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Volunteering Opportunities

Over 175 organizations are registered with Volunteer Centre Harrow and the volunteering opportunities they offer are listed on our database at www.do-it.org.uk

Volunteering opportunities come available in the following areas: Advice, Animals, Arts & crafts, Caring & befriending, Children, Committee work, Computer, Conservation, Counselling, Driving & transport, Education & training, Escorting, Fundraising/collecting, Gardening, Health & hospitals, Manual skills, Office work, Reading, Shop work, Youth work

You might like to work with one of the following client groups :- Children, Young people, Older people, Physical , Learning disabilities, Disabilities, Offenders or their families, People with hiv/aids, Refugees, Women

Working with people with disabilities

• helping out at a club for people who have physical or learning disabilities
• advocacy work for people with learning and/or physical disabilities
• helping at a Day Centre for people who have disabilities
• making friends with someone who has a learning disability
• doing administrative work and generally helping out at the Shopmobility Scheme in the St George's Centre, which provides wheelchairs and scooters for disabled people
• being a member of a support group for people who have learning disabilities - this could involve driving, befriending, fundraising, helping with coffee mornings and quiz nights
• driving older and disabled people to hospital and other appointments
• assisting people with disabilities in sports clubs (swimming, football, etc)

Ideas for Voluntary work that is available

Emotional Suport and Befriending

• advocacy work for older people
• befriending
• telephone befriending/telephone listening volunteer
• assisting at drop-in sessions for people who have mental health problems
• giving practical and emotional support to people who have been victims of crime
• acting as a mentor for a socially excluded teenager
• helping at a Day Centre for older people, including helping to serve lunch

Working with Children and Young People

• in holiday play schemes and after school clubs for children
• helping out at a local school with groups of children (for those over 50)
• helping a young family who are having difficulties, by giving emotional and/or practical help
• acting as an advocate for children in care
• mentoring teenagers

Practical Voluntary Work

• driving for the Housebound library service - taking books to people's homes
• working on a conservation project to help improve the environment
• gardening for older people or people who are HIV positive
• helping an animal charity
• act as a "handy person", including maintenance of a building or giving any other practical help to local people
• lay assessor - visting residential homes for elderly people as part of an Inspection Team
• helping at a toy library by checking toys in and out and repairing toys
• helping run stalls at fund-raising events for charities such as Oxfam and the National Childbirth Trust
• shopping and helping with small tasks for older people or people with HIV

Shop Work

• helping out at a charity shop

Office and Administration Work

• filing, general administration, reception work

Management Committees and Fund Raising

• serving on the management committee, ie. treasurer
• fund-raising for local charity (for people with fund-raising experience)
• business mentoring

Below you will be able to find some current opportunities:

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