Range of volunteer opportunities
UK organisations large and small, local and national, turn to Reach when they need to recruit skilled volunteers. Today Reach has connections with over 10,000 voluntary and community organisations across the UK. Its online volunteer database carries some 4000 live opportunities. The variety of roles on offer is huge — and constantly growing.
In one year Reach successfully placed volunteer trustees, treasurers, legal and tax advisors, grants assessors, finance directors, press officers, PAs, mentors, trainers, IT specialists, business consultants — and many more. Placements were in organisations of all sizes, from small community groups to well-known national charities such as Save the Children, Oxfam and Age Concern.
Here are a small selection of organisations that Reach supports:
| Abbeyfield – North London Able Volunteers International Fund Action for Refugees Advocacy North East Ltd Aftermath SUPPORT Age Concern – Powys Alzheimers Society BEN – Motor and Allied Trades Benevolent Fund Bereavement Scotland Bolton Community Transport and Furniture Services British Heart Foundation - Bath Brent Mind Bulliesout Butterfly Conservation Campaign to Protect Rural England – Northants Cancer Trust Cancer Research – Edinburgh Cancer Research Wales Canterbury Oast Trust Careline – Ilford Cave Rescue Organisation Cheadle Royal (Industries) Ltd Chester-le -Street Council for Voluntary service Chiltern Museum Chinese Arts Association Citizens Advice – Belfast Contact Mental Health Council for British Archaeology Crimestoppers – West Midlands Crossroads - Slough Cruse - Bucks Cumbria Mental Health Depression UK Disability Information Bureau Diversity Hub Dyslexia Trust Elizabeth Finn Care – South East Emmaus Engineer Aid Families for Children Family Contact Line Forest Farm Garden Garden Science Trust Get Well UK Global Links Grampian Living Options Ltd Grampian Pre-retirement Council Grandparents Association Grasslands Trust Hampstead and Highgate Festival |
Handicap International UK Hearing Resource Centre HemiHelpHome- Start – Macclesfield Home Start – Oxford Independent Monitoring Boards IT Can Help Network – North West Itch Network Jewish Volunteering Network Jubilee Debt Kennet and Avon Canal Leeds Society for Deaf and Blind People Leonard Cheshire Swindon Lincolnshire Council for Voluntary Youth Services London Chinese Community Network Macmillan Cancer Support – Eastbourne Mediation North Surrey MSS Darlington Multiple Sclerosis Society – Skegness National Scrapstore Norfolk Rural Council Parkinson’s Disease Society Peak Rail Pensioners Link – Wigan and Leigh Prisoners’ Families and Friends Service Pyramid Health and Social Care Association Relate – Brighton Relay for Life - Livingstone RSPCA Safer Cardiff Save the Children School Governors’ One Stop Shop – East South Lakeland Carers Storybook Dad St Cuthberts Care Sudan Water The Herb Society The Shannon Trust The Sickle Cell Society Training for Life Thames Concerts Society The Lighthouse Cradle Toy and Leisure Libraries Vale and Downland Museum Volunteer Reading Help Westhill Endowment West End Refugee Service Woodland Trust YMCA Aston and Wigan YMCA Romford |
Reach volunteers support a variety of causes
| Children |  17% |
| Training/Education | 16% |
| Disability | 12% |
| Counselling | 11% |
| Other | 8% |
| International | 6% |
| Environment | 5% |
| Health | 5% |
| Older people | 5% |
| Voluntary agencies | 5% |
| Housing | 4% |
| Arts | 3% |
| Support services | 3% |
Types of work done by recent Reach volunteers
| Mentoring/Advice/Counselling | 20% |
| Trustee/ Managment Committee | 16% |
| Publicity/PR/Marketing | 16% |
| Finance | 12% |
| IT | 10% |
| Administration | 6% |
| Research/Planning | 5% |
| Training/Education | 5% |
| Fund-raising | 3% |
| HR | 3% |
| Other | 1% |