Updated 7 December 2023
Volunteering is a fantastic opportunity to make a difference to a local cause, can be beneficial to your mental health and wellbeing and is a great addition to your CV.
You can search for all available volunteering opportunities on our online database, or take a look at our round-up below, featuring roles with VODA, opportunities with groups and organisations across North Tyneside and Trustee vacancies.
Opportunities available with VODA
Grow & Eat Projects: Grow & Eat seed-sowing session volunteer description
Help Me Be Digital: Help Me Be Digital Volunteer description
DiscoverME Young Person’s Recovery College – Anyone aged 16 to 25 who would like to get involved via this link.
Good Neighbours
Gardening volunteers urgently needed! If you can help, please contact [email protected] or call 07596806378 / 0191 643 2625.
- Shopping/Prescriptions Volunteer description
- Buddy Volunteer description
- Happy to Chat Volunteer description
- DIY & Odd jobs Volunteer
- Gardening Volunteer description
- Moving Furniture Volunteer description
Volunteer opportunities with North Tyneside VCSE groups and organisations
- Guide Dogs for the Blind: Training Dog Fosterer
- Northern Cancer Voices: Involvement and Engagement Officer
- Inclusion Sports Foundation Hadrian: Administration Support
- Stephenson Steam Railway: Tea Rooms Volunteers
- St Oswald’s:
- Teakisi: Warm Hub Volunteer
- Healthwatch North Tyneside:
- Age UK North Tyneside:
- Inclusion Sports Foundation Hadrian: Administration Volunteer
- Guide Dogs for the Blind: Training Dog Fosterer
- The Royal Air Forces Association:
- Connections for Life Friendship Calls
- Volunteer Caseworker to carry out welfare work
- Host Nation: Befriender
- Readeasy:
- Cedarwood Trust
- Gardener
- Store Volunteer (from aged 16+)
- Cafe Assistant
- North Tyneside VODA: Grow & Eat seed-sowing session volunteer
- Depaul: Nightstop Volunteer Host
- Nepacs: CIRCLES – Circle of Support and Accountability
- North East Netball:
- British Red Cross: Customer Service Volunteer (Newcastle upon Tyne)
- North Tyneside Council Community Protection & Public Space Team: North Tyneside Council Community Protection Support Group volunteers
- Men’s Pie Club: Pie Club Leaders (you do not need to be a skilled cook, just have an interest in food).
- Beach Access North East: Volunteers to support the loan of access equipment by appointment. Based at Whitley Bay or Blyth.
- Macmillan Cancer Support – Macmillan Buddies Service:
- National Childbirth Trust:
- Gingerbread: Single Parent Gingerbread Group Lead Volunteer (this role is for single parents)
- Meadow Well Connected: The Barn Joinery Volunteer
- Citizens Advice Witness Service: Citizens Advice Witness Service Volunteer & Witness Service Outreach Volunteer
- Whitely Bay Young People’s Centre requires 2 experienced Youth Work Support Volunteers to support the development of their monthly youth committee.
- Old Low Light –Café Assistant & Welcome Desk Volunteers
- The PDSA:
- Independent Visitor Service North Tyneside Council needs Volunteer Independent Visitors to befriend a child or young person living in care.
- Anthony Nolan is recruiting Education Volunteers (Presenters) makes sure potential lifesavers know exactly what they’re signing up for, by delivering their education programme, The Hero Project. They are also interested in Donor Recruitment Event Volunteers.
- Safe Families for Children: Family Friend & Host Home
- Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust: Northumbria Voluntary Services Shop
- Altering Images of Mentality (AIM) Group: Membership Volunteer
- Garden at The Hub: Assisting in the maintenance within the Community Garden
- Forest Hall Young People’s Club:
- MHA Communities North Tyneside:
- Tyneside Outdoors: Business support volunteer
- Useful Vision: Activity Volunteers
- North East Ambulance Service
- Tin On A Wall looking for volunteers in North Tyneside, Gosforth & Wideopen, Walker and their surrounding areas to collect non-perishable food and living essentials left outside on their street(s) on their monthly Saturday collections (you only sign up one collection at a time).
- 1st Shiremoor Scout Group
- Friend Action North East is looking for:
- North Tyneside Citizens Advice Bureau: Volunteer Advisors
- Smile for Life Children’s Charity: Volunteer Mentor at Cafe Beam
- Springfield Community Association: Art Group Support
- Tools With a Mission:
- Breast Cancer Now: Public Health Volunteer
- Family Gateway: Project Assistant – affordable food service
- New York Community Superstars Football Club: Volunteer Coaches, Welfare Officers and Funding Secretaries
- Mindstars CIC: Cuppa & Chat Facilitator
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NCT North Tyneside for National Childbirth Trust: Community Volunteer
- Depaul UK North Tyneside: Mentor (North East)
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Newcastle Wood Recycling:
- NSPCC: Speak out. Stay safe. Volunteer
- The Northumbria Coalition Against Crime: Odysseus Mentoring Project
- St Aidan’s the Bread and Butter Thing Hub Volunteer
- Team Kenya is a small UK charity working in partnership with a Kenyan NGO, to empower communities to achieve sustainable development, gender equality and the alleviation of poverty.
- Tyne Theatre & Opera House: Stage Machinery Volunteer
- YMCA North Tyneside:
- NSPCC: Speak out. Stay safe. Volunteer
- Helix Arts is recruiting a number of volunteers:
- North Tyneside Council Community Protection & Public Space Team is looking for volunteers to join the North Tyneside Council Community Protection Support Group to support victims and witnesses of antisocial behaviour.
- Parents And Communities Together (PACT) Mumspace need Children’s Playworker Volunteers to oversee children playing while mums are participating in the workshops for half an hour.
- Newcastle Cat & Dog Shelter:
- Age UK North Tyneside is recruiting for Befriending Volunteers & Telephone Befrienders
- The Girls’ Network supports girls aged 14-19 by connecting them with a mentor and a network of professional role models who are women.
- Families 1st 4 Additional needs has various roles available, including Administration, Social Media, Stock and Food Distribution.
Trustee Vacancies in North Tyneside
- Vice Chair for North East Child Poverty Trust
- Cullercoats Watchhouse Trustees
- Trustee for North Tyneside Carers’ Centre
- Trustee for Justice Prince
- Coping with Cancer North East Treasurer
- Wallsend Kinship Carers – Chair
- Forest Hall Young People’s Club – Trustees
- Cedarwood Trust
- Independent Advocacy North East
- UK and Kenya for Team Kenya: Trustee Finances
- Stomping Grounds Forest School – Trustees & Treasurer
- North Tyneside Carers’ Centre
- The New Bridge Project
- CureUsher
- Whitley Bay Young People’s Centre
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