If you would like to follow a different route in volunteering outside of our projects then SCA can help you find an opportunity that is tailor-made and chosen by you. These might be local, national or international. For local and national placements you can use the links below to search by activity and area of work to find a placement that suits your needs; they are updated weekly.
- The Hub - Student groups and societies involved in campaigning, volunteering, ethics and the environment
- Local Opportunities for people aged 16-25 - provided in conjunction with vinspired.
- Local Opportunities for anyone - provided in conjunction with Volunteering Bristol.volunteering_bristol_logo
- National Opportunities - provided in conjunction with Do-It.
- European Opportunities - through European Voluntary Service
- International Opportunities - Voluntary Services Oversees (VSO) Global Xchange - http://www.vso.org.uk/youth
Many organisations that you can volunteer with have good support provided, however SCA is the Student volunteers' link in the Union, and provides training and accreditation, support and social events! We have a full-time member of staff to help you find your placement. Once you have seen something you are interested in, contact rachel.miller@bristol.ac.uk and she can help arrange your placement for you.
Current Opportunities
Social Help with Stroke Group
Speakability Bristol South Self-Help Group is in urgent need of a volunteer to help with their Group activities.
A volunteer would be required to assist with the Group meetings, encouraging conversation and helping to organise activities. The volunteer must also be willing to help make tea and coffee for members.
Volunteer facilitators must be good listeners with clear speech. They need to be open and friendly, with the ability to relate to people in a non-judgmental manner.
Our Bristol South Group meets Tuesday fortnightly between 10am and 12pm at:
Bedminster Library, 4 St Peters Court, Bedminster Parade
For more information, please contact Lindsey Coleman at Speakability on 020 7261 9572 or via email at lindsey@speakability.org.uk.
Teaching English Volunteering
An Education Supprt Project is looking for volunteer English and Science teachers to teach students from refugee and asylum seeking backgrounds in St Phillips in Bristol.
You would be teaching English and a second language to a small class of school age (primary and secondary) children.
Hours - 10.00 - 12.00 Saturday and Sundays
2 hours per weekend
This is a non-profit community organisation offering support to Somalian pupils in Bristol.
Contact Yassin on Yassin@voscur.org for more information.
The Sanctuary - campaigns volunteers needed
The Sanctuary Pledge (www.sanctuarypledge.org.uk)is an organisation to train citizens across the country to meet with their MPs in the run-up to the election and ask them to sign the Pledge, which calls for an end to the detention of children, amongst other things.
There has been some interest in Bristol, but we don't currently have a CITIZENS for Sanctuary team in Bristol. The organiser is keen to run a training in Bristol to set up a Bristol group for students/faith/justice groups who might be willing to take the Sanctuary Pledge to their prospective parliamentary candidates.
Check our the website and email me if you are interested in getting involed.
Discover - Volunteers needed
We are recruiting volunteers to help with Discover, a collection of activities celebrating research across the University of Bristol. Please see: <http://bristol.ac.uk/cms/cpe/discover2010>
It is a three-day event, run Thursday 11 to Saturday 13 March, in The Mall Bristol in Broadmead and Cabot Circus. We anticipate over 3,000 people attending Discover over the three days, including several hundred school children. The festival is open to the public from 9am until 6 pm and we need people throughout the day.
This is a great opportunity to be involved in a high-profile event and to meet people from across all University departments.
You can help in any number of ways, including guiding Bristol schools around the exhibits on Thursday or Friday, talking about your university experiences, explaining our work to the public, or helping out with the event orgainsation on any of the three days.
We are planning this free event to be interactive, educational and fun and the experience in public engagement and working with children will look great on your CV. You'll be give refreshments throughout the day and you can take home the T-shirt. This is also a great way of meeting people from all sorts of backgrounds including researchers, teachers, pupils, professional communicators and fellow students.
For more information please contact me at rachel.miller@bristol.ac.uk
Are you interested in fundraising for orphans and vulnerable children in western kenya?
Are you interested in visiting kenya in the summer?
Do you want to learn more about global child health issues?
If so KOP is for you. KOP is a national charity with a small group in bristol. We raise money throughout the year for a feeding centre which provides children with two meals a day so the children can focus on their education and having fun. If you are interested see the website at www.kopafrica.org or have anymore questions please email as7692@bris.ac.uk
Go Global Volunteering Opportunity!
Go Global! Volunteer opportunity
Go Global is an exciting new project for young volunteers aged 16-25 run by African Initiatives and funded by the youth volunteering charity V.
You and your team of volunteers supported by African Initiatives will plan and run a Go Global Community Action Day based around a "living" board game, using the community environment as the base for day of interactive learning. You will learn more about global issues and ways to share these with communities in Bristol and South Gloucestershire. You will design and deliver workshops on global issues that are important to you. Being a part of Go Global Project will enable you have a broader perspective on the most pressing global issues the world is facing today and give you a chance to develop your communication, presentation, and
project management skills and get a foot in the door to the charity sector!
Commitment: 5 days (or part days) volunteering over 6 weeks from early March.
How to apply:
Contact Claire Faithorn at claire@african-initiatives.org.uk
Wave of Friendship Olympic Volunteering Exchange
For anyone from London or Scotland
The Wave of Friendship is a volunteer exchange programme which has been launched to promote and support the exchange of volunteers between Scotland and London in the lead up to the 2012
Olympic and Paralympic Games in London and 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow.
It’s part of the People Making Waves initiative, a four year programme to develop and celebrate volunteering activity and create ‘waves’ of connections between London and Scotland.
Volunteers who wish to apply to the scheme can choose any opportunity that takes place between now and September 2012 that demonstrates some or all of the values of the Olympics movement:
Friendship, Respect, Excellence, Courage, Determination, Equality and Inspiration.
The programme will provide grants to 200 volunteers over the four-year period of the scheme, with each successful applicant receiving up to £500 to cover their travel, accommodation and
other expenses.
Further Information
http://www.peoplemakingwaves.org.uk/thewaveoffriendship or by
email wave@glv.org.uk or phone 020 7953 7254.
