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Solidarity Sports
When Solidarity Sports was established in 2007, we aimed to engage children in sports--a fun, accessible way to bring kids together and promote good health and wellness. Solidarity Sports has harnessed the transformative power of play to nurture disadvantaged children recovering from complex trauma. We support children's healing through sports, healthy eating, arts, educational trips, mentorship…
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Description

We are a charity that harnesses the transformative power of play and exercise to help vulnerable children recover from complex trauma. Our goal is to nurture the confidence of every child we work with and develop valuable life skills to help them reach their full potential. 

Volunteers will support children at Solidarity Sports after-school clubs. In practice this may be running through playgrounds with our children, doing arts and crafts, swimming, and many more fun activities. Volunteers will build a positive, trusting relationship with our children, and make them feel special and valued at all times during our projects.  

All volunteers will be DBS checked before volunteering.

During the school term we have a 'Thrive' afterschool club running every Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday 3:30-5:30pm. It is based at St Clements and St James Primary School. 


 

Duties

Your role is to provide support to our children during after-school clubs -- playing with them, encouraging them to try something new, cheering them on... 

We ask that you bring your ENERGY, passion and enthusiasm to volunteering! Please also take initiative to help out with various tasks.

Who will the volunteers be working with?
Most of our children are referred to us by social services or a women's refuge, and many are refugees. They have gone through significant trauma and adverse life events despite their young age. Some of our children also have special educational needs.
Training
We have an onboarding process where we go through logistics of volunteering and answer any questions. We have a condensed safeguarding policy that all volunteers must read, along with an onboarding document with frequently asked questions. We hold a volunteer onboarding training every few months for our new volunteers to learn more about the charity, and important safeguarding points (e.g. responding to signs of abuse).



Time commitment

This is a flexible commitment - you can do volunteering as a one-off if you would like. However, we encouraging regular volunteering for our after-school clubs as this means you can build lasting relationships with our children. For example, some of our volunteers.

We completely appreciate our volunteers have other commitments so aim to be flexible, however as we work with children it's super important that volunteers are punctual and turn up to days you have signed up for. 
Application deadline

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UCL Departments

This organisation is one of our community partner organisations.

Like all volunteer recruiters we work with, they have signed up to our service standards, agreeing to abide by our policy on partnership working to keep you safe and supported whilst you volunteer.

You’ll never be out of pocket for volunteering through us – with in-London travel expenses to and from your volunteering guaranteed.

In addition, the team here at Students’ Union UCL Volunteering Service is here to support you throughout your volunteering journey – you can get in touch with us at any time.