Offer a sense of compassion and empathy as a Bridge Watch Volunteer with Ascension Trust. This organisation, runs the Bridge Watch programme to patrol bridges and the Thames, ensuring people don’t put themselves in danger or attempt to enter the water. You’ll lend a listening ear and help signpost people to mental health services.
📈 Detail-orientated data whizz needed!
If you’ve got a knack for numbers, you could be suited to Children with Voices’ Impact Report and Data Analyst role. Apply today if you’re ready to refine data, flex your graphic design skills and prepare reports to share the charities’ impact.
🐦 Bask in birdsong as a Community Gardener
Serious about soaking up spring? Search no further than Energy Garden Ltd’s Community Gardener role. This organisation seeks passionate, enthusiastic volunteers to leave Rectory Road garden displays looking beautiful and vibrant, helping to put a smile on Hackney commuters’ faces.
Make a valuable contribution to VCH whilst sharing your knowledge and developing new skills. We’re seeking passionate local residents who can bring skills and experience from their own life, work, study or volunteering to help guide our charity, particularly people who work within the NHS or local commissioning. Training and support provided.
😊 Put a smile on someone on a Hackney resident’s face
St Joseph’s Hospice Hackney seeks empathic volunteers to befriend local people with serious, long-term illnesses. You’ll visit people, provide a sense of compassion and also go a long way to reduce loneliness.
🚶🏽♀️ Help beat breast cancer
Each year breast cancer charity Walk The Walk holds its Moonwalk, an overnight walk to raise funds for an amazing cause. Choose from three shifts and provide event support as London struts its stuff for everyone impacted by breast cancer.
👍 Join a “delightful, hard-working team”
“They are a delightful hard-working team who help you with different aspects of learning and life in general,” said Albert, 10, discussing the support he received from The Mentoring Lab. Become a Commonwealth Youth Mentor with The Mentoring Lab to help someone transitioning towards becoming a teenager and finding out what they want to do and who they are.
🧡 Join the friendly Community Health Champions network
Have you ever considered how you could further healthcare in Hackney for Global Majority communities? You could give voice to these communities as a Community Health Champion. “Champions are encouraged to share their own personal truths, journeys and perspectives,” said Champion Aisha, “which in turn supports understanding and energy for authentic positive change.”
📚 Build inclusivity by helping to teaching English
Support people learning English as an English Teacher Volunteer with our Together Better service, which scooped up a Royal Society of Public Health gong in 2024. Support asylum seekers and newcomers to the UK to learn English and build confidence in Hackney.
💅🏿 Attention: Beauty Therapists!
Do your bit for people without a home by acting as a Women’s Beauty Therapist Volunteer with St Mungo’s. You’ll apply make-up or nail arts, empower clients to do some of this themselves, all with empathy and excellent communication skills.
Next, why not read about how you could volunteer with Our Place?