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• Do you want to improve the lives of older people? • Do you love gardening? • Do you have a couple of hours a week to spare? This role involves maintaining and tending to the garden for the residents to enjoy. This may involve trimming hedges, weeding, cutting the lawn and helping with whatever is needed.

Make an amazing difference in someone’s life through being a friendly face connecting them with the outside world, reducing isolation and loneliness and bringing a much-needed smile to their day. Our award-winning Kilburn Good Neighbours scheme has been a lifeline for over 60s in Kilburn and West Hampstead for almost 25 years. Volunteers visit members regularly in their homes, building a relationship with them and working with the Kilburn Good Neighbours lead to communicate any additional needs they have. Some volunteers also support with odd jobs like shopping, escorting the member to the centre or DIY tasks. Training and induction is provided.

Perfect for you if you are a people-person, warm and chatty (and love cuppas and biscuits!). Co-host our Friday Coffee Mornings at 10.15 am – 12.15 pm (event runs 10.30 am -12.00 pm), welcome, chat and engage others in conversation. Help us set up and clear away as well to round off the fun!

Tech Buddies is a project with a huge positive impact on social connectedness and mental health among our older neighbours. The aim of Tech Buddies is to inspire and then support older people to get digitally connected and confident, to stay safe online and to use the internet regularly until they are happy to do so on their own. Together, the Tech Buddy volunteer and learner explore what technology can offer. Wednesdays and/or Saturdays you’ll be helping members aged 60+ get savvy using their smart phones, tablets, and laptops. You could be helping with anything from sending emails to installing apps.

Help secure funds for Age UK Trafford by volunteering your time at our charity shop.

Join our team of amazing fundraising volunteers and help us at various fundraising collections, special events and sporting challenges throughout the year.

A character is someone to visiting children in hospitals or children with disabilities in the community, as a beloved children's character (think princesses/superheroes) to provide enrichment activities such as a meet and greet or a storytime.

We are urgently looking for Shop Volunteers to help with serving customers, sorting and pricing goods, making displays, and other roles.

On Sunday 21st April 2024, more than 300 runners are donning their Teenage Cancer Trust shirts and taking on 26.2 miles to raise funds for young people with cancer. Greet our runners at the finish line after their epic challenge and take them to our post race venue where they can relax and rest with food, drink and a massage.

On Sunday 21st April 2024 more than 300 runners are donning their Teenage Cancer Trust shirts and taking on 26.2 miles to raise funds for young people with cancer. Could you help to celebrate and encourage them by helping us make some noise at our cheer points along the route?

Could you help to capture the amazing atmosphere of the Great North Run and create keepsakes for our team of runners?

We are urgently looking for Shop Volunteers to help with serving customers, sorting and pricing goods, making displays, and other roles.

Join CPRE London as an Events volunteer and help protect green spaces in Greater London! Participate in fun events like the "Urban Tree Festival" and "London Rivers Week" while making the city a better and healthier place.

As an Independent Life Skills volunteer, you will be supporting the delivery of our Lifewise Programme. This role will focus on cooking and we need a volunteer to work with the young people to help them choose what meals to make, supervise and assist with the cooking, plating up the food and then also with washing and tidying up afterwards.

Working in a group to assess services aimed at children and young people

We are looking for enthusiastic gardeners to help maintain our lovely gardens for our residents to enjoy. Do you want to improve the lives of older people? Do you love gardening? Do you have a couple of hours a week to spare?

As a Hosting Volunteer you will have bags of enthusiasm and enjoy the company of others, meeting and greeting, helping others and are highly sociable with the ability to work in a team.

Could you help to celebrate, cheer, wave and encourage more than 400 runners donning their Teenage Cancer Trust shirts and taking on 26.2 miles to raise funds for young people with cancer.

We welcome local volunteers who would like to befriend our elderly residents, assist and support activity sessions in the care home.

At the care home, many residents enjoy spending time chatting to others, talking about the things that are important to them. If you would like to help through volunteering, please contact us.