Through Volunteering you can:
- Learn new skills to help you get into paid work
- Meet new people
- Use your spare time well
What is Volunteering?
Volunteering can mean helping other people. It is also an exchange. You offer your time, your experience or your skills, for which you get something in return.
You might learn new skills, build up your confidence, make new friends, or simply take pleasure in being part of something or supporting a cause that you believe in.
Volunteering is usually with charities and community groups. It is any activity where time is given freely for the public good: from tutoring learners, to delivering meals on wheels, to doing the annual accounts for a charity.
It can be working closely with people or working with nature. It can be office-based, in a community setting or through the internet.