based at home.
What does this role involve?
• Contacting clients and arranging to meet them at a mutually convenient time either face-to-face or remotely
• Liaising with clients and completing a form to assess their circumstances
• Sign-posting clients onto local services providing specialist advice
• Applying on the client’s behalf to military and non-military sources of charitable funding
• Arranging for the purchase of goods and services
• Keeping in touch with the client so they know how their case is progressing
• Keeping in touch with your branch so they know your availability
• Keeping up to date with training and SSAFA news so that you are best able to support clients
• Being a positive ambassador for SSAFA remembering that anyone you meet could be a potential client, volunteer or fundraiser
• Volunteering within the standards and values of SSAFA including observing our policies such as the
Volunteering policy and data protection policy (these will be covered in your training and local induction.)
What can you gain from this volunteering role?
• Support people in your community with a military background
• Use your skills, knowledge and life experience to benefit others
• Support and friendship from your local SSAFA branch and the wider SSAFA community
• Experience, training and skills that you can highlight on your CV and in job interviews
• Better physical and mental health – studies show that volunteers live longer and experience lower levels of stress and depression!
Minimum Age: 18
Is a criminal record check required? Yes
Adult Volunteer
Edinburgh Trinity Sea Cadets
We help equip teenagers with all the things they need to cope with and enjoy the big and changing world they're going into. As an adult volunteer with the sea cadets you will be required to undertake regulatory courses and there are plenty of opportunities to expand on other life skills: first aid, sailing, kayaking, rock climbing, rowing, power boating, communications, marine engineering etc. Female preferred.
Trustee
Edinburgh Carers Council
The role of a volunteer charity trustee is essential to the continued effective working of the organisation and its ability to achieve its aims and objectives. Although the position carries some legal liability, it is chiefly one of trust and responsibility. Trustees should be able to ensure the organisation is clear in its purpose and direction. Trustees must be able to attend monthly meetings and the annual general meeting each year.
Communities Volunteer
Cyrenians
This role is similar to that of peer mentor or befriender in that you will provide companionship to those living at Crighton Place. This could be as simple as being available to play a board game or cook a meal together. At other times you may accompany a resident to the cinema/shops/museum or to an event in the city.
Pantry Assistant
Cyrenians
Local pantries are designed to give dignified and affordable access to a selection of chilled and ambient foods and fresh fruit and vegetables. Your skills and experience will help: lead in the setting up of the Pantry. Taking delivery of products. Setting up products in a safe and appropriate manner. Ensuring that food is handled safely. Taking payment from members. Assisting members where necessary
Boutique Shop Volunteer - Save the Children Stockbridge
Save the Children
Our Stockbridge Save the Children Shop has been a much loved part of the local community for years and continues to be hugely popular, thanks to the kindness, generosity and creativity of the volunteer team.
All you 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 activities include customer service, creative merchandising, preparing items for sale and working as part of a team.
Shop Volunteer - Save the Children Morningside
Save the Children
Our Morningside Save the Children Shop has been a much loved part of the local community for years and continues to be hugely popular, thanks to the kindness and generosity of the volunteer led team.
All you 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 activities include customer service, creative merchandising, preparing items for sale and working as part of a team.
Trustee/Board Member
Smart Play Network
We are looking for a number of enthusiastic people to join our Board of Trustees to support us to realise our vision. Our current Board have a wide range of skills and are looking to add to these in areas of HR/Employment, Marketing, Finance and Legal. People working and academics in the play or children’s sector at a senior level will also be very welcome to apply. We meet once per quarter – recently more so online, but with plans for every second meeting face to face in Edinburgh.
Low Carbon Community Volunteer
Changeworks Ltd
Gain practical experience in facilitating behaviour change towards low carbon living.
Our community engagement projects aim to support residents to adopt low carbon lifestyle changes, these may include energy efficiency actions, reducing waste, or adopting sustainable transport behaviours.
Volunteers are regularly provided a list of upcoming events and tasks and can opt in to those they would like to get involved with.
Volunteer Room Guide
National Trust for Scotland
As a volunteer room guide you'll be interacting with international visitors of Gladstone's Land directly, telling them of the property's fascinating history and helping them gain insight into what life was like on Edinburgh's Lawnmarket throughout the last 400 years.
We also offer additional research or guiding opportunities, if requested.
Shop Volunteer - Edinburgh (South Clerk Street)
Cancer Research UK
Volunteer in our shops
Our shop volunteers are helping us beat cancer right now.
In 2019/20, 14,000 volunteers gave 3.1 million hours of their time and sold items totalling £15million. These funds are helping us start new clinical trials and research treatments as we speak.
If you volunteer at a Cancer Research UK shop, you too could make a real difference to what we can achieve. Nothing we do would be possible without amazing volunteers like you.
You’ll also gain valuable skills to help develop your CV and experience. And you’ll volunteer alongside a wonderful team of passionate, friendly people who will support you every step of the way.
Volunteering is open to everyone and no experience is required. So, if you’re looking for a new challenge, we’d love to hear from you.
What do shop volunteers do?
Volunteering in our shops is varied, exciting and rewarding. No two days are the same and you have the chance to flex different skills regularly. There are always new opportunities to keep you engaged and help you grow and develop in your role.
While this list is not exhaustive, it gives you a flavour of some of the typical tasks in our charity shops:
Serving customers, taking payments and providing good all-round customer service
Sorting through donated items and pricing stock
Working on window and shop displays
Keeping the shop tidy, clean and well organised
Interacting with the general public
Following new health, safety and social distancing measures
You don’t need any experience to volunteer
You just need to be motivated, hardworking and enjoy being part of a team. There’ll be a full induction as well as ongoing training opportunities to make sure you’re fully confident and able to excel in your role.
Why should I volunteer?
Volunteering brings a wealth of benefits, both personal and professional.
Every volunteer hour you donate means we can sell 6 items and make £20 of income. So, if you volunteer for a 7-hour day, this can generate £140. That means that every day you volunteer, you’ll be raising more funds to beat cancer.
You’ll gain important skills that are hugely valued in the workplace such as teamwork, communication and using your initiative.
You can boost your CV by working towards an NVQ in Retail with Derby College and we'll provide you with a reference.
It will allow you to get involved in your local community and to meet new friends.
Our friendly CRUK team will be there to support you all the way – offering guidance and helping you build your confidence.
It’s fun – you’ll gain real satisfaction from volunteering alongside our warm, friendly shop volunteers who will make you feel right at home.
The minimum age for volunteering in our shops is 18. If you’re aged between 16 -18 you may still be able to volunteer in our shops, but you must be on a recognised scheme, for example, the Duke of Edinburgh
Staff Café Volunteer
St Columba's Hospice
Our staff café volunteer team supports our main catering team by setting up the hot counter and chilled cabinets in the staff café and then serving staff with food and operating the till. Our volunteers serve breakfast in the morning and then lunch in the afternoon. Volunteers may make toast, serve soup or heat up paninis or toasted sandwiches. It's an opportunity to be part of a great catering team and you will also get to know some of our amazing ward and admin staff.
Community Connector Volunteer
Chest Heart & Stroke Shop - Easter Road
Being a Community Connector Volunteer is a fantastic opportunity to contribute to the success of a leading health charity and make a real difference to the people we support.
Your role will include:
Researching potential CHSS partner organisations using guidance provided; this may be groups, associations, local companies and schools.
Locating contact details for mailings / event promotion.
Inputting data into either excel spreadsheet or database (Raisers Edge).
Providing the fundraising.
Committee Member
Enable Scotland
This role is 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. Also to be one of the key-holders responsible for opening and locking the building before and after club meetings. To help with our three clubs (which include a disco, indoor games, arts and crafts, Scottish country dancing).
Art in the City Volunteer
City of Edinburgh Council Museums & Galleries
Art in the City is a project that has been running since 2006 and aims to engage with people affected by dementia and their friends, family and carers. We visit a different art gallery, museum or historic site on the 2nd Thursday of the month. Volunteers help to plan and lead exhibition tours, chat with the group and help to make refreshments.
School's Out Volunteer
Big Hearts Community Trust
School's Out! is Big Hearts' holiday project which enables local young people to thrive outside the school term and have a safe place to spend their school holidays.
Arts and crafts within our community space.
Sports day on the community pitch at Tynecastle Park.
Fun trips to the park.
Magic shows and many other fun and engaging activities.
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.
Retail Volunteer
British Red Cross (Edinburgh)
There are opportunities to work front or back of house in retail operations in Leith, Stockbridge and Morningside from till work to merchandising and window dressing. The back shop is where all the preparation happens, with the sorting, steaming and labelling of items for sale. There are roles in social media cover, general housekeeping, admin, gift aid promotion, brand research and customer care. We run a friendly sociable team in a busy, popular shop and would love to welcome some new volunteers to join us.
Roles will vary in each shop. Apply here:
https://volunteer.redcross.org.uk
Shop Volunteer
Palcrafts/Hadeel
Receive customers. Answer questions and help with purchases. Sell goods using electronic till.
Pack and post mail orders. Collect goods for orders/sales. Help process returned sales
Assist in stock-taking. Report low stock levels. Assist in pricing, storing and displaying products.
Filing, photocopying and responding to phone calls.
Help securely open and shut premises. Prepare shop for trading. Rubbish collection. Washing crockery. Minor local errands.
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. This service allows people to choose their own shopping and have some social time and chat with a trusted person. Being able to shop for food and have regular social interactions are important parts of staying well and independent. You’d be helping service users maintain their independence and be supporting their nutrition - a core part of staying healthy while on treatment.
Befriending & Mentoring
Firsthand Lothian
You will be matched with a child/young person (4 to 16 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.
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.
Trustee
Edinburgh & The Lothians Samaritans
The Edinburgh branch of the Samaritans is seeking two trustees to join its Board of Trustees. We seek one trustee with skills and experience in management of a charity shop. Another trustee is sought with skills and experience in HR and personnel management.
The new trustees will be part of the regular trustee meetings and also attend the Shop Management Committee meetings, making a valuable contribution to the charity and encouraging the dedicated group of volunteers.
Helpline Volunteer
Children 1st
Are you caring, non-judgmental, empathic and passionate about supporting others?
Can you commit to our training course, give a little of your time and help families in Scotland in need?
If so, please get in touch - we’d love to hear from you.
What will I be doing?
Children 1st Parentline volunteers provide support to adults by phone, webchat and text offering a kind and skilled listening ear and time to talk about anything to do with children. They build supportive relationships and work alongside individuals to help them think through what will work best for their families, keeping children at the centre but being mindful of the challenges to families today. Our team of staff and volunteers are trauma sensitive and knowledgeable in child development and work alongside callers to prevent stress increasing in families.
Volunteering for Children 1st Parentline is a fantastic opportunity to make a real difference to the lives of children and families across Scotland.
The helpline is open Monday-Friday 9am-9pm and 9am-12 noon Saturday and Sunday throughout the year. We ask our volunteers to give a weekly commitment of time and there are a range of options for days/times based at the Children 1st Edinburgh office.
A caring, kind and non-judgemental response can make a real difference to someone who wants to talk. No previous experience or formal qualifications are necessary, but good communication skills are essential to enable you to listen to and support those who contact Children 1st Parentline. You will become part of a friendly, supportive team where trained staff are always on had to provide support and guidance.
We provide a comprehensive, introductory training course as well as ongoing support and opportunities to develop in the role. Our volunteers tell us that they gain experience and learn skills and that are valuable in many other areas of their lives. We also offer to cover travel expenses.
Training Course will take place in February 2023
• Sat 11th Feb - 10.00am-4.30pm
• Sat 18th Feb - 10.00am-4.30pm
• Sat 25th Feb - 10.00am-4.30pm
• Thurs 2nd Mar – 5.30pm-8.30pm
• Thurs 9th Mar - 5.30pm-8.30pm
Training sessions will take place at our office: 83 Whitehouse Loan, Edinburgh, EH9 1AT.
Pace Maker
Heart Research UK
We will provide posters for you to display in your local shops, community centres, libraries, supermarkets, pharmacies and doctors surgeries to help us reach as many people as possible. We can send you a box of badges to sell to friends, family and colleagues for donations, as well as asking local shops to have a box of badges on their counter (that we can send out directly).
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.
Cafe Volunteers
Grassmarket Community Project
We need people who are/can:
Physically fit as you would be on your feet all day waiting tables.
Can commit to at least on shift per week, 10/11am until 4:30pm
Are confident in dealing with customers and are friendly and welcoming.
Barista and or cash handling experience would be good, but not essential.
Willing to work in all areas of the café- counter, floor, kitchen and KP area.
You would be provided with tea, coffee and lunch while on shift and uniform.
Tartan Enterprise Assistants
Grassmarket Community Project
Volunteers will be helping in the production of making Items from our own Greyfriars tartan which will include. soft toys, purses, bags, kilts ect.
All these items will then go on sale to generate additional funds which will provide learning opportunities to adults who have or are experiencing homelessness, abuse, addiction, poor mental/physical health, loneliness, and social isolation. Embracing an asset-based approach, we provide free meals and skill-based activities to empower participants to re-connect and boost their self-esteem and social capital.
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.
Finance Volunteer
Age Scotland
To support the finance team with the day to day activities and operations.
You will have the opportunity to experience how organisations operate in a real working environment. You’ll also gain exposure to a variety of areas within finance such as; sales and purchase ledger, cashbook, management accounts and risk analysis of systems and processes.
This is an exciting time to join the team as we implement a new finance system – not only will you gain exposure to the activities and challenges faced by an organisation when adopting a new software system, you will also play a key role in testing its functionality and creating procedural guides.
• Assist senior finance officers with processing of Sale and purchase invoices and inputting data onto Sage 200/new finance system TBC.
• Understanding the different finance processes and supporting the documenting process to include any risks and controls in place. Being able to make recommendations where required.
• Organise and maintain the filing cupboard and folders.
• Completing bank reconciliations at month end.
• Assisting with preparation of month end management accounts and reconciliation of balance sheet accounts.
• Attend finance team meeting where required.
• Gain an understanding of accounting for a not for profit organisation and reporting under SORP.
• Help the finance team with the migration of data/processes from Sage 200 to the new finance system TBC.
Support the team in any ad hoc tasks
Gardening Volunteer
Leith Community Crops in Pots
We are currently looking for volunteers for our open volunteer days on Thursdays. Volunteers will drop in any time between 10am - 5pm and spend time cultivating the market garden and beautifying the Croft. This is not only a good opportunity to get involved in our community, but also a great way to get hands-on experience of gardening and DIY crafts led by our education officers. Spend time outside, learn something and meet great folks!
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.
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.
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.
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.
Cafe Food Volunteer
Shrub Co-op
We have an exciting new role becoming available at the Zero Waste Hub as we relaunch our Zero Waste Cafe. The role involves working alongside the Cafe Coordinator to create, prepare and present a changing weekly menu of tasty and affordable food recovered from our Food Sharing Project. Using food that would otherwise end up as food waste helps us get closer to a true circular economy and a world without waste.
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).
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.
Buckstone Scout Group Chair
Buckstone Scout Group
Help make a difference. Do you have good leadership skills and enjoy motivating a team? Then you could be our next Buckstone Scout Group Chair of our Group Executive Committee. As Chair you will manage things and work with our Leadership Team to ensure our Scout Group provides the best Scouting possible for our young people.
Although the ‘executive’ bit in our committee’s title makes it sound very formal, it is actually not like that at all! No prior Scouting experience is required.
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.
Community Support Services Volunteer - Lothian
Chest Heart & Stroke Scotland
Community Support Volunteers support people who have had one of our conditions to develop autonomy and confidence in self-management, enabling them to fully engage with their community and activities of their choosing. The service follows a pathway from hospital to community and can be delivered in a one-to-one and/or a group setting.
The service can be delivered to provide specified person-centred communication support for those with a communication difficulty and/or to support a specific physical or everyday task.
To undertake your role you will be required to undertake membership of the Protection of Vulnerable Groups (Adults) schemes in Scotland (PVG).
Retail Volunteer - Morningside
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.
Volunteer Recruitment Support Volunteer - Perth & Kinross
Chest Heart & Stroke Scotland
In your role you will support different teams across CHSS to recruit new volunteers in your local community either face to face, engaging with local community partners and utilizing online social media platforms. Volunteers are vital to the running of our services, shops and our fundraising events. With your help we can reach more people across Scotland to raise awareness of CHSS.
Your main tasks include:
* Identify suitable local organisations and networks to promote our various volunteer roles to.
* Use social media to advertise volunteer opportunities.
* Use offline methods such as presentations and posters to recruit volunteers in the community.
* Raise awareness and the profile of CHSS
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.
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
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.
Talking to customers.
Making our displays and window look their best!
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.
It takes place every Wednesday during term time from 3.30-4.30pm.
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 – 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
Befriending can make a huge impact in the lives of people who are at risk of homelessness or moving into new settled accommodation. You can help an individual in Edinburgh reconnect back into the community by taking them out and introducing them to social groups and activities in their area.
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.
Day Care Worker
Portobello Older Peoples Project (East Lothian)
We are looking for at least two volunteer helpers to join our Wednesday team at Portobello Older Peoples Project (POPP). POPP is a small lunch/social club which provides day care for older people from in and around the Portobello area. The aim is to reduce social isolation and support mental & physical wellbeing by providing lunch and the chance to socialise with others. Volunteers help to set up the hall, serve lunch, and support the older people to take part in activities such as quizzes, singing, reminiscence & outings. Volunteers also help on the bus bring the older people to the hall and home again.
Marketing and Fundraising Volunteer
Let's Talk (Young People) CIC
Administrative tasks for example compiling contact list, contacting local businesses, writing letters and emails to potential donors/sponsors,
Producing marketing information,
Direct engagement with the general public through activities for example bag-packing at supermarkets, bucket collections and other ideas the team comes up with.
Mental & Sexual Health Volunteers
Let's Talk (Young People) CIC
Mental/sexual health volunteers will play an important role in supporting Let’s Talk service delivery. This includes (but is not limited to) education sessions, therapeutic groups, health-promotion and drop-ins. We are keen to recruit volunteers who work well independently and have good communication skills and a warm, friendly approach.
Buckstone Scout Group Waiting List Coordinator
Buckstone Scout Group
Help us ensure that as many young people as possible are able to join our local scout group through the management of the waiting list. No previous experience of Scouting is a problem, everyone is welcome.
This role is incredibly flexible and can be done from home, around your current commitments. Dealing with enquiries either over the phone or via email, there are no set hours. It is a great opportunity to hone your communication skills. Help enable more young people locally to enjoy Scouts.
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.
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.
Board Member
SEStran (South East of Scotland Transport Partnership)
The South East of Scotland Transport Partnership (SEStran) is one of seven statutory Regional Transport Partnerships established under the Transport (Scotland) Act 2005 to take a regional approach to transport planning and delivery.
SEStran encompasses eight local authorities: City of Edinburgh, Clackmannanshire, East Lothian, Falkirk, Fife, Midlothian, Scottish Borders and West Lothian.
Within the partnership area there is a huge diversity of transportation issues, from urban congestion to rural public transport and from ferry ports to airports. SEStran aims to address these issues and work towards a more sustainable and efficient transport network.
The Partnership’s principal duty and responsibility is developing and overseeing the delivery of a statutory Regional Transport Strategy, which sets out a vision, objectives and proposed actions for how transport will support and promote economic prosperity; connect communities and reduce social exclusion; and improve environmental sustainability, health and wellbeing. SEStran is also a statutory Community Planning agency and active partner in the Community Planning Partnerships which cover our constituent Council areas and is a statutory Key Agency in the Development Planning process working closely with the Development Planning Authorities covering the region.
The Partnership Board consists of 20 Councillor members, who are nominated by our constituent Councils and 9 Non-Councillor members. There are currently 5 vacancies for Non-Councillor Board members and applications are invited from all interested individuals who have the necessary flair, experience and ability to help guide and shape the future development of transport strategy and delivery at a regional level. Applicants are expected to have operational expertise and/or knowledge of working at Board or strategic level in the business, public or voluntary sectors. Knowledge of transport issues and financial awareness are also desirable.
In addition to the Partnership Board, SEStran also have 2 sub-committees: The Performance and Audit Committee and the Succession Planning Committee and there may be the opportunity to be involved in these.
As a listed public authority, with general and specific duties under the Equality Act 2010, SEStran is committed to promoting equal opportunities, greater diversity and gender representation in the membership of Public Boards. Accordingly, we would welcome applications from sections of the community under-represented on the Board including from women, disabled people, young people and minority ethnic candidates.
Board membership is not paid but certain expenses are met. The successful candidate will be expected to attend up to 6 meetings a year, with appointment for a fixed term of four years.
More information on SEStran can be obtained at www.sestran.gov.uk or for an informal discussion contact Jim Grieve, Partnership Director, SEStran on 07734 954427.
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
Shop Volunteer - Edinburgh (Nicolson Street)
Cancer Research UK
Volunteer in our shops
Our shop volunteers are helping us beat cancer right now.
In 2019/20, 14,000 volunteers gave 3.1 million hours of their time and sold items totalling £15million. These funds are helping us start new clinical trials and research treatments as we speak.
If you volunteer at a Cancer Research UK shop, you too could make a real difference to what we can achieve. Nothing we do would be possible without amazing volunteers like you.
You’ll also gain valuable skills to help develop your CV and experience. And you’ll volunteer alongside a wonderful team of passionate, friendly people who will support you every step of the way.
Volunteering is open to everyone and no experience is required. So, if you’re looking for a new challenge, we’d love to hear from you.
What do shop volunteers do?
Volunteering in our shops is varied, exciting and rewarding. No two days are the same and you have the chance to flex different skills regularly. There are always new opportunities to keep you engaged and help you grow and develop in your role.
While this list is not exhaustive, it gives you a flavour of some of the typical tasks in our charity shops:
Serving customers, taking payments and providing good all-round customer service
Sorting through donated items and pricing stock
Working on window and shop displays
Keeping the shop tidy, clean and well organised
Interacting with the general public
Following new health, safety and social distancing measures
You don’t need any experience to volunteer
You just need to be motivated, hardworking and enjoy being part of a team. There’ll be a full induction as well as ongoing training opportunities to make sure you’re fully confident and able to excel in your role.
At CRUK we value diversity and we're committed to creating an inclusive culture where everyone is able to be themselves and to reach their full potential. We actively encourage applications from people of all backgrounds and cultures and believe that volunteers from diverse backgrounds will help us to beat cancer.
Why should I volunteer?
Volunteering brings a wealth of benefits, both personal and professional.
Every volunteer hour you donate means we can sell 6 items and make £20 of income. So, if you volunteer for a 7-hour day, this can generate £140. That means that every day you volunteer, you’ll be raising more funds to beat cancer.
You’ll gain important skills that are hugely valued in the workplace such as teamwork, communication and using your initiative.
You can boost your CV by working towards an NVQ in Retail with Derby College, and we'll provide you with a reference.
It will allow you to get involved in your local community and to meet new friends.
Our friendly CRUK team will be there to suppor t you all the way – offering guidance and helping you build your confidence.
It’s fun – you’ll gain real satisfaction from volunteering alongside our warm, friendly shop volunteers who will make you feel right at home.
The minimum age for volunteering in our shops is 18 . If you’re aged between 16 -18 you may still be able to volunteer in our shops, but you must be on a recognised scheme, for example the Duke of Edinburgh.
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. The sessions are creative and child-lead. This is a great opportunity, if you would like to gain experience for working in education.
Our volunteers are really valued. One of the parents have reported that: “The school are really impressed with the progress Eve has made. Mike has done such a brilliant job! Whatever he`s doing is really working!”
Trustees
B Healthy Together
We are an organisation which aims to facilitate health improvement for the communities in the West of Edinburgh which include Broomhouse, Sighthill & Parkhead. Using an inclusive approach, we promote healthy lifestyles and provide a variety of social health activities. We are looking for volunteers to join our Board who can bring any of the following:
representation from our local communities of Broomhouse, Sighthill and Parkhead
knowledge and skills to fulfil Treasurer role
leadership capacity to be our chair
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.
Starter Pack Volunteer
Fresh Start
Unpacking, sorting donations and assigning them to the designated area in the warehouse.
Making starter packs – food, crockery, pots and pans, cleaning, bed linens, towels, curtains or toiletries.
Keeping the packing and sorting areas safe and tidy.
Recycling items as necessary.
Working in a team and ensuring warehouse is clean and organised.
Heat & Eat Session Volunteer
Prestonfield and District Neighbourhood Workers Project
As we face the coming winter with people struggling to heat their homes or buy food, Prestonfield are planning to open our Cafe Area as a Heat & Eat facility for people who are struggling. We are opening Monday to Friday 11am to 3pm for anyone who needs to come in somewhere warm and receive a warm welcome and get a free bowl of soup and bread.
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.
Retail Volunteer - Davidson Mains
Chest Heart & Stroke Shop - Easter Road
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.
Receptionist
The Salisbury Centre
We are looking for a motivated volunteer to join our reception team. The role will focus on being a friendly face of the centre. Duties will include welcoming new and existing users of the centre. This includes helping to answer enquiries about the centre and its facilities. The role would also include answering the door and phone. The role has the potential to expand into some light administrative duties.
Treasurer
Edinburgh Old Town Development Trust
Supporting a local charity board in the role of Treasurer. Developing the strategy of the Charity and defining the path for sustainability and development of the organisation along with the Board, Trust manager, and the Staff Leadership Team. Within this, the Treasurer particularly considers financial evidence and analysis. Supporting the Finance officer with the annual budgeting process and in reviewing management accounts presented to the boards bi-monthly meetings.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Ageing Well Buddy Swimming Volunteer (Age 45+)
Edinburgh Leisure
Are you 45+ with a warm and open manner, and an appreciation
for the benefits of being active?
We are looking for enthusiastic and caring people, who are
confident in water, to join our friendly & sociable team of
volunteers to support older adults (50+) to be physically active, and
comfortable in a swimming pool environment, at one of our
venues in Edinburgh.
We’ll make sure that you receive training and support to enable
you to have fun and succeed in making a difference with us.
Buddy Swimming is for older adults who would like to swim but
who have either lost their confidence, or perhaps due to ill health,
are no longer able to swim on their own. Ageing Well volunteers -
all of whom are older adults themselves – meet participants in the
reception area prior to the session and give the necessary support
both at poolside and in the pool to help participants regain their
confidence whilst working on improving their strength,
coordination, and flexibility.
Volunteers say that they develop deeper connections within their
communities, feel better physically, mentally, and emotionally; and
are better able to manage health conditions such as stress.
The project is run in partnership with NHS Lothian and is part of
the UK Ageing Well network, which aims to increase the
expectation of good health in older adults. Please check out our
webpage for more information on our activities
https://www.edinburghleisure.co.uk/ageing-well
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
Polish Speaking Support Volunteer
Health All Round
Provide one to one support to a Polish speaking individual who may be isolated or struggling with health problems.
Help them to attend groups and events.
Provide some practical support such as helping with letters or phone calls.
No personal care or crisis support is involved.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
Safety / Tour Guide
Risk Factory (The)
The Risk Factory is a purpose built centre set up like a film set of everyday situations where visitors can experience risk in a safe environment covering topics such as fire, home and road safety. Our volunteer Safety / Tour Guides escort small groups round the lifelike scenarios delivering safety messages and running simple activities that enable them to think about dangers and actions to reduce and / or avoid risk.
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.
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 Thursday evening meetings (during term time only), etc.
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.
Garden Volunteer
Jock Tamson's Gairden
Help to create, develop and maintain the beautiful Glebe by Duddingston Loch. Tasks include Sowing seeds, ground cultivation, taking cuttings, pruning, grass-cutting, path-building, making garden structures and generally adding your skills and personality to the Glebe field.
Garden Buddy
Cyrenians
Your support and encouragement could help someone to: Engage with a gardening session to benefit their physical / mental health, relax and de-stress by spending some time in a ‘greenspace’, reduce feelings of loneliness and isolation, recover from the impact of Covid-19 (including feelings of isolation and anxiety), increase self-confidence, create links with the local community and develop informal local support networks.
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 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.
For more information, please check our website about this opportunity: https://www.trg.ed.ac.uk/get-involved/opportunities
Butterflies Baker
Marchmont St Giles Cafe
This fun roles includes checking what cakes and scones from the menu selection are needing topping up.
Baking what is needed.
Clearing up after.
Keeping the manager informed of low stocks of ingredients.
Discussing new cakes to add to the menu with the manager.
Occasionally baking for large events.
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.
Telephone Befriender
Volunteering Matters
Volunteering Matters are a national volunteering charity. Our project, Getting Together Matters, helps to reduce social isolation amongst older people across the UK.
We are looking for volunteers to provide some telephone company for people who are socially isolated. Many of these people are recognised as being at high risk in society: this could be due to a range of factors, including age or a pre-existing medical condition. Your role will enable someone to maintain contact with the outside world, helping them to feel less lonely and improving their general well-being.
This role includes:
1. Make regular telephone calls to matched beneficiaries
2. Make good conversation, keeping it light and listen intently
3. Encourage the beneficiary to take steps towards re-connecting with their local community
4. Keep a log of any relevant discussion points – highlighting any concerns – and let us know how it’s going each week
5. Support the Getting Together Matters team to reduce loneliness and isolation
School Mentor
Volunteering Matters
We are looking for volunteer mentors specifically for our project based in secondary schools in Edinburgh. Castlebrae Community High School is based in the Greendykes area of Edinburgh. As a mentor, you would be matched to a S2/S3 (12-14 years) young person from one of the schools. This is an amazing opportunity to support and mentor a young person who has been identified by the school as benefitting from wrap around support and a volunteering placement.
Office Assistant
Pain Concern (Midlothian)
Pain Concern are looking for a volunteer to support with preparing information leaflets and magazines orders for dispatch using courier services. Please note, this role involves light physical work including lifting and stretching. Training will be given.
What you would be doing:
· Preparation and packing of orders
· Dispatching information leaflets and magazines to individuals and organisations
· Dispatching boxes of information leaflets to clinics and exhibitions
· Dispatching fundraising letters
· Dealing with email correspondence
· Answering and recording client enquiries
· Recording stock in and out
· Maintain accurate stock data base(s)
· Follow health and safety policies and procedures and be proactive in supporting a positive health and safety culture.
· Liaise with appropriate members of staff
ESOL Volunteer
Connecting Craigmillar
ESOL volunteer with Syrian Men's Group. Providing informal assistance in a social group setting with English learning to Arabic speakers from Syria in the Hays, Niddrie. Relaxed group of around 12 to 15 adults from a range of different backgrounds looking to improve their English language speaking though activities, socialising, conversation and walks or trips.
Committee Secretary
Reindeer Playgroup
The main tasks are organising and minuting meetings. Managing updates to policies ,etc as required. Supporting treasurer and chair in managing the playgroup. Completion of fundraising applications and supporting other fundraising efforts. Helping to develop and manage social media and website presence. We work as a small committee supporting 3 paid staff. Team work is essential to this role.
Co-ordinator/ Horticulturist
The Lions Gate
To coordinate the work of approx 80 individuals we have on our database. Signing-up new volunteers, arranging drop-in sessions. Arranging events and workshops. Administrating volunteers. Health & Safety. Considerable knowledge of planting, plant-lore, growing, harvesting.
Resource Befriender
Safe Families
Resource Befrienders may do some painting, joinery, gardening or anything practical that helps out the family on a practical level.
Shop Assistant
Cattitude Boutique
Cattitude Cats Protection Boutique on Dundas street is looking for volunteers! Our shop specializes in the finer things and we are looking for people with a keen eye for fashion. If you have a couple of hours to spare and would enjoy talking with customers, creating dynamic displays, posting on our social media, or just helping tidy up the shop we would love to hear from you!
Volunteering opportunities advertised
across
Edinburgh:
385
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/
Last updated 6 hours ago
Volunteer
I want to volunteer
Favourite
Through Google Ad Grants we already have multiple adverts set up and running but we need some help maintaining our adverts and ensuring they are as effective as possible. If you have past experience in using AdWords and are keen to gain experience in the charity sector then we are looking for your help, this can be from home or in our Edinburgh facility certain days of the week. For application details please go to:https://turingtrust.co.uk/how-to-help/volunteer/apply-to-volunteer/
Last updated 6 hours ago
Volunteer
I want to volunteer
Favourite
You will get to meet the inspirational faces of community groups across the UK and immerse yourself in their work; use your existing skills in a rewarding fashion whilst developing new ones; guide members to become more inclusive; network with other like-minded individuals helping grassroots sports groups survive; and so much more. Our volunteers say that making a positive difference to our members is what they most enjoy about volunteering at Sported.
You'll use your professional skills and lived experience to help groups overcome operational challenges, become better equipped for the future, and tackle inequality in sport.
Most of our roles are quite flexible and work around your schedule. We do our best to only share opportunities we think are relevant to you. With most of our volunteering support being delivered digitally, it’s even easier to get started supporting members across our network.
Last updated 6 hours ago
Volunteer
I want to volunteer
Favourite
We are looking for an excellent written communicator to identify and apply for trust and corporate grants. You will be researching funding opportunities and writing grant applications for the rescue, keeping records on appropriate grant giving bodies, (application closing dates and processes), and reporting back to donors the difference their grant has made. You will also keep in touch with our coordinators about the progress of applications.
Last updated 3 days ago
Volunteer
I want to volunteer
Favourite
Buckstone Scout Group Secretary ... are you an organised person? Do you want to help? No previous secretarial experience is required, we just need someone who is good at admin support. Simples...and it only takes a couple of hours a month. No previous Scouts experience, no problem! This is a non-uniformed volunteering role. This is ideal for someone who does not wish to work directly with young people but support Scouts. Come and be part of our fun team.
Last updated 3 days ago
Volunteer
I want to volunteer
Favourite
Help make a difference. Do you have good leadership skills and enjoy motivating a team? Then you could be our next Buckstone Scout Group Chair of our Group Executive Committee. As Chair you will manage things and work with our Leadership Team to ensure our Scout Group provides the best Scouting possible for our young people.
Although the ‘executive’ bit in our committee’s title makes it sound very formal, it is actually not like that at all! No prior Scouting experience is required.
Last updated 3 days ago
Volunteer
I want to volunteer
Favourite
Help us ensure that as many young people as possible are able to join our local scout group through the management of the waiting list. No previous experience of Scouting is a problem, everyone is welcome.
This role is incredibly flexible and can be done from home, around your current commitments. Dealing with enquiries either over the phone or via email, there are no set hours. It is a great opportunity to hone your communication skills. Help enable more young people locally to enjoy Scouts.
Last updated 3 days ago
Volunteer
I want to volunteer
Favourite
Being a Beaver Leader (or assistant) is awesome fun. You get to to see local 6-8 year olds try a whole range of activities, growing in confidence and ability. Do you enjoy interacting with young people? Are you a team player with a positive, can-do attitude? Do you enjoy fun activities – from athletics to astronomy from photography to pioneering? Do you want to do more? Then this is right up your street. No Scouts experience, no problem. Flexible volunteering exists to fit around you.
Last updated 3 days ago
Volunteer
I want to volunteer
Favourite
Match day volunteer required to help with kit, assisting with strips and training equipment, turn style operation, pitch maintenance and general organisation.
Last updated 3 days ago
Volunteer
I want to volunteer
Favourite
As a Youth Work Volunteer, you will be collaborating with and supporting a Youth & Family Coordinator to facilitate groups across Edinburgh and East Lothian. You will be supporting and facilitating children and young people in group settings to build their confidence, allow their voices to be heard and make informed choices. You may also take part in regular meetings with the coordinator to plan creative activities and develop new ideas.
Last updated 4 days ago
Volunteer
I want to volunteer
Favourite