Volunteering Opportunities
Latest opportunities
Lagan's Foundation provides unique Home Health Care and Respite in the North West for Families & Children Living with Complex Health Needs in particular children born with heart defects, the most common birth defect worldwide. Fundraising and support from volunteers is the key to the survival and growth of this foundation - you can get in touch here
Volunteer with Friends of Barton Clough – a registered charity looking to raise funds for the Barton Clough Primary School, Stretford, Manchester. They're looking for donations for raffles and prizes for their upcoming Summer Fair. If you can support contact Katrina at fobc@bcps.bright-futures.co.uk
Valley Farm Owl are always looking for volunteers (5 or 6 people at a time) to help with muck spreading, weeding, moving stones/compost using wheelbarrows, cleaning and other manual labour.
Volunteer with the Little Green Sock Project based in Stretford Mall, who work around upcycling and donating children's clothing.
Register to volunteer at Sow the City, and when opportunities come up, they'll get in touch with you.
Aspire Recruitment are doing some fundraising work with Mencap and we'll provide more communications around the December volunteering activity in a few month's time. If you have any queries in the meantime, please contact Frank.Kinrade@aspirerecruitment.org.uk
The Aspire Recruitment team are also volunteering at Sparkle – the national transgender charity. Last we year helped set the event up and we will be doing the same this year. Sparkle is on Friday 12th July. The event is on all weekend if colleagues want to volunteer on the Friday evening, Saturday or Sunday (day). For more information contact Frank.Kinrade@aspirerecruitment.org.uk.
Existing opportunities and contacts
Young People:
Careers and Enterprise Company
Mentoring:
Environment /Carbon Literacy Project:
Beach/River Cleaning:
Voluntary and Community Sector - localised:
Voluntary Action Sheffield (VAS)
LCVS (Liverpool Charity and Voluntary Services)
Community / Voluntary Services in each Local Authority area:
- Bolton - Bolton Community and Voluntary Services | Bolton CVS
- Bury - Volunteering – Bury VCFA
- Manchester - Volunteer to get more experience | Volunteer to get more experience | Manchester City Council
- MCRVIP promoting and developing volunteering in your area. A TeamKinetic powered website
- Oldham - Volunteering | Oldham Council
- Rochdale - Volunteering (rochdale.gov.uk)
- Tameside - Volunteering in your Community (tameside.gov.uk)
- Trafford - Volunteering Opportunities in Trafford (thrivetrafford.org.uk)
- Salford - Salford CVS
- Stockport - Stockport Volunteer HUB – Volunteering in Stockport
- Wigan - Volunteering (wigan.gov.uk)
National Platforms: