Your Community
Be healthier and happier in 2018, by helping to make Glasgow a better place:
- There are many foodbanks across Glasgow providing much-needed support to those affected by poverty. You can find your local Trussell Trust foodbank here and searching on Facebook is often a good way of finding others in your local area.
- Join together with your neighbours on issues affecting your local area by joining/attending/supporting your local Community Council (opens in new tab)
- Help to care for your local green spaces by joining your nearest ‘Friends of…’ group (opens in new tab) or join the Neighbourhood Improvement Volunteers (opens in new tab) or view our listings of the latest environment opportunities
- Feel safer: find out how some quick, easy steps can help you – by hitting the big green “join” button at Neighbourhood Watch Scotland (opens in new tab)
- Support grassroots sport in your area by joining forces with Eddie Izzard via joininuk.org or contact Glasgow Sport
None of these doing it for you? Then why not search for further opportunities available to do in Glasgow?
Latest opportunities:
- Young volunteers of lockdown Have you worked with any amazing young volunteers (age 12-25) during Covid-19 lockdown? Why not show them your appreciation and nominate them for a Saltire Summit Award. Volunteer Glasgow’s Youth Volunteering Ambassadors have decided to hold a special Summit Panel meeting next month to celebrate the fantastic volunteering by young people during lockdown. The Summit Award ...
- New opportunities with Meals Collective! 🥦🥕🥑 Meals Collective are looking for volunteers to support their community food initiative! They have three exciting new roles on offer, so there are plenty of ways to get involved! Meals Collective is a non-profit organisation providing healthy comfort food and food parcels to those that need extra support during the COVID-19 crisis and beyond. They have ...
- Saltire Awards for Covid-19 youth volunteering 💖 🙌 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’ Saltire ...
- Team Challenge – A Different Kind of Saturday! Following their successful event in 2019, Leverndale Hospital is once again hosting a “Meander for Mental Health” on Saturday 19th September from 1pm – 4pm. Community members will be invited to explore the grounds and surrounding green spaces. Volunteers are required from 11am – 5pm. This will enable organisers to brief everyone and direct them to ...
- Canals are Calling!! – Team Challenge If you are a team looking for a one day challenge in Glasgow and environs – then complete the form below and press send! John & Carol from Scottish Canals have always got a wide variety of team challenges available. You could be helping to clear up waterways, weed footpaths, undertake a litter pick or any number ...
- Count You In? – Team Offer Staff at Nationwide are keen to put down their calculators, step away from their spreadsheets and roll up their sleeves to help a charitiable organisation for a full day in February or March. Do you have a project or piece of work they could help with? Maybe gardening, painting or cleaning? In the past a group ...
- Charity Counts – Free Training for Charity Shop Volunteers The WEA, Volunteer Glasgow and Maths Week Scotland are offering a development opportunity for people who are volunteering or interested in volunteering in Charity Shops in Glasgow. CHARITY COUNTS is a FREE 4 week (2 hours per week) training course for up to 12 Charity Shop Volunteers who are interested in learning more about all aspects of running ...
- Shape Volunteer Glasgow’s Future Bring your skills in financial management to the team of volunteer Trustees to help improve lives across the city.
- Dreams Come True – Team Challenge Dreams Come True is a UK children’s charity. Our mission is quite simply to enrich the lives of children and young people with serious and life-limiting conditions across the country by making their dreams come true. Over the last 30 years we have fulfilled dreams for more than 6,000 children and young people as well ...
- Share Your Writing Gift! Are you someone who is prolific with a pen, enjoys teaching and facilitating adult groups who have a desire to tell their story through creative writing, poetry, prose or song lyrics? Do you have a few hours to spare on a Monday – 1pm – 2.30pm? Would you enjoy bringing out the best in people ...
