Voluntary Action South West Surrey

Could you help us our facilities in shape?

From cleaning windows, to cutting grass and hedges, we are looking for regular help to keep Cherry Trees clean, tidy and safe. There is no set pattern, but would ideally look for regularly support across the year to keep on top of the external areas. No previous experience is needed and we will provide all the tools and equipment needed.  

We need volunteers to assist with our annual fundraising concert on Wednesday, March 25th, 7 p.m. at Godalming United Church, Bridge Street. The tasks include:

Before the concert:

1. Help distribute leaflets and posters to publicise the concert.
2. Gather together useful raffle prizes (often small tokens from local
traders or unwrapped unwanted presents).
3. If possible cook some snacks like cheese straws and flapjacks for
concert refreshments (not too important).

On the night of the concert:

1. Arrive at 6 p.m. and help take tickets at the door.
2. Help sell raffle tickets before the concert starts and at the interval.
3. Help the team in the kitchen with cups of tea, soft drinks etc.
4. Help tidy up at the end.

We are a very small and friendly charity. Duke of Edinburgh or student volunteers are welcome.

The Puppy Raiser role is a full-on volunteering role, whereby you look after a future life-changing puppy for a year, from when they are about 9 weeks old until they are around 18 months. You will play a huge role in the social development of the puppy, guiding him or her through training, socialisation, introduction of new environments and experiences, whilst providing a loving home. They are young puppies when they first arrive so all the usual toilet training, chewing etc does occur; but if you can cope with that it is such a rewarding role.

You will take your puppy along to monthly puppy classes where you will be supported with their training, we use a programme called Puppy Raising for Excellent Partnerships (PREP) which is based on positive reinforcement. You will be supported by other puppy raisers as well as a dedicated volunteer manager.

Ideally you will have enough time to invest in raising a puppy and attending to their needs, have someone at home who is physically able to handle large breed dogs (around 25 – 40 kg), access to a car so that you can get your puppy used to travelling, the agreement of your landlord to have a dog in the property if you rent your home and a safe secure area outside for your puppy to go to the toilet.

You’ll get the rewarding feeling of watching a mischievous puppy learn new training techniques to help them develop into a guide dog. The opportunity to participate in our bespoke world-class training programme which can help you train your own dogs or advance a future career in dog handling.

Volunteering for Guide Dogs should never leave you out of pocket. We’ll make sure we pay any expenses related to volunteering with us, including veterinary costs, food costs for the puppy and other materials needed for the puppy’s training.

As a Puppy Fosterer you will be providing a puppy with a loving home for a short period of time, which can vary from a couple of days to a couple of months, all whilst giving them the care and support they need for their training. You will help reinforce their training by supporting their social development, introduce them to new environments and experiences and follow the training guidance provided by our Puppy Development Advisors and the training programme we use called Puppy Raising for Excellent Partnerships (PREP) which is based on positive reinforcement.

Ideally you will have enough time to invest in looking after the puppy when they come to stay with you; have someone at home who is physically able to handle large breed dogs (around 25 – 40 kg); access to a car so that you can get your puppy used to travelling; the agreement of your landlord to have a dog in the property if you rent your home; and a safe secure area outside on gravel or concrete, for your puppy to go to the toilet.

You will get the satisfaction in knowing you are directly supporting people with sight loss to live actively, independently and well by helping a puppy develop into a future life-changing guide dog. Our volunteers receive lots of support from their volunteer managers to help them implement the training modules with their puppy.

Volunteering for Guide Dogs should never leave you out of pocket. We’ll make sure we pay any expenses related to volunteering with us, including veterinary costs, food costs for the puppy and other materials needed for the puppy’s training.

Are you an organised, financially adept individual, with a few hours a month to help Joyfull Greens remotely and flexibly.? 

Joyfull Greens is a fairly new Community Interest Company, we are still in our first year.

We need help with basic book keeping and end of year filing. 

Advice on whether everything is done within accepted accounting practice and to help us keep proper records.

Simple monthly or bi-monthly report on the financial position for meetings (balance sheet, budget monitoring reports, cash flow, fundraising performance etc).

Qualities

• Friendly, reliable and professional. 
• Knowledge of current and fundraising finance practice relevant to voluntary and community organisations.
• Knowledge of bookkeeping and financial management.
• Good financial analysis skills.
• Ability to communicate clearly

You would benefit from complimentary invites to cooking sessions and helping to make a lasting difference to your local community. 

Are you an organised, reliable individual, with a few hours a month to help Joyfull Greens remotely and flexibly.? 

Joyfull Greens is a fairly new Community Interest Company, we are still in our first year.

We need help with general admin.  So if you are good at word, email, telephone calls, you are the person we are looking for.  We use Google Docs, so experience with that is helpful.  

Qualities

• Friendly, reliable and professional. 
• Excellent computer skills, admin skills etc.  
• Ability to communicate clearly

You would benefit from complimentary invites to cooking sessions and helping to make a lasting difference to your local community. 

Are you a corporate fundraiser and networker?  Have you experience to interacting with corporate organisations and local companies to fundraise?  Just a few hours a month need to help Joyfull Greens remotely and flexibly.

Joyfull Greens is a fairly new Community Interest Company, we are still in our first year.  This is a new role, so you can shape things for the future. 

We need help with developing corporate fundraising and yearly partnerships (often called charity of the year partnerships).   We use Google Docs, so experience with that is helpful. 

We expect developing partnerships with food, cooking, health and sports organisations, etc. 

The role may incorporate finding items for raffles and cooking sessions and creating sponsorship agreements with corporates.  

Qualities

• Friendly, reliable and professional. 
• Excellent computer skills, admin skills etc.  
• Ability to communicate clearly

You would benefit from complimentary invites to cooking sessions and helping to make a lasting difference to your local community. 

Joyfull Greens would like a Governance Volunteer, to ensure that we are carrying out our operation legally and safely, incorporating a monthly risk register.

Just a few hours a month need to help Joyfull Greens remotely and flexibly to write some of their first applications.  

Joyfull Greens is a fairly new Community Interest Company, we are still in our first year.  This is a new role, so you can shape things for the future.   

Qualities

• Friendly, reliable and professional. 
• Excellent computer skills, admin skills etc.  
• Ability to communicate clearly

You would benefit from complimentary invites to cooking sessions and helping to make a lasting difference to your local community. 

Are you organised and love running events?  As a new CIC we will be setting up some events for the future for fundraising, awareness raising and networking.  We are in the early stages of this process, so an experienced and reliable person would be perfect to add to our team.  Perhaps you specialise in planning events or perhaps you prefer being a person standing behind the table at events, being the friendly face of Joyfull Greens.   

Just a few hours a month, every now and then to help Joyfull Greens would make a lasting difference to the community interest group, which is still in its first year.

 Qualities

• Friendly, reliable and professional. 
• Excellent computer skills, admin skills etc.  
• Ability to communicate clearly

You would benefit from complimentary invites to cooking sessions and helping to make a lasting difference to your local community. 

Are you a people person?  Friendly, organised, reliable individual and definitely flexible, with a few hours a month to help Joyfull Greens remotely and flexibly.? 

Joyfull Greens is a fairly new Community Interest Company, we are still in our first year.

We need help with managing and recruiting volunteers.  General record keeping, ability to communicate and encourage volunteers, interview skills and basic management of volunteers.  This may include co-ordinating some training in things such as food hygiene etc.  So if you are good at word, email, telephone calls, you are the person we are looking for.  We use Google Docs, so experience with that is helpful.  May involve attending the occasional external volunteer meeting (optional). 

Qualities

• Friendly, reliable and professional. 
• Excellent computer skills, admin skills etc.  
• Ability to communicate clearly

You would benefit from complimentary invites to cooking sessions and helping to make a lasting difference to your local community. 

Are you a people person?  Do you love food, healthy and sustainable eating?  Are you friendly, organised and reliable?  Can you offer a morning or afternoon every now and then to instruct a session of 12 participants?  Classes run from 11-1:30pm at the moment, but may progress to afternoons and evenings in the future. 

You will need to demonstrate and cook a dish, giving instructions to the group to copy.  In addition, you will make a salad or two as side dishes to accompany the main dish.  There will be Assistant Class Hosts to help you set up, welcome guests, provide drinks, organise and clear away. 

Once cooked everyone sits and eats the finished product and takes home any left overs.  We currently  have one Cooking Instructor / Class Teacher, but we are looking for additional cooks/chefs, either on a regular basis or special appearance.  We need to add variety, so different cultural food, basic food, seasonal foods, man with a pan, budget cooking etc. 

Joyfull Greens is a fairly new Community Interest Company, we are still in our first year, however, we are having great success. 

Qualities

• Friendly, reliable and professional. 
• Excellent cooking/chef skills etc.  
• Ability to communicate clearly

You would benefit from complimentary invites to cooking sessions and helping to make a lasting difference to your local community. 

Are you an skilled marketing and communications person with a few hours a month to help Joyfull Greens remotely and flexibly.? 

Joyfull Greens is a fairly new Community Interest Group, we are still in our first year.

We need help with everything at this point in time.  We are able to make several roles or one big role.

We need help with producing a newsletter, advertising on Eventbrite, press releases, publicity, leaflets and other collateral and possibly social media (although we are advertising for social media volunteers separately).   

So if you like doing a particular thing in marketing and communications please get in touch.   

 Qualities

• Friendly, reliable and professional. 
• Knowledge of website maintenance and updating.  
• Ability to communicate clearly

You would benefit from complimentary invites to cooking sessions and helping to make a lasting difference to your local community. 

Bring your personality and friendliness to Joyfull Greens.  We need reliable, helpful people to help us run our classes.  As part of the team delivering the class, we would like you to help set up the room in advance of the class with dishes, glasses, food and utensils and to help tidy up afterwards.  Y

You will welcome people into the venue, register their names and give out name badges and aprons, offer a welcome drink and show them to their seats.   

During the class, you will assist and may be asked to help individuals with chopping, peeling, mixing etc.  We will have a professional chef instructing everyone, so you don't have to be a qualified chef!   

After cooking, we will need you to help by clearing the tables, and taking dirty plates and utensils to the kitchen.  Then you will need to re-set the tables ready to eat the gorgeous food that everyone has prepared.   

After eating, help clear away and then either place items in the dishwasher or wash up. 

You too will be able to enjoy a free meal with the other members of the class and some conversations throughout the session.  Great fun, relaxed and friendly. 

We will have a list of session dates and times and you would be able to select the ones that are convenient to you. 

Role Purpose

Our Event Volunteer role is vital in ensuring that we can help families of seriously ill children keep moving forward. From Cheer Squads - providing encouragement at cheer points for those participating in challenge events; running stalls at markets and events; helping with bucket collections; attending local events to raise our profile to getting into character as ‘Mo’ our owl mascot. The gift of your time is invaluable to our charity.

What we are looking for in our volunteers

We are looking for enthusiastic, friendly, trustworthy people who enjoy being in a group with other volunteers. Depending on the event, you will need to be able to withstand all weather conditions and be happy to be on your feet… or not! Flexibility, self-motivation and the willingness to motivate others are all great traits for Event Volunteers.   

What’s in it for you?

You will be part of the Momentum team of volunteers and will meet plenty of other like-minded, friendly people at whatever event you choose to get involved in. You will gain satisfaction knowing that you have made a difference to the participants and raised the profile of Momentum at the event.

Hours required

Hours will vary, but it could be anything from 2-6 hours per event. This is an ad-hoc role and we will keep you informed of dates/times that we are looking for volunteer support. We will contact you when we need you and you are under no obligation to accept if you are otherwise busy.

Location

The locations will vary but much of our work and events are based in Surrey, Sussex and South West London.

How we’ll support you

There will be a key point of contact for you from the Momentum office and we’ll give you all the information you need prior to the event, such as meeting points, required resources and points of contact.

All our supported children are given a pebble painted with a character/design of their choice. 

We are always looking for people to paint these pebbles for us.

This is super flexible and can be done at home in your own time!

Oakleaf are looking for volunteers to run activities with clients. 

Oakleaf Enterprise is a Mental Health Charity based in Guildford.  We support adults with their ill-mental health. We do this through three main pathways: work-related training, wellbeing activities and counselling.  

We are continuing to expand our activity offerings and would love to recruit some volunteers to help us run them.  If you have an hour a week, and a skill/passion you think our clients would benefit from let us know!

An understanding and compassionate nature towards ill-mental health is essential and a DBS check will be required. 

If you'd love the chance to share your skills, interact and help our clients then please do get in touch for more information. 

Client Services: Client-Services@Oakleaf-Enterprise.org

We are seeking a Social Media Volunteer to help us to communicate with and build our community on Instagram, Facebook and TikTok. We have so much interesting content that we would love to share – about what we are doing, who we are partnering with, where we are delivering workshops next, but also about our latest findings on female health and physiology in sport – because we believe that this information is relevant to all girls and women who aspire to be active and healthy. But we lack the know-how and capacity to share it. Which makes us sad. Because it could really help others. So can you help?

About you:

You don’t need to be sporty, you just need to share our passion to improve the health and welfare of girls and women throughout Surrey and Hampshire, by enabling us to share with them information which we didn’t have growing up, which if we had known would have directly contributed to our own health and wellbeing!

We are a new charity so we don’t have the resources to deliver our social media so you would be filling a very big gap in our organisation. You could work at your own time and when works best for you.

Optimise is completely volunteer run, we all contribute our time and expertise based on a shared desire to help others. We are good at what we do, and our reward is knowing that we are a team, supported, all working towards a shared goal and love of biscuits!

About us:

At Optimise Foundation, we believe every girl and woman deserves the opportunity to thrive in sport, supported by new knowledge and understanding of their unique physiology.

In 2020, 94% of sports performance research focused on men. Women's bodies, with their menstrual cycles and hormonal fluctuations, were largely overlooked — leaving a critical knowledge gap in grassroots sport. We set up Optimise to change that.

We are local volunteer coaches, health professionals, athletes, teachers, and parents — united by a passion to translate cutting-edge female physiology research into practical action across all sports. Our mission is to empower girls and women with the information and support they deserve to optimise their training, performance, and health.

Through consultation, education, and action, we aim to create a world where female athletes of all ages can thrive, and conversations around puberty, periods, and menopause in sport are embraced — not sidelined.

About the role:

We are seeking a Fundraising Writer Volunteer to help identify and submit written applications to potential funders.  We are looking for someone who loves to write and can help us raise funds by drafting and sharing cases for support with Trusts and Foundations. You are organised, happy to work independently at a time that works for you and then feedback when suits. Some experience would be helpful, but the main thing is that you are open and enthusiastic, we can show you the ropes and we have lots of copy for you to draw on and craft from!

About you:

You don’t need to be sporty, you just need to share our passion to improve the health and welfare of girls and women throughout Surrey and Hampshire, by enabling us to share with them information which we didn’t have growing up, which if we had known would have directly contributed to our own health and wellbeing!

Optimise is completely volunteer run, we all contribute our time and expertise based on a shared desire to help others. We are good at what we do, and our reward is knowing that we are a team, supported, all working towards a shared goal and love of biscuits!

If you join us, you will use your skills to make a very direct and positive impact on girls and women in our community and you can be proud of that.