Featured Volunteering Opportunities Here are a some of the volunteering opportunities currently available from across Haringey... Jacksons Lane - Feeling Good & Christmas Day Volunteers Jacksons Lane works with vulnerable groups in the community, using communication and creativity to provide companionship, increase confidence and improve overall wellbeing. Their Feeling Good project provides companionship to those that need it the most by pairing volunteers with isolated individuals, who then provide a minimum of 30 minutes social contact a week, helping combat loneliness and social exclusion in the older community. They also usually host a Christmas Day meal for over 100 elderly or disabled members of the community, who otherwise would be on their own. This year, due to Covid-19, they will not be able to run Christmas Day in their building as normal but are looking at a Christmas Day operation of feeding over 200 isolated and vulnerable members of the older community. If you're interested in helping out with either of these projects, click below for more information... Feeling Good Volunteers Christmas Day Volunteers Wheely Tots - Social Media & Press Releases Volunteer Wheely Tots have loads of lovely stories and emails that are waiting to be shared and would love some help writing these up as posts for their website, social media or as press releases. They are looking for someone who likes writing and ideally has some experience of creating content for social media/websites. If you think you can help, click below for more info... More information Email Haringey Food Hub - Volunteers The Haringey Food Hub is looking for volunteers. Each week this invaluable lifeline for many people living with food poverty, coordinates donations of fresh food and dry goods to food aid providers (such as food banks) across Haringey. Could you help to... pack food parcels and other items in its food distribution hub deliver supplies from its food distribution hub to food banks and community groups in the borough be a Supplies Coordinator to help run its supplies distribution hub Click below for more information on each role and to sign up... Volunteer Coordinator Food Box Packing Volunteers Supplies Delivery Volunteers Supplies Coordinator Volunteers Sign Up The Conservation Volunteers TCV is the largest environmental volunteering charity in the country. They do conservation work in various parks, nature reserves and woodlands in Haringey and new volunteers are always welcome! Due to covid-19, volunteer numbers are limited, and there is important information they need to give out before arrival, so booking is essential. Click below to register your interest, and TCV will be in touch if there is a space. Sign Up Healthwatch Haringey - Volunteer Digital IT Buddies Help Haringey residents to access GP and hospital appointments online via the internet by providing some basic training for them on a tablet, phone or PC. You don't need to be an IT whizz-kid, just confident about using a computer and the internet, and have your own laptop or tablet. We provide training and expenses for you, and devices for the residents, including internet connection. More Information Sign Up Impact Cuisine - Various Volunteer Roles Impact Cuisine’s success is based on the community coming together to support each other. A free, hot, freshly prepared meal is available for collection by anyone who identifies themselves as in need. Some people are not able to collect, mainly for health reasons, and their meals are delivered. They are looking for volunteers to help with... Meeting, Greeting & Registering Co-ordinating deliveries Making deliveries by foot, bike or car Organising, Planning, Admin and Fundraising More Information Wise Thoughts - WISEfriends befriending service for LGBTQI+ people Wise Thoughts runs a peer to peer befriending service for LGBTQI+ people who may be feeling isolated or lonely. We aim to create fun, new opportunities for social interaction for those looking to build their confidence, feel more part of the community or just meet new people. We are looking for volunteers to join our existing small team, delivering befriending services to the LGBTQI+ community in Haringey. More Information Lordship Hub - Café Assistant Lordship Hub is a Community Centre in a beautiful park in Tottenham, called Lordship Rec. It is situated next to a lake and children’s playground. Their Café is a welcoming and friendly meeting place for park users and offers freshly cooked, affordable food. We also run events and activities for local residents. They are looking for volunteers to help in the café. It doesn’t matter if you don’t have any experience, they can teach you all you need to know including how to make great coffees. More Information Bounds Green Food Bank - Volunteer Drivers Bounds Green Food Bank was established by local residents in June 2020, after providing support for all in Bounds Green during the Covid-19 pandemic. They are based at St Michael’s Hall, 37 Bounds Green Road, N22 8HE. The Food Bank is open to all, no vouchers or referrals are required to visit. Due to increasing demand and limited capacity, they are now in urgent need of volunteer drivers with their own vehicle to be part of their amazing Food Sourcing team. More Information Haringey Community Benefit Society - Board Members Haringey Community Benefit Society is an exciting new start up focussed on providing rental homes for households who find it difficult to buy or rent on the open market. They have had a successful first year of operation and have ambitious plans to grow and a pipeline of properties to add to their portfolio. They are now looking to recruit new members to join their board of management as independent non-executive directors of the company. More information North London National Food Service - Various Volunteer Roles National Food Service London provides cooked meals and groceries to local people in need of food. They are part of the National Food Service, which works towards food justice and the overhauling of our food system. They operate Monday-Friday and send out deliveries on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Fridays, offering nutritious vegetarian and vegan food for anyone who needs it. They are volunteer-run and are always in need of more people to help continue to offer this essential service. There are currently 6 different roles available, ranging from kitchen work to project coordination. More Information Sign Up The OK Foundation - Food Parcel Packing and Delivery Volunteers The OK Foundation need volunteers to help with putting together and delivering food parcels on Wednesdays and Thursdays from 11am to 3pm. They have a van/minibus which the volunteers can drive. Click below to email them and find out more... More Information Visionaries Learning Centre CIC - Volunteer Tutors/Teachers VLC are looking for dedicated, enthusiastic and committed individuals to join their team as a volunteer teachers/tutors. All tutoring takes place at their specified locations and you will be working in a team alongside other volunteer teachers/tutors delivering tuition in your chosen subject (Maths, English or Science) to Primary or Secondary school children. More Information Multiple Sclerosis Society - Befriending Volunteer Could you spare an hour or two a week to provide support to those affected by MS? If so, the MS Helpline team would like to hear from you. MS Befriending Volunteers will volunteer from home providing weekly friendly phone calls to people affected by MS . They are looking for volunteers who can offer 1 or 2 hour phone call sessions a week and you’ll receive role specific training. Click below for more info, to email or to sign up... More Information Email Sign Up Food For All – Kitchen Volunteers Food For All is an entirely volunteer run and managed food relief charity based in central London which currently provides 5,000 free meals a day to community groups and local authorities, as well as on the streets for people without accommodation. They are looking for volunteers to help out in their Kitchen and currently need around 12 volunteers per 4-hour shift (8am-12pm or 1pm-5pm). You can help out with food prep, food portioning, labelling, cleaning and in the warehouse. More Information Sign Up Citizens Advice Haringey - Digital Volunteers Citizens Advice Haringey is providing advice for more people than ever in their time of greatest need and are looking for remote volunteers to help. Why not assist the people of Haringey to get benefits, deal with their debts and help prevent homelessness, and other issues, as well as help yourself by gaining new skills and knowledge that could enable you to get future employment. More Information Haringey Over 50s Forum - Committee Members Haringey Over 50s Forum purpose is to give older people a voice and to ensure that all their concerns are put and kept before the decision makers. We are looking for volunteers to join our Committee and help support our members and older residents in Haringey. If you would like to use your skills and experience in committee work, events organising, and dialogue with public bodies and politicians, to help us with our work with older people in Haringey, we would love to hear from you! More Information Haringey Reach and Connect Reach and Connect are looking for volunteers for their telephone befriending service and their medicine courier service, to support those shielding and isolating in the borough. Click below for more information and to sign up... Telephone Befriending Volunteers Medicine Courier Volunteers Mutual Aid Groups Covid-19 Mutual Aid UK is a group of volunteers supporting local community groups organising mutual aid throughout the Covid-19 outbreak in the UK. To find a group in your area click below... Mutual Aid Groups FareShare - Local Collection Point Driver's Assistant FareShare are a charity working to combat food waste and food poverty by redistributing surplus food to over 150 charities and community groups around London. These are Community Food Members, who turn the surplus food into meals for vulnerable people. The majority of their charities receive their food in deliveries, sent out on FareShare vans with a mixture of both volunteer and staff drivers. So that they can reach more charities and reduce their carbon footprint, they are increasingly setting up Local Collection Points (LCPs). At LCPs, Community Food Members from a particular area are able to come and collect their deliveries from a single location. In order to help ensure things are as effective as possible as the number of charities collecting increases, they are looking for volunteers to support the FareShare drivers going to LCPs. They supply numerous charities in North London, and have an LCP in Haringey. They need volunteers from the area to assist with the LCP drop, especially as they are looking to increase their work with community groups in the area. Send them an email to find out more... More Information