Meet our volunteers

“I love volunteering on this project as I love all the work we do with people with learning difficulties. I enjoy helping them and making them feel like they are being listened to.”

Clare’s young person never failed to make her laugh, and even though she was apprehensive about the training, she says she couldn’t thank staff enough for the support.

Following a difficult start in life, Asmita has found real purpose, positivity and friendship through volunteering with the Get Out Get Active programme.

Kasim is a mentor on our Employee Volunteering e-mentoring programme. He was matched with a year 11 student from the Co-op Academy of Failsworth and they exchanged emails over our secure server for 10 months.

After recognising there were others like himself who needed help, Craig went out in search of volunteer opportunities to do just that.

The young person matched with Kirsty gained so much from having Kirsty as her befriender, even saying she wants to also befriend others when she is older!

‘My young person told me she saw me as the older sister she never had, and felt that she could confide in me and come to me for advice if anything was bothering her.’

Anna was an EVS Full-Time Volunteer with Volunteering Matters in South East Wales, where she befriended older people and people with disabilities.

Stephanie wanted to be or do something ‘more’, but didn’t know what that looked like. Volunteering with Clackmannanshire Befriending Project is the ‘more’ she was looking for, and says it totally exceeded her expectations.

Claudio is a Full-Time Volunteer who has supported young people with special educational needs and disabilities as part of the Futures Project in Norfolk.