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  • VO85131
  • Home-based volunteering

Description

Volunteering with Action Tutoring is an easy and rewarding way to make a difference to the lives of young people. By volunteering and tutoring for just one hour a week, you will be able to directly support disadvantaged young people to build their confidence and help ensure they leave school with the grades needed to build a bright future, as well as developing your own skills.

And now you can volunteer with us as an online tutor to support pupils to reach their potential. Online tutoring is a great option for anyone on a busy schedule or those continuing to keep their distance from groups of people. For our online programmes, tutors work remotely and support pupils in English or maths in a virtual classroom.

For further details please contact us at email volunteer@actiontutoring.org.uk

Organisation aims and objectives

We are an education charity supporting pupils from disadvantaged backgrounds to achieve a meaningful level of academic attainment, helping them to progress to further education, employment or training.

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Flexible times available to volunteer. All help greatly appreciated.

Frequency and commitment details

Flexible times available to volunteer. All help greatly appreciated.

Restrictions

Experience required: As a tutor, you need to have good communication skills and be a fluent English speaker. You’ll need to be willing to make your sessions engaging and interactive. Working with young people requires patience, commitment and resilience – experience working with young people is preferable but not essential.
Travel details: All you need is a laptop, computer or tablet. No travel is needed.
Minimum age: 18

Support

Training details: Excellent support and training is provided to all volunteers. You will be given training, resources and will have the support of the Action Tutoring staff, including a Programme Coordinator, who will attend tutoring sessions.
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