Disclosure and Barring Service Checks
If it is a requirement for you to complete a DBS check for your volunteer role, you cannot do the activity in question until you have received your DBS Certificate.
Recruitment and Selection of Volunteers
How do I recruit volunteers?The Volunteering Service is the first place to start. We can help you recruit by:
Finding a Partner Organisation
Before you get in touch with any organisations or schools or anyone within UCL you must speak to a member from our team - there might be something important to explain t
Project Planning and Budget Form - guidance
You can apply for up to £500 to run your project.
Risk Assessment Form - guidance
The Volunteering Service will support UCL students to deliver in-person and online community volunteering projects.
Aims, Outcomes and Activities
It’s important to clearly state what you’re trying to achieve, and how you’re going to do it. This is known as setting your Aim, Outcomes and Activities.
How to start a project with your club or society
There is huge potential for you and your members to share your skills and interests with the local community.
How to start a Community Project
This webpage is for Student-Led Projects registered with the Volunteering Service.
...volunteering forces you to step outside of your comfort zone and get to know real people.
We had the pleasure of chatting with Tingyan Wang, a SELCS MA Translation and Culture Postgraduate, about her one-off volunteering at the Royal Museums Greenwi
Student Volunteering Week 2022
This week is Student Volunteering Week (SVW) 2022, and is the 21st anniversary where we celebrate all things student volunteering.  SVW gives you a great platform to showcase your innovative projects and events - so make sure you take the chance t
"It was very rewarding, being able to support others to achieve their dreams, just like I did before."
Anca is a 3rd year medical student intercalating in Neuroscience. She was able to get involved in research as early as her first year and wanted to enable others to have the same enriching experience.
"Even now, I still think that volunteering is one of the best things I've done at UCL."
Emilia is a second year English student whose Fresher year was characterised by pandemic-induced lockdowns and reduced face-to-face contact at university.
SDG#1 No Poverty
SDG #1: No PovertyOne of the most entangled Sustainable Development Goals is #1, No Poverty, for whatever we would like to achieve as a society, we need to empower people to act first.
SDG #13 Climate Action
The Covid-19 pandemic and the conclusions of the COP26 in Glasgow have drawn attention to societal inequalities and injustices, as well as the climate crisis and its consequences.
How to talk about volunteering experience in a job interview
Volunteers come from all walks of life and for all sorts of reasons. We already know the benefits of volunteering, and oh, are they plenty! Is it not great that helping someone will help you too in so many ways?
Volunteering 'can make a real change to someone's life'
Melisa Sahan is an MSci Psychology student.
Social Hackathons: 'I really loved the experience every time'
Paul Ho had recently participated in our Social Hackathons. Here, he shares his experience devising ideas for Ataxia, the leading national charity in the Uk for people affected by any type of ataxia.
"Social Hackathons are a good way to get experience in the voluntary sector and help a charity in a short amount of time."
Elena Kayayan had recently participated in our Social Hackathons.
Jazz Society Outreach and Atlas Advocacy - a year of leading a Student-led project
Atlas Advocacy and UCL Jazz Society Outreach are two Stud
Volunteering 'contributes to a collective sense of wellbeing'
Kirsty Goodman is an MRes/PhD student in the Department of Security and Crime Science.
"...at the end of the day the more we give, the happier we feel."
Kleoniki Theodoridou is a Masters student studying Msc Risk and Disaster Science at the UCL Institute for Risk and Disaster Reduction.
LGBT+ Undergraduate of the Year Award Winner: George W X Barker's journey with Sexpression:UK
George W X Barker is a final-year medical student and the recipient of the LGBT+ Undergraduate of the Year Award 2021 with Clifford Chance.
"My tutee's spirit greatly inspired me to grow into a stronger and more independent person"
Yuejia Zhu is a Masters student studying MSc Biochemistry in the division of Biosciences.
Volunteering Awards 2021: Student-Led Project Winners
On 8 June, UCL Students’ Union hosted the annual Volunteering Awards live from Bloomsbury Theatre!
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