Thank you so much for expressing your interest in volunteering with us at the Booth Centre. We truly value and appreciate the time you're willing to offer. Our new Volunteer Coordinator will be in touch very soon!
Volunteer roles
We are open Monday to Friday during the day, so are looking for volunteers who are able to help during the week.
Please email [email protected] for more information and to get started
Volunteer tasks can include:
We ask that volunteers can be flexible to support the needs of the centre on the days you're helping. There may be the opportunity to specialise after an agreed induction period if you want to gain experience in a particular area.
Specialist skills
If you have specialist skills which you'd like to offer to support the Booth Centre, do get in touch. We're particularly on the look out for:
Please email [email protected] for more information and to get started
Volunteer tasks can include:
- Helping to prepare breakfast and lunch in our kitchen
- Helping in our café
- Supporting arts, music and sports activity sessions
- Getting involved in job club and employment skills sessions
- Chatting to people and letting them know what services are on offer in the Centre and elsewhere
- Cleaning and tidying
- Supporting our welcome team around reception
- Answering phone calls
- Logging donations
- Sorting donations of food and essential items in our stores.
We ask that volunteers can be flexible to support the needs of the centre on the days you're helping. There may be the opportunity to specialise after an agreed induction period if you want to gain experience in a particular area.
Specialist skills
If you have specialist skills which you'd like to offer to support the Booth Centre, do get in touch. We're particularly on the look out for:
- Musicians
- Artists
- People who are fluent in languages other than English.
Experience, references and DBS check
You don't need experience of advice and support work in order to volunteer with us. What you do need is the right attitude - we are looking for people who are good listeners, who have a positive outlook, are non-judgemental and are happy to muck in and work as part of a team. We ask people to give us details of two people who we can approach for references. We will also need to apply for a DBS check (which has replaced the Criminal Records Bureau (CRB) checks) because we work with vulnerable adults. Having a criminal record will not necessarily bar you from becoming a volunteer, so please don't let this put you off.
What you can expect from us
- Support from our dedicated Volunteer Co-ordinator
- To volunteer in a friendly, supportive environment
- We provide a full induction and ongoing training for all our volunteers
- We reimburse out of pocket expenses, such as bus fares/parking fees
- We provide lunch for all our volunteers
- We are very happy to write references for volunteers who are applying for work or education courses