Latest Volunteering Opportunities

New opportunities to offer your time to the diverse range of voluntary organisations in Merton.

Home-Start Merton

Are you a parent or grandparent? Can you spare 2-4 hours per week? Could you help a family through a difficult time? We need volunteers for home-visiting, group work and crèche support. Our next free volunteer preparation training programme will commence on Tuesday 23rd February 2010.

Wimbledon Cancer Friendship Group

Volunteer needed to assist at weekly meetings as a group facilitator, or simply to welcome people and serve refreshments. Listening skills and facilitation training available. Volunteers with Marketing and /or bookkeeping skills also needed. Thurs 3.15-4.30 weekly, 7.30-9.00pm monthly.

Sustainable Merton

Allotment helpers needed for sowing, planting, digging, weeding, watering, harvesting, path building, carpentry and general maintenance tasks. Wed, Sat, Sun pm

Cricket Green School

Volunteers needed to support young people with learning difficulties, i.e listening to reading, accompanying students on swimming and PE trips. Mon–Fri.

Pollards Hill Library

Volunteers need to assist with cultural and promotional events. Also setting up and managing Book Group on Mon, Tues, Thurs and Fri

St Raphael’s Hospice

Pets as Therapy volunteer needed to bring in trained dog suited to hospice visiting on Wed mornings10.30 12noon. Volunteer will meet and talk with patients in the day care unit and on the ward.

All Saints Day Centre

Looking for volunteer who would like to run a group for people with disabilities. Any interests or skills welcome, eg. Computer, craft, gardening. Mon-Fri.

Christian Care

Befrienders wanted to support a family or individual in need. Listening skills, empathetic manner.

Imagine

Befrienders for people with mental health problems. Calm, friendly, sensitive, good listener.

Merton Home Tutoring Service

Tutors wanted to teach adults with literacy problems, or needing to learn English as a second language who cannot get to classes. You must speak English fluently and be able to plan lessons. 16 hours of training available. Next training starts on 27th February.

Greenhouse Schools

Looking for volunteers to join our classes in dance, drama, football, boxing, basketball, music, DJ,. Every evening at Bishopsford School.. Ability to communicate with young people.

Cranmer Primary School

After school and breakfast volunteers needed.

Envision

Youth Educators to support teams of young volunteers, aged 16-19 to set up and implement their own projects tackling social or environmental problems. Weekly 2-hou meetings.

Pollards Hill Little League

Volunteers to run on-site tuckshop, club secretary, fundraisers, lines judges, football coaches and match referees. Training provided if required. Saturday mornings.

Aviary Society Charity Shop

Shop volunteers urgently needed at Wimbledon Park shop.

Groundwork

Growing Links Film Producer required with film making and editing experience to make a DVD for a BME mental health charity.

Raynes Park High

Gardening volunteers to help with sustainability projects.

Wimbledon Chase Primary School

Gardening volunteer needed to help maintain outdoor space at primary school.

Action4Employment

Offers welfare-to-work training and sustainable employment for unemployed people in receipt of Job Seekers Allowance. Looking for volunteers to take an active role in motivating clients to continue job search, give guidance in dealing with barriers to employment and inspire them to find work. Maturity, confidence, commonsense and warmth required. Min 2 hours commitment.

Jan Malinowski Centre

Travel support volunteer needed on Thursdays. Support a young lady with learning difficulties to travel from her home in Morden to a drama club in Wimbledon and back again.

Merton Scootability Project

Escorts needed to assist elderly and disabled members who need help while shopping or out on trips. Travel expenses and lunches will be paid by the organisation. Knowledge of local area and good communication skills required. First Aid and travel support skills a bonus.

Cancer Research UK

Volunteers needed to collect donations at Morrisons in Wimbledon on 27th and 28th June. Full brief sent prior to collection. You will receive a Cancer Research UK t-shirt and collecting materials.

Croydon Community Bus

Gain experience of working children and young people aged 8-16 on a double decker bus. School holidays Tues/Wed/Fri evenings. Empathy with young people.

North Wimbledon Girl Guides/Brownies

Were you a Brownie or Girl Guide? We are looking for enthusiastic volunteers one evening a week to help out with Brownie and Guides packs in Wimbledon. Help with a wide range of activities, including swimming, horse riding, canoeing, bowling, arts and crafts. Opportunities to participate in camping trips.

Kids City

Playworkers needed for after-school clubs and nursery care in local Mitcham school. CRB checks carried out.

Christian Care

Youth Club leader needed to coordinate team of volunteers for weekly youth club. Also, Youth Outings Coordinator required to organise trips and activities.

M.A.S.H. (Merton Association for Single Homeless)

Experienced gardener wanted to take charge of large garden at foyer. Could use some of the garden to plant vegetables and instruct young residents on how to care for garden.

Spires

Minibus driver needed to transport clients to and from the drop-in.

Mitcham Rugby Club

Volunteers needed to help with admin, as trustees and for events and festivals.

LBM Leisure

River and Cloth project. Volunteers needed to help with local arts and craft project.

Paul D’Auria Cancer Centre

Volunteers needed for admin/support one day or half a day. Volunteers must be warm and friendly as well as computer literate and flexible. We generally like people to commit for a minimum of six months.

Help Service

Volunteers needed to befriend older people in their own homes. Also volunteer drivers, and gardeners willing to adopt a garden for a frail, elderly or disabled person. Training given.

Home Visits Library Service

Drivers are urgently needed to deliver and collect books for housebound users of the library service. Commitment is half a day per month. Book selectors also needed.

The Wandle Trust

River clean-up volunteers for the second Sunday of every month. No special skills required, except a liking for getting muddy!

VCM Supported Volunteering Programme/SW London & St George’s Mental Health NHS Trust

Are you a trainee or professional in the voluntary or statutory sector, with an interest in the field of health or social care, mental health, psychology, counselling or addictions? We are currently recruiting a team of volunteer mentors to help support chronically excluded adults by accompanying them to appointments or activities, and encouraging them to get the most from what is on offer.

St Raphael’s Hospice

Charity Shop volunteers; Fundraising volunteer to organise community events; Bereavement Telephone Support Volunteers needed

Headway

Looking for trustees to take a lead role in one or more of the following areas: Secretarial duties, fund-raising, performance review or development of registration as a company and associated procedures. Developing and maintaining relationships with grant making trusts and public funding bodies.

High Path Community Outreach Team

Thursday Night Curry Club volunteers needed to befriend and support adults with learning difficulties to eat out at different venues.

Gym Club volunteer needed on Tuesday evenings and Friday afternoons to support adults with learning disabilities to access the gym and support them with their training programme.

YMCA Skills Academy

Volunteers needed to help with literacy, numeracy, lifeskills etc for Education to Employment programme for 16-18 year-olds. Mon-Thurs, 10-3.

Tooting and Mitcham United Juniors FC

Assistant coaches needed to work alongside senior coaches at weekends and some evenings.

Child Welfare volunteer, plus Community Relations Officer.

St Raphael’s Hospice

Volunteer drivers urgently needed to bring patients into the Hospice Day Centre in the morning and return them home in the afternoon. Petrol expenses paid.

Hanover Housing

Volunteers urgently needed to help with activities (bingo, raffle, tea and coffee) for older people at sheltered housing in Mitcham.

Faith in Action Homeless Project

Looking for volunteers to welcome and check in clients at the drop-in; help choose clothes; assist in filling in forms for doctor etc; chat and befriend. Also volunteers who will accompany clients to appointments regarding housing, benefits etc.

Alzheimer’s Society

Befrienders urgently needed for the ‘Good Companions’ scheme. Offer support and friendship 1-3 hours per week