Volunteering Opportunities

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Summary: Join us for a day of woodland management and become a Citizen Forester with City of Trees!

The aim of the day will be to plant understory shrub tree species in the woodland to improve diversity. If time permits, we can also tackle some dominant species once the tree planting is complete.
Area of Interest: Environment & Conservation
Summary: Do you think you can give something back to the community and give a local child a hand with their homework? Experience is helpful but not required.
Area of Interest: Education & Literacy, Libraries
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: 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: Cracking Good Food is looking for a Volunteer Cooking Assistant
Area of Interest: Befriending, Food Cooking & Foodbanks, Health & Social Care, Mental Health, Older People
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: We're looking for an enthusiastic Volunteer Fundraising Team Leader to help grow and support a volunteer fundraising team in Machester while working alongside other Team Leaders across the UK to share ideas, inspire success and maximise our impact.
Area of Interest: Campaigning & Advocacy, Events, Finance & Fundraising, Virtual Volunteering
Summary: Messy Church Volunteers Wanted! Do you enjoy welcoming families, getting creative, and sharing God’s love in simple ways?

Messy Church is fun, friendly, lively—and a bit messy!
Area of Interest: Arts Culture & Music, Children Young People & Families, Race Ethnicity & Religion
Summary: Volunteer with Oxfam’s Whitworth Park shop and help turn pre-loved items into life-changing support for communities worldwide. You’ll gain valuable retail experience, meet new people, and be part of a welcoming team working for a fairer world. Flexible hours available, with training and support provided. Suitable for volunteers aged 18 and over.
Area of Interest: Environment & Conservation, Finance & Fundraising, Retail, Sports & Movement
Summary: By organising and delivering awareness talks, hosting information stands, and engaging with groups, you will help educate others and inspire action. You'll use and grow your local knowledge, connections and networks to arrange and deliver awareness raising activities in your local community.. You will identify opportunities, audiences and spaces to connect with community members and share key prostate cancer risk awareness messages. Role is with Prostate Cancer UK.
Area of Interest: Health & Social Care
Summary: Every time we launch a campaign, you will be sent a collection of tasks to choose from. These could include holding a stall, writing to an MP, or finding locations for our leaflets. You'll be able to choose what you'd like to take action on from the task list.

You would also be the main contact for volunteer Advocates in your area, encouraging them to do the tasks, get involved and report back. You'll be in charge of coordinating activities, such as looking for stalls at events and then encouraging other local volunteers to come and help out.
Area of Interest: Animals, Campaigning & Advocacy, Environment & Conservation, Events, Mentoring
Summary: Join EMERGE 3Rs as a Warehouse Volunteer and help fight food waste and hunger. Pick and pack surplus food for charities across Greater Manchester. Great for active, hands-on volunteers. Flexible weekday shifts.
Area of Interest: Retail, Sports & Movement
Summary: As a Retail Photographer with Together Trust, you'll be at the heart of our fundraising efforts, capturing stylish shots of brand-new and vintage clothing to help raise money for our life-changing services. You’ll be working with a fun, creative team and using your photography skills to showcase clothes donated by big names like Boohoo and preloved gems onto sites like Vinted.
Area of Interest: Finance & Fundraising, Marketing & Social Media, Retail
Summary: Come and join our weekly drop in volunteer sessions every Thursday from 10am - 12.30pm in Levenshulme. Here you will learn all about sustainable growing, take care of Station Green's plants and crops, take care of your local area and meet other people in the community. Enjoy a free bowl of soup after the session provided by Station South.
Area of Interest: Arts Culture & Music, Environment & Conservation
Summary: As an Online Shop Volunteer, you'll help transform pre-loved treasures into vital funds that support communities around the world, from responding to emergencies and humanitarian crises to tackling poverty and inequality.

Whether you're researching and pricing stock, photographing products, creating listings, preparing orders or supporting other online shop activities, you'll play an important role in connecting donated items with new owners and helping to raise money for Oxfam's life-changing work.

You can choose to learn a bit of everything or focus on the areas that interest you most.
Area of Interest: Retail
Summary: HR and People Trustee - MileShyClub is a preventative health charity helping people who feel intimidated by exercise to become more active 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: Do you have a spare room in your home? Become a Volunteer Host in Manchester.

We are looking for people with a spare room, or even a sofa bed, in & around Manchester who are willing to offer a temporary home and a helping hand to a refugee or person seeking asylum as they plan their next steps in the UK. Hosting is only ever temporary and you decide how long you are willing to host for - it can vary from a few nights to several months and anything in between.
Area of Interest: Befriending, Homelessness & Housing, Migrants & Refugees
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: Have a car and want to help locally? Volunteer with Levenshulme Inspire to deliver meals, shopping bags, or transport elderly residents. Flexible options available throughout the week. Make a real difference in your community.
Area of Interest: Driving, Food Cooking & Foodbanks, Sports & Movement
Summary: The Brotherhood of the Cross and the Star are a community garden and food growing project that brings people together through gardening, wellbeing activities, and food support. Alongside our gardening sessions, we also run a food distribution service supporting local community members with access to surplus and donated food.

We are looking for a Social Media Support Volunteer/Freelancer to help manage and grow our online presence. The role involves updating our Facebook and Instagram pages, creating simple and engaging posts, and helping showcase our activities, workshops, and community events.
Area of Interest: Digital and Tech, Environment & Conservation, Events
Summary: Venture Arts are looking for a Studio Assistant Volunteer.
Area of Interest: Arts Culture & Music, Children Young People & Families, Disability, Older People
Summary: At The Access Project, we support young people from under-resourced backgrounds to overcome barriers to opportunity. As a volunteer coach, you’ll enable young people to develop essential skills, setting them up for success at university and in their future career. You’ll do this by delivering six online one-to-one coaching sessions over the course of the programme, which runs from January to June 2027.
Area of Interest: Advice & Employment, Children Young People & Families, Education & Literacy, Mentoring, 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: As a Volunteer Driver, you will help to give additional support to the families we work with by providing safe, comfortable and reliable transport, enabling them to travel safely to healthcare appointments, school and to other activities.
Your role may include:
• Providing transport for families to and from home or hospital appointments, according to their specific needs
• Providing transport to enable families to attend Rainbow Trust events
• Transporting siblings to and from trips or activities at school or with other providers, as and when required
Area of Interest: Children Young People & Families, Driving, Health & Social Care, Mentoring