Volunteering organisations

Trinity provides skilled, compassionate care and support to people with progressive, life-limiting illnesses and those close to them. We support people living in our central and south west London community, at home and at the hospice.

Who are we?

Save a Baby's Life is a voluntary organisation, run by UCL students in conjunction with the Royal Life Saving Society since 2011.

The Science Museum was founded in 1857 as part of the South Kensington Museum, and gained independence in 1909. Today the Museum is world renowned for its historic collections, awe-inspiring galleries and inspirational exhibitions.

As a volunteer you could:

We’re Scope, the disability equality charity. We won’t stop until we achieve a society where all disabled people enjoy equality and fairness.

We provide practical advice and emotional support to disabled people and their families whenever they need it most.

For everyone living with complex disabilities. For everyone who is deafblind. Sense is here to help people communicate and experience the world.  

Smart Works is a dynamic, high profile and fast-growing UK charity that dresses and coaches unemployed women for success at their job interview. We empower each woman by giving her the clothes and the confidence she needs to succeed.

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.

We are a positive response to negativity towards migrants. We provide free ESOL sessions, mainly based in Camden and Islington, for refugees and migrants in London.

Spectrum is registered charity, run and led by UCL medical student that offers a befriending service to children under 18 with disabilities or special needs in the Camden borough.

St John's Hospice provides expert care and support to people living with a long term illness in London. Each year, St John's supports over 4500 patients and their family members, living with a range of conditions including Cancer, respiratory disease, motor neurone disease, HIV and MS.

Our mission is to house, support and care for vulnerable people in London who either have been, or at risk of sleeping rough and homelessness. Our aim is to make sure that homeless and vulnerable people can look forward with optimism and can contribute to the quality of life.

Church of England parish church, Soup Kitchen: Uniting the community through bringing together local volunteers to run a soup kitchen for the less fortunate in the area.

Starfish is an international charity that cares for vulnerable and orphaned children affected by HIV and poverty in South Africa. We invest in the future of over 13,500 children a year so they can grow into happy and independent young adults.

Stoll houses and supports vulnerable and disabled ex-Service men and women, including those who have been homeless. We provide housing, support and education for Veterans, to ensure that they are physically and mentally equipped to live independently in the community.

Surrey Docks Farm is a working city farm that aims to educate people about where their food comes from and to enable people to become actively involved in all aspects of farming.

Team London is Mayor's volunteering programme. We encourage all Londoners to become active citizens and to give their time to make the capital a better place. At Team London, we believe volunteering is a great way to help Londoners reach their full potential.

In the UK today, the best predictor of a child’s academic and social success remains the income and postcode of their parents. We believe that this is damaging to society as too many young people are unable to develop their skills and passions to shape their own destiny.

The UCL Teddy Bear Clinic is a student led volunteering project that has been running for the past 15 years! We teach primary school students about health and safety in a fun and informative way. The sessions last for one hour on Wednesday afternoons.

We make sure young people don't face cancer alone. We do it by helping young people and their families deal with the many ways that cancer can affect your body, your mind and your life. We do it in partnership with the NHS and by bringing young people together so they can support each other.

The Access Project supports students from under-resourced backgrounds to access top universities. We work with pupils to make good applications and transition to university, and recruit volunteer tutors to help our pupils raise their grades.  

Brightside's vision is a society where everyone has equal access to opportunities, regardless of their background. In the UK, access to opportunities is often determines more by where you grow up or what your parents do than your strengths and aspirations.

Two Temple Place is a magnificent neo-gothic mansion on London's Victoria Embankment. The building becomes an exhibition venue for three months each year to host our exhibition programme, and we open for other events and open days throughout the rest of the year. 

The Felix Project is a charity that works with food suppliers and charities to reduce food waste and food poverty. We collect food from supermarkets, wholesalers and other food suppliers - food that is fresh and nutritious, but cannot be sold for various reasons.

Our volunteers are integral in making everyone feel welcome at the Museum of the Home, preserving our historical and green spaces, and helping with our events and learning activities.

The Kids Network is a community of children and volunteers connecting through fun, friendship and hardship for positive social change. We support children at a crucial time in their development - in the lead up to and often during the transition from primary into secondary school.

The Latin Programme - Via Facilis is small educational charity. Our aim is to improve English literacy, and thus the life chances, of children attending under-achieving state primary schools through the the study of Latin and English grammar.

The Listening Place is a volunteer-led London based charity aiming to transform how we support people who feel suicidal.  Our trained volunteers are part of a team delivering face-to-face, confidential, ongoing support to thousands of people each year.  They help create the warm and wel

We are an innovative educational charity supporting young people aged 9-13 to develop the literacy, confidence and perseverance that will help them achieve both in school and the world beyond.

Welcome to The Mix Life's tough, we know that. It can throw a lot your way and make it hard to know what to do with it all. So, welcome to The Mix.

The Mouth Cancer Foundation is a charity dedicated to helping and supporting those suffering from or at risk of mouth cancer, throat cancer and other head and neck cancers, as well as providing assistance and information on living with mouth cancer for families, friends and carers.

The Museum of Methodism tells the history of Methodism from John Wesley to the present day and its contribution to shaping Britain's political and social history. John Wesley's House stands next to the Chapel.

We are the UK's leading charity for people on the autism spectrum and their families. Since 1962, we have been providing support, guidance and advice, as well as campaigning for improved rights, services and opportunities to help create a society that works for autistic people.

Our vision is of a society where street homelessness no longer exists and everyone has a place to call home.

Our mission: 

We support local young people to build their community by providing facilities, skills, activities and guidance that promote a stable society in a deprived area.

Our mission is to empower women, girls and their community through access to quality education so that they can exit poverty for good.

Third Age Project was established over two decades ago in January 1997 to serve the needs of 1 in 4 of the local

population who are over 60 years of age. Over the last two decades, it has become an important and popular

Training Link is a local basic skills training organisation. Founded in 1985, we are based at the back of the British Library, in Somers Town. We provide courses to help people find employment and to encourage them back into adult education and to develop their skills.

Hello and welcome to AcaMedics!

Do you have the desire to contribute to clinical science using Evidence Based Medicine? Then we are the society for you!

We are looking for enthusiastic and friendly individuals to support the front of house operation at the Grant Museum of Zoology and Petrie Museum of Egyptian and Sudanese Archaeology.

The UCL Sustainability Team drives forward the university's key sustainability aims. We work with the UCL community to embed sustainability into research, buildings and behaviours at UCL, and beyond.

We collect, conserve and preserve the special collections of UCL Library Services, making them available for study, use and enjoyment through our Reader service, Outreach programme and Academic Teaching and Events.

UCL Marrow work alongside the charity Anthony Nolan to help save the lives of people with blood cancer by signing people onto the stem cell register. For various reasons, young people like us make the best donors – with a real chance of saving a life.

Welcome to Sexpression UCL

Welcome to Kickstart — UCL Taekwondo’s very own volunteering project!!

The United Nations Association - UK (UNA-UK) is the UK's leading source of independent analysis on the UN, and a UK-wide grassroots movement. UNA-UK believes that a strong, credible and effective UN is essential if we are to build a safer, fairer and more sustainable world.

The Volunteering Team at Students’ Union UCL is all about helping you to achieve great things. By working directly with hundreds of UK-based charities and not-for-profit organisations, we have a constant flow of exciting and rewarding opportunities for you to get involved in.

Unfold are reaching communities who face the most exclusion, this is because, although we are open to everyone, 85% of the families we support are single headed households led by a woman, 98% of our service users are from racialised groups, and 60% of our referrals come from other supporting serv

Do you want to gain experience working with vulnerable people while having a great night out? Many of us may have felt vulnerable or distressed while out at night, whether because we lost our belongings, got separated from friends, or had too much to drink.