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Find volunteering opportunities, and volunteer rights, pay, expenses, age limits, criminal record checks.
You can find volunteering opportunities on the: National Association for…
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Age limits There’s no upper age limit on volunteering. Some organisations’…
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How to recruit and manage volunteers for your charity, including the vetting process, paying expenses, role descriptions and insurance.
This guidance aims to help organisations and groups understand how to safely and effectively involve volunteers.
Volunteer for the Coastguard Rescue Service and help to carry out search and rescue along the UK shoreline.
Find out what being a charity trustee involves and how to employ, manage and keep people at your charity safe from harm.
Find out how to become a volunteer to support nature conservation where you live or work.
Information on how to stay safe and healthy during travel abroad.
Nominate a group of volunteers for The King's Award for Voluntary Service including eligibility and supporting a nomination.
DCMS invites applications from grant makers to administer up to £1.7m funding on volunteering projects in 2021/22 and welcomes additional match funding to 2023.
The government is expanding the NHS Volunteer Responders programme into social care.
What to do if you claim benefits and do voluntary work.
The role of voluntary organisations in preparing for, responding to and recovering from emergencies.
Guidance on the Queen's Platinum Jubilee Volunteering Award.
Find out about the support you get to carry out a volunteer role safely and effectively.
The Inspiring Governance online service connects schools and trusts with skilled volunteers in their area who are interested in becoming a school governor or a trustee on a Local Governing Body.
The UKSAR Mental Health and Wellbeing Work Group considered how the six Mental Health at Work Commitment Standards can be translated into a form that is more appropriate for volunteers.
Join an Independent Monitoring Board (IMB) to volunteer to check standards in prisons - find out how to apply
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