Corporate volunteering

Volunteer in one of our many retail shops across the country to organise and price stock, engage with customers and dress our windows. 

Working with your skills, expertise and knowledge you could take part in one of our Lifestyles and Work workshops or create your own way to support people with a learning disability . For example: 

Money management workshop

Employment workshops 

Management coaching sessions 

Career discussion and talking about your work experience  

Administrative support in our offices 

Research volunteering 

IT support volunteering 

Our Lifestyles and Work team who run our 'MeTime' services, sometimes need volunteers to support group sessions such as art, bowling and social events.  

This could involve supporting our fundraisers at an external event, or helping a local service run anything from a garden spring clean to a Christmas disco.

Cheer point volunteering could see you and your team cheering on our runners at local marathons who raise money to help us support thousands of people in the UK with a learning disability. 

This is a great opportunity if you want to volunteer regularly and have a passion for doing pretty much anything from golf to music, the theatre or baking.

People who choose our befriending volunteering service support people with a learning disability who live in our services to do the things they enjoy and end the chronic isolation so many of them face.  

This is an individual volunteering role to visit someone with a learning disability six times a year to offer companionship and share their interests.

This generally requires a longer term commitment and we try to pair individuals with beneficiaries to develop and maintain a longer term friendship. 

For anyone wanting a different type of volunteering opportunity, why not join our online campaigns team?

This could involve writing to your local council MP to champion specific bills and rights which will make a huge difference to our work for people with a learning disability in your community .

Volunteer to hold a bucket collection in your local town, supermarket or train station or fundraise in your community by hosing a cake auction, a charity coffee morning or another fundraising idea.

All you need is a license from your local council to fundraise in this way so we'll put you in touch with a local fundraising officer who can help you.