Why Volunteer

There are loads of reasons to volunteer, from doing things to help others to getting experience - the valuable reference which could be essential for a UCAS or job application.

Volunteering means giving your time to help others for no financial reward. Your time is incredibly valuable to charities - whether its a couple of hours one weekend, or an afternoon every week; it's corny, but every little helps.

In return for giving your time you can gain valuable experience, new skills, make new friends, get a reference and have fun. If that isn't enough for you to start volunteering have a look below and we'll see if we can convince you.

Rewards

You can get rewarded for your volunteering. There are loads of different award schemes open to 16-25 year olds and vary from being nominated for an award, such as the Young Achievers Award, to logging your hours for you v50 to producing a portfolio of work for you Youth Achievement Award to gaining a qualification through an ASDAN course.

• vAwards  
• Young Achievers Award
• ASDAN - Volunteering Short Courses - Community Involvement and Volunteering (CIVA)
• ASDAN - Community Volunteering Qualifications (CVQ)
• Youth Achievement Awards

Case Studies

You don't need us to tell you how great volunteering, let your peers do it for you. Have a look through our case studies and see for yourself.

BayTree Centre Jodie Goddard, 26, from Southwark has been the lead volunteer of art and crafts activities at the Baytree Centre in Brixton since January 2009.

 

To read more case studies go to our case studies section.