Volunteering organisations

Ceesay Nursery and Primary School is a charity run entirely by unpaid UK volunteers with support from a small team of paid staff in the Gambia.

Across the UK today 6.5 million people are carers, supporting a loved one who is older, disabled or seriously ill.

The aim of our project is to provide a fun empowering space for girls to play football. Biweekly football sessions with girls will run in partnership with community organizations and the UCL Women's Football Club.

Cycling Club Hackney is dedicated to promoting cycling and cycle sport for all levels and ages. Our main club rides run every Sunday, where members and newcomers meet and socialise.

Since August 2019 lead coach Keir Apperley has been in talks with mental health service management at NHS East London Foundation Trust about piloting and testing an ongoing programme of sports club delivery focussed on people experiencing mental health challenges.

Hello! 👋 We are a group of students from the Sci-Fi and Fantasy Society that offer storytelling sessions involving Dungeons and Dragons and other roleplaying games in schools. 

We are Guide Dogs. And we’re here to help people with sight loss live the life they choose.

Markfield Beam Engine Museum tells a fascinating public health story.

Featuring a working Victorian steam engine this family friendly museum is a great way to inspire young engineers! We have free kids activities and guided tours.

Lewisham CommUNITY Space is a wellbeing and activity centre in the heart of Lewisham shopping centre.

We provide a warm shelter, hot food, free activities, and practical support with issues like housing, debt, and benefits.

No other museum tells stories that matter more than these

The Connection at St Martin’s works with people who are rough sleeping to move away from, and stay off, the streets of London from Charing Cross.

St Michael’s Fellowship secures the best possible future for children by working directly with parents. Families we support have complex issues. The parents we work with often grew up in poverty, with abuse, neglect and domestic violence standard occurrences in their childhood.

The Talent Tap’s mission is to deliver long term social impact by giving life changing, career enhancing opportunities to those from social mobility cold spots across the UK.

Wren300 and the Square Mile Churches

YUCAN is an award-winning youth and lived experience-led organisation that supports young carers from East London with 1:1 mentoring, workshops, befriending, homework support and respite opportunities.

Art Explora is a non-profit arts organisation that aims to share arts and culture with everyone - locally, nationally and internationally - and inspire new encounters between arts and audiences. 

UCL Mens Hockey Club are organising a school trip for Hockey Inner City. This is a continuation of the collaboration between the two parties as UCL Mens Hockey Club volunteer weekly at Hockey Inner City's sessions for state-educated children in South London.

PAWA Focuses On A Single Purpose : To Support Underprivileged Teenage Girls’ Education In Asia.

PAWA is a UK-registered charity since 2009 and is 100% managed by committed volunteers from a range of professions.

Our project hopes to help remove some of the barriers that some students experience when trying to enter Medical School.

The BTO is the UK's leading charity working with volunteers to improve our knowledge of birds through monitoring and research. This includes the annual Breeding Bird Survey (BBS), a joint project with the JNCC and RSPB.

There are thousands of young refugees and migrants arriving in this country every year.

People & Planet is the largest student network in the UK campaigning for social and environmental justice.

Blackfriars Settlement is a busy community organisation in London's north Southwark. Set up by volunteers back in 1887, our vision has always been to work with local people to make life better.

Camden Libraries deliver a library service to the community of Camden and beyond. We have nine physical spaces and a digital library offer. We programme a range of events and activities throughout the week.

Maternity Mates service recognises and supports the rights of all women to have a positive experience throughout pregnancy and childbirth.

Bridging the Gap Mentoring arranges mentors for people at risk of homelessness, addiction or experience of the Criminal Justice System.

Health data is increasing in size and complexity and the UK has some of the richest health data in the world. At the UCL Institute of Health Informatics, we specialise in utilising this data to develop a better understanding of diseases on a national and international scale.

We're a local charity working in the community to support older people, their families and carers. We want everyone to be able to love later life.

It's a Penalty works collaboratively to end human trafficking, exploitation and abuse.

Hello from the 93% Club! 👋

The 93% Club is a network of state-educated university students dedicated to levelling the playing field for students who were educated at state schools and tackling education inequality. 

Hello! 👋 Are you interested in the arts and creative industry? 

InveSTEMators is a new student-led project at UCL. We’re a group of volunteers working with Scouts and secondary schools to deliver STEM-based workshops (Science, Technology, Maths and Engineering).

We are a Council led programme with great volunteering opportunities on offer.  Working in collaboration with the Students' Union UCL Volunteering Service we're promoting specific volunteering opportunities directly supported by us within the Borough of Newham.

The People’s Museum: A Space for Us is a space to preserve local voice and the area; to celebrate an incredible ‘radical, reformers and rebels‘ histories, to record the change now, as well as to campaign and preserve local&n

Current volunteering Opportunities

We enable access to gardening and green spaces for mental and physical well-being and build communities that make a difference to our local environment.

YourStory is a charitable organisation based in Lambeth North, south London. We specialise in mentoring young people who are disengaged from school, family and society. The mentoring takes place one to one but we also do group work with the young people.

Independent Monitoring Boards are made up of over a thousand unpaid volunteers operating in every prison in England and Wales, and every immigration detention facility across the UK.

At The New Black Film Collective (TNBFC) we exist to create and cultivate a vibrant Black ecosystem in the UK film and TV sector by championing Black-led film production, distribution, exhibition and preserving Black filmmaking and television.

About our organisation: Incidents involving people suffering mental crisis and indicating intent to enter the water from the Bridges of London account for a rising number of incidents around Thames annually.

We are a Human Rights charity devoted to global Human Rights advocacy and action. We work to empower young voices to stand up for their rights and educate themselves and others. 

Female Catering Chef Volunteers