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:
- Up to 30 days assistance – Team Offer The Home Office has a team of 5 who can offer between them 25-30 days (or nights) volunteering to any charity or community organisation in Glasgow who needs a bit of help.
- 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 ...
- Website for COVID-19 Mutual Aid There are many informal neighbourhood COVID-19 response groups popping up daily on Facebook which is brilliant. We are keen to help signpost people who either need the aid as they are vulnerable/self-isolating or people who want to volunteer in their local community. We have chosen to promote this website covidmutualaid.org as a way to signpost effectively to local groups. ...
- 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 ...
- Yorkshire Building Society Staff Branch Out! Staff at YBS are keen to get out of the branch and into your organisations to lend a hand right through 2020. Previously staff have helped out at local foodbanks, tidied up school gardens, decorated trees and wrapped selection boxes at Marie Curie Hospice Christmas Fayre as well as stuffing envelopes with leaflets at Strathcarron Hospice ...
- CEIS Volunteering Squad – Team Offer CEIS has 40 members of staff hoping to roll up their sleeves and undertake a great big community task on Friday 5th June 2020. The team of colleagues want to use their one volunteering day per year to help out where they are needed. If you want them to do a litter pick – they are willing ...
- 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.
