The Cheltenham Science Festival is looking for friendly, hard-working and enthusiastic volunteers. Volunteers will be needed from Monday 1 June – Monday 8 June to help with all aspects of running a successful festival. This would be a valuable experience especially...
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Opportunity for current students: ReachOut leadership development programme
Many of you will have heard of ReachOut before - a mentoring charity working with young people in disadvantage schools to raise aspirations and attainment. Many of our current students volunteer with ReachOut on their mentoring projects and the central Widening...
Refugees & Mentors are recruiting volunteers for our Mentoring Project
Mentoring supports refugees to improve their employment prospects and get jobs. In its 3rd year, the Mentoring Project supports people with refugee status in a wide range of employment areas, including applying for jobs, interview skills, UK work experience and...
Engagement Matters: Volunteering at public engagement events
In this Engagement Matters post, Ciara Wright and Freja Karrman-Bailey share their experiences of providing support at a University of Manchester public engagement event. Science Spectacular (part of the Manchester Science Festival) attracted around 1,500 members of...
Do something amazing in your spare time: Independent Visitor Programme
Want to do something amazing in your spare time? Coram Voice are recruiting Independent Visitors to volunteer in Manchester and throughout the North West. “Independent Visitors” are to help young people in care to meet their full potential. You will be important to...
Outreach Volunteers Required for TeenTech Manchester – 27 April 2016
Do you work in a job related so Science, Technology, Engineering or Maths? We are looking for volunteers to be STEM Ambassadors at TeenTech Manchester on 27 April 2016. No previous experience is needed - so this is a good way for you and/or a friend or colleague (who...
Would you like to become a Dementia Friend?
To find out more, book your place on one of the monthly information sessions between December 2014 and July 2015 Dementia Friends is a national initiative run by Alzheimer's Society and one of the University's social responsibility flagship programmes. Raising...
Dementia Friends Training session
Wednesday 10 September, 12-1pm, in the Jean McFarlane Building Making a Difference Dementia Friends is one of the University's Social Responsibility flagship programmes. Raising awareness of dementia is one very small step that we can all take to make a difference....
Volunteer with the x-change
Applications for the 2014 x-change are now OPEN! Application deadline - 17.00, 16 July 2014 Be a part of the British Science Festival, in Birmingham September 2014 - Become an x-change volunteer! Apply here. This is the perfect opportunity for those with a particular...
Did you volunteer for the University on 16 May – National Day of Volunteering (Give and Gain Day)?
You may be aware that 16 May was National Day of Volunteering and that the University contributed by participating in ‘Give and Gain Day’. This is an initiative organised by Business in the Community (BiTC)* that encourages employers to target staff volunteering...
Volunteering Opportunity: Independent visitor scheme
Want to do something amazing in your spare time? Manchester Children’s Rights are recruiting Independent Visitors to volunteer in Manchester and throughout the North West. “Independent Visitors” are to help young people in care to meet their full potential. You will...
University of Manchester Volunteer of the Year Awards (Deadline 21 March 2014)
Celebrating community action Every year the University celebrates through the Volunteer of the Year Awards the actions of staff, students and alumni who give their time and commitment to communities locally, national and internationally. Previous nominees have taken...
FutureEverything Summit of Ideas & Digital Invention, 21-24 March 2013, Manchester
FutureEverything is about innovation in all forms - research, digital media, contemporary arts and music. In March 2013, FutureEverything comes to Manchester to presents the Summit of Ideas & Digital Invention, a one-off event that has been designed to showcase a...
Social Responsibility and Volunteer of the Year Awards 2013
Have you set up a community project? Do you run a festival? Are you a mentor or befriender to a child or a vulnerable person? Do you give your time to a local community group? Many students, alumni and staff give their personal time and energy helping undertake public...