"The best thing about volunteering? Getting to meet new people and feeling more connected to the community"
Caroline Crawford and Jo Xizi Yu are the Project Leaders for Art Without a Home, one of our Student-Led Volunteering Projects that works with people affected by homelessness.
“I wanted to spread the spirit within the club out into the wider community”
Odile Lehnen is a second-year Science and Society student, and the Project Leader for Kickstart, a UCL Taekwondo-affiliated volunteering project. She came into the office to talk to us about why she started the project, the impact they’ve had, and what she got out of it.
"You can't really go wrong with volunteering!"
Beatrix Popa is a second year Electronic and Electrical Engineering student.
“I get to interact with people outside my usual social sphere”
Crystal Chong and Gabriel Shen are the Project Leaders for Data for Good, a Student-Led Volunteering Project that help charities with data analysis to produce better results in their fields.
"Having one kid say "this really changed my life" was amazing!"
Lampojan Raveenthiranathan is a final year Engineering student and leads two of our Student-Led Volunteering projects; Engineers without Borders (an outreach project that inspires pupils to consider engineering as a potential career path) and <
"It’s a massive life experience I wouldn’t have got if I had just done my course"
Sarah Goddard is a 4th year medical student and a Project Leader for UCL Marrow - a Student-Led Volunteering Project (and branch of the national charity, Anthony Nolan) that recruits people to the national stem cell donor register.
“It’s been great running this project and finding people with this common interest.”
Zeena Sa’Di is a final year law student, and one of the founders and project leaders of Green Walkers, a student-led volunteering project that goes around the Bloomsbury area in groups to pick up litter and promote pollution reduction.
“We want to provide students with a toolkit for making a difference”
Seren John-Wood is a final-year Arts and Sciences student, and the project leader of the brand new student-led volunteering project Disruptista.
"Pick something you’re passionate about and just start there”
Alexandra-Loredana Petrache is a PhD student at UCL.