Foster a dog, help a whole family find freedom

By looking after a dog in your home, you can support a family on their journey to freedom from domestic abuse.

If you are interested in becoming a foster carer for Freedom - visit our website here for more information on fostering and to apply: https://www.dogstrustfreedom.org.uk/foster-a-dog/overview

Why volunteer with Freedom?

For dog owners experiencing domestic abuse, the idea of leaving their beloved pet behind is unthinkable. But, unfortunately, most refuges are unable to accept dogs. This means that people and their dogs often remain in dangerous situations.

By fostering with Freedom, you can help remove the barriers preventing someone from accessing safe accommodation, reassured in the knowledge that their dog is being loved and cared for until they can be safely reunited. As a Freedom foster carer, you’re not only helping a dog in their time of need, you're supporting a whole family on their journey towards freedom.

When you foster with Freedom, you get:

 All the benefits of sharing your home with a dog, typically for 4 to 8 months

 All expenses including food, equipment and veterinary care covered

 Full support from our experienced Freedom team

 Pride in knowing you’re helping somebody and their dog find Freedom

Welcoming a foster dog

Our experienced team work with the dog's owner to learn about their pet's health, behaviour and how they're cared for, so we can carefully match individual dogs with foster carers who will best fit their lifestyle. While the dog stays with you, the Freedom team will provide ongoing advice and support, plus we'll take photos so we can keep the dog's owner updated on how they're doing.

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.

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

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

We are looking for a volunteer with strong sewing skills to act as a Costume Assistant for our December 2026 production of Donizetti's opera Lucia di Lammermoor. Prior experience working in a theatre setting is desirable but not essential - we are a small charity and most of us are volunteers, so we're also keen to hear from talented amateurs who are confident working independently.

The role involves supporting our Costume Supervisor to prepare and maintain the costumes for the show.

Our ideal Costume Assistant would:

• Be confident in hand- and machine-sewing
• Be able to make a range of alterations (including blind-hemming, shortening dresses and sleeves, taking in trousers and sewing on buttons)
• Assist at costume fittings on Saturday 28th and Sunday 29th November (location TBC - in/near Guildford; lifts can be provided!)
• Have time between Sunday 29th November and Tuesday 1st December to carry out alterations to at least three costumes
• Have their own sewing machine to carry out alterations at home

We'd be delighted if you'd like to join us at the dress rehearsals and performances (1st-5th December) to help organise and maintain costumes during the run, however this by no means essential.

All our volunteers are treated just the same as members of the company - you'll have the opportunity to meet new people, join our social events and become part of a lively, welcoming community! Volunteers are also given a small allocation of free tickets to our shows, in recognition of the support they give.

We offer volunteers as much flexibility as we can and will adapt roles to suit you where possible. We welcome people from all backgrounds; we're also happy to provide reasonable adjustments to support you in your volunteer role.

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'll then arrange an informal chat at a time to suit you - please note there's no commitment at this stage. We look forward to hearing from you!

Location: Remote (Work from Home)
Time Commitment: Flexible; events run at a variety of times including Mondays, Wednesdays, Saturdays, and Sundays at 10 AM and other monthly events (weekends/evenings).
Minimum Age: 18+

About Us:
The Harry Edwards Healing Sanctuary is a charitable organisation dedicated to holistic healing and well-being. We offer both in-person and online healing events, ensuring accessibility to all.

Role Overview:
We’re looking for tech-savvy volunteers to help run our live online healing events via Zoom and Facebook Live. You’ll ensure smooth streaming, support hosts, and troubleshoot technical issues. No prior experience in healing is needed—just a passion for helping and a knack for technology!

What You’ll Do:

• Set up and manage Zoom meetings and Facebook Live sessions
• Provide real-time technical support during live events
• Monitor audio, video, and streaming quality
• Save and organise event recordings for future use

Skills & Requirements:

• Confidence using Zoom and Facebook Live (training provided)
• Ability to problem-solve technical issues quickly
• Clear communication skills to support event hosts
• Reliability and attention to detail

What We Offer:

• Full training and support from our friendly team
• The chance to be part of a meaningful cause
• Flexible volunteering you can do from home
• A great way to develop tech and event production skills

Interested?
We’d love to hear from you! 

Join us in bringing healing to more people, wherever they are!

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. 

About the Charity:

We believe when positive role models are actively present; children, families, and communities thrive. We work alongside families by encouraging men to be a mentor to the boys in their life. We offer a diverse programme of opportunities for men and boys to have fun, take part in adventurous activities together, and enhance their own and wider family relationships.

Why this role exists:

Ground Team support our administrative/fundraising tasks and the creation of team building events, helping to support the structure that allows us to celebrate our staff team and families. This role is designed to connect with other aspects of MAN&BOY to create organisational smoothness and efficiency.

What you will be doing:

• Engaging our staff with teambuilding events

• Completing relevant and important training

• Assisting with fundraising opportunities

• Contributing to reflection and feedback after events

• Supporting with our administrative tasks

• Connecting with our staff to assess future events 

How much time is required:

Ground Team are asked to commit to a supporting a team/fundraising building event and/or several small admin tasks annually. This is roughly 8 in person hours, with a flexible sign up available through our volunteer portal for remote opportunities.

Our promise to you: 

MAN&BOY recognises volunteering as a donation of your skills, labour and time. 

We commit to:

• Treating you with respect
• Providing clarity and support
• Listening to your feedback
• Recognising your contribution

How will we support & train you:

DBS Check provided at no cost to our volunteers

½ Day (in-person) onboarding training

Access to our online volunteer portal and training

Ongoing quarterly training opportunities (hybrid)

Bi-monthly check ins with Volunteer support

Specialised workshop trainings as desired

MAN&BOY will never ask you to do anything you aren’t comfortable with.

What you will gain from MAN&BOY:

Experience in supporting adults and young people

Deeper understanding of male family dynamics

Access to our bespoke MAN&BOY training package 

Reference after 6 months active volunteering

Skills in administration, event planning and fundraising.

Being apart of a supportive, skilled community

Who will excel in the role:

Essential

Embodies MAN&BOY’s ‘ENCOURAGE’ principles

Confident using digital/technology 

Interested in our work, punctual and reliable

Will complete MAN&BOY and safeguarding training

Desirable

Experience in administrative tasks

Interest in fundraising/ team-building events

Interest in the outdoors and sports

Interest in developing relationships in family unit

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!

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.

Wanted:  A volunteer Treasurer, ideally with accounting qualifications who is happy to work from home.  Our current Treasurer, who has just stepped down, will continue as a Trustee and will provide handover support to the new Treasurer.

The Role:  To oversee financial planning and management, ensuring financial viability of our events and courses, provide regular financial reports to the Board and Management team, supervise daily accounting activities performed by the Financial Assistant, and collaborate with the external accountant on final accounts to Companies House and Charity Commission.

We are: A yoga teacher training organisation.  We are a company limited by guarantee and a registered charity.  Our trustees, management team and members are spread around the country (and abroad). 

How much time is needed?  The amount of time spent in the role is variable depending on the time of year.  Preparation for the quarterly meetings and preparing the end of year accounts will need more time but an average of 2 – 3 hours a week will suffice.

We meet: As a management team we meet online using Zoom 3-times a year on a Wednesday at 1pm, plus an annual AGM and occasional sub-group meetings.  Our part-time virtual Finance Assistant deals with the day-to-day finances.