About volunteers
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CloseAn introduction to volunteering.
Volunteer-involving organisations can range from large national charities involving thousands of volunteers, to small community groups with no paid staff at all.
Volunteers are involved in:
- education
- trade unions
- health and social care
- charity shops and retail
- faith organisations
- culture, media and the arts
- sports
- politics
- campaigning
- environment
- housing and homelessness.
On-line volunteering
An exciting form of volunteering is ‘online volunteering’ – this can include mentoring, proposal writing for fundraising, writing for Wikipedia and using your iPhone for reassurance calls to older people living alone.
In fact, in most sectors you will find volunteers doing a huge variety of roles, and their volunteering may be formal or informal.
Formal volunteering is usually undertaken through public, private and voluntary organisations, while informal volunteering is often taken to mean outside a formal structure, for example, community participation and campaigning.
- Volunteering England
- Youth Action Network
- Age UK
- Toolkit for involving older black and minority ethnic volunteers (pdf 66kb)
Have your say
Do you have any advice, questions or views about volunteering?
Share your experience on the Volunteers forum.
