Becoming a volunteer Learn how you could make a huge difference to someone in your community

Volunteer

Who are our volunteers and what do they do?

We are always looking to welcome new volunteers. Our volunteers can be anyone aged over 16! We have volunteers who are studying at university and others who have been retired for many years. We provide all volunteers with an initial induction on the role of a volunteer, expectations, limitations, and ongoing training in areas of your choice. All volunteers undergo an Enhanced Criminal Records Bureau (CRB) check. We are always in need of more volunteers to do some of the following:

Befriending

Visiting an isolated older person in their own home once each week for an hour or two for company and a chat.

Light Gardening

Our gardening volunteers help with small tasks such as cutting a lawn, weeding, and general tidying of a small garden.

Practical Tasks

Some volunteers escort older people on shopping trips or to the cinema. We also need volunteers to read people’s mail to them, hang curtains or clean windows.

Social Groups

We have one social group in Peckham / Nunhead for two hours every Wednesday morning called Golden Oldies. If you would like to volunteer with our group to help with setting up/packing away, serving teas and coffees, to be a befriender to people in the group, or if you have any organising or practical skills working with groups, then this is for you!

Social Group

Making a difference

Feedback from our service users:

Since having a volunteer befriender my life has improved; I look forward to hearing what my volunteer has been doing over the week and talking about the history of the local area and how it has changed- we talk about sport and what’s been happening on TV. I appreciate the time that my volunteer takes to see me each week.
I look forward to my volunteer’s visits, he is like a good neighbour, looking in on me to check I am doing OK which is really nice. I appreciate the time he gives to visiting me, it is good to talk about the past. We talk about my experiences of being in the RAF and being in a prisoner of war camp in Germany... as well as what he has been doing and his experience of when he was in the army.