Become a volunteer

Volunteering as a speaker is the perfect way to share your experiences, encourage public awareness of the serious issues faced by children in the UK, and improve and strengthen your speaking skills.

No previous experience is necessary. We provide training on how to be a confident and effective speaker. When you feel ready, you will deliver talks to large audiences in community groups and at local businesses. You can also arrange your own talks to inspire groups and raise awareness of our work with children facing poverty, neglect or family crisis.

This role is flexible to suit your commitments and interests. You will only need to do four talks per year. You need to be organised, willing to provide feedback after each talk, able to travel around your area and access the internet and use email.

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Box Coordinators are responsible for coordinating a local network of collection boxes. You’ll inspire supporters in your area, who have a collection box in their home or workplace, to collect loose change for children and young people.

You'll collect donations from your amazing network once or twice a year, sending the donations back to us.This is a key role that raises money to support our work.

Setting up a network in your area is a fantastic way to get out, meet others, and raise awareness of what we do.

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If you’re looking for experience in events management or fundraising, this is an excellent opportunity to find out what it’s like to plan and manage an event yourself, from beginning to end.

As Volunteer Event Manager, you will be organising unique events in your local community to help raise donations and support for our mission. You have full ownership of the events that you put on so you can really demonstrate your creativity and event management skills.

For this role to be effective, we ask that you are able to commit to the role for a minimum of twelve months and that you aim to raise at least £500 in this year.

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We’re looking for Community Ambassadors to help us reach new audiences, raise awareness and generate income so we can reach our goal of overturning the damaging decline in children’s well-being.
 
Ambassadors will seek out opportunities to build relationships with community groups, organisations and businesses, raising awareness of our work and encouraging action through giving, campaigning and volunteering.
 
In addition to public speaking opportunities, you may attend events on our behalf, such as business networking meetings, fundraising events, community fetes, galas and more.
 
You will work closely with your local Children’s Society Relationship Manager for support and mapping out opportunities within your community.

As a children’s charity, our top priority is the protection of the children, young people and adults with care and support needs who interact with us in any way and we take all necessary steps to safeguard them and promote their welfare.

This includes obtaining information about criminal convictions and, if the role is supporting young people in our services, a criminal records check before offering a volunteer role.

The information is processed and stored securely and confidentially in line with General Data Protection Regulations. It is used for assessing the volunteering application only and will not be shared with any third parties.

We assess every case individually in a fair, consistent and compliant way, and in line with Safer Recruitment principles. Applicants will not be prohibited from volunteering because of a conviction which does not indicate they may be a risk in the role for which they are applying