Volunteering

New volunteers approach us because they have heard about the Volunteer Centre from friends, in the local paper or on the web.  We like to invite volunteers to our office in Tonbridge for an informal, confidential meeting to discuss their interests and expectations about volunteering. This is not always possible because of people's work commitments or difficulty in accessing our office.  In those cases we can carry out a telephone interview or we can arrange to meet in a different location.

As a prospective volunteer, you  can find out about opportunities available from this website or from our ‘Directory of Opportunities’ booklet.  We also ask you to complete an application form detailing your interests and personal information.  We can then explore the 100's of opportunities to see what will suit you and will then refer you to 3 or 4 suitable organisations.  We ask the organisation to make contact and arrange a meeting.  A few weeks later we will follow up both parties to see if a successful placement has been arranged.

Organisations contact us when they need new recruits - they provide us with details of both the organisation's activities and of the particular job they are seeking to fill.  We will promote the job opportunity and try to match it with one of our volunteers. See our Opportunities page to find out what is currently available.

The links on the left will provide you with more information about volunteering. When you have had a look at these, please click on our "What's Next?" link. This will provide you with the information you need to take the next step in volunteering.