Current Opportunities

Sport Makers

A new programme to make it easy for you to help make sport happen near you – from helping out with local sports clubs to setting up sport in your local community like fun runs or five-a-side football.

Sport Makers are needed to organise sport for themselves and friends, colleagues and neighbours. Sport makers are recruited and invited to a 3 hour orientation workshop delivered locally our next session is on Tuesday the 23rd May at 6pm at Voluntary Action Islington, 200a Pentonville Road, London N1 9JP

For more information click here

Help on Your Doorstep

A charity that proactively puts people in touch with services (our partner agencies) that can help them find work, training, childcare, assistance for older people and much, much more. Outreach work is done through door-knocking on social housing properties.

Door-knocking alongside a Help on Your Doorstep Advisor. This can be from 2.5 to 10 hours a week.

They are particularly interested in recruiting local people and people who speak one or more of these languages: Turkish, Somali, Eritrean, Tigrinya, Bengali and Other South Asian languages, Greek, Cantonese.

Communications Volunteer at Voluntary Action Islington

An independent, media savvy individual is needed to promote Voluntary Action Islington and it’s projects through a variety of media. With an interest in communications, and preferably community activism, the volunteer will be able to use social media (Facebook, Twitter), Word Press (or similar web CMS) and potentially InDesign to create and edit promotional material. The role requires a good eye for potential stories and promotional issues.

A minimum commitment of one day per week is required.

For full details and many more opportunities check out the Do-It website, or contact our Volunteer Brokerage team:

T 020 7832 5833
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volunteer@vai.org.uk