Volunteering Opportunities

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Summary: Coram Beanstalk provide children with 1-1 reading for pleasure support. You must be able to offer a minimum of one consistent afternoon weekly throughout the school year.
Area of Interest: Children Young People & Families, Education & Literacy
Summary: Marie Curie are looking for positive and friendly Shop Volunteers to join our retail team and help deliver a great shopping experience to our customers
Area of Interest: Finance & Fundraising, Health & Social Care, Retail, Student Volunteers (18+)
Summary: Every child deserves the chance to succeed, regardless of their background. Action Tutoring is a charity dedicated to closing the attainment gap and creating a more equitable future for young people.
Area of Interest: Children Young People & Families, Education & Literacy, Virtual Volunteering
Summary: Caritas Shrewsbury is looking for friendly football enthusiasts to volunteer at our weekly football sessions in Fallowfield. The sessions bring together refugees and people seeking asylum for football, fitness and social connection. A qualified coach already leads the sessions, so no coaching experience or qualifications are needed. We are simply looking for people who enjoy football, are friendly and would like to help welcome and encourage participants. Whether you currently play, used to play or just love football, we’d love to hear from you.
Area of Interest: Befriending, Migrants & Refugees, Sports & Movement
Summary: Join the Natalie Kate Moss Trust in raising awareness about the importance of blood pressure management—a key factor in preventing brain haemorrhages. Our Blood Pressure Awareness Days are a vital part of our mission, and we need passionate volunteers to help make them a success.
Area of Interest: Health & Social Care
Summary: We’re fundraising to help people with MS right now with services and support. And giving hope for the future with our ground breaking research programme that aims to stop MS altogether.

Our MS Society shops are a vital source of funding for our work.

As a Shop Volunteer, you’ll be at the heart of making sure our customers have a positive shopping experience. There are lots of ways of getting involved — making our window displays look great, welcoming customers, helping them with purchases, collecting donations, preparing items for sale, using our till systems to handle payments and, as part of a team, generally helping with the day-to-day running of the shop.

In this varied role, you’ll develop your organisation, team working and customer service skills. Most importantly, you’ll be helping raise funds to support people affected by MS.
Area of Interest: Retail
Summary: Brightside Connect is our online mentoring programme for 16–18-year-olds who are currently in sixth form or college across the country. Running during the autumn term, your support as a mentor will be invaluable, using your experience to help your mentee(s) to understand their next steps after school. Over a 10-week period, you might help them to explore university courses, write a CV, practice interview technique, revise for exams, and much more. All mentoring is our platform, you just need access to a mobile/tablet and no need to travel anywhere.
Area of Interest: Advice & Employment, Education & Literacy, Mentoring, Student Volunteers (18+), Virtual Volunteering
Summary: We're looking for a keen and able volunteer to research and write funding bids to meet challenges of newly arrived BME communities and updating on any local funding bids or opportunities. Searching and preparing for bids by collating and gathering information.
Area of Interest: Administration, Campaigning & Advocacy, Education & Literacy
Summary: Fallowfield Community Pantry is an affordable food scheme in the community which enables us to support 60-80 households a week to make ends meets.

We are looking for volunteers to join our team to help us with unloading deliveries of food & helping to restock the pantry & fridges on either Thursday or Friday afternoons ready for our next pantry sessions.
Area of Interest: Environment & Conservation, Food Cooking & Foodbanks
Summary: Northmoor Community Centre and Northmoor Hub are based in Longsight. Together, we provide a variety of free, drop-in activities as well as 1:1 support on benefits, pensions, housing and general advice.

We need help with spreading information on our activities and services to our local community and improving communication. We have previously done leafleting and door-knocking and want to continue this as well as finding different methods of communication and building engagement.

Skills needed:
Creative,
Good communication skills,

Skills desired:
Previous experience in local outreach and publicity,
Can speak an additional language such as: Urdu, Punjabi, Hindi, Bangla, Arabic, French
Area of Interest: Events, Marketing & Social Media
Summary: Caritas Diocese of Salford is leading the Afghan Welcome Project, a partnership initiative supporting the safe and legal resettlement of 125 Afghan households in the North West UK and nearby areas over the next five years.

Caritas Diocese of Salford is looking for community groups and volunteers to support with this mission, securing housing, help families access English classes, healthcare etc.
Area of Interest: Administration, Advice & Employment, Campaigning & Advocacy, Disability, Education & Literacy, Finance & Fundraising, Health & Social Care, Homelessness & Housing, LGBTQ+, Mental Health, Migrants & Refugees
Summary: Role with Barnardos. Work on the till processing sales and returns
Prepare stock, including sorting, steaming and pricing
Create stylish window displays
Replenish stock on the shop floor
Stock-take and other administrative tasks
Area of Interest: Children Young People & Families, Finance & Fundraising, Retail, Student Volunteers (18+), Young Volunteers (under 18)
Summary: Work on the till processing sales and returns
Prepare stock, including sorting, steaming and pricing
Create stylish window displays
Replenish stock on the shop floor
Stock-take and other administrative tasks
Area of Interest: Children Young People & Families, Finance & Fundraising, Retail, Student Volunteers (18+), Young Volunteers (under 18)
Summary: The Conservation Volunteers (TCV) bring people together to create, improve and care for green spaces.

Looking for volunteers who are interested in conservation and would like to develop skills in practical conservation, volunteer leadership and supporting individuals to access nature-based, well-being activities.
Area of Interest: Environment & Conservation
Summary: Charity Governance Trustee - MileShyClub is a preventative health charity. We help people who feel excluded from traditional fitness settings become more active, supporting their physical and mental health now and reducing the risk of health problems in the future. We do this through welcoming running, walking, mental health and Restore groups. Our guiding principle is simple: no one gets left behind.
Area of Interest: Disability, Mental Health, Migrants & Refugees, Older People, Sports & Movement
Summary: Join Global Shapers Manchester Hub to create impactful projects on climate action, financial literacy, well-being, inclusion and more! Apply online: https://mcrshapers.org/join/
Area of Interest: Administration, Children Young People & Families, Education & Literacy, Environment & Conservation, Mental Health
Summary: WE ARE HIDE OUT YOUTH ZONE

HIDE OUT Youth Zone is a charity for Manchester children and young people.
We exist to give them the opportunity to discover their passion, build confidence, and find their purpose.
Area of Interest: Administration, Children Young People & Families, Mental Health, Sports & Movement
Summary: Barnardos are looking for volunteers to help in their charity shop. You would:
Work on the till processing sales and returns
Prepare stock, including sorting, steaming and pricing
Create stylish window displays
Replenish stock on the shop floor
Stock-take and other administrative tasks
Area of Interest: Children Young People & Families, Finance & Fundraising, Retail, Student Volunteers (18+), Young Volunteers (under 18)
Summary: Support children with reading for pleasure on a 1-1 basis. You must be available on a consistent afternoon weekly throughout the school year.
Area of Interest: Children Young People & Families, Education & Literacy
Summary: We're looking for new trustees to join our 'Friends of' Board.
We're particularly keen to hear from candidates who have finance, legal, strategy, fundraising or communications know-how. You'll attend one board meeting a month and work with other trustees to set strategy, oversee risk, champion our library and help us reach new audiences.
This is an exciting time to join us as a plan a new strategic direction. Do you want to be part of our journey?
Area of Interest: Trusteeship & Coordination
Summary: Looking for a rewarding opportunity to support young people in your community whilst developing your own skills and experience?

Volunteering as a ReachOut mentor in a local school provides the rewarding experience to help build your mentees' skills and confidence, whilst working with a team of like-minded people and developing your own skills and experience in youth development! Choose a project in a local school that fits your schedule and give just 2 hours a week of your time over our 12-week projects to make a real difference to a young person's life.
Area of Interest: Children Young People & Families, Education & Literacy, Health & Social Care, Mental Health, Mentoring
Summary: Barnardos are looking for volunteers to help in their charity shop. You would:
Work on the till processing sales and returns
Prepare stock, including sorting, steaming and pricing
Create stylish window displays
Replenish stock on the shop floor
Stock-take and other administrative tasks
Area of Interest: Children Young People & Families, Finance & Fundraising, Retail, Student Volunteers (18+), Young Volunteers (under 18)
Summary: Barnardos are looking for volunteers to help in their charity shop. You would:
Work on the till processing sales and returns
Prepare stock, including sorting, steaming and pricing
Create stylish window displays
Replenish stock on the shop floor
Stock-take and other administrative tasks
Area of Interest: Children Young People & Families, Finance & Fundraising, Retail, Student Volunteers (18+), Young Volunteers (under 18)
Summary: The Eastern Sudan Community Association is seeking a dedicated volunteer welfare and first aid assistant for our Youth Active Heritage & Football Project.

You will help keep 60 children and young people (aged 5-16) safe on a local 3G pitch in South/Central Manchester. The role requires 1.5 to 2 hours of commitment every Sunday.
Area of Interest: Children Young People & Families, Events, Health & Social Care, Sports & Movement