Love Her Wild is a UK-based nonprofit women’s adventure community. We believe outdoor adventures boost well-being, increase confidence and help protect our planet through better connections to nature. Love Her Wild is an inclusive community providing opportunities, support and funding to make the outdoors more accessible. We’ve taken thousands of women on adventures from first-time mountain hikes to world-first overseas expeditions! To learn more about Love Her Wild visit the website: https://www.loveherwild.com/ Many of these experiences are run in our Local Groups and led by Local Wilders. We now have 39 local groups covering the whole of the UK including 10 groups in Scotland! Most of our Scottish groups are new so we are reaching out for volunteers who can help us build the community in Scotland. Each of these groups is run by a Local Wilder. These groups give women and non-binary people the opportunity to connect with others looking for adventure, ask for advice, share their stories, and join local meetups. Local Wilders have a wide ranging but flexible role which can be adapted to suit the needs of the volunteer and the wants of the Local Group. As well as leading outdoor activities you will also be responsible for a Facebook group and community. Most groups have more than one Local Wilder who work together to manage their group. The description bellow outlines the typical responsibility taken on by a local wilder. however if you are interested in volunteer but are not sure you are able to meet certain aspects of the role then please get in touch so we can discuss how you could be involved. You need to be: • Enthusiastic about helping other women experience adventure. • Confident to stand up, chat and lead in front of a group of women. • Experienced enough to lead a walk/ride/swim etc in your local area. • Competent enough on social media to help with admin work within the group. • Able to commit to running 8 (or more!) events each year as Local Wilder as a mixture of evening and weekend events. As a local wilder you will be expected to: • Help admin the online group (approx 1 hour per week, usually 10 minutes a day), approving membership requests, checking the mood of discussions (stepping in if required to maintain peace), and removing any advertising or offensive members. We will work together as team to do this and discuss any borderline cases together by messenger. • Run FREE local events in your local group. (approx 8 per year between 3-7hours) These could be walks, bike rides, , wild swims, canoe trips, camping trips, surfing, picnic’s, SUP trips, trail running or anything else that you fancy organising! • Help maintain online engagement within the Facebook group (particularly over the winter months) This might include hosting a free online zoom event or sharing educational content. Benefits and rewards. • It’s hugely rewarding. You'll get to accompany people on life changing trips from their first wild swims, first camping trips and confidence building first expeditions. • The opportunity to meet and chat with a broad range of women and make new friendships. • There is the option to run occasional paid events within our group (once you have some experience with running free events). With the agreement of Love Her Wild staff and using pre-approved qualified leaders the Local Wilder who undertakes the organisation for these events will have a free place made available to them in return for their time. • Free attendance at the Local Wilder Weekend (run approximately every 9 months). This is a weekend open to all Local Wilders giving them an opportunity to meet each other, gain advice and mentorship, take part in training and have lots of fun!

Our successful #AndSheCycles campaign in Scotland aims to address what prevents teenage girls and young women from cycling. We are now looking to help reach an even wider audience. We worked with a creative agency, Heehaw, to develop a creative campaign that will help encourage more girls and young women to cycle. One of our main aims is to increase visibility of girls cycling. You can help with this by joining our team of creative people to spread the word and images on social media. Become an advocate for sustainable travel and help share the benefits of cycling to girls and young women in Scotland. You will help: - create and share social media posts regularly - keep an eye on posts and comment on these - try to improve our reach and widen our audience, particularly on Instagram - run specific campaigns or competitions - engage with other social media pages. - You can also join #AndSheCycles cycle rides across Scotland to engage with the project, if interested. We are open to your input on how you would like to help and what you specifically want to get out of it. We would love to hear your creative input. We can have a chat about it together. Our team will support you with creating social media content, provide direction on what to post and how to manage the account(s). You will also receive a specific social media training course and continued support for your further development. Our campaign is aimed specifically at young women and girls. We encourage people of all genders to join; role models and allies are also important to this campaign. Your volunteering can be formalised through the Saltire Award or count towards your Duke of Edinburgh award too. Does this sound like you? You… - are interested in encouraging more girls and young women to cycle in your area - like being creative and would enjoy putting content for social media together - may be looking to develop your creative, communication and social media skills for future employment - can carry out tasks independently and / or with a diverse group of people - share our values and mission to get more people cycling, walking and wheeling in your community. Then let us know your interest in helping with our creative media activities for the #AndSheCycles campaign. Time commitment: We are flexible on how much time you can help each week or month. Let us know what suits you. Volunteering for everyone with Sustrans: We are committed to representing the diverse communities we work with, and we welcome people from all backgrounds to volunteer with us. We commit to equity and an inclusive culture, so volunteering is for everyone. We believe that a diverse and inclusive organisation brings with it a diversity of ideas and ways of working, which strengthens everything we do. Please have a look at the website above and our Volunteering agreement before you join. Then you know what we all expect from each other when volunteering. Your accessibility: Please let us know in the application form, if you need any support or adjustments to make our first chat together and volunteering a positive experience for you. Any expenses for helping with these activities, which have been agreed, will be paid back to you. This can include for tools and public transport on the day of volunteering. If you don’t have an email address, or for any other reason aren’t able to fill in our online form, not to worry. Reach out to your local Volunteer Coordinator (find here), and they can fill in the details for you. **We will ask you for the contact details of a person, who you have known for more than 6 months (1 reference). ** Please have these ready when filling in the application form. If you need support identifying a reference, please let us know.

The Stornoway Trust is committed to the development and conservation of the Castle Grounds. The principle asset for achieving this is our tree and plant nursery located near Marybank within the Grounds. The work is rewarding but also labour intensive, we are looking for a committed volunteer to help us achieve our goals. The purpose of the role is to assist the Nursery Coordinator in a variety of tasks, working alongside other volunteers and the Garden Team. Tasks will involve potting up seedlings, propagation, organising plant stock, watering, weeding seedling beds, and seed collecting (to name just a few). Volunteer benefits - • Working with nature • Conserving the Castle Grounds • Learning lots of new skills • Working in the fresh air • Physical activity (get those steps up) • Friendly, knowledgeable team

The Western Isles Citizen Advice Service are looking for dynamic individuals to join their board of directors and assist with the strategic direction and future development of the service. WICAS is the leading information and advice provider in the Western Isles. The Board is made up of individuals from a wide range of backgrounds and currently has vacancies for new members. This is a great opportunity to help shape the future of information and advice services and contribute to the making a real difference to those in your local community.

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 will all depend on Scottish Government Covid guidelines. 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 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).

The Service Team Volunteer role is a varied role that will support VoiceAbility in the delivery of Social Security Scotland Benefits Advocacy and more. Our volunteers will help our clients to access benefits by supporting individuals with complex needs who self-disclose as having a disability. Another key part of the role is networking, in person and online, to promote the service. You will also have the opportunity to help VoiceAbility engage with local communities through supporting our school work experience programme as well as our ‘Speak Out Councils’. In your day-to-day role you will be: • Helping clients understand the service and how to access it • Dropping off promotional materials • Attending events • Assisting staff with workshops, presentations and awareness raising • Accompanying staff on home visits • Promoting the organisation and our services • Submitting regular reports on activities completed All staff work from home, and we have no office base. The role is a hybrid role where you could be at home or out in the local area. For more information, fill out our note on interest form on the link provided and someone will be in contact.

The National Representative Body (NRB) 2023-2025 will comprise of Care Experienced members of Who Cares? Scotland and aims to support the representation of the broader membership for Care Experienced people. The National Representative Body will have been elected by our members to represent the wider Care Experienced community to ensure that the direction of the organisation and our wider work is member led We are looking for volunteers who can provide a strong foundation to help strengthen the voice of the Care Experienced community, representing the views of Care Experienced people to inform and influence local and national change within care. The National Representative Body will involve interacting with Care Experienced people, supporting activity to gather their views and working with Who Cares? Scotland staff and their National Representative colleagues to represent these views on a local and national scale. Who Cares? Scotland is a people organisation. We invest in our people, our relationships and in a positive working culture. It’s important to us that our volunteer team is included, involved and motivated to change society. What will I be doing? • Embedding within regional teams, attending and facilitating at local groups and opportunities, gathering the views of members and reviewing what members have told us. • Local representation of members to help inform and influence national practice. • Co-designing and directing new projects and initiatives locally and nationally whilst representing the voice of members. • Directly supporting the organisation’s influencing work through representing members and the organisation, contributing to the production of reports. • Taking responsibility and ownership for feeding back to members on how they represented their views, the outcomes of this and the actions going forward. • Shaping organisational priorities through engagement with advocacy and participation outcomes, how we gather the views of and report back to members. • Developing our evidence-base and shaping our asks of decision makers with the ability to bring about positive change. • Supporting Care Experienced young people’s sense of belonging and connection. • Building member’s confidence and self-esteem.

About us The RNLI has a wide network of local fundraising teams/groups organising a broad range of events and activities each year raising vital life-saving funds. The teams/groups are supported by a Community Manager. The range and frequency of the events is determined by the team members themselves and the amount of time volunteered is up to the individual. We are keen to welcome new people with new ideas and new skills into our local team so that we can develop our programme of fundraising activities and events in new, creative and innovative ways and contribute to saving more lives at sea. The impact you will make You will enable volunteer RNLI lifeboat crews to save lives at sea by carrying out and supporting vital fundraising activity in your local community. What you will be doing Participating in the planning and delivery of a range of fundraising activities in the local community Encouraging and welcoming a diverse group of new supporters to assist with fundraising activities and helping to drive our One Crew ethos Championing the RNLI and building its reputation in the area What you need for this role Enthusiasm Good interpersonal and communication skills Open to change and willing to contribute and try out new ideas A flexible approach to taking on different tasks What’s in it for you Join an inclusive and diverse organisation Have fun, meet new people and join a motivated and enthusiastic team who are making a difference Learn skills and gain experience to enhance your CV Gain the satisfaction of giving back Training to fulfil your volunteer role will be provided and reasonable out of pocket expenses reimbursed

Volunteers urgently required for the Point Show on Saturday 8th July. 1 hour slots in a variety of jobs. Get in touch if you can help. Thank you.