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Youth Group Support
at Carers' Resource (Harrogate/Craven/Airedale)
This is an opportunity for volunteers to work alongside staff, supporting Young Carers age 7-11 at our Budz Youth group. This takes place at St Johns Church, Bilton, every 2 weeks on Thursdays from 3:30pm – 5:30pm
Youth Club Support Worker
at Carers' Resource (Harrogate/Craven/Airedale)
We need additional support to help us run our Youth Clubs. These clubs run on Thursdays during term time.
Timings as below:
Primary Age Youth Club- 3-5.30pm allowing for set up and tidy up based in Bilton, Harrogate.
Secondary Age Youth Club- 6-8.15pm allowing for setup/tidy up based in St Georges Hall, Central Harrogate.
Young Healthwatch
at Healthwatch North Yorkshire
Why become a Youthwatch Volunteer?
There are so many reasons to volunteer with Youthwatch North Yorkshire, we thought we would list a few of the best ones:
1. To empower young people within health and social care!
2. To develop your skills, understanding, and aspirations!
3. To engage with your community and ensure everybody's needs are being...
Young Enterprise Business Advisor
at Young Enterprise
Young Enterprise Company Programme inspires students to set up and run their own real company guided by a Young Enterprise Business Advisor. Your enthusiasm, knowledge and real life experiences will enrich the learning for students and help them to understand the world of volunteer and prepare for their futures. You would also share in the...
Workshop Assistant - woodwork
at Jennyruth Workshops
This role assists our workshop supervisors in supporting adults who have learning disabilities to cut out plywood figures on a scroll saw and to make and assemble wooden birdboxes, trugs and other items. These will be sold at craft fairs, on our website or may be a specific order. Full training and support will be given. Volunteers needed Monday,...
Woodland Volunteering Activities
at Make It Wild
We offer volunteering opportunities for a variety of woodland maintenance tasks. These include tree planting, tree tube removal, clearing of Himalayan Balsam, gorse and holly management, seed gathering and bracken control.
We have a lovely team of volunteers and our volunteer events are very relaxed and friendly. We hope to see you soon!
Welcomer / Guides
at Ripon Cathedral Development Campaign
Volunteer Welcomers and Guides are needed to help welcome visitors to Ripons beautiful cathedral and to ensure that guests get the most from their vists. Full training is offered by our dedicated team prior to taking up duties, and regular 'Volunteer Briefing Sessions' are held to update all volunteers on specific or general issues....
Volunteer Van Driver
at Yorkshire Cancer Research
What Would I Be Doing?
• loading donated items into the charity van at our Donation Centre and unloading them at one of our shops
• delivery and collection of donated items in the charity van from various locations
• helping to plan routes and delivery schedules
• assisting in maintaining the van to a good standard and letting us know of any...
Volunteer Shop Assistant
at Artizan International
Our shop will be opening up again on April 13th 2021. We are actively looking for volunteers to help cover morning and afternoon shift Tuesday-Sunday. We are looking for confident and bubbly volunteers for our retail store in Harrogate town centre. The sale of products made by our differently-able artisans overseas helps to fund the work we do...
Volunteer Play Worker / Youth Worker
at Army Welfare Service
Help to provide fun activities for children and young people from Service families. We run play sessions and youth clubs for Service children and young people in Ripon.
Volunteer gardener
at Jennyruth Workshops
Jennyruth Workshops is a vibrant workplace where adults who have learning disabilities learn practical and life skills through designing, making and selling a range of handmade wooden and other items, building their confidence and making a contribution to their local community. They are supported by a team of staff and volunteers.
In recent years...
Volunteer Driver
at Carers' Resource (Harrogate/Craven/Airedale)
Volunteer drivers needed to transport carers from home to activities and back.
Visitor Greeter and Gardener
at Norton Conyers
A Norton Conyers volunteer would be getting a wonderful opportunity to help support a hidden treasure of Yorkshire which has a strong historical link to its historic Royal guests and a literary connection with Bronte's Jane Eyre. The walled gardens themselves are beautiful, peaceful and filled with unique plants that give pleasure to expert...
Trustee
at Carers' Resource (Harrogate/Craven/Airedale)
Carers’ Resource is looking for a new Trustee to join the Board.
The Board is particularly interested in adding trustees who have substantial experience in charity or public sector finance.
The role includes:
Ensuring that the organisation complies with its governing documents, charity law, company law and other relevant legislation or regulations...
Trustee
at Yorkshire Cancer Community
We are looking for people to join our Board of Trustees to help govern our small cancer charity which offers a support and information network across Yorkshire. The Board meet by Zoom, so applicants can come from any area. We are looking for someone with an interest in improving support services to people affected by cancer.
Trustee
at 1st Pannal Scout Group
Could you spare 4 evenings a year to help young people in Pannal? As a charity we need trustees to guide the group and ensure correct governance. No experience of either scouting nor being a trustee (training is provided), just an interest in helping young people in Pannal and Harrogate thrive and develop to their best potential.
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Trustee
at Jennyruth Workshops
We are seeking an additional trustee to join the charity's board. Some of our trustees also work as volunteers in the workshop or support the charity in other ways such as property management. We would like to hear from interested people with any relevant experience but expertise in one or more of the following areas would be especially...
Treasurer - Knaresborough Community Land Trust
at Knaresborough Community Land Trust
We are seeking an experienced accountant to take up the role of Treasurer for the Knaresborough Community Land Trust (CLT), established in 2018. Knaresborough CLT was set up to create community-owned affordable housing to benefit those living and/or working in Knaresborough. This is an exciting time for the CLT as we progress our membership drive...
Treasurer
at Little Crickets Pre-school
Can you spare 1-2 hours per week to help a wonderful pre-school based in Harrogate? Would you like to give something back to a registered charity whose main objectives are 'not for profit'?
We are looking for a new Treasurer at Little Crickets Pre-school and would welcome volunteers from the wider community to help fulfil this diverse...
Till volunteers
at Cancer Research UK
Serve customers on the till, keep the shop looking great and thank everyone who brings in their donations and custom.
Telephone or Remote Befriender
at MHA Communities Harrogate
Can you spare an hour or two each week to help an older person feel less lonely?
We are looking for caring and committed volunteers to help support an older person who lives independently in their own home with regular telephone or video calls.
The aim of telephone befriending is to reduce feelings of social isolation and loneliness. Our...
Stock Processor.
at Scope Charity Shop in Ripon
We require people to help prepare our stock,away from the shop floor. Clothes will have labels attached, then put onto coat hangers, also clothes are steamed (easier than ironing). C/D and DVD are checked ready for sale and may be priced. Upstairs in our storeroom we have small jobs washing bric brac or untangling jewellery to keep everone busy.
Speech Support Worker
at Speak With IT
With kindness and compassion the volunteer will support individuals dealing with communication problems caused by Aphasia to improve their speech, communication skills and confidence.
They will provide 1-to-1 coaching to patients in using specialist Speech and Language therapy software programmes. Volunteers will visit clients at their home in...
Social Media Volunteer
at Healthwatch North Yorkshire
- Engage with local people via social media platforms such as Facebook, Twitter and Hootsuite
- Provide assistance in updating social media platforms with interactive and interesting posts to increase followers and maintain existing followers
- Promote Healthwatch North Yorkshire and activities through social media to extend the reach of...
Shop Volunteers
at Saint Michael's Hospice
Shop Volunteers needed: Our retail operation relies heavily upon volunteers and provides a vital part of the income of our hospice. Dedicated teams of volunteers in the shops undertake a variety of tasks; serving customers, pricing goods and providing information to the public about the work of the hospice. The shops and volunteers are part of the...
Shop Volunteer
at Save the Children
Your donation of time, creativity and kindness can help us change the future for children all over the world.
Our Pateley Bridge Save the Children Shop has been a much loved part of the local community for years and continues to be hugely popular with customers and supporters due to the kindness and creativity of the amazing volunteer team. As the...
Shoe and bags volunteers
at Cancer Research UK
Have a love for shoes and bags?
We get some amazing shoes and bags donated from our very generous donors and we would love someone who would be interested in coming in for a few hours to give us a hand, putting out , pricing and taking off items. Some till work would be involved. Full training would be given. No experience needed .
Scout, Cub and Beaver Leaders
at 1st Knaresborough (Castle) Scout Group
Scout, Cub and Beaver Leaders needed to join 1st Knaresborough (Castle) Scout Group to help it bounce back from the pandemic. We'd love to talk to anyone who is, has been or would like to be a Scout Leader/Assistant and would be prepared to help the group.
Sales Assistant.
at Scope Charity Shop in Ripon
Work on our sales floor meeting and greeting our customers, offer help to them when required and process their sales through a till. Refill the shop as required, keep sales area tidy.
Safeguarding Officer
at Zero Carbon Harrogate
Zero Carbon Harrogate is a Charitable Incorporated Organisation (CIO) working to effect change across the district so that we can rapidly become a leading low carbon economy. We are currently made up of volunteers only and are now seeking a Safeguarding Officer to ensure we meet the required standards of security for our members, volunteers and...
Retail volunteer
at Ripon Museums Trust
This is a fantastic opportunity to join our team of friendly and enthusiastic volunteers who welcome visitors from far and wide to the 3 unique Ripon Law and Order Museums. You will be playing a vital role in keeping the museums open and operational so visitors can learn and enjoy their experience.
The front of house team provide the first contact...
Retail Assistant | Knaresborough
at Yorkshire Cancer Research
Whether it’s working front of house welcoming and serving customers, keeping the shop floor tidy and fresh, or organising stock behind the scenes, our volunteers play an essential role in the smooth running of the shop and raising vital funds for Yorkshire Cancer Research.
Retail & Catering Manager...at the Leeming Bar Station Tea Room and Shop
at Wensleydale Railway
Help take Leeming Bar Station House back 100 years to the roaring 20s by opening up a platform tea room and gift shop in a buffet car. You'll be a part of living heritage by helping us put a tea room and gift shop at the museum Station House, giving our visitors a taste of the last century to make their experience even more real.
Report & Research Writer
at Healthwatch North Yorkshire
Purpose of role – to support the Healthwatch Team to deliver robust, valid and reliable research reports and to ensure that strong evidence and research influences the organisation’s priorities and actions.
Key activities
- To observe the Volunteers Code of Conduct
- Assist in producing both written and oral briefs for Healthwatch, based on...
Play Worker (KISS Saturday Club)
at Harrogate Borough Council Disability Development
Do you have lots of energy? Do you like volunteering with children? Do you think that disabled children should have the same chances as non-disabled children? KISS Saturday club offers all children the chance to play, make a noise, make a mess, paint, cook, and have fun - regardless of their mental or physical ability. We need enthusiastic,...
Oxfam Shop Volunteer
at Oxfam
Overview
Oxfam is a global movement of millions of people who share the belief that, in a world rich in resources, poverty isn't inevitable. We respond fast in emergencies, work on long-term projects with communities and campaign for genuine, lasting change. Our volunteers, staff and those we aim to influence are all guided by our values of...
Nature Reserves Voluntary Trainee – North Central Reserves
at Yorkshire Wildlife Trust
Across North Yorkshire, our reserves team carries out vital practical conservation tasks, leading volunteer groups and carrying out office-based reserve management to enhance and protect nature. We are offering the opportunity for a new voluntary trainee to gain valuable experience within this team and develop skills in all aspects of habitat...
Museum Visitor Experience / Social Distance Marshall
at Ripon Museums Trust
This is a fantastic opportunity to join our team of friendly and enthusiastic volunteers who welcome visitors from far and wide to the 3 unique Ripon Law and Order Museums. You will be playing a vital role in keeping the museums open and operational so visitors can learn and enjoy their experience.
These roles are at all 3 museums and enable a...
Museum Guide
at Ripon Museums Trust
All volunteers to the Ripon Museums have the following responsibilities:
- To familiarise themselves with the introductory pack.
- To ensure they know who to approach for information/advice/support needed to perform their duties within the specific area of volunteering.
- Develop the background knowledge necessary to carry out their duties within...
Museum cleaner
at Ripon Museums Trust
Why Ripon Museums?
As a volunteer cleaner, you will be playing a vital role in helping keep Ripon Museums clean and presentable for our visitors. This is a fantastic opportunity for a volunteer to provide a service for the museums. We are a charitable trust and rely on volunteers to operate.
What will I be doing?
You will be helping to clean our...
Merchandising volunteer
at Cancer Research UK
To create fun and exciting displays all year round .....use window to display our fabulous donations and bought in goods.
To come up with exciting Windows themes, dress mannequins and instore displays with use of colours and themes.
Meeting & Network Representatives
at Healthwatch North Yorkshire
Purpose of the role
To attend and represent Healthwatch North Yorkshire at meetings and network groups. Provide updates and contribute to discussions in meetings. Report back to Healthwatch with any important topics or key areas of interest we should know about.
Key Activities
• To attend meeting/network groups in or around North Yorkshire.
•...
Media volunteer
at Cancer Research UK
Have a love of movies and or music? We are in need of a volunteer to help us out for a few hours per week to sort out our media department. You'll be putting out our best music, DVD and LPs with a price and taking off any older media. Some till work may be involved. Full training would be given and no experience is needed.
Masham Community Volunteer
at Mashamshire Community Office
We could not survive without the time and energy of our volunteers but we always need more. We need admin help, marketing and social media promotion, help at the front desk with tourists, residents, selling tickets for local Town Hall events, publicising the Blue Light Gallery, selling merchandise and maps and assisting with the public use...
Martin House - Harrogate Charity Shop Volunteer
at Martin House Children's Hospice
You are invited to join the friendly team in our Harrogate store.
Whether you're a 'people-person' who would enjoy greeting and serving our customers, or you're more suited to a behind-the-scenes role, where you would sort and prepare donations, we'd love to hear from you!
There are also opportunities for people who love...
Market Maker
at Harrogate Christmas Market
Welcoming and assisting Traders during the set-up phase. Then welcoming visitors and helping them find specific stalls, refreshments, banks and toilets, etc.
Marie Curie Helper
at Marie Curie (Bradford)
Marie Curie Helper volunteers visit people with a terminal illness in their homes, offering companionship and support for up to three hours each week. The role involves helping with activities such as reading, making short trips to the shops, support to attend social events or appointments and providing information on local services. The service...
Local volunteer manager
at Girlguiding North Yorkshire West County
The local volunteer manager (commissioner) is require to offer leadership and team management to a dedicated team of volunteers to ensure high quality guiding is happening in an area
They are responsible for administration and financial management in the local area. They should be able to promote guiding in the local area and welcome new...
Library Volunteer - Ripon Library
at North Yorkshire County Council - Library Service
Help the public to have a positive experience every time they visit Ripon Library. Help to promote reading for pleasure as well as helping to answer enquiries and help people to get online as well as planning and delivering library events and activities.
Library Volunteer
at Mashamshire Community Office
Library volunteers with a love of reading and books required to meet and greet customers, and help with any queries. Replacing and restocking shelves with books. Promoting the Library service and using social media.
Learning Team Volunteers
at Ripon Museums Trust
By joining the learning team you will have fun, meet new people whilst using or developing your skills and experience of working with children and adults in the museums. Our learning team delivers a range of primary, secondary and adult workshops and tours. The Trust has a growing reputation for the delivery of engaging, interactive and enjoyable...
Leader
at Girlguiding North Yorkshire West County
You will have the chance to make a valuable contribution to the lives of girls and young women, by helping on a weekly basis at a unit meeting. As a leader you'll help run a unit of girls, you can take your pick from Rainbows 5 - 7, Brownies 7 - 10, Guides 10 - 14 and Senior section 14 - 25. Girl guiding UK values the skills, knowledge and...
Joiner/Carpenter/DIY expert
at Artizan International
We need the help of a joiner or carpenter, perhaps an avid DIY person to help us with some wooden panelling at our craft centre on Oxford Street in Harrogate.
IT Support Volunteer - Ripon Library
at North Yorkshire County Council - Library Service
We are looking for a volunteer wanting to share their computer knowledge and skills to help those who are less confident. We need volunteers who are familiar with tablets, iPads & smartphones to help people use the internet, send emails, download eBooks etc.
IT Support Volunteer
at AbilityNet
COVID-19 Update: During the covid-19 pandemic we are delivering our services remotely and we are particularly interested to hear from individuals who want to help people who may feel more isolated than normal, having to shield themselves, maintain contain with friends and family.
We are looking for people who are interested and skilled in...
IT Buddy (Ripon)
at North Yorkshire County Council - Library Service
We are looking for IT buddy volunteers to help people to get online. We currently have the following vacancies:
1. To help people who are unable to use IT themselves to access online services
2. To support people to practise their IT skills on a 121 basis
3. To help young people to develop their coding skills at a weekly club
IT and Typist / Transcription
at North Yorkshire County Council - Library Service
We have a vacancy for a volunteer to take dictation, write emails and other documents to support a member of the public with a physical disability.
Hospice Support Volunteer
at Saint Michael's Hospice
The IPU Volunteer assists the clinical team on IPU in providing a high standard of support to patients, families, visitors and staff.
The role covers a mix of administration, reception and practical tasks which will vary according to the needs of the unit on any particular day.
The frequency of tasks varies: some are regular duties, others occur...
Horse Riding Volunteer
at Follifoot Park Disabled Riders Group
Helping adults and children with disabilities to go horse riding. It aids their mobility, boosts their confidence and provides them with some much needed fun.
The role involves working with other volunteers, relatives and carers, principally by walking alongside the horses/ponies during rides to ensure the riders have a safe and enjoyable time.
Historic researchers...to bring the Leeming Bar Station House roaring back to 1925!
at Wensleydale Railway
The Wensleydale Railway has received lottery funding to renovate the Leeming Bar Station House into a living museum and education centre. We're taking our visitors back to 1925 and we need historical researchers and recorders to help us find the fine details that will really count towards making our visitor experience real. If you're...
Historic Garden Volunteer
at Ripon Museums Trust
The garden volunteer team have worked enthusiastically to restore the Workhouse Museum gardens using the best combination of historical planting and modern horticultural techniques. The Workhouse garden is an integral part of the visitor experience of the museum. This is a fantastic opportunity to use your interest in gardening and horticulture...
HELP Fundraiser
at Harrogate Easier Living Project (HELP)
Do you want to help make a difference to the lives of older and vulnerable people living independently? Do you have lots of enthusiasm and ideas for raising funds? We are looking for people to join our fundraising committee to help us raise funds to enable us to continue offering our services to people in the Harrogate District. Volunteers are...
HELP Driving Force volunteer driver
at Harrogate Easier Living Project (HELP)
Do you like getting out and about? Could you help others to get out too? Our voluntary car driver service provides a lifeline to people unable to use public transport due to mobility, disability or location.
We help people in Harrogate, Knaresborough and the surrounding villages to get to:
- Medical and dental appointments
- Day centres and...
Harrogate Clothes Bank Volunteer
at St Marks Church
We are looking for people to join our friendly team who help people on a low income to find suitable free clothes, and to help with sorting donations.
We provide our service users with a friendly, helpful service. Clothes sorted and hung on rails so that people can browse and choose what they need, like and what fits.
Habitat Management & Wildlife Study in Ancient Woodland
at Hawkmoth Wood
Hawkmoth Wood is 12 acres of privately owned Ancient Woodland in a much larger private woodland complex called Brafferton Springs. As part of ongoing development to return the woodland from plantation woodland following planting after WW2 we are now gradually harvesting the coniferous trees and replacing with native deciduous trees and shrubs....
Fundraising/Admin Support
at Changing Faces
We have a variety of volunteering opportunities available in our Sheffield Centre covering the Yorkshire and Humber region.
Come and help support our work…
Volunteer with our Skin Camouflage Service, either with administration or by training as a Skin Camouflage Practitioner and helping people with a visible difference to apply specialist...
Fundraising Group Volunteer
at Saint Michael's Hospice
This role is ideal for those wanting to play an active and instrumental role in fundraising for Saint Michael's and Herriot Hospice Homecare. Our Fundraising Groups raise funds and awareness for the Hospices on a continual basis within their own communities. They organise a wide range of fundraising events from cake stalls to dances. A...
Fundraiser Treasurer
at Guide Dogs for the Blind Association
-Maintaining accurate records of all income and expenditure by the Group.
-To assign correct Guide Dogs banking codes to all donations.
-To bank all funds donated to Guide Dogs promptly.
-To complete and issue receipts to donors.
-Attend Group meetings and advise members on current levels of income and expenditure
-Monitor levels of expenditure,...
Fundraiser Group Coordinator
at Guide Dogs for the Blind Association
This is a rewarding opportunity for individuals who would like to organise events for Guide Dogs for the Blind that will help to raise money and awareness for our charity. This can also involve encouraging businesses to take part in our name a puppy scheme. This is a great way to start building relationships with local networks and businesses,...
Fundraiser
at Guide Dogs for the Blind Association
This role is about getting involved in the community to raise money and awareness to help deliver an amazing service to people living with an visual impairment. This will involve participating in different events, posting posters, delivering collection boxes and participating in stalls selling items to help raise money. There is a mixture of...
Front of House Reception
at Ripon Museums Trust
This is a fantastic opportunity to join our team of friendly and enthusiastic volunteers who welcome visitors from far and wide to the 3 unique Ripon Law and Order Museums. You will be playing a vital role in keeping the museums open and operational so visitors can learn and enjoy their experience.
The front of house team provide the first contact...
Finance Volunteer
at Ripon Museums Trust
• Entering invoices and expenditure details into the online software
• Preparing payments for the Director to authorise
• Checking the bank reconciliation monthly to see if any income/outgoing is not on it and flagging them to the Director
• Flagging invoices that are unpaid after the 30 day period to the relevant department head for them to chase...
Fair trade champion and shop assistant
at Harrogate Fair Trade
Are you enthusiastic about fair trade and playing a part in readjusting the balance of justice in the world? We're looking for volunteers who can offer 2 hours a week to be an in-shop ambassador, staffing the shop and talking to customers about fair trade. You don't need experience in retailing but an interest in and enthusiasm for fair...
External Hire Assistant Volunteer
at Ripon Museums Trust
As a volunteer caretaker, you will be playing a vital role in helping Ripon Museums operate an external room booking hire system to help raise vital income for the Trust, which will help to preserve this important part of our heritage. This is a fantastic opportunity for a volunteer to develop a new service for the museums, connect with the local...
Date of opportunity: 18 November 2020
Events Volunteers
at Ripon Cathedral Development Campaign
The cathedral hosts four large fundraising events per year, including the well known Beer Festival each May. Volunteers are needed to help at these events to welcome visitors and ensure they enjoy their visit. You can also be involved in the planning and marketing of events in the run up to them.
Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Volunteer
at Harrogate Town AFC Community Foundation
You’ll enable us to increase our understanding and awareness of Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI). We have an ambitious EDI strategy, and an EDI action plan for 2021 and you’ll be helping us to monitor our achievements against the plan and share information about our progress. The role will involve supporting the EDI Management team to...
Education Team Member
at Ripon Museums Trust
All volunteers to the Ripon Museums have the following responsibilities:
- To familiarise themselves with the introductory pack.
- To ensure they know who to approach for information/advice/support needed to perform their duties within the specific area of volunteering.
- Develop the background knowledge necessary to carry out their duties within...
Education Team Leader
at Ripon Museums Trust
All volunteers to the Ripon Museums have the following responsibilities:
- To familiarise themselves with the introductory pack.
- To ensure they know who to approach for information/advice/support needed to perform their duties within the specific area of volunteering.
- Develop the background knowledge necessary to carry out their duties within...
eCommerce Assistant
at Yorkshire Cancer Research
Our Volunteer Ecommerce Assistants play an essential role in the smooth running of our online shop while raising vital funds for Yorkshire Cancer Research. If you enjoy surfing the internet or selling online why not join our retail team.
This is an excellent opportunity if you want to gain experience in marketing, customer service and retail but...
Donation Centre Assistant
at Yorkshire Cancer Research
Our Volunteer Donation Centre Assistants play an essential role in the smooth running of our retail outlets while raising vital funds for Yorkshire Cancer Research.
The majority of our shops don’t have a lot of space to store donated stock, so our donation centre is a vital resource to enable us to keep more stock, organise goods for sale and to...
Disabled Riding Volunteer
at Follifoot Park Disabled Riders Group
Follifoot Park Disabled Riders Group provides horse riding for children and adults with disabilities. It aids their mobility, boosts their self confidence and provides them with some much needed enjoyment.
Our volunteers help our riders enjoy their experience safely and securely. Their duties range from helping riders to mount and dismount and...
Digital Champion
at Yorkshire Cancer Community
We want people who are active on social media and who are willing to share positive health messages with their friends and followers to help us catch cancer early. The CancerSMART team will be sharing messages via a Facebook group each week, and we would like Digital Champions to share these messages with their networks so we can reach more...
Day Care/Lunch Club Volunteer
at Cliff House Community Support Services
Due to CV19, our lunch clubs are currently suspended, so we are not recruiting volunteers to this particular role at the moment. However, we hope to relaunch this service as soon as it is safe to do so. If you would like more information about other volunteer roles that we can offer in normal times, please enquire using the button below and we can...
Dancing for Well-Being Volunteer
at Dancing for Well-Being
Do you find music and dancing lift your spirits? If so, would you like to help others enjoy the same feelings?
A growing body of research is showing how dancing can improve physical and emotional well-being in later years. Dancing for Wellbeing offers group members the company and friendship of people in similar circumstances, safe and gentle...
Craft Workshop Volunteer
at Artizan International
Do you enjoy working with people and making things - then come along to one of our weekly crafts based activity sessions for adults with disabilities / learning differences.
17+ (If circumstances are appropriate someone between 16 - 17 years may be taken on) We hold weekly craft sessions at the following locations. We are particularly keen to...
Charity Shop Volunteers
at St Gemma's Hospice
Almost two thirds of our volunteers give their time in our chain of 24 charity shops which just couldn’t function without their willing help. The shops are located across the Leeds area so there is bound to be one near you – please take a look at our shops list by visiting www.st-gemma.co.uk/shops.
Working alongside the Shop Manager, you’ll become...
Charity Shop Volunteer - Ripon
at Martin House Children's Hospice
You are invited to join the friendly team in our Acomb charity shop! Many of our 400 volunteers support us in this way. We are looking to add to our team of people who are happy to give half a day or a couple of hours a week (or more!) serving customers on the shop floor. You will be providing invaluable support to our retail provision, generating...
Charity Shop Volunteer - Knaresborough
at Martin House Children's Hospice
You are invited to join the friendly team in our Knaresborough charity shop! Many of our 400 volunteers support us in this way. We are looking to add to our team of people who are happy to give half a day or a couple of hours a week (or more!) serving customers on the shop floor. You will be providing invaluable support to our retail provision,...
Catering Support Volunteer
at Saint Michael's Hospice
To provide support to the catering team, particularly during meal times. This will involve taking meal orders, helping to serve meals to patients, refreshing drinks and clearing plates away.
Book volunteer
at Cancer Research UK
• Sorting books out for sale
• Pricing books
• Stock replenishment
Book Club Co-lead
at Zero Carbon Harrogate
Zero Carbon Harrogate (ZCH) is a Charitable Incorporated Organisation (CIO) working to effect change across the district so that we can rapidly become a leading low carbon economy. The organisation is made up of volunteers only.
We are now looking for an individual to provide administrative and practical support for our Book Club, working...
Befriending Volunteer
at Mind In Harrogate District - The Acorn Centre
This service offers the opportunity for service users to meet with a volunteer befriender on a regular basis for walks, a café visit or a shopping trip.
Befriender with HELP's Ripon & Rural Wellbeing Service
at Harrogate Easier Living Project (HELP)
Are you good at listening? Do you enjoy a chat? We are looking for empathetic befriending volunteers to provide companionship and a listening ear for older people who may need extra reassurance following a change in health, a recent bereavement or when self-esteem is at a low ebb. Having time to listen to the person can empower them, improve...
Befriender
at Supporting Older People
Our aim is to alleviate isolation and loneliness for older people who have little or no contact with people. Without our services, many of our clients would be extremely isolated and would not be able to leave their homes. We enhance emotional well-being in an age-group where loneliness and depression is an ever-increasing problem. Human...
Befriender
at Carers' Time Off @ Carers' Resource
We need volunteers who can offer 2 to 3 hours a week, a fortnight or even a month to visit or take people out whilst their carer takes a break This could include, chatting, having a coffee, doing crosswords, watching tv, knitting -, going for a walk, a drive, for a swim it is variable on the clients interests.
Asset Management Volunteer
at Carers' Resource (Harrogate/Craven/Airedale)
To undertake a full physical audit of all IT and office equipment across the organisation including all offices (and staff using equipment remotely) using an asset management software tool and/or SAGE to record all (fixed) assets. Offices in Bradford, Skipton and Harrogate.
Arts & Crafts Studio Assistant
at Artizan International
Craft Aid International is a local charity that runs weekly arts and crafts workshops in Harrogate for adults with disabilities. We also run a school outreach programme in Harrogate doing mosaics.
Do you love to craft? Have an interest in art projects? Would you like to help differently abled people in your community? Then you would make a perfect...
Artizan Sewing
at Artizan International
We are looking for experienced sewers who are able to help us from home by sewing products for our shop. These products will eventually be made at our projects in Peru & Ecuador, but while we continue to train our artisans overseas we need help here in Harrogate to get our shop fully stocked. We will be giving sewing projects such as; wash...
Art Support - currently online
at Orb Community Arts
Orb runs several art and craft groups (currently held online, but will return to face to face group working when COVID allows). We are looking for individuals to support our art tutors in delivery of these sessions. You would help create a welcoming and supportive environment, assist service users with their artwork and encourage them to get...
Administration Volunteer - Data Insight
at Saint Michael's Hospice
The Data Administrator Volunteer will be required to input various datasets from one format into another. The information will pertain to patients and requires complete confidentiality.
Health services and health care professionals, including palliative care professionals, are increasingly being required to demonstrate that they make a measurable...
Admin Volunteer
at Ripon Museums Trust
This is a fantastic opportunity to use or develop your administration, organisational and communication skills as well as the opportunity to be practically involved in the operations of the museums.
You may be :
answering telephone calls
taking messages and responding to enquiries
entering data into spreadsheets and databases
working with other...
A fabulous opportunity for anyone who loves to drive
at Dementia Forward
*Due to CV19, we’re unable to recruit volunteers to this particular role at the moment. However, there are lots of other ways you can support us and we hope to relaunch this service in the future. If you’d like more information, please enquire using the button below and we will be in touch about different ways you can support us.*
We are looking...
A Community Health Connector
at Healthwatch North Yorkshire
Help to extend the reach of Healthwatch North Yorkshire through outreach activities - virtually &/or socially distanced.
Assist the Volunteer Officer & the Outreach Coordinator at outreach events in the community. Communicate with a wide range of local people discussing health & social care services and providing information and...
Facilities Volunteer
at Saint Michael's Hospice
We are looking for volunteers who can help with aspects of maintenance at the Hospice. This could be a variety of tasks including external painting and pressure washing.
