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Volunteer Drivers (less than 10 hours per week)

Whetstone Good Neighbour Scheme

Providing lifts to those without means of transport to appointments, shops, visiting friends etc. All in the Whetstone area. Jobs

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Onsite

  • Befriending
  • Community
  • Driving and Transport
  • Older People

Blaby

Re-Use Shop Volunteer Retail assistant

Age UK Leicester Shire & Rutland

To assist customers, principally members of the public, to make purchases of clothes and miscellaneous items donated to the charity in a shop setting.

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Onsite

  • Older People

parkrun volunteer

Sence Valley Forest Park parkrun

Volunteers are fundamental to the delivery of all events, and carry out roles such as setting up the event, marshalling, timekeeping, scanning, handing out finish tokens or tail walking, to name just a few. Each event is encouraged to have as many volunteers as they can and to never turn down an offer from someone […]

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  • Community
  • Health and Wellbeing
  • Practical and Outdoors
  • Sport

North West Leicestershire

Festival Volunteers

2Funky Arts

We are looking for a team of volunteers to help with various roles for a 3-day festival in Leicester. Dates May 23-25.

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  • Advice and Information
  • Arts and Heritage
  • Children and Youth
  • Community
  • Media and Technology

Leicester

Retail Assistant – E-Commerce warehouse, Frog Island

Age UK Leicester Shire & Rutland

We are looking for volunteers to support our E-Commerce warehouse, which prepares, lists, and dispatches higher value items that are given as donations.

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Onsite

  • Older People

Leicester

Survey Your Local River

Trent Rivers Trust

Your local rivers charity, Trent Rivers Trust, are looking for river champions to test water quality and monitor river changes in the WillowBrook catchment in Leicester. Develop skills on testing water quality and become part of the local community surveying the Willow, Evington, Scraptoft and Bushby brooks for river health.

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Remote

  • Environment
  • Practical and Outdoors

Other

Scrapstore Volunteer

Charnwood Eco Hub

To help in the scrapstore (repurposed materials craft store), greeting customers, sorting stock

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Onsite

  • Environment

Charnwood

Retail Assistant – Oadby Furniture shop

Age UK Leicester Shire & Rutland

To assist customers, principally members of the public, to make purchases of clothes and miscellaneous items donated to the charity in a ‘High Street’ shop setting

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Onsite

  • Older People

Oadby and Wigston

Age UK Retail Shops – PAT Testers for Leicestershire

Age UK Leicester Shire & Rutland

To be responsible for PAT testing of donated electrical items for sale within our shops.

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Remote

  • Older People

Other

Member of the Board of Trustees, Menphys Ltd

Menphys Ltd

The charity Menphys is seeking to recruit a Trustee to its oversight Board who has financial management or accountancy skills. This Trustee will monitor the financial health of the charity and help in the drawing up of its annual accounts.

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  • Trusteeship

Oadby and Wigston

Honorary Treasurer

Emmaus Leicestershire & Rutland

Local homelessness charity Emmaus Leicestershire & Rutland is seeking a suitable candidate for the important volunteer trustee position of Honorary Treasurer.

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Hybrid

  • Housing and Homelessness

Hinckley and Bosworth

Front of House – Loughborough Carillon Museum

Loughborough Carillon and War Memorial Museum

We received a grant to redevelop the ground floor museum located within Loughborough’s iconic War Memorial. We are seeking volunteers to man the front desk, to meet and greet visitors and manage some retail sales.

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  • Admin
  • Arts and Heritage
  • Education

Charnwood

Charity Trustee

Emmaus Leicestershire & Rutland

Emmaus Leicestershire & Rutland is seeking new trustees to help support and guide our Hinckley-based homelessness charity.

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Hybrid

  • Housing and Homelessness

Hinckley and Bosworth

Scout group needs your help

4th Leicester Scout Group

We are a Scout group in Braunstone and are looking for more enthusiastic help at Beavers, Cubs and Scouts. As our numbers grow we need more people to join our friendly team of volunteers to offer safe, interesting and challenging times for young people between the ages of 6 and 14. Your time and skills […]

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  • Children and Youth
  • Community
  • Practical and Outdoors

Blaby

Campaigns Volunteer

Parkinson's UK

Please support Parkinsons UK in Leicestershire by supporting us with local campaigns.

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Remote

  • Health and Wellbeing

Leicester

Volunteering at Sence Valley

Forestry England in the National Forest

Sence Valley volunteers meet monthly on the third Sunday of the month, 9.30am until lunchtime. Tasks undertaken are a mixture of conservation project work and site maintenance. A friendly and welcoming group, no previous experience is needed to join in.

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  • Environment
  • Practical and Outdoors

North West Leicestershire

Roving Rangers in the National Forest

Forestry England in the National Forest

The National Forest Roving Rangers meet monthly on the first Sunday and fourth Thursday of the month, 9.30am until lunchtime. Tasks undertaken are a mixture of conservation project work and site maintenance, at various community woodlands in the National Forest including Seale Wood, near Overseal; Bignalls Wood at Lount; Gresley Wood in Swadlincote and Mill […]

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Onsite

  • Environment
  • Practical and Outdoors

North West Leicestershire

Hicks Lodge Volunteers

Forestry England in the National Forest

Tuesdays 9:30am – lunchtime (roughly 12:30pm) Tasks undertaken are a mixture of conservation project work and site maintenance. A friendly and welcoming group, no previous experience is needed to join in.

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Onsite

  • Environment
  • Practical and Outdoors

North West Leicestershire

Neighbourhood mental Health Cafe Volunteer – Measham

Age UK Leicester Shire & Rutland

To assist staff in the delivery of 1-2-1 support and group support for people experiencing mental health difficulties.

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  • Community

North West Leicestershire

Neighbourhood Mental Health Cafe Volunteer – Oadby

Age UK Leicester Shire & Rutland

To assist staff in the delivery of 1-2-1 support and group support for people experiencing mental health difficulties.

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  • Community

Oadby and Wigston
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