We chatted to Sorcha, who recently joined the Volunteer Glasgow team as a Befriending Support Worker in our Young Persons Befriending Service. Here’s what she had to say about her experience working with befrienders, young people, and their families. “I’ve been so lucky to meet so many incredible Befrienders as a support worker. From meeting […]
Befriending Week is the national campaign celebrating and raising awareness of befriending and the positive impact it has on individuals and communities. The theme for Befriending Week 2025 is Collaboration and Partnership – we’d like to give a huge thank you to all of the young people, families, befrienders, communities and partner organisations who collaborate with us […]
Volunteer Glasgow needs to raise £110,000 over the next year to maintain our community-based befriending and mentoring services for children aged 8 to 18 across the city.
Sophia Anwar has been volunteering as a Befriender with Volunteer Glasgow’s Young Person’s Befriending Service for six years. We spoke to her about her experience, and the opportunities and challenges she has faced in her time supporting a young person. Sophia was looking for a volunteering opportunity where she could experience the positive impact of […]
Saad is a Befriender with the Young Persons Befriending Service has been matched with his young person for 2 years. Here they are talking about how important it is for some boys and young men to have positive adult role models and how men are supported in this role. You can find the full transcript […]
An update on our services, office move, Games for Good, AGM and getting through the Winter together.
Like many other third sector organisations in the city, we are expecting delayed decisions very soon from the Council on grant funding for services from 1st October onwards.
Although our Befriending & Mentoring Services will be unaffected, if you use (or have an interest in) our Volunteering Services, we’ve provided an update for you on the status of all our services and a summary of the potential impact should the Council reduce grant support for Volunteer Glasgow.
Great news! We want to ensure that we recognise and support the great efforts of young people helping in their communities, many of whom won’t have volunteered before, and as such Saltire Awards have relaxed the rules on informal volunteering during the Covid-19 crisis. Young people (aged 12-25) can claim awards up to 100 hours’ […]
Volunteer Glasgow’s Youth Volunteering Ambassadors would like to invite all young volunteers in Glasgow to get involved with an exciting new project to celebrate the Year of Young People 2018 #YOYP2018.
