Bringing Volunteers and Charities Together in GloucestershireWe work with charities and other non-profits to help them recruit the wonderful people who come to us looking for volunteer roles. It's not just charity shops and gardening - we've loads of "people helping people" roles too! What do you want to do?We love meeting potential volunteers but as our service is mainly run by volunteers, this is unfortunately not always possible. Please look through the search facility 'Find your volunteering opportunity' first to see what is available. If you do need to talk to someone face to face, we will start by understanding why you are looking to volunteer. From that we suggest opportunities for you to consider. If appropriate, we'll try and put you on the phone to a suitable charity there and then. However, from experience, we know that many people prefer to give it more thought so we give you the details to take away. For more information, please contact us. Important note for professionals thinking of making a referral - please see here Find your volunteering opportunityUse the tool below to find a volunteer role that interests you. There are lots different roles in different locations, working for different charities, in different fields. Search by location or area of interest. Keep an open mind and you might find something that you hadn't previously thought of! Volunteering is for everyone who wants it!We work with charities and community groups to make volunteering available to as many people as possible. Here's some more detail: Get notified whenever we have new opportunitiesWant to help a one-off event or project?If you are up for a short-term volunteering project - for a few days or hours, enter your email address below and we'll send you occasional newsletters telling you about all the great projects where we've been asked to recruit volunteers Events/projects announced in earlier newslettersAbout Volunteering GloucestershireWe help charities and volunteers to form mutually beneficial relationships.
About ▶ Our Twitter Feed About ▶ How our service operates - the volunteer viewWe get over 3,000 online applications for volunteer roles every year and have 200 informal meetings with potential volunteers. Overall, 500 volunteers go on to start volunteering thanks to our work
About 160 organisations use us to recruit for 350 roles all over Gloucestershire. Here's the typical processes involved in finding, applying for and starting volunteering. 
We feel strongly that people offering to volunteer deserve a great service. We ask that normally recruiters respond to applications within 7 days and suggest that potential volunteers chase up after 14. We send out a follow-up email to volunteers after about 18 days to check that everything is on-track. Doing this has helped with communications issues such as emails ending up in a "spam" folder.
We also check with both recruiters and volunteers at four months to help us know how many volunteers we have successfully placed. Start your journey now! About ▶ How our service operates - the recruiter viewWe get around 12,000 page views on our website every month and over 3,000 applications for volunteer roles every year. We meet 200 people a year for an informal interview. Overall, we place over 500 volunteers/year.
Since 2011 we've been asked to promote a total of 1257 opportunities and currently about 160 organisations use us to recruit for 350 roles all over Gloucestershire. We'd love to help you too! Here's the typical processes involved in finding a volunteer through us:  Your advert is live on our system for 6 months (Unless you have an earlier "closing date") and we email you a couple of months before the end to check before renewing for another 6 months.
We feel strongly that people offering to volunteer deserve a great service. We ask that normally recruiters respond to applications within 7 days and suggest that potential volunteers chase up after 14. We send out a follow-up email to volunteers after about 18 days to check that everything is on-track. Doing this has helped with communications issues such as emails ending up in a "spam" folder. We also check with both recruiters and volunteers at four months to help us know how many volunteers we have successfully placed. Recruiters are obliged to respond to our enquiries, Start your journey now! About ▶ The Volunteering Gloucestershire Team
We get lot of help from people in our parent charity, CCP - in particular:
About ▶ History of Volunteering Gloucestershire
ResourcesVarious useful documents and resources Finding volunteering opportunities in other areas
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Our own "Search engine" for volunteer roles handled 74% of traffic and other software helped demonstrate volunteer placements worth over £500,000 to local charities