Volunteer and support your community

Find local and national volunteering opportunities, set up a voluntary group or become a Community Champion. There are lots of ways you can get involved to help people in your own community.

What is Volunteering?

Volunteering is choosing to do something for the benefit others, or for your community or the environment without being paid to do so.

Volunteering helps build cohesive, safer and stronger communities. Volunteering has many wellbeing benefits for individuals and can provide a platform to increase your social network, develop new skills, use your experience and make a difference in the community where you live.

Getting Started as a Volunteer

The North Lincolnshire Alliance Volunteer Hub

The volunteer hub is here to support and enable the people of North Lincolnshire to take an active role in volunteering within their communities.

We work in partnership with a wide range of voluntary and community groups and organisations to develop and grow diverse volunteering opportunities across North Lincolnshire. We support grass roots groups to take voluntary action in their communities and remain sustainable.

Do you want to Volunteer?

Volunteering is choosing to do something for the benefit others, or for your community or the environment without being paid to do so.

Volunteering helps to build safer and stronger communities. Volunteering has many wellbeing benefits and can help you to meet new people, learn new skills, use your valued experience and make a difference in the community where you live.

The Volunteer Hub has a new online database that volunteers can use to find volunteering opportunities within their communities by searching through the available roles in a simple way.

On this exciting new system, volunteers can register for a free account to enable them to apply for roles, be kept up to date with the application process and save their favourite searches. This account can also be used to create a CV by logging volunteer hours and roles that they have undertaken to be able to show to prospective employers.

The new online database can be accessed on computers, smart phones and other gadgets enabling you to find out how to volunteer in the most convenient way to you.

To register on our online database, or to simply browse the opportunities we have available please use the link below:

Examples of the types of opportunities we have available on the database are:

• Volunteer drivers
• Kitchen assistants
• Shop assistants
• Community connectors
• Befrienders
• Youth workers
• Dog foster carer
• Train driver
• Museum guides.

When you register on the system you gain access to be able to apply for roles, be kept up to date with your application process and save your favourite searches. You can also use your account to create your own CV by logging your volunteer hours and roles you have undertaken to be able to show to prospective employers.

Do you need volunteers for your group or organisation?

We offer a totally free service to promote voluntary and community organisations’ volunteering opportunities to potential volunteers through this online database, our Facebook page and events we attend to promote volunteering.

To start the registration process please click on the link below to set up your group or organisation on the system.

Once you have registered your organisation on the system and promoted your volunteer opportunities, potential volunteers will be able to see those online and get in touch to apply for the role.

We do not “vet” potential volunteers on your behalf, so you still need to carry out your volunteer recruitment and selection processes and this can all be recorded using the free volunteer management system that you have access to when you register.

The Volunteer Hub is a central service provided by the Voluntary Community Faith and Social Enterprise Alliance North Lincolnshire. The VCFSE Alliance is a group of voluntary and community sector organisations who came together to form the Alliance so that they could work better together and support other voluntary and community groups across North Lincolnshire.

Capacity building support can also be offered to groups and organisations in the North Lincolnshire by Community VISION. This support can help charitable organisations and VCFSE groups with organisational development including setting up and becoming embedded within local networks; establishing the right structure and setting up policies, procedures and governance processes; managing your organisation including legal, financial and reporting obligations, support to access funding, staff and volunteer management, planning and preparing for the future.

We have two offices you can visit to get any support you may need getting on to the Volunteering database.

• Community Vision, 4-6 Robert Street, Scunthorpe, North Lincolnshire, DN15 6NG – They are available Monday to Thursday 9am – 1pm – 01724 845155 – www.communityvision.org.uk
• Humber & Wolds Rural Action – Wilderspin National School, Queen Street, Barton upon Humber, DN18 5PQ. Monday to Thursday 9am – 1pm or 01652 638814  – www.hwrcc.org.uk

The Volunteer Hub can be contacted volunteering@nlalliance.org.uk

We will be holding open sessions throughout North Lincolnshire, and information on these dates will be published on the LiveWell website   and also on our North Lincolnshire Alliance Volunteer Hub Facebook page.

At these sessions we will have members of staff who will help you to register on the system and look through the volunteer opportunities as well as how to apply and complete the process. We will also be available to support organisations and groups who need volunteers with registering their volunteer opportunities on the database to enable them to be advertised to new volunteers.

Alternative ways to support your community

You can contact your local town or parish council to offer your support. Find your local town or parish council.

Donate food to your local foodbank, The Trussell Trust. You can also donate items at collection points in your local supermarket.

Donate your unwanted items to a local charity shop.

Community Centres

Your local community centre is available for private functions and bookings. The majority of centres have a hall (usually with a stage and meeting rooms). Contact your local community centre for further details on facilities and room charges.

Contact

01724 297000