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Big Noise Govanhill Supporter

Big Noise Govanhill

Ongoing
Help music teachers support children and young people during their instrument, general musicianship and choir classes.
"I just want to let you know that I am absolutely loving volunteering - everyone from the children to staff are absolutely amazing, so thank you again for giving me this opportunity!...I feel I have struck up great relationships with the staff as well as the kids. It is a very rewarding experience." (Feedback from a volunteer).

We believe every child and young person deserves the same opportunity to succeed and so we provide free, immersive, instrumental music tuition to pupils and pre-school children. This leads to an enhanced ability to learn in school, improvements in emotional wellbeing, confidence and esteem, as well as the acquisition of a range of social and life skills. To achieve this, volunteers are vital for our Big Noise Centre in Govanhill. You can become a positive role model in their lives and someone they look forward to spending time with. It's really rewarding work where you will see children grow into proud young people with a sense of accomplishment.

What tasks will I be expected to do?
- Support children, young people, and the music teacher during their instrument, general musicianship and choir classes
- Set up the room with the required equipment
- Walk children from their school to our centre
- Support the children and young people during their snack-time
- Tidy up the room after the session has finished
Who are we looking for?

Formal qualifications or musical experience are not necessary for this role. We are looking for individuals who are:
- Good with children and young people
- Enthusiastic, with a sincere interest in the development of children
- Friendly and approachable, with good communication skills
- Confident to join in and participate
When and where do you need me?

Big Noise takes place at Govanhill Neighbourhood Centre, 6 Daisy Street, G42 8JL (the link will show you where this is - Govanhill Neighbourhood Centre) every week from Monday to Thursday, between 2pm and 5.30pm. You should be able to commit to the same weekly session.

Big Noise runs all year (except school holidays) and requires an on-going, weekly commitment.

Anti-racism statement
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- Area of InterestBefriending & Mentoring, Children & Young People, Community Development
- LocationOff Campus
- Subject Specialist
- Investigative
- Independent & Critical Thinking
- Resourceful and Responsible
- Effective Communicator
- Confident
- Adaptable
- Experience Collaborator
- Ethically and Socially Aware
- Reflective Learner
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Code Your Future Volunteer

Code Your Future

Ongoing
Code Your Future (CYF) is a UK-based non-profit organisation that trains disadvantaged people, such as refugees, asylum seekers, and long-term unemployed people, to become web developers and helps them to find work in the tech industry. CYF students are trained in software development by professional volunteer developers from the industry.
There are volunteer roles at CodeYouFuture that don't require coding skills. If you're happy to share your knowledge and work in a team, we may be just the right organisation for you.

Core roles require a commitment of at least 3 hours during the week and occasional weekends for 6 months. However, if you only have a few hours per month and would still like to volunteer, there are roles for you.

Please note, you must be over 18 to volunteer with CodeYourFuture.

Education Volunteer

Teach the coding or professional skills needed to succeed in the local tech industry. Many volunteers start assisting in class and go from there. This is an in-person role on Saturdays. You don't have to be available every week.
- Check out our curriculum.
- Watch a short video about what it's like to volunteer in tech education at CYF
Career Mentor

As a Career Mentor, you will support Code Your Future trainees in transitioning from completing their technical education to securing jobs in the tech or digital industries. Through weekly meetings, you’ll help trainees develop employability skills, identify career paths, and prepare for job applications, interviews, and professional networking.

Code review

If you have a couple of hours a week and just want to volunteer whenever you are available, you can help us with code reviewing our trainees' pull requests. They are mainly written using JavaScript and Python, and it's part of the coursework to check if our trainees can apply their theoretical knowledge.

Pair programming

Everyone at CYF can pair programme. If you are keen on working closely with our trainees and helping them to get ready for their future job interviews, and giving them good feedback to ensure they are on the right track, this can be for you.
- Area of InterestBefriending & Mentoring, Community Development, Refugees & Asylum Seekers
- LocationOff Campus
- Subject Specialist
- Investigative
- Independent & Critical Thinking
- Resourceful and Responsible
- Effective Communicator
- Confident
- Adaptable
- Experience Collaborator
- Ethically and Socially Aware
- Reflective Learner
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Grocery Shopper

Food Train

Ongoing
Our trusted, friendly volunteers provide a vital weekly food order collection, shopping and delivery service which helps older people stay healthy and independent at home and helps combat social isolation among them.
Volunteer shoppers work in teams in the local supermarkets making up the orders for our customers. This involves the checking of the order whilst shopping, putting the goods through the check out and loading them into boxes, ready for the drivers and helpers to deliver back to the customers. Volunteer shoppers generally shop weekly or fortnightly. It is also very useful to have volunteers who can be relief shoppers, who can be called upon occasionally when regular shoppers are not available.
- LocationOff Campus
- Area of InterestCommunity Development, Health & Wellbeing
- Subject Specialist
- Investigative
- Independent & Critical Thinking
- Resourceful and Responsible
- Effective Communicator
- Confident
- Adaptable
- Experience Collaborator
- Ethically and Socially Aware
- Reflective Learner
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Volunteer Delivery Driver

Food Train

Ongoing
Collect shopping lists from customer's homes, load the orders from the supermarket into the vans, deliver the orders to the customers and unpack the shopping when required.
Accompanied by delivery helpers, our volunteer drivers collect shopping lists from the customer’s homes, load the orders from the supermarket into the vans, deliver the orders to the customers and unpack the shopping when required. Food Train supplies vans for this work so volunteers do not need to own or use their own vehicles. Our driving roles normally require at least a day’s commitment.

As Drivers, volunteers will be asked to take responsibility for the daily checking and minor maintenance of the vehicle. They will need to complete a log sheet with mileages, check for damage, check air in tyres, fill with fuel and top up oil and water levels when required. They will also be in charge of loading the vehicle and should aim to follow a fuel efficient route at all times. The driver will also at times be required to help carry shopping boxes into the customer's house with their allocated delivery helper. The driver and helper should work as a team and stay together at all times in the customer's house.
- LocationOff Campus
- Area of InterestCommunity Development, Health & Wellbeing
- Subject Specialist
- Investigative
- Independent & Critical Thinking
- Resourceful and Responsible
- Effective Communicator
- Confident
- Adaptable
- Experience Collaborator
- Ethically and Socially Aware
- Reflective Learner
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Volunteer Delivery Helper

Food Train

Ongoing
Delivery helpers go out with Food Train vans around the local area collecting shopping lists or making grocery deliveries to our customers, providing vital social contact along with the shopping.
The delivery helper assists the driver in loading the van and carrying the shopping into the customer's house, but has a lead role with the customer interface. Helpers are rseponsible for collecting the cost of the shopping and the Food Train delivery charge from the customers. The driver and helper should stay together at all times in the customer's house and drivers are expected to witness all cash handling carried out by the helper.
- Area of InterestBefriending & Mentoring, Community Development, Health & Wellbeing
- LocationOff Campus
- Subject Specialist
- Investigative
- Independent & Critical Thinking
- Resourceful and Responsible
- Effective Communicator
- Confident
- Adaptable
- Experience Collaborator
- Ethically and Socially Aware
- Reflective Learner
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Meal Makers Cook

Food Train

Ongoing
If you love to cook and would be happy to share an extra portion with an older neighbour who would really appreciate a home cooked meal, then this could be the volunteering opportunity for you.
Meal Makers is a local neighbourhood food sharing project that connects people who love cooking, and who are happy to share an extra portion of home cooked food, with an older neighbour who would really appreciate a freshly prepared meal and a friendly chat.

By turning an everyday activity into a volunteering opportunity, Meal Makers strengthens connections within communities and provides a flexible way for people to volunteer their time and skills locally in a way which suits them.

How does it work?
1. Cooks sign up and complete a PVG check and food hygiene test
2. Local recruiters find diners and help them sign up
3. Cooks search for local diners, Meal Makers team help make the match
4. Cook and Diner arrange a date and time for a meal share
5. Cook delivers tasty home-cooked meal to their Diner
- Area of InterestBefriending & Mentoring, Community Development, Health & Wellbeing
- LocationOff Campus
- Subject Specialist
- Investigative
- Independent & Critical Thinking
- Resourceful and Responsible
- Effective Communicator
- Confident
- Adaptable
- Experience Collaborator
- Ethically and Socially Aware
- Reflective Learner
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Donor Recruitment Volunteer

Glasgow Marrow

Ongoing
Attend donor recruitments & help sign-up new potential lifesavers to the Anthony Nolan stem cell register.
We're Glasgow Marrow, and we save the lives of people with blood cancer. Working on behalf of national blood cancer charity Anthony Nolan, we are part of the student-run branch of the UK's largest stem cell register. We recruit new potential donors to the stem cell register, in the hope they will one day be a match for someone in need of a lifesaving stem cell transplant. We run events across Glasgow and in 2018/19 we signed up over 750 new donors. We also run regular fundraising events to raise vital funds to allow Anthony Nolan to carry out its lifesaving work.

As a volunteer with Glasgow Marrow, you will have the opportunity to attend our donor recruitments and help sign up new potential lifesavers to the Anthony Nolan stem cell register. We couldn't do the work that we do without our volunteers and you'll be helping to save the lives of people with blood cancer, and we think that's incredible.
- LocationOff Campus, On Campus
- Area of InterestHealth & Wellbeing
- Subject Specialist
- Investigative
- Independent & Critical Thinking
- Resourceful and Responsible
- Effective Communicator
- Confident
- Adaptable
- Experience Collaborator
- Ethically and Socially Aware
- Reflective Learner
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Rising Stars Volunteer

Rising Stars

Ongoing
The Rising Stars is a social outreach program that uses basketball as a means of alleviating social inequalities and changing the lives of children and young adults in selected underserved areas of Glasgow.
In collaboration with Strathclyde University, Glasgow Caledonian University and the City College of Glasgow, we currently operate in Knightswood, Royston and Springburn. Our coach volunteers receive training and experiential learning opportunities before they are matched with our partner schools in which they deliver weekly basketball sessions that aim to enthuse children about the sport of basketball, and, through that, develop a number of physical, psychosocial, academic and civic responsibility skills which will help these kids fulfil their full potential in life. They also have the chance to be trained as tutors and support academically the kids participating in the Rising Stars Programme.

By giving these children the chance to become members of a basketball team at such a young age, we provide them with a structure witihn which they can grow, learn, and be inspired to achieve more. Within the Rising Stars, parallel to our baskeball programme runs a mentoring programme, which allows our kids to visit our partner universities and participate in life skiils sessions, with the intention of offering a view of university life and build aspirations. This is especially salient in our targeted schools, where dropout rates are hight and many pupils have little plans to further themselves academically or in a vocational setting.

If you are interested in joining the Rising Stars and change the world one kid at a time, we'd love to hear from you!
- Area of InterestBefriending & Mentoring, Children & Young People, Health & Wellbeing, Sports & Activities
- LocationOff Campus
- Subject Specialist
- Investigative
- Independent & Critical Thinking
- Resourceful and Responsible
- Effective Communicator
- Confident
- Adaptable
- Experience Collaborator
- Ethically and Socially Aware
- Reflective Learner
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Volunteer Tutor

Inclusive Homework Club

Ongoing
Volunteer tutors provide one-to-one, in-person support for primary and/or secondary students - helping them with their homework, reviewing any areas that they are struggling with and helping them prepare for exams.Volunteers are required to commit to a minimum of one 1 hour session per week and each session requires at least 1 hour of preparation. So in total, tutors must volunteer for a minimum of 2 hours per week.Volunteers are required to keep a diary tracking their student’s progress that must be updated and returned to staff at the end of each session. Volunteers will also work with students to plan SMART goals. SMART goals are specific, measurable, achievable, relevant, and time-bound.We ask volunteers to commit to volunteering with us for a minimum of 6 months and to give us at least 3-4 weeks’ notice before leaving the club. Training will be provided prior to starting.
Monday and Tuesday Sessions take place from 16:00 to 19:00 at Kinning Park Complex (G41 1BA). And Wednesday Sessions take place from 16:00 to 18:00 at Clyde Community Hall (G51 2YB).

The Club offers support to primary school students (P1 to P7) in Maths and English, and offers support to secondary school students (S1-S6) in Maths, English, Physics, Chemistry and Biology.

Once a volunteer has advised their availability as well as what subjects they wish to provide support for they will be matched with a student.

In addition to training, volunteers will be provided continuous support from the Homework Club staff. Every session will have a member of staff present that can be consulted should you have an issue, and you are always welcome to contact staff to provide feedback or raise any concerns.

Please note that a PVG will be required in order to volunteer as a tutor but this will be arranged by the Homework Club at no cost to the volunteer.

If you have not received a response to your application with in 1 week, please contact the Volunteer Coordinator, Dhai Sulaiman, at dhai@inclusivehwclub.org.uk. However, please note that our offices only open Monday to Wednesday.
- Area of InterestBefriending & Mentoring, Children & Young People, Community Development, Refugees & Asylum Seekers
- LocationOff Campus
- Subject Specialist
- Investigative
- Independent & Critical Thinking
- Resourceful and Responsible
- Effective Communicator
- Confident
- Adaptable
- Experience Collaborator
- Ethically and Socially Aware
- Reflective Learner
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Shop Assistant - Byres Road (Style/DIY)

Oxfam

Ongoing
Become an Oxfam Shop volunteer and - as well as fighting poverty - you'll learn new skills, build your CV, and join a friendly team of people at the heart of your community.

There are all sorts of things you could get involved with in our shops. From, window dressing, working behind the till, sorting donations, organising pop up shop events to managing our social media - there are so many options.
- LocationOff Campus
- Area of InterestCharity Shops
- Subject Specialist
- Investigative
- Independent & Critical Thinking
- Resourceful and Responsible
- Effective Communicator
- Confident
- Adaptable
- Experience Collaborator
- Ethically and Socially Aware
- Reflective Learner
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