Volunteer on youth projects
If you trained as a Young TimeBank Facilitator, there may be opportunities to volunteer with young people in schools or become an online mentor through another TimeBank youth programme – Junction49. Junction49 supports and inspires young people aged 14-25 to set up and deliver their own projects, campaigns and events around issues that matter to them. As this website only allows peers to sign up, you will need to be under 25 to be an online mentor. To be kept up to date with opportunities in schools or to sign up as a mentor, please email Zoe.
TimeBank
Register with TimeBank and you’ll be matched to your local Volunteer Centre who will be able to advise you on opportunities that suit your skills and interest. You’ll also be registered to receive monthly volunteering updates with ideas on how to give your time.
Do-it
You can also search the online national database of volunteering opportunities, Do-it. Visit http://www.do-it.org.uk to find your own volunteering role in your local community.
Clubs for young people
Clubs for young people is a UK-wide network of clubs, services, projects and activities for young people. It offers opportunities for more than 30,000 adult volunteers to support young people in local communities throughout the UK. Most are involved in direct face-to-face work, often supporting professional staff and occasionally managing projects themselves. Email them on office@clubsforyoungpeople.org.uk to find out more about how you can get involved.
Girlguiding
The Guides offer many ways of helping out to suit people with different interests and lifestyles – from a 12-hour challenge to becoming a leader of a guiding unit.
http://www.girlguiding.org.uk/
0207 834 6242
The Scout Association
The Scout Association provides adventurous activities and personal development opportunities for 400,000 young people aged 6-25. They provide many opportunities for volunteering with young people from leadership and activity roles, to helpers.
http://scouts.org.uk/waystohelp / 0845 300 1818
Nacro
Nacro, the ‘crime reduction charity’, aims to make society safer by finding practical solutions to reducing crime. They work to give ex-offenders, disadvantaged young people and deprived communities the help they need to build a better future. By volunteering for Nacro, you could be coaching young people in football projects, mentoring young and adult prisoners before and after release, providing one to one support to learners in their education and employment centres, or using theatre and drama to educate and engage young people. See http://www.nacro.org.uk/about/volunteering.htm for contact details of local projects.
Envision
Envision works with young people between the ages of 16-19 in schools and colleges developing social and environmental projects. They offer a number of volunteering opportunities including helping to organise and run events. Their main volunteering opportunity is the Envision Youth Educator (EYE) scheme, a role working directly with a team of young people in weekly project sessions dealing with anything from homelessness to multiculturalism. http://www.envision.org.uk/
