What does behind the scenes volunteering mean?

If you have admin, practical business skills and experience you think could benefit us then please get in touch.

Let us know what your skills are and we’ll see how we can use them – we’ve found roles for administrators, software specialists and carpenters, among others.

Volunteers have provided invaluable support with administration for our learning programme, for example, setting up databases and helping maintain the premises.

Please get in touch if you think you can help, using the form at the bottom of the page.

We are keen to keep up a regular programme of events that are fun and add benefit to the community. Would you like to be involved?

Our twice weekly coffee mornings have been regular fixtures in many local people’s diaries. These and the regular jazz concerts held in the Cheap Street Church were well supported by the local community and raised tens of thousands of pounds over the years.

We have ideas for future events but there are many more things we could do with more help and we’d love to find volunteers with experience of music or events organisation.

Please get in touch with Fiona via the email form below for a chat.

Some of our Friends run their own fundraising events – or recruit their friends and family to do the same. People run bake sales, coffee mornings in their homes, sell plants for their garden. And whilst many of these things are off-limits during the pandemic there are other ways of running fundraising events – sponsored events, zoom quizzes and so on.

And if you don't have much time then we always welcome people to help out with activities such as street collections.

If you have the ideas then we will be delighted to support you – we are currently developing Rendezvous materials for our friendly fundraisers. If you’d like to have a chat then please contact Fiona.

You could join the wonderful people who give a regular amount on a monthly or annual basis which provides us with invaluable income that helps us plan ahead.

Life would be much harder without their regular support – and all financial gifts, whether large or small, are welcomed. You can make regular donations online here.

Some our Friends have also been kind enough to remember us in their will. Their gifts have given us financial stability and helped us to weather difficult periods, such as the financial crisis brought about by the coronavirus pandemic.

If you would like more information about how to remember us in your will, please get in touch.

We are looking for new trustees to join our board. If this is something you might be interested in and you have time to spare and experience in the fields of education, human resources, mental health or youth work then please get in touch with Stephen Uden, our chair of trustees, using the form below.