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Children’s Befriender

Aberlour Child Care Trust

Ongoing
Could you spare a few hours a fortnight and make a positive difference in a child’s life? Aberlour is looking for volunteer Children's Befrienders to spend one-to-one time with a child doing fun activities you both enjoy in the local community. This could be something simple like going for a walk in the park, playing sports, enjoying a tasty treat at a café and having a chat, or getting creative with arts, crafts or music. These shared activities help build trust, confidence and give the young person something fun to look forward to.
How often will I be volunteering?

This opportunity is flexible - you could plan to meet a couple of times per month, every week, or every two weeks depending on what suits your schedule. In any case, your time spent with the young person can make a real difference.

How long does the volunteering opportunity run for?

Usually, befriending matches have a planned duration of around 6 months. This means, for example, if you started in April you would likely meet with the young person until October, and if you did activities together every fortnight you would have done around 12 activities in total together.

What skills can I bring to this role?

You don't need formal qualifications - we want to hear from you if you have patience, understanding, and the desire to help a child thrive. You'll benefit from having:
- A genuine interest in the wellbeing of children and families
- Experience (formal or informal) of supporting children or young people
- A non-judgemental and empathetic approach
- Good listening and communication skills
- Respect for confidentiality and clear professional boundaries
What qualities do I need?
- Positive, encouraging, empathetic
- Patient, reliable, and understanding
- Open-minded, non-judgemental, and respectful
- Ability to act with integrity and maintain confidentiality
- Committed to making a consistent contribution
- Area of InterestBefriending & Mentoring, Children & Young People, 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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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
- Register as a CYF Volunteer on our website.
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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Join Glasgow Flower Gardens!

Glasgow Flower Gardens

Ongoing
Come and learn organic gardening, create flower bunches and be part of a community of flower enthusiasts.
Our social enterprise and Scottish charity turned club, Glasgow Flower Gardens, is one of the West End of Glasgow's best kept secrets.

Do you share our love of flowers and have an urge to come away from your computer screens and into the soil?

Come garden with us and learn about how to grow, cultivate and arrange Scottish native flowers!

We collaborate with local charities so you'll be supporting a good cause by joining. We also run workshops and organise socials.

There is also a wide variety of opportunities to get involved in the running of the club. Positions include Membership Secretary, Assistant Gardener, Social Media Team Member and regular Committee Member. These would help develop your skills and look great on a CV.
- Area of InterestBefriending & Mentoring, Community Development, Environment, 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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Glasgow Buddies Volunteer

ENABLE Glasgow

Ongoing
Supporting adults with learning disabilities to engage in social activities within the community.
On a monthly basis for 2-2.5 hours, usually on a Thursday evening, we are looking for volunteers to help out at our Glasgow Buddies club supporting with activities and outings such as ten pin bowling, meals out, and crazy golf.
- Area of InterestBefriending & Mentoring
- 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 InterestClub & Society Volunteering, 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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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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Join our team as a tutor!

Inclusive Homework Club

Ongoing
Are you looking for an opportunity to make a positive impact in your local community? Would you like to support a young person in achieving their full potential? We want to hear from you!
Here at the Inclusive Homework Club, our mission is No Child Left Behind. With the help of our extraordinary volunteer tutors, we are working to tackle barriers to learning and ensure every child receives the individualised learning support they need to reach their full potential.

We are looking for tutors in Primary and Secondary English, Maths, and Sciences who would be able to commit to a weekly session with their student. Our sessions take place face-to-face, on a one-on-one basis. On Mondays and Tuesdays, our sessions run from 4-5 PM, 5-6 PM, and 6-7 PM, and take place at Kinning Park Complex, 43 Cornwall St, G41 1BA. On Wednesdays, our sessions run from 4-5 PM and 5-6 PM, and take place at Clyde Community Hall, 41 Whitefield Rd, Glasgow G51 2YB.

Training and induction sessions will be provided, and shadowing sessions will be offered prior to starting as a tutor. So, if you don't have any experience in tutoring, we still want to hear from you!

Benefits & Perks:
- Training and induction provided
- Travel costs reimbursed
- Valuable experience for your CV, and the opportunity to gain a reference for future employment/study
- Refreshments provided
- Educational resources are available to support your sessions
What we expect from you:
- Good level of English (this is an essential requirement)
- Willingness to commit to a weekly tutoring session
If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact me: caitlin@inclusivehwclub.org.uk
- Area of InterestBefriending & Mentoring, Children & Young People, 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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IntoUniversity Mentor

IntoUniversity

Ongoing
The IntoUniversity Student Mentoring Scheme matches IntoUniversity young people with university student volunteers providing them with positive role models and the opportunity to develop their social skills, explore future options and improve academic attainment.
The IntoUniversity Mentoring Scheme pairs a university student or an individual who has graduated within the past 5 years with one of IntoUniversity’s young people (aged 10-17) giving them the opportunity to receive tailored, one-to-one support for their academic attainment, social skills and future planning.

What does being a Mentor involve?
- Work one-to-one with an IntoUniversity student for one hour at least twice a month.
- Attending a mentoring graduation event with your Mentee at the end of the year.
- Develop your own skills, including communication and leadership, and gain experience for your CV.
- Plan mentoring sessions in advance, with the support of IntoUniversity staff, that focus on social skills, academic attainment and future planning.
- Make a real difference to a young person's life.
What can you expect from us?
- Full training in advance of beginning your role and ongoing support and training opportunities from IntoUniversity staff. These sessions are take place over Zoom or in person at the University of Glasgow. Details of the session will be emailed to you once you have applied.
- Flexibility in your volunteering around exams and holidays.
- The chance to develop valuable new skills and gain experience working with young people.
- Recognition through the IntoUniversity accreditation scheme and ability to upload volunteering hours to your transcript.
What do we expect from you?
- Commitment to the role and to providing the best support possible to your Mentee.
- Enthusiasm and a proactive approach.
- The ability to build a positive relationship with a young person.
- 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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Shop Assistant - Royal Exchange Square Bookshop

Oxfam

Ongoing
We are currently looking for volunteers to help with the day-to-day running of the Royal Exchange Oxfam Bookshop. We are looking for a minimum commitment of 4 hours a week. No prior experience or skills necessary – full training is provided!
Oxfam shops have a long tradition of selling second-hand books and we receive lots of generous donations. There is a massive range in the value of the books we handle: from paperback novels which sell for a few pounds to valuable collectible items which may sell for thousands of pounds. Our team of book volunteers ennsure all donations are sold for the best price possible, so that we can continue to support Oxfam's work.

Key Responsibilities

Depending on the needs of the shop and your interests, you may be involved in the following:
- Using the shop's guidelines to sort and price donated books, ensuring all books are sold at the best possible price
- Identifying and researching the value of collectible items
- Creating attractive displays across the shop
- Providing customer service on the shop floor
- There may be the opportunity to take responsibility for a specific section of books
We encourage our shop volunteesr to develop an understanding of all aspects of the shop's work so that they can support the whole team as necessary.
- 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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