Volunteering Opportunities
If you work for one of our member companies, you can search this list of our current top 10 volunteering opportunities and find your chance to make a real impact across East London. This is just the tip of the iceberg though. We have many more to choose from, so get in touch.
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Promote Health Eating!
Team Challenge Opportunity!
Name of community organisation.
Community Food Enterprise
Brief description of opportunity.
Volunteers needed to help this local food enterprise serve up and sell yummy smoothies! Using local produce such as fruit and vegetables a team of volunteers are needed between 2pm and 4.30pm at one of the five local schools in Newham. Plus you’ll have access to one of your 5-a-day!
Motivate The Mind
Team Challenge Opportunity!
Name of community organisation.
Look Ahead - Cannon Street Project
Brief description of opportunity.
This accommodation-based service in Shadwell cater for people with varying degrees of mental ill health, learning disabilities and personality disorders. Areas of the building are currently dull and not very welcoming - they are desperate for a team of volunteers to help revamp and paint the living room and brighten up the corridors to give a warm and welcoming environment to all service users.
Rise & Shine
Team Challenge Opprortunity!
Name of community organisation.
Whitechapel Mission
Brief description of opportunity.
Whitechapel Mission is dedicated to providing a lifeline to the poor and homeless people of London who struggle each day against hunger, poverty and exclusion. The mission is always looking for groups of people who can prepare and serve breakfast, sort clothes and provide basic support in the life skills room; regular volunteers are essential to the delivery of its services.
Resident Make Over
Team Challenge Opportunity!
Name of community organisation.
Hackney Homes
Brief description of opportunity.
Hackney Homes is an excellent housing association aiming to achieve balanced, sustainable communities and neighbourhoods throughout Hackney.
Volunteers are needed to make-over garden areas and community halls through the Borough. This includes clearing sites of weeds, cutting back shrubs, painting halls, kitchens and hallways giving the areas a new lease of life and making them more user friendly. Specialist workers from Hackney Homes will be onsite to supervise.
Express Yourself
Team Challenge Opportunity!
Name of community organisation.
Outward
Brief description of opportunity.
Volunteers are needed to support an Art Day project which they would like to do once a quarter. Art Day is a day-long, fun and interactive activity where volunteers will support up to 15 people with learning disabilities to create art inspired by their visions of community.
Funky Fridays
Business Skills Opportunity!
Name of community organisation.
Mind in Tower Hamlets and Newham
Brief description of opportunity.
Every Friday a support group of local ladies get together to learn new skills, develop new interests and dabble. They are inviting volunteers to come along for a couple of hours and just share their passion. Whether you can knit, sing, crochet, play and instrument, cook, decorate cakes, dance, keep fit, play bridge- whatever!. They just want to hear about new hobbies.
Beat Financial Exclusion
Business Skills Opportunity!
Name of community organisation.
BRAC UK
Brief description of opportunity.
BRAC UK is running essential financial education sessions for local women. Volunteers are needed to give advice on saving, budgeting and other aspects of everyday money matters. The opportunity is for female volunteers only.
Story Slam
Business Skills Opportunity!
Name of community organisation.
Park Primary School in Newham
Brief description of opportunity.
Park Primary is a primary school near Stratford. Almost three quarters of the pupils speak English as an additional language, many being at the early stages of language acquisition, and the school is situated in an area with high levels of deprivation.The school is holding a 'Story Slam' in March, involving all Year 6 (9/10 year olds) writing a short story.
ALERT: Age Concern
Business Skills Opportunity!
Name of community organisation.
Age Concern Newham
Brief description of opportunity.
Age Concern Newham's Director is looking for executive coaching and leadership support to help her with both practical advice and business planning. Although the organisation has expanded significantly in the last couple of years with nearly £1million turnover, they are facing an increasingly difficult funding environment.
Number hungry?
Business Skills Opportunity!
Name of community organisation.
Community Food Enterprise
Brief description of opportunity.
A senior/middle manager with a finance background to join the Board of Community Food Enterprise. The Board has a strong representation from ex-East Thames and Sainsbury's staff as well as from Allen&Overy but need someone with strong financial skills to support their business development.
