Volunteering Opportunities
Aim of the section: To inspire young people to make a meaningful contribution within their communities, influence change, and shape the world they want to live in.
The DofE website has a list of ideas for the volunteering section.
This page will give more ideas of what you could do and list any opportunities which are local.
Colchester
- Community 360
- Colchester Phoenix Amateur Swimming Club
- Colchester Park Run
- Colchester Firstsite: 16+ and interested in the Arts
- Colchester Libraries / Youth Advisory Board / Lego in libraries
- Girl guiding / Scouts
- Jacqui Robinson Education Centre
- Colchester Litter Pickers
- Wivenhoe United Girls Football Club
- Alpaca Acres
- Foodbank
- Essex Wildlife Trust
- Hospice Shops
Chelmsford
- Lighthouse Furniture Project Warehouse, Hutton (providing those without furniture and white goods) jackierayner@lighthousefurniture.org
- Chelmsford Community Radio
- Chelmsford Libraries / Youth Advisory Board / Lego in libraries
- Chelmsford Park Run
- Girl guiding / Scouts
- Interact
- Foodbank
- Chelmsford Museums
- Essex Wildlife Trust
- Barrow Farm Riding for the Disabled
- Hospice Shops
- Orchard Café, Meadgate Church
- Baddow Spartak Football Club, Soccability sessions, Saturdays
- Chelmsford Community Bookshop
- Cats Protection League
- All Things Alpaca
Brentwood
- Lighthouse Furniture Project Shop, Hutton jackierayner@lighthousefurniture.org
- Hutton Recreation Ground Junior Parkrun, Sundays huttonrecreationgroundjuniors@parkrun.com
- Brentwood Libraries / Youth Advisory Board / Lego in libraries
- The Felix Project – fighting food waste and hunger (London based)
- Girl guiding / Scouts
- Thriftwood Activity Centre
- Foodbank
- Hospice shops
- Essex Wildlife Trust
Digital Champions – Brentwood-based volunteering opportunity
- For 14-19 year-olds
- A 12-week volunteering opportunity
- Involves 3 weeks training and 9 weeks of working in the community
- Participants working together in pairs, accompanied by a DBS adult
- Digital champions will be based at: St Peter’s Church in Hutton, Brentwood Theatre, Maple Hall (3 Arch Bridge Estate), Ingatestone Library
- Digital champions will be mostly working with older people, facilitating self-paced learning via Learn My Way, a free online tool for learning digital skills from basic to intermediate/advanced levels
- To get started, participants will need to sign up to become a Digital Champion with Barclays here.