Volunteering
Make friends, learn new skills and gain work experience while helping older people. Whether it's a few hours or a few days, we need your time.
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Information Resources Administration Assisstant
The Information Resources Team, which publishes the Charity's information leaflets, is looking for a volunteer to help with their administration.
This would include dealing with the post, data inputting, writing letters and answering the phone.
You need to be confident using a computer and happy on the telephone, and be able to commit three to five mornings a week for the next six months.
If you are interested please contact Sara Draper on 020 7239 1903 or email volunteering
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Events volunteer
Our events team is looking for a volunteer to get involved with the organisation of some of our major upcoming events.
The tasks will include research and administration. You should be comfortable using a computer and telephone, and should have a can-do approach.
This role requires a regular commitment, to suit both the Charity and the applicant. If you are interested please contact Sara Draper on 020 7239 1903 or email volunteering
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Volunteer collectors
Our current Charity of the Year partners, B&Q and Morrison’s supermarket, have offered us the opportunity to collect outside their stores. Find out more and get involved
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Mail-out assistant
We are looking for a volunteer to assist with mail-outs in various departments. No IT skills required.
This opportunity is ongoing and requires flexibility. We are based at Head Office Kings Cross London.
Please email volunteering or call Sara Draper on 020 7239 1903 for further details.
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Assistant - sending leaflets
The Information Resources Team needs volunteers for a few hours a week at the most, to help with the fulfilment of leaflet orders.
This involves picking and counting leaflets and packaging them securely to be sent to organisations that order the leaflets.
Days and times of day are flexible. No IT skills needed but the volunteer must be accurate, numerate and pay attention to detail. This post is based in Head Office at Kings Cross.
Please email volunteering or call Sara Draper on 020 7239 1903 for more information.
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Care home visiting
The Sunshine Project needs volunteers to help enrich the quality of older people's lives in care homes in the Clacton area. Just one hour a week could make a huge difference to an isolated older person's life. You may be visiting someone who hasn't had any other visitors during the week.
The project also aims to teach IT skills to people in care homes, so if you know how to send emails and surf the net we'd like to hear from you too.
Please email volunteering or call Sara Draper on 020 7239 1903.
Interested? Please fill in the online enquiry form
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International Affairs Internship
We are looking for an intern for our busy International Affairs team to help us to share our communication messages internally and externally.
Your role will involve:
- carrying out research and producing policy briefings on key themes;
- helping develop an internal campaign on development awareness;
- producing Q&As on international development issues;
- writing correspondence in response to funding requests;
- researching journalists interested in ageing and development; and
- producing regular internal updates.
You will need excellent oral and written communication skills, IT and administration skills, the ability to work on your own initiative, and some experience of carrying out research and distilling large amounts of complex information into simple messages.
The closing date for applications is the end of August. For more information or to apply, please contact Sara Draper on 020 7239 1903 or email volunteering
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Ongoing opportunities
A fantastic way to raise vital funds and awareness of Help the Aged in your area is to help in our shops - you'll learn new skills, make friends and get more involved with your local community. Contact Sara Draper to find out more.
If you'd like to introduce others to the work of Help the Aged and help us to raise funds then you could sell raffle tickets - it's a simple and effective way to spread the word and help to support older people.
By getting together with other people in the same area, our local fundraising committees help to promote the work of Help the Aged, and to raise valuable funds. If you're interested, please email Gill Sargeant
You don't have to compete to take part in our fundraising events such as the London Marathon, Big Spring Walk and golf tournaments.
Interested? Please fill in the online enquiry form
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Opportunities in Northern Ireland
See our regional pages for more information on volunteering opportunities in Northern Ireland.
