Are you interested in helping with the practical management of some of Surrey's most important and beautiful habitats, whilst learning about the wonderful wildlife they support? Then our mid-week conservation group could be just the thing.

Our friendly mid-week group meets on Tuesdays to carry out practical conservation tasks on our nature reserves in and around Surrey. During the winter, this consists mostly of scrub clearance (complete with warming bonfire), whilst in the summer it varies from infrastructure work (mending fences, installing gates etc.), clearing bracken, creating areas of bare sand and conducting reptile surveys. It's the perfect excuse to get out in the fresh air and get some rewarding exercise.

Volunteers need to provide suitable outdoor clothing (including boots and waterproofs) and bring their own packed lunch, but we provide everything else - including tea and biscuits. Volunteers with also need to arrange their own transport to and from the Witley Centre at the beginning and end of tasks. However, we are located near to Milford railway station. 

Applications from students (aged 14 and over) undertaking their Duke of Edinburgh Award would be welcome.

All tasks are supervised by staff and no previous experience is required - just enthusiasm! Informal training on practical conservation skills, species ID and habitat management are always provided. There may also be the opportunity to provide more formal, structured training for committed long-term volunteers. Unfortunately, as we are a small charity, we are not able to reimburse travel expenses.

Whether you're available for a few hours or a full day, your help would be greatly appreciated. If you would like any more information, or to ask any questions, please contact us by pressing the 'sign up' button

Our Practical Conservation Group Volunteers make a real difference to their local environment. Without them, many threatened butterflies and moths could be lost forever.

At Butterfly Conservation, we want to create a world where butterflies and moths are enjoyed by everyone, forever. Our Group Volunteers help ensure that their local site is a haven for wildlife and the people who enjoy it. Working with other volunteers doing hands-on, practical work, they make sure the site is right for butterflies by cutting, raking or digging.

There’s often a bonfire and refreshments, too!

You will enjoy physical work and have the chance to see the results of your efforts both on the day and in the following spring and summer when the butterflies and moths return. You don’t need to know anything about butterflies or moths to get started, but will have the chance to learn about them and other wildlife.

Volunteer Driver Role Description

In this vital role supporting our communities, you would use your own vehicle to take up to 3 passengers to a range of different appointments in Guildford and occasionally, further afield. You will be working with adults some of whom may be considered vulnerable, so a firm commitment to safeguarding is essential. You will need to agree to a DBS check for Adults with a request for a check against the barred lists. We will also need you to provide two references as part of our Safer Recruitment process.

A responsible attitude is vital along with a good driving record. Your vehicle should be presentable, fully insured (with a MOT where applicable), road legal and well maintained.

You will receive mileage expenses based on the mileage that you travel from and back to your home at 45p per mile. 

You will live within 3 miles of the town centre.

Location

The volunteering will take place in Guildford and occasionally beyond, but you decide when and where you are happy to drive to. It's that flexible.

Volunteer Tasks and Responsibilities:

• happy to be contacted by our appointments co-ordinator regarding journey requests we have received – this could include via WhatsApp messaging - all during weekday office hours.

• being prompt and on time for all pick-ups and drop-offs

• being courteous, friendly and professional at all times

• having a conversation and listening to passenger stories.

• contacting Care for Guildford if you have any questions or concerns.

• letting Care for Guildford know, as soon as possible, if you can no longer undertake a journey

• immediately feeding back any Safeguarding concerns to us

• cash handling with passengers that make a donation towards the cost of their journey

• completing accurate expense claims, submitted on a regular basis. Assistance is available if required.

Time Commitment

This is a fully flexible role, supporting a wide range of passenger journeys. We provide journeys 5 days a week but it is completely up to you when you volunteer and how often. Some of our volunteers only manage to make one trip a month which is not a problem. We will work around you.

We do not charge you for any of the training.

Volunteer Specification

We ask that volunteers are:

• caring, considerate, patient and understanding

• flexible, reliable and helpful

• confident in engaging with all kinds of people in a friendly manner

• want to help people

• able to comply with all policies and procedures in every aspect of the role

Recruitment, Support and Training

All volunteers will be asked to:

• participate in an interview with one of our Trustees

• agree to a DBS check being carried out by us

• participate in any training arranged by Care for Guildford

If you love driving, want to help others in a way that fits in with your other commitments, this role could be for you. Please click below to be taken to our online application form. If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to call our team on 01483 566635

What we do…

At Care for Guildford, we operate a shopping service for local housebound residents, mostly older people, who are unable to shop for themselves,. This is only made possible thanks to our team of volunteer shoppers. During 2023, we helped an average of 13 clients living in and around the town, making over 600 shopping trips.

If you love helping others and want to make a difference in the lives of housebound people in your community, this role may suit you.

Volunteer Shopper Role Description

In this vital role you will, not only help clients stay independent and well by doing their shopping, but also enrich your own life with new experiences and friendships.

You will either go shopping for them or you may be asked to arrange and collect online orders and drop them off at their homes. You will be working with adults some of whom may be considered vulnerable, so a firm commitment to safeguarding is essential. You will need to agree to an enhanced DBS check for Adults with a request for a check against the barred lists. We will also need you to provide two references as part of our Safer Recruitment process.

A responsible and caring attitude is vital along with access to a vehicle.

You will receive mileage expenses based on the mileage that you travel from and back to your home at 45p per mile.

Location

The volunteering will take place within a 2 mile radius of Guildford town centre.

Volunteer Tasks and Responsibilities:

• happy to be contacted by our shopping co-ordinator regarding shopping requests we have received - all during weekday office hours.

• being courteous, friendly and professional at all times

• agreeing the shopping list with Client

• go shopping for a Client either in person or using online shopping facilities and drop the shopping off at the Clients home

• letting Care for Guildford know, as soon as possible, if you can no longer undertake a shopping request

• immediately feeding back any Safeguarding concerns to us

• cash handling in some cases with Clients who wish to pay for their shopping in this way

• keeping accurate records

• completing accurate expense claims, submitted on a regular basis.

Time Commitment

The time commitment varies depending on the needs of the person you are matched with and your availability. Generally, we ask for a minimum of one hour per week.

Volunteer Specification

We ask that volunteers are:

• caring, considerate, patient and understanding

• flexible, reliable and helpful

• confident in engaging with all kinds of people in a friendly manner

• motivated to help people

• mindful of infection control and good hygiene at all times

• able to comply with all policies and procedures in every aspect of the role

Recruitment, Support and Training

All volunteers will be asked to:

• participate in an interview with one of our Trustees

• agree to a DBS check being carried out by us

• participate in any training arranged by Care for Guildford

If you love shopping, want to help others, this role could be for you. Please click below to be taken to our online application form. If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to call our team on 01483 566635

Our volunteers help with all manner of growing tasks; we have something to suit all abilities. Things our volunteers get up to in the field include:

Sowing seeds in the polytunnel
Potting on plants
Planting out seedlings in the field
Preparing the soil for planting, using a broad fork and rake
Weeding, tidying and maintaining the crops
Harvesting the crops (Wednesdays and Thursday morning); picking and digging up the veg required that week
Weighing out veg for each member's bag
Building infrastructure (e.g., a shed), creating structures for the children’s area, or repairing wooden items. 
Topping up vegetable beds with manure or compost

Tea and lunch breaks are an important part of the day, when we all sit together to chat and enjoy tea, coffee, and biscuits—provided free by the farm. 

We welcome volunteers Monday-Friday, 9am-5pm (or 4pm in the winter).  All abilities are welcome and we don't ask for any commitment, just come when it suits you. Please click 'fill in an application' to find out more or apply. 

Food Bank Delivery Driver

    Commitment – 2-4 shifts per month, 1-2 hours per shift

Vacancies for –

• 2 drivers on Tuesdays 1 – 2.30pm
• 1 driver on Wednesdays 9:15 – 11 am
• 3 drivers on Fridays 4:45 – 6:30 pm
• Plus additional shifts to cover high demand in December

Minimum term – 6 months - however if you can only help in the short term in December, we would really appreciate it
Location – St Clare’s Church, Park Barn

Summary
As a volunteer driver you will support our work of helping those in food crisis in our community. You will be responsible for collecting food parcels from our base at St Clare’s and delivering them to clients’ homes in Guildford and surrounding villages. You will be a compassionate and reliable individual who wants to make a difference in our community.

Responsibilities
     ● Commit to your allocated shifts and where possible, step in if a call for additional support is made (during particularly busy periods)
     ● Delivery of food parcels from the food bank to clients’ homes, using your own car.
     ● Load and unload parcels with care and ensure the correct parcels are delivered, in good condition.
     ● Provide a friendly and respectful face of the food bank.
     ● Provide each client with brief information on our signposting tool and any fuel support that is appropriate to their situation.
     ● Maintain client confidentiality within the food bank
     ● Update your Team Leader with the status of each parcel and any follow up needed with each client.

Essential for the role

    ● UK driving licence
    ● Ability to lift and carry food parcels up to 10kg
    ● Respectful, compassionate and sensitive to the needs of vulnerable people
    ● Punctual and reliable
    ● Must pass Basic DBS check
    ● Knowledge of the local area is helpful but not essential.

Fuel team member

Commitment – 1-2 shifts per month, up to 6 hours, spread over the first couple of days of the week.

Vacancies for –

         1 fuel team member

Volunteer role – unpaid
Minimum term – 6 months
Location – Your home

Summary
As a member of our fuel team you will ensure that food bank clients who have prepayment meters are referred for a fuel voucher, where needed, given by our partner organisation the Fuel Bank Foundation. You will ensure our tracking spreadsheets are kept up to date and will contact clients about their fuel top ups by phone and text (using a food bank phone) to ensure that we have accurate information about their situation.

Key responsibilities
     ● Keep up to date with training on fuel processes internally and with Fuel Bank Foundation
     ● Follow fuel team processes and flag any client issues to the food bank administration team
     ● Speak to clients with respect and without judgement
     ● Answer fuel team emails and "fuel phone" when on shift

Essential for the role
      ● Friendly, approachable and empathetic manner
      ● Good listening skills with the ability to communicate respectfully

      ● Non-judgemental attitude and awareness of the challenges clients may be facing
      ● Access at home to a desktop or laptop
      ● Confident using apps and spreadsheets for tracking client data
      ● Good at problem solving
      ● Able to follow a standard process
      ● Work in an organised way
      ● Reliable and enjoy working as part of a team
      ● Willingness to attend meetings with the fuel team, either in person or online.
      ● Ability to remain calm in sometimes emotionally charged situations.
      ● Dedicated to working to support our Charity’s mission and Christian values
      ● Able to drive to meet other volunteers - we have a shared phone that needs passing on as the rota changes

Desirable

      Live within easy reach of the central Guildford area

Food Bank Cafe Listener

Commitment – 2-4 shifts per month, 1-2 hours per shift

Vacancies for –

           2 cafe listeners on Fridays 4:45 – 6:45 pm

Volunteer role – unpaid
Minimum term – 6 months
Location – St Clare’s Church, Park Barn

Summary
As a cafe listener you will support our work of helping those in food crisis in our community. You will provide a warm and friendly welcome for individuals and families (clients) collecting their food parcels from the food bank. Your role will be to offer refreshments, listen without judgement, complete referral forms for fuel support, help signpost clients to relevant support services and to offer prayer.

Key responsibilities

• Greet clients warmly when they arrive to collect their food parcels Offer drinks and a listening ear.
• Provide a non-judgemental listening ear, for those who wish to talk, so clients feel valued.
• Identify the most appropriate fuel support and complete the relevant fuel referral form.
• Provide signposting information, aided by our online signposting tool.
• Bring any queries that you cannot answer to the session team leader.
• Ask clients if they have anything that they would like the team prayer for at the end of the session.
• Maintain client confidentiality within the food bank setting.
• Follow the food bank safeguarding policy at all times.

Essential for the role

• Friendly, approachable and empathetic manner.
• Good listening skills with the ability to communicate respectfully.
• Non-judgemental attitude and awareness of the challenges clients may be facing.
• Reliability and the ability to work as part of a team.
• Willingness to attend training outside of normal food bank hours (no more than once per term).
• Ability to remain calm in sometimes emotionally charged situations.
• Dedicated to working to support our Charity’s mission and Christian values.

Food Bank Team Leader

Commitment – 2-3 shifts per month, 

• 3-4 hours per shift
• 1-2 hrs prep day before shift and 
• 30-45 mins after the session finishes
• 2 hour Team Leader meeting every 2-3 months

Vacancies for – 2 Team Leaders - Tuesday, Wednesday or Friday

Volunteer role – unpaid

Minimum term – 6 months - following training of 3-4 sessions

Location – St Clare’s Church, Park Barn

Summary

As a Team Leader you are responsible for running a client session. You will be well organised, a clear communicator and able to keep calm whilst coping with multiple demands on your time during a session. You will be the main point of contact between the Food Bank Manager and volunteers.

Key responsibilities

• keeping up to date with recent food bank communications 
• preparing packing sheets for your upcoming client session
• unlocking and securing the building at the start and end of the client session
• ensuring you have the correct number of volunteers in relation to expected client numbers
• ensuring all team members are clear on what is expected of them during the session and providing them with recent food bank updates with respect to packing and talking to clients
• keeping track of parcels being packed, including relevant dietary requirements. 
• monitoring clients arriving and following up with the Food Bank Administrator when queries arise during the session.
• ensuring all cafe listeners have the opportunity to download what they have heard and ensuring that any specific needs are offered in prayer (prayer can be done by another member of the team; the download and prayer are key to our work)
• sending in fuel voucher and fuel advice referral forms and completing a session report following the closure of your session.
• feeding back suggested areas for improvement in the way we work
• maintaining client confidentiality within the food bank setting.
• following the food bank safeguarding policy at all times.

Essential for the role

• Well organised
• Confident with email and Whatsapp communication and accessing information on spreadsheets
• Friendly, approachable and empathetic manner
• Good listening skills with the ability to communicate respectfully
• Non-judgemental attitude and awareness of the challenges clients may be facing
• Reliability and the ability to work as part of a team
• Willingness to attend training outside of normal food bank hours (no more than once per term)
• Ability to remain calm in sometimes emotionally charged situations
• Dedicated to working to support our Charity’s mission and Christian values

Guildford Opera is seeking volunteers to help with hair and/or make-up for our next show!

Whether you have prior experience in a theatre setting or are a talented amateur, we'd love to hear from you. Please note - if you have experience in hair but not make-up or vice versa, we are more than happy to split this role.

The main duties of the role(s) would be styling hair and/or doing make-up in a 1950s style for our eight principal singers on the evenings of 26th, 27th, 29th & 30th May (and if there is time, supporting our chorus members with advice/touch-ups). The performance venue is Holy Trinity Church on Guildford High Street.

To let us know you're interested in volunteering with us, please scroll to the top of this page and click on Fill in an application form (on the right-hand side of this advert). We look forward to hearing from you!

Guildford Opera is seeking a Costume Assistant to help with our next show!

We are looking for someone with sewing skills to assist us in preparing and maintaining the costumes for our May 2026 production. Whether you have prior experience in a theatre setting or are a talented amateur, we'd love to hear from you.

The main duties of the role(s) would be supporting our Costume Supervisor with making simple alterations such as hems and sleeves, trimming, repairs and general maintenance, then labelling ready for use by the performers. Please note - you would need to have the use of your own sewing machine.

To let us know you're interested in volunteering with us, please scroll to the top of this page and click on Fill in an application form (on the right-hand side of this advert). We look forward to hearing from you!

Volunteer with halow!

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Volunteer with halow!

Make a difference, have fun, and be part of our community

Volunteer with halow!

Make a difference, have fun, and be part of our community

Volunteer with halow!

Make a difference, have fun, and be part of our community

Volunteer with halow!

Make a difference, have fun, and be part of our community

Volunteer with halow!

Make a difference, have fun, and be part of our community

The Digital Team is responsible for the digital content for Rainbow

Trust. 

We are looking for an intern to work with us for 2 or 3 days per week, to

support our Digital Team in our head office in Leatherhead.

The Digital Intern will help support the Digital Team to include content

update for the website, Facebook updates, supporting email content and

supporting graphic design work.

Your role may include:

•  Scheduling content for social media
•  Editing photographs in Photoshop
•  Making edits to the Rainbow Trust website 

We’re looking for people who are/have:

• Experienced in Adobe packages to include photoshop and premier.
•  Passionate and interested in Digital Marketing
•  Have a basic level of understanding of photo editing.
•  Good written English.
•  Energy and enthusiasm and a pro-active approach

Your commitment:

Duration: 2 – 3 months

Hours: Flexible – 2/3 days per week

Training and Support

• A dedicated member of Rainbow Trust staff will guide and support you in

your work

• You will receive a full induction to the charity and a programme of training

relevant to your role, to help you get the most from your time with us

• Training will cover areas such as safeguarding, health and safety, confidentiality and GDPR, as well as our IT systems
• All volunteers will receive regular opportunities for informal and formal catch ups with their manager

Why choose Rainbow Trust?

• We are a Sunday Times Top 100 Not-for-Profit organisation and a leading

charity for children and young people

• Professional training and opportunities to develop your skills and knowledge
• The enjoyment of becoming part of our friendly and welcoming team, knowing you are making a valuable contribution to the lives of the families we support
• A calendar of social events for volunteers, including Christmas events and celebrations for Volunteers’ Week
• We will reimburse your out-of-pocket travel expenses up to £10 per day and up to £4.00 per day for lunch

Ready to apply?

• Get in touch by clicking the ‘fill in an application’ button.

Selection process:

• Enrolment form, informal interview, references.

WHAT IS IT FOR?
Helping people in Farnham and Area.

WHAT WILL I DO?
Join a team of approximately 50 people. Attend monthly meetings to help decide whom the
Hedgehogs can help with donations. Help erect and take down small marquees, sell calendars etc to
raise money. Help with the Farnham Carnival and other local events.

WHEN CAN I START?
You attend three monthly meetings and then decide if you wish to become a member. The members
also decide on your membership, but a wide range of skills and knowledge is welcome with almost
nobody turned away.

WHAT DIFFERENCE WILL I MAKE?
You will be helping people in need in Farnham and area to improve their lives.

TIME COMMITMENT
You give as much time as you can comfortably commit to. Approximately 4 to 6 hours a month but
can vary widely member to member.

WHERE WILL I DO IT?
Farnham and area.