Flexible volunteering you can do from home!
Want to volunteer but find it hard to fit in?
Here are 10 flexible Volunteering roles you can do from home:
Are you a good communicator? Bags of Taste help people out of food poverty by teaching them to prepare healthy homecooked food. Could you mentor participants via WhatsApp or phone, providing support and encouragement?
This group runs a range of classes and activities via Zoom to promote the wellbeing of their members who are living with ME, Fibromyalgia and long covid. Help support the activities which range from Qigong to French conversation!
Gain teaching skills and support a child (aged 5-10) who is struggling with literacy by reading with them for 2 x 30 minute sessions a week. This is all online and the session times are flexible. Full training provided.
Build your creative portfolio by helping this local environmental organisation working to reduce single-use plastics in Sheffield.
Here to Hear Bereavement Helpline for DiverseCity Development Trust
Are you good at listening and compassionate? A flexible role providing telephone support to people who are struggling to come to terms with loss and grief. Multilingual and bilingual volunteers also welcomed.
Could you help to brighten a lonely older person's day? Simply write a handwritten letter - say 'Hi' and talk about yourself, your family, your job, your hobbies- and local charity SCCCC will pass it on to one of their service users. Or send a postcard, draw or paint a picture and add the simple message 'Thinking of you'.
Can you sew or knit? Baby Basics support new mothers and families who are struggling to meet the financial and practical burden of looking after a new baby and are always in need of sheets, bags, moses basket liners, baby blankets, bootees, cardigans and more. Flexible role.
This charity is looking for volunteer bakers to make and decorate birthday cakes for disadvantaged children in Sheffield who would not otherwise receive a birthday cake. Get creative and make someone's day!
Research and create a database of local organisations, schools and businesses and compose marketing emails to support Kaleido Arts for Wellbeing.
Passionate about social media? Endeavour is a small charity helping disadvantaged young people and is looking for someone to manage their social media - creating content, monitoring trends and analysing metrics.
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