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Volunteer tutor

Ongoing

Action Tutoring is a national education charity that offers free maths and English tutoring to pupils facing disadvantage. By volunteering as a tutor at a local school or online, you'll be supporting children to build their confidence and help ensure they leave school with the grades needed to build a bright future.

What will I be doing?

Tutoring 1-3 pupils in Year 5 or 6, or Year 7, 10 or 11.
Commit to one hour a week, for up to 20 weeks. You choose the day and time to sign up to.
Use our tutor workbooks to guide your pupils through activities that will boost their confidence and grades.

What you'll gain:

Develop sought-after skills like communication, leadership, and problem-solving.
Receive induction training, tutor workbooks and ongoing support.
A reference at the end of your programme.
Travel expense reimbursement (up to £5 per session).
Free DBS check.

This volunteer role is perfect for you if you:

Are passionate about making a tangible difference to educational equity and boosting the life chances of young people facing disadvantage.
Are looking for invaluable, CV-boosting experience that directly enhances your graduate prospects, honing essential skills like communication, mentorship, problem-solving, and leadership – highly sought after in any career.
Need a flexible opportunity that fits seamlessly around your studies and busy university life, allowing you to contribute meaningfully with just one hour a week, either in-person locally or conveniently online.

We look for volunteers with:

Solid subject knowledge in the area they wish to tutor, which may be demonstrated by a degree or grade B at A-level qualification (or equivalent) or relevant experience.
The ability to explain concepts clearly and patiently.
A commitment to supporting pupils’ academic progress.

We recognise that valuable experience can be gained through diverse routes, so if your qualifications differ from those mentioned - we still encourage you to apply! Please highlight any relevant experience or skills in your application.

We welcome applications from volunteers across England, Wales, Scotland, and Northern Ireland. (Please note: this is a volunteer, unpaid position.)

Areas of interestChildren and Young People, Education, Teaching and Mentoring
Commitment LevelWeekly
LocationOff Campus, Online

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Befriending Service Companion

Age Concern Liverpool & Sefton

Ongoing

Companionship for those feeling lonely and isolated.

This opportunity would suit anyone who enjoys simply being with people in general, and older people in particular.

Each volunteer would be matched with a person over 50 years of age (known as a client), and would arrange to visit or contact that person on a regular basis, in order to provide companionshp and mental stimulation. This could include very ordinary activities, such as just having a friendly chat about every day things; listening to music; looking at photographs and sharing what is going on in daily life; or going for walks or a trip out for coffee etc. if both client and volunteer are able.

The role WILL NOT involve any aspects of personal care (e.g. preparing meals; personal assistance in the home; shopping duties etc.

Areas of interestHealth and Social Care

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Mental Health Charity Social Media Assistant

Be Free Campaign

Ongoing

Passionate about mental health? Have a knack for social media? This one is for you.

We're looking for enthusiastic creative social media managers to join our team! It will mainly be Instagram but with a vision to expand into LinkedIn. We want to increase the input of ideas to increase engagement and allow us to get our message out there so that next year when we focus more on campaigning in universities and the government for better mental health support and legislation (respectively), we can have more traction and support to achieve our aims.

Apply today to chat with our team to see if we're right for you!

Areas of interestMedia and Marketing

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Marketing for Mental Health Charity

Be Free Campaign

Ongoing

We're offering an opportunity to market our mental health training, which was piloted in government to enforce mental health policy change!

The Be Free Campaign has produced a high-quality mental health training programme designed for the workplace. Mental health in the workplace is a massive issue both for employee welfare and business function- £56 billion was lost in 2021 from UK businesses in 2021 due to mental health issues.

Piloted in the government department of health and social care, we had a massive impact and hope to roll out this training to more employers- which we need your help with! This is a fantastic opportunity to network with high-value contacts, market a high-quality product and make a difference while doing it!

This role would involve working as a team to plan a marketing strategy, putting it into motion, and working with the other charity teams to make use of our resources! We would highly recommend this opportunity for anyone who is looking for a future in marketing and wants to start out with a high-profile project. Despite this being an important project, as a mental health charity, our priority is our volunteers' wellbeing so this opportunity is as much or as little as you like with complete support from all the leads here.

Apply today to chat with our team to see if we're right for you!

Areas of interestMedia and Marketing

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NSPCC Childline Volunteer Counsellor

Childline (NSPCC)

Ongoing

Volunteer with Childline at our Liverpool base. Do you have 2-4 hours a week to give to support children and young people who contact our service? No experience is required. Full training provided.

What we’re looking for

Someone who wants to make a difference to children’s lives by being there to listen when they feel they have no one else to turn to. As a Childline counsellor, you’ll be there for young people and listen to them as they open up about whatever is worrying them, whether it’s bullying, abuse, self-harm or family relationships – you’ll be there to support them.

What you’ll do

You’ll volunteer in your local Childline base, offering counselling support to children and young people over the phone or through our 1-2-1 online chat. Your supervisor will help you develop and evaluate your counselling skills. After your initial training, you will be able to help young people as well as identify when a child or young person may be at risk, but don’t worry a supervisor will be on hand to give you plenty of support.

What you’ll get

You’ll receive training sessions over 11 weeks to prepare you for the role. When you start your regular shifts, a supervisor will be around all times to support you. Every shift includes a briefing and debriefing alongside other volunteers. Supervisors will also give you regular one-to-one support and group supervisions.

What we’ll need from you

Signing up to be a Childline counsellor is a big commitment and requires lots of training so, we do ask people to stay in the role for a minimum of one year.
We’ll also need to do some routine safeguarding checks, including an enhanced criminal record check and at least two satisfactory references with at least one covering a period of five years or more with no gaps.
It’s nothing to worry about, and we can answer any questions you have about this.

Who’s right for the role?

While we think this role is suitable for a whole range of people, we are particularly looking for those with the following qualities and experience.

• Passionate about helping young people and children
• Great communication skills
• Empathetic and perceptive
• Able to think on your feet
• Works well within a team
• Emotional resilience

Interested in getting involved? Volunteer today and join our fight for every childhood.

We can offer travel expenses up to £20 per journey and after a year's service, we are happy to provide references.

Areas of interestChildren and Young People, Domestic Violence, Drugs and Addictions, Health and Social Care, Teaching and Mentoring
Commitment LevelFlexible, Weekly, Bi-weekly, Monthly
LocationOff Campus

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Retail Shop Volunteer- Great Homer Street

Claire House Children's Hospice

Ongoing

Our Great Homer Street shop is located near Liverpool city, handy for students who live by the city. We'd love to welcome student volunteers to support Claire House by serving customers, sorting through donations, and preparing stock ready for the shop floor. By giving just a couple of hours when you can will make a huge difference.

Our Great Homer Street shop is very popular for it's quality stock, and great location. We're looking for student volunteers to support our shop's team to continue offering shop visitors great clothes, shoes, books, plus so much more. Volunteers taks could be, serving customers on the till, sorting through donations, prepare stock for the shop floor, or researching interesting items we receive in the shop.

Volunteers have the opportunity to gain new skills, build confidence, meet new people, all while making a difference by supporting Claire House.

Volunteers are also eligible to 20% discount off stock that's been out on the shop floor.

Claire House Children’s Hospice helps seriously and terminally ill children live life to the full by creating wonderful experiences and bringing back a sense of normality to family life. And by volunteering even just a couple of hours a week or month, you’ll be helping to support the children, young people and families who come to Claire House.

If this sounds like something you would like to get involved with please get in touch; volunteering@clairehouse.org.uk

Areas of interestChildren and Young People
Commitment LevelFlexible
LocationOff Campus

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Peer Support - Befriending Service

Imagine Independence

Ongoing

Our Befriending Volunteers enable our clients to develop a positive and rewarding relationship with people who are choosing to spend time with them, instead of being paid to do so.

Having a mental health problem can leave people feeling isolated and alone. Our Befriending Volunteers are key to our service as the enable our clients to develop a positive and rewarding relationship with people who are choosing to spend time with them instead of being paid to do so. We ask you commit at least 2-3 hours of your time each week to support someone, one to one, to help them get out and about and engage with the community. We have an established matching process so you’ll be with someone like-minded and with similar interests. This enables people to develop positive and rewarding relationships that benefits both parties.

You’ll be providing social support to help reduce isolation, encourage independence and help build confidence, self-reliance and well-being.

In return we provide you with Training to introduce you to the service and develop your personal skill set. You'll gain valuable experience and a great sense of self-worth. We have regular support meetings and all out of pocket travel and expenses are paid. It's also an opportunity to meet new people and make new friends!

Areas of interestHealth and Social Care

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LGBT+ Ambassador with Just Like Us

Just Like Us

Ongoing

Ambassadors form a network of LGBT+ people who use their experiences to positively impact the lives of LGBT+ young people and helps ensure they grow up with the support and representation they need.

As a Just Like Us ambassador your role will be incredibly varied. There are a number of exciting projects, tasks and opportunities you can get stuck into. You will be trained to deliver talks and workshops to schools, use your voice online by creating digital content and contribute to loads of different areas of the organisation such as fundraising, promotion, strategy and inclusion. Not only this but being an ambassador is a great way to make connections with a massive network of other diverse LGBT+ people and gain valuable employability skills such as public speaking, networking and digital content creation.

Areas of interestLGBT+

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Mary's Meals Community Volunteer

Mary's Meals

Ongoing

As a Community Volunteer you can contribute as an individual or become part of one of our local groups of passionate volunteers, helping to motivate & inspire people in your local community.

Benefits

Learn new skills and experience of working within a vibrant organisation
Meet new and like-minded people
Increase confidence
Build on team-working skills
Knowledge that you are playing a key part in reaching the next child waiting for Mary’s Meals

Training/Resources/Support

Mary’s Meals is committed to ensuring all that volunteers have an enjoyable and worthwhile volunteering experience. All Community Volunteers will have:

A comprehensive induction to Mary’s Meals
Regular training
Resources to support your role and information on Mary’s Meals administration
Support from your regional Lead Volunteer, existing volunteers and the Mary’s Meals Supporter Engagement Team
The opportunity to gain and develop skills and to meet other volunteers
The opportunity to learn more about the work of Mary’s Meals
Out of pocket expenses incurred as a result of your volunteering reimbursed in accordance with the Mary’s Meals Volunteer Expense Policy

Time commitment

This role can work flexibly to suit your availability and other commitments.

Areas of interestCampaigning and Fundraising

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Volunteer mentor for the Merseyside Offender Mentoring Project

Merseyside Offender Mentoring

Ongoing

The project supports men who are ex-offenders in the community by engaging them with a volunteer mentor who work with them weekly on a one-to-one basis to remove triggers of offending behaviour.

To do this, the support provided is holistic and bespoke to the ex-offender and led by the men themselves. This support has not only helped turn countless lives around but has contributed to a staggering reduction in re-offending rates across Merseyside.

Mentors provide support around:

Accommodation
Employment, training and education
Health and wellbeing
Finances
Family and relationships
Substance misuse
Attitudes, thinking and behaviour

Once in the community the project worker will meet with the mentee and the mentor in a public place. This is where the mentor and mentee will go through their agreed action plan to progress with their resettlement and encourage a positive lifestyle. The action plan will be tailored to whatever it is the mentee wishes to achieve. The mentee and mentor will meet on a weekly basis in public places (for example cafes, libraries or job centres) and will work on the small manageable steps required to achieve the resettlement goals. Mentors maintain regular contact with their allocated project worker to provide progress updates. They complete a report after every meeting, within a specified timeframe, to evidence the support they have given.

Mentors will have completed a compulsory three-day training package and are DBS checked. Once all the support needs of the mentee have been achieved, and the mentee feels settled and ready to maintain his independence, the match will come to an end. Mentors often report feeling a sense of achievement, knowing that they have supported an ‘at-risk’ person in achieving their goals.

Areas of interestTeaching and Mentoring

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