Ongoing Volunteering Opportunities
Many of our members regularly recruit for a range of exciting volunteering opportunities! Below, you can find opportunities from befriending, to communications, to getting outdoors and active. Please get in touch directly with the organisations linked if you are interested in any of their opportunities.
Befriending, Facilitation & Support
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Active Life Club
Active Life Club offer services for young people for their social and mental well being through sports.
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Amina MWRC
Amina’s work aims to empower, support and educate Muslim & BME women at a grassroots level to achieve their full potential.
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Amma Birth Companions
Amma Birth Companions is a Glasgow-based charity that supports women and birthing people experiencing significant adversity on their journey to parenthood.
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Big Noise Govanhill
Big Noise is a high-quality music education and social change programme that works intensively with children, young people and families within targeted communities.
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Breaking Barriers
Breaking Barriers are a specialist refugee employment charity, welcoming refugees into meaningful employment with advice, experience, and education.
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Empower Women for Change
EWFC is community-based organisation empowering women.
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Glasgow and Clyde Rape Crisis
Glasgow and Clyde Rape Crisis are here to support women and girls in the Glasgow and Clyde area who have experienced rape or sexual violence.
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Glasgow's Golden Generation
Glasgow’s Golden Generation is Glasgow’s leading charity for older adults to tackle loneliness and isolation in older adults across the city.
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Glasgow Women’s Library
Glasgow Women’s Library is a Museum dedicated to women’s lives, histories and achievements, with a lending library, archive collections and innovative programmes of public events & creative learning opportunities.
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Home-Start Glasgow South
Home-Start Glasgow South is a leading family support charity striving to give young children the best possible start in life.
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Interfaith Glasgow
Interfaith Glasgow is a Scottish charity specialising in promoting and facilitating engagement between different faith and belief communities in Glasgow.
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Licketyspit Theatre Company
Licketyspit aims to fire imaginations and deliver children’s rights through theatre and intergenerational drama-led play.
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MILK
MILK is a social enterprise set up to support women from a migrant background, including refugees and asylum seekers.
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The No.1 Befriending Agency
The No.1 Befriending Agency are a befriending service for all vulnerable and isolated adults in Glasgow.
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The Prince and Princess of Wales Hospice
The vision and mission of the Prince and Princess of Wales is to provide high quality, person-centred care for all those affected by life-limiting conditions.
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THE SOUND LAB
The Sound Lab are a grassroots organisation made up of a dedicated team of volunteers and expert tutors who bring free music and creativity to hundreds of people every year.
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The Wee Retreat CIC
The Wee Retreat aim to provide a one-stop shop which provides the local community with the tools and resources to look after their wellbeing.
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The Well Multi-Cultural Resource Centre
The Well serves the diverse ethnic minority communities in Govanhill and surrounding areas, by providing information and advice in a culturally sensitive manner.
Communications & Admin
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Amina MWRC
Amina’s work aims to empower, support and educate Muslim & BME women at a grassroots level to achieve their full potential.
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Arkbound Foundation
The Arkbound Foundation is a charity that aims to widen access to literature and improve diversity within publishing.
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Dress for Success
Dress for Success provide work appropriate clothing to women going into or returning to work.
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Glasgow Women's Library
Glasgow Women’s Library is the only Accredited Museum in the UK dedicated to women’s lives, histories and achievements
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Interfaith Glasgow
Interfaith Glasgow is a Scottish charity specialising in promoting and facilitating engagement between different faith and belief communities in Glasgow.
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Music Broth
Music Broth musical instrument and equipment library is a social enterprise with the aim to make music accessible to all.
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Positive Action in Housing
Positive Action in Housing (PAIH) is an independent, anti-racist homelessness and human rights charity dedicated to supporting refugees and migrants to rebuild their lives.
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The No.1 Befriending Agency
A befriending service for all vulnerable and isolated adults aged 65+ in Glasgow.
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The Wee Retreat
The Wee Retreat’s vision is to create a society where everyone knows they have the capacity to look after their wellbeing and feels empowered to do so.
Driving
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Amma Birth Companions
Amma Birth Companions is a Glasgow-based charity that supports women and birthing people experiencing significant adversity on their journey to parenthood.
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Bike for Good
Bike for Good Glasgow South run a range of activities and services to enable people to lead healthier, happier lives.
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Glasgow's Golden Generation
Glasgow’s Golden Generation is Glasgow’s leading charity for older adults, initially established in 1948 to tackle loneliness and isolation in older adults across the city.
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Merry-go-round
Merry-go-round is an inclusive pre-loved baby shop.
Events
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Amma Birth Companions
Amma Birth Companions is a Glasgow-based charity that supports women and birthing people experiencing significant adversity on their journey to parenthood.
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Dress for Success
Dress for Success provide work appropriate clothing to women going into or returning to work.
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Glasgow Zine Library
Glasgow Zine Library is a community space, library and archive of self-published material.
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Kin Kitchen
Kin Kitchen is a community food project designed to be both receptive and responsive to needs of the community relating to food poverty, sustainable food practices, and social inclusion.
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Music Broth
Music Broth musical instrument and equipment library is a social enterprise with the aim to make music accessible to all.
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The No.1 Befriending Agency
A befriending service for all vulnerable and isolated adults aged 65+ in Glasgow.
Food
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Glasgow Govanhill Food Not Bombs
Food Not Bombs engage in soup and revolutionary chat on Saturday afternoons.
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Glasgow's Golden Generation
Glasgow’s Golden Generation is Glasgow’s leading charity for older adults, initially established in 1948 to tackle loneliness and isolation in older adults across the city.
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The People'e Pantry
The People’s Pantry is a membership-led shop providing access to affordable, nutritious, and culturally appropriate food, as well as household essentials.
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Kin Kitchen
Kin Kitchen is a community food project designed to be both receptive and responsive to needs of the community relating to food poverty, sustainable food practices, and social inclusion.
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The Hidden Gardens
This is the peoples’ back garden, everything volunteers do nurtures this urban greenspace, for the benefit of the community and nature.
Fundraising
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Amina MWRC
Amina’s work aims to empower, support and educate Muslim & BME women at a grassroots level to achieve their full potential.
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Glasgow and Clyde Rape Crisis
Glasgow and Clyde Rape Crisis support women and girls 13 years and older who have experienced any form of sexual violence throughout any point of their lives.
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Home-Start Glasgow South
Home-Start Glasgow South is a leading family support charity striving to give young children the best possible start in life.
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Interfaith Glasgow
Interfaith Glasgow is a Scottish charity specialising in promoting and facilitating engagement between different faith and belief communities in Glasgow.
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The No.1 Befriending Agency
A befriending service for all vulnerable and isolated adults aged 65+ in Glasgow.
Libraries & Front of House
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Arkbound Foundation
The Arkbound Foundation is a charity that aims to widen access to literature and improve diversity within publishing.
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Bike for Good
Bike for Good Glasgow South run a range of activities and services to enable people to lead healthier, happier lives.
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Dress for Success
Dress for Success provide work appropriate clothing to women going into or returning to work.
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Glasgow Zine Library
Glasgow Zine Library is a community space, library and archive of self-published material.
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Glasgow Women's Library
Glasgow Women’s Library is the only Accredited Museum in the UK dedicated to women’s lives, histories and achievements
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Merry-go-round
Merry-go-round is an inclusive pre-loved baby shop.
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Music Broth
Music Broth musical instrument and equipment library is a social enterprise with the aim to make music accessible to all.
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The Prince and Princess of Wales Hospice
The vision and mission of the Prince and Princess of Wales is to provide high quality, person-centred care for all those affected by life-limiting conditions.
Music
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Music Broth
Music Broth musical instrument and equipment library is a social enterprise with the aim to make music accessible to all.
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the Sound Lab
The Sound Lab are a grassroots organisation made up of a dedicated team of volunteers and expert tutors who bring free music and creativity to hundreds of people every year.
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Big Noise Govanhil
Description goes hereBig Noise is a high-quality music education and social change programme that works intensively with children, young people and families within targeted communities.
Sports & Outdoors
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Active Life Club
Active Life Club offer services for young people for their social and mental well being through sports.
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Bike for Good
Bike for Good Glasgow South run a range of activities and services to enable people to lead healthier, happier lives.
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Boots and Beards
Boots and Beards work with their communities to improve their health and wellbeing.
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The Hidden Gardens
This is the peoples’ back garden, everything volunteers do nurtures this urban greenspace, for the benefit of the community and nature.
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Urban Roots
Urban Roots is a community led environmental and health improvement charity working across the Southside.