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.

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.

Due to Covid-19, the life of every child has been turned upside down. Many are at greater risk of abuse in the home, going missing, joining gangs. Our Community Awareness Network looks out for these young people.

If you are still travelling for work or spending time in public spaces, you are well-placed to spot children who may be at risk of abuse or exploitation. We can help you understand and spot the signs and show you how to report any concerns.

We also need your help spreading these messages to your community, friends, family, social networks and local businesses. If you are over 18, you can do this by joining our network and posting on social media, emailing links to our webpages to friends and family and talking about #LookCloser.

This will help us alert as many people as possible to some of the potential signs of child exploitation and play an important part in keeping children and young people safe.

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.

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