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Warning Zone Limited
This opportunity takes place between 01 May 2023 and 30 Jun 2025 Closing date for applications is 01 Jul.
Warning Zone is a child safeguarding charity based at Frog Island in Leicester. We use interactive, life-like scenarios to educate children about the risks and consequences associated with certain types of behaviour, both online and offline.
Warning Zone offers a volunteering opportunity like no other. We are always on the lookout for new and enthusiastic volunteers to join our team and our vacancy for Volunteer Guide is open year round. Our volunteers help children to lead safer lives, reduce risk and realise the consequences of their actions by delivering crucial safety messages to children who are at a particularly influential age.
Mary's Meals
This opportunity takes place between 06 Feb 2024 and 06 Feb 2025 Closing date for applications is 07 Feb.
Do you want to help children living in some of the poorest countries in the world, by supporting us to provide them with a daily meal in a place of education? The Community Volunteer role is flexible and allows you to raise awareness, within your community in whatever way you feel comfortable. Tasks can include:• Help us to share our story - give Mary’s Meals talks to local community organisations, schools, churches and faith groups to raise vital awareness and funds.• Host fundraising events in your local area such as coffee mornings, quizzes, and bucket collections.• Promote Mary’s Meals’ fundraising campaigns.• Distribute and display promotional materials and place collection tins in your local community.• Host community engagement events such as film screenings to share our message.• Help us to generate corporate support in your local area.• Support with local media opportunities.• Come together as a group with other local volunteers to support each other with this work.
Our vision is that every child receives one daily meal in their place of education and that all those who have more than they need, share with those who lack even the most basic things. Education is the ladder these chidlren need in order to gain a route out of poverty.
Our mission is to enable people to offer their money, skills, time, or prayer, and through this involvement, provide the most effective help to those suffering the effects of extreme poverty in the world’s poorest communities.
GoodGym
This opportunity is ongoing, with no end date.
Each GoodGym session is slightly different. You will be supporting charities and community groups all over Leicester with different tasks from weeding in community allotments to sorting foodbank donations.Sign up at https://www.goodgym.org
GoodGym is a national organisation with an innovative approach to volunteering. They combine running, walking and cycling with supporting older people and charities by completing practical tasks.
No experience is necessary and full training and support is given. You can sign up at www.goodgym.org or contact getinvolved@goodgym.org if you have any questions
Literacy Pirates
Providing one to one and small group literacy support to 9 to 13 year olds with the guidance of a session leader, and championing the work of our Young Pirates on our virtual platform.
The Literacy Pirates is an educational charity working to develop the literacy, confidence and perseverance of young people in London, so that they achieve both in school and in the world beyond. We know that young people sometimes need some extra help to achieve their full potential, and we believe that providing support outside of school can really help young people to do better in the classroom, while also developing their broader skills. We also believe that learning should be a great adventure! So working together with local schools, families and volunteers, we deliver unique real-world learning projects (we publish their work into a book) in our online learning environment.
Alzheimer's Society
This opportunity takes place on 22 Sep 2024
This Autumn marks Alzheimer's Society's yearly Memory Walk, taking place in Leicester on Sunday 22nd September at Abbey park. Memory Walk is a series of sponsored walks held across the UK, it's free to sign up and open to all. Every year, thousands of incredible people come together to walk for a future where dementia no longer devastates lives.We’re looking for brilliant volunteers to support this year’s Memory Walk in Leicester. We have multiple opportunities available: • Event Site • Route Marshals• Back Markers
Volunteers will receive a face-to-face briefing from the Event Team before the event starts and be allocated their volunteer role on the day.
We will keep volunteers up to date through email communication in the lead up to the event, outlining the role and what to expect from volunteering at the event. Arrival time is typically 8:45am and volunteers will need to be able to commit to around 6 hours of volunteering at the event.
It’s not a problem if volunteers can’t stick around for the whole day, just make sure to get in touch to let us know that you’ll need to head off a little earlier
Full info and easy sign up is here:
Leicester Memory Walk | Alzheimer's Society (alzheimers.org.uk)
Canal & River Trust
We are looking for NEW Education Volunteers with a passion to inspire youngsters to explore our canals and rivers, in schools, on the towpath, at waterside events, through our website or in our museums. We are looking for people who can volunteer flexibly and respond to school and informal group requests as required and who can commit to at least 3 or 4 days a month. This is an active role where children keeping up with children is essential. The education volunteers support and encourage key stage 2 (7-11 age group) school and youth group (brownies, guides, cubs and scouts) visits to our sites and to work in local communities.Due to working with children and our safeguarding policy, successful applicants will be required to attend an interview and a full enhanced DBS check will need to be carried out prior to working with any groups.
We give you full training and provide resources for leading groups of children through a number of training days and team meetings. You will have the support of an Learning and Skills Officer as well as the other volunteers in your team. We provide you with training, a Uniform and the resources and support to lead inspiring visits to our waterways. We reimburse you for travel costs within 40 miles of your base. • Volunteer Induction to the Trust, • H&S training. • Safeguarding. • Risk assessment. • Basic save a life, water safety and fire training. • First Aid Training (if required) • Relevant activity session training.
Action Tutoring
Children from lower-income families are less likely to achieve academically than their better-off peers. Action Tutoring is a charity that works to level the playing field.We are looking for volunteers to support pupils from disadvantaged backgrounds in maths or English.
As a volunteer, you’ll:
Work with 1-3 pupils to improve their English and maths, either in-person or online
Commit to a 10-20 week programme, for just one hour a week
Support either primary or secondary school-aged pupils
Use our tutor workbooks to shape your weekly sessions
Good grades improve future prospects, opening the door to a wider range of opportunities. If you enjoy working with children and are passionate about social equality, you can make a tangible difference by volunteering for an hour a week.
Scouts
We can offer you a fantastic opportunity to learn new skills, have fun and enhance your CV.We are a vibrant Scout Group that offers scouting up to young people aged 8-14 years within a Cub Pack and Scout Troop. We are friendly and can teach you everything you need to know - no prior knowledge is required - and we will support you to reach your full potential.So what do you have to do?We meet weekly and we do lots of different things like cooking, playing games, doing experiments and even camping. As an adult we ask that you support and encourage all of the young people to join in with the activities and try their best. We understand if you can't make every week and would welcome you when you can be there.You will be an integral part of our leadership team and your thoughts and ideas will be welcomed. The skills you will use as an adult leader in Scouts such as effectively communicating and planning can enhance your CV and make you stand out to potential employers. We are open to boys and girls from all faiths, backgrounds and abilities and welcome everyone.So what are you waiting for? Contact us for more information & to have an informal chat about the role or visit www.scout.org.uk
Online Volunteering with The Literacy Pirates We take children on voyages as readers and writers, and we’re on the lookout for volunteers to join the virtual crew. Who are The Literacy Pirates? Through our term-long, after-school programme, we develop the literacy, confidence and perseverance of children aged 9-13, who are falling behind in class and have fewer opportunities in their personal lives, so that they can succeed at school and beyond. Approximately 20 children from different schools attend one after-school session per week via our specially created online platform to practise their reading and writing. We also professionally publish their work so that every Young Pirate finishes the programme a published author. What does a Volunteer Crewmate do? As a Volunteer Crewmate, your role is to join our online sessions and help the children practise their reading and writing, 1:1 and in small groups. Sessions are led and managed by our staff team, which means you can dedicate the whole time you’re with us to providing direct support to the children.
You will:
Receive full training.
Help children practise reading and writing by providing constant encouragement, positivity and celebration of their achievements.
Take part in games and have fun!
Be invited to virtual celebration events with the children to see the difference that you’ve made.
We offer:
Tempo Time Credits – for every session you volunteer, you will be rewarded with credits to redeem against days out, trips and extra-curricular opportunities for your spare time.
Employment references, for volunteers who have been with us for 12 sessions.
Work placements for students.
Socials and extra opportunities.
What are we looking for?
We ask volunteers to give just two afternoons every half term, although you are welcome to volunteer more if you choose to!
Sessions run every weekday from 3:45-6:15pm every weekday and you will have the flexibility to select which sessions you would like to attend.
No experience is required to become a volunteer – just a desire help children develop their reading and writing skills! Full training is provided.
All you need is:
To be aged 16+
Eligible to work in the UK
To complete a DBS check (we cover the cost of this)
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Oadby Cats Protection Shop
This opportunity takes place between 06 Nov 2023 and 31 Dec 2024
Volunteer Shop Assistant at Oadby Cats Protection.Are you studying or working at the University of Leicester this year and looking to get involved with the local community, make new friends and learn new skills ?We are looking for volunteers to help in our lovely friendly charity shop in Oadby town centre.Conveniently located within walking distance of the Oadby Halls of Residence #thevillagePlease get in touch if you have an hour or two to spare each week and enjoy a 20% volunteer discount on all donated goods, free tea, coffee and biscuits. Feel free to pop in for a chat at 32 The Parade Oadby, call us on 0116 271 7672 or apply online https://cats.org.uk/support-us/get-involved-volunteeringWe are open Monday - Saturday 9am -5pm
Our Cats Protection shops play a key part in raising the funds needed to help thousands of cats and kittens each year. Our shop assistant volunteers help with all aspects of the day to day running of one of our fantastic shops. They serve customers, help with stock rotation, create displays - and everything in between! They are part of a passionate retail team that make sure our shops are enjoyable places for customers to visit, leading to repeat custom and vital funds being raised to help our feline friends in need.
What can you expect to be doing?
Serving customers
Arranging and replenishing stock
Helping make changes to the shop layout, pricing and stock rotation
Using our EPOS Till Tablet system
Sharing your passion for cat welfare
Promoting the work of the Cats Protection
What are the benefits to you and the cats?
You will develop new skills, expand your knowledge and make a significant contribution to improving the lives of cats and kittens by contributing to the smooth running of a Cats Protection shop and helping raise the funds needed to help cats and kittens in need. You will also meet new people, make new friends and be part of a dedicated team of volunteers.
We’re looking for someone with
A friendly and outgoing personality Confidence in handling money (optional) Good communication skills Willingness to be part of a team Experience in retail (would be an advantage, but isn’t essential) Support, guidance and keeping you safe
At Cats Protection we believe our volunteers should be happy and confident in their roles. We provide support and guidance from our National Cat Centre and through our regional and local volunteer groups and teams. We offer engaging online and face-to-face training, expenses and have policies and processes to help volunteers get the most out of their time with us.
The wellbeing of our people is important and at Cats Protection we are committed to safeguarding children, adults at risk and all those that we come into contact with as part of our activities.
We look forward to hearing from you.