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Volunteering Opportunities
Get Out Get Active – Tandem Pilot (Nottingham)
Get Out Get Active (GOGA) is an exciting programme that supports disabled and non-disabled people to enjoy being active together.
SAFE Males – PEER MENTOR VOLUNTEER (GWENT)
Volunteering Matters’ SAFE males project is aimed at males aged 16-35 in Gwent who have a learning need or disability. We need your help in creating fun interactive sessions.
GRANDMENTORS – VOLUNTEER (Stockton)
Grandmentors is an innovative project that sees older volunteers use their lifetime of skills and experience to support vulnerable young people leaving the care system. This opportunity is for Grandmentors Stockton.
Reports
Rural Isolation of citizens in Europe
Over the course of a two year campaign on rural isolation, Volonteurope has been gathering evidence and good practice from the European voluntary sector.
Rural isolation of citizens in europe
This brief aims to introduce the problem of rural isolation, reflect on its realities and negative impact and assess its different dimensions.
News
Volunteering Matters receives funding boost from players of charity lottery
We have been awarded £600,000 in funding from players of the People’s Postcode Lottery to support our work in tackling social isolation and boosting the health and wellbeing of older people across the UK.
Volonteurope builds bridges between young volunteers and big business
VolontEurope, together with partners from several EU states, is launching a program called European Volunteer Inclusion Program (EuroVIP) to help reduce youth unemployment in Europe.
Blog Posts
How can volunteering support better civic engagement?
Public Affairs Manager Martin Jones gave us his thoughts on the House of Lords Select Committee on Citizenship and Civic Engagement.
Why volunteer?
Volunteers make a massive difference to people and communities all over the UK, from providing advice to troubled families, helping children to read, or empowering people with disabilities.
Apathy or Action: Young Europeans Take a Stand
We’ve just closed the 25th annual Volonteurope conference here in Nantes, France. Our conference this year was all about young people, but it turned out also to be very topical and wide-ranging in the themes and issues covered.
What motivates our volunteers to keep going through the night in Blackburn?
Volunteering Matters works with Nightsafe, a local youth homeless shelter based in Blackburn, to place volunteers at the shelter overnight, to ensure that the beneficiaries can access the care and support they need.
Volunteers are a precious resource for refugees – a constant reminder that they are not alone
In 2015 more than a million refugees crossed into Europe. This migration surge has drawn attention to the inadequacy of the current asylum system and of the response given by governments to the crisis.
Reducing rural isolation in Europe
Read an introduction to Volonteurope's Rural Isolation report, the problems it causes and possible methods of altering these.
“Strategy is only good in retrospect” Discuss.
Our Chief Executive Oonagh Aitken’s take on strategic planning, as inspired by the recent National Council for Voluntary Organisations (NCVO) conference.
Is “hands-on” volunteering still relevant?
At Volunteering Matters we have nearly 25 years of experience in employee volunteering, and we have noticed that many cash-strapped charities need both skills-based and practical volunteering to achieve their goals
Volunteer and get happy!
Read how you can get happy on International Day of Happiness and how volunteering fits right into the mix.
Celebrating Play Rangers
We’re marking the end of the Play Rangers project in Bristol this month. Volunteering Matters have been running outdoor play activities and events for children across south Bristol for around ten years.