In conversation with Chad, Match and Mentor Volunteer
Match and Mentor volunteer, Chad tells us how volunteering has given him a sense of community, confidence, and purpose.

Volunteer Driver (Stockton-on-Tees)
Become a Volunteer Driver and offer your time to transport a diverse client group using your own vehicle. Passengers are referred through community groups and local organisations or statutory…

Our impact in 2023
Take a look at the impact that Volunteering Matters has made in 2023. Here you can find out more about the transformational work underway in communities.

Befriender (Rhondda Cynon Taf & Merthyr Tydfil)
Could you spare the time to visit and befriend a lonely, isolated elderly person once per week for a chat and a cuppa?

Suffolk Young Ambassadors
A project supporting social mobility of over 300 young people, aged 10 to 19, to lead their own youth social action programmes in Ipswich.

Befriender (North Lanarkshire)
Build a relationship with young carers (aged between 8-18 years old) and become a good role model to them within the North Lanarkshire area.

North Lanarkshire Befriending Project
Empowering young people to make their own choices in North Lanarkshire in this befriending project.

Independent Visitor (Hounslow)
Support a young person in care by becoming a trusted, consistent adult in their life through monthly one-to-one visits. Build a meaningful relationship, share experiences and help create positive…

Telephone Befriender (Blaenau Gwent)
Become a Telephone Befriender and support older people (50+) living in Blaenau Gwent who are experiencing feelings of social isolation and loneliness.

Community Befriender (Blaenau Gwent)
Provide companionship, support confidence building and encourage involvement for older people (+50) in Blaenau Gwent County Borough. 

Blaenau Gwent Volunteering Friends
Volunteering Friends is a National Lottery Community Funded project.  Through the engagement of volunteers, we support older people (50+) living in Blaenau Gwent who are experiencing feelings of…

Sporting Chance Stockton
This project is aimed at men aged 50+ in Stockton-on-Tees who are looking to enhance their health and wellbeing, or get involved in a range of social groups or activities.

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