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Falkirk Foodbank believes that no one in our community should have to face going hungry. That’s why we provide up to five days nutritionally balanced emergency food and support to local people who are referred to us in crisis. We are part of a nationwide network of foodbanks, supported by The Trussell Trust, working to combat poverty and hunger across the UK.
To support the work that we do, we are looking for a volunteer to help us create and manage our social media presence, share engaging content, and grow our online community. This is a great opportunity to make a difference to your community while gaining valuable experience!
Responsibilities will include:
- Setting Up Social Media Pages: Create and manage our presence on Facebook, Instagram, and X.
- Creating Engaging Content: Share posts and updates about our mission, events, and success stories.
- Growing Our Community: Interact with followers and help us reach more people.
If you are interested and would like to know more then please let us know!
Would you like to make a difference to New Scots, Migrants, Refugee families in your community?
Would you like to help tackle Child Poverty?
We have the right opportunity for you!
Volunteering Matters is now recruiting volunteer mentors for our Parental Employability Project to help build resilience and aspirations to move parents towards and enter employment. While our staff will be on hand to help you provide employability specific support to parents, your role as a mentor will be focused on developing additional skills and overcoming personal barriers to facilitate their entry into the job market. More specifically, you might be supporting your mentee with confidence building, public speaking, time management, social skills, proactiveness, future plans and aspirations, accessing further education courses or work placements, additional services or local groups. No previous experience or knowledge required, just a willingness to make a difference to families in your community.
We especially welcome applications from mentors that have direct or indirect lived experience of any of the mentioned barriers and struggles and feel ready to provide friendly guidance to someone who is on their employment journey.
You will be ideally a flexible, patient and reliable individual with strong people skills. Before you start, we will invite you to attend training, aimed at providing you with all the necessary tools and knowledge to carry out your mentoring role safely and knowingly.
You will also have multiple opportunities to meet with the mentor project worker in 1:1 meetings and go through any questions or doubts you may have before you start.
Opening & closing the shop.
Daily admin & accountancy tasks.
Monitoring performance & training the team.
Understanding sales figures & targets.
ROOTs are a grassroots charity that run a foodbank which serves Bonnybridge, Banknock and Denny. We also run free community events to help connect communities, tackle social isolation, promote wellbeing and advance inclusivity. We are a passionate team of volunteers, and we are looking for more help to enable us to keep serving our community!
If you have some spare time to support the residents of Bonnybridge and the surrounding areas then we have various opportunities! These include:
- Weekly foodbank support, organisation and distribution of our collection-only foodbank.
- Driver for our (new!) minibus and for collecting goods for our foodbank.
- Community events support, such as helping with the running of our weekly Happy Mondays lunch club
If you think you could help in any way then please get in touch!
Can you spare 1/2 hours per week to support families within Edinburgh?
Volunteering Matters are a national volunteering charity. We are looking for "Family Support" Volunteers in the City of Edinburgh, who can offer practical, social and emotional support to a local family in need.
Our Family Supporters programme recruits, trains and supports volunteers, matching them 1:1 with parents and families facing a range of life challenges and barriers. Volunteers help families, spending 1:1 time together on a personalised set of goals chosen by the family, for the family.
These goals may including achieving improved living standards, building confidence and soft skills, budgeting, healthier eating, better school life, improving health and wellbeing or introducing parents to community resources, and lots more.
If you have an understanding of the challenges that families are facing and would like to use your life experiences and skills to support others, this could be the role for you!
As a volunteer, you will build a strong relationship based on trust and mutual respect, acting as a friendly face who listens and cares about the family.
Ayrshire Ukraine Community group aims are to raise as much money as possible to aid the needs of those in Ukraine who are affected by the ongoing war. The monies raised also supports those who have been temporarily relocated to the UK.
Over the last 2.5 years since the war commenced, the group has assisted and supported the incoming displaced persons fleeing the war zone with approximately 350 refugees now settled in Ayrshire homes
We are currently recruiting a Retail Assistant for our shop unit in Ayr.
Main duties: Greeting customers, cash handling (optional), keeping shop floor clean and tidy, putting out stock, sorting through donations, pricing.
Skills & experience required: No experience required as full support given. Are you happy to help, to be part of a team then we want to hear from you. Whether you love cleaning, chatting or love to organise, or have an eye for fashion? Or are you a social media wiz! All we ask is you have a couple of hours to spare and want to help a good cause!
Volunteers required To help provide a holistic, free and impartial advice service to people of Rutherglen & Cambuslang
What does the role entail?
interviewing clients
negotiating on clients behalf
interpreting and communicating information to clients to help make an informed decision
completing clear case records
recognising the root cause of problems and participating in taking action
From the first day you start at your local Bureau you'll get all the help and support you need
You don’t need to know everything to be a Citizens Advice Bureau adviser! Citizens Advice Scotland has developed an accredited training programme that will give you the skills you need to deliver a high quality service to clients. Our internet-based AdviserNet system is full of information you need to help your clients.
There will always be someone in the Citizens Advice Bureau that you can go to for guidance or support to make sure that you’re giving the right advice.
Once you’re a generalist adviser, you can choose to undertake training and develop specialist skills such as, for example, employment tribunal representation or money advice.
** VOLUNTEERS NEEDED! **
Do you have free time during the week, especially in the afternoons? We're looking for passionate individuals to join our team and help deliver food parcels to those in need.
**Perks of Volunteering:**
- Use our brand new electric van!
- Make a tangible difference in our community.
**Requirements:**
- Valid driver’s license.
- Must be 25 years or older.
Ready to lend a hand? Reach out to us and be part of something special!
For more information please email: Volunteer@somebodycaresscotland.org
Volunteer with the CFINE Pantries!
Looking for something to do with your free time? Looking to meet new people and learn new skills? Come and volunteer with the CFINE Pantry Team, we have lots of different roles that may suit you!
If you are interested please email nmckay@cfine.org or telephone: 01224 596156.
The Grampian SSAFA branch is looking for volunteer caseworkers to support veterans located in Peterhead, Fraserburgh, Huntley, Keith and Aberdeen City. Caseworkers visit veterans 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 including financial information
• 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