Demelza Hospice Care for Children South East London

• Driving Volunteer: The volunteers in these roles help transport children, young people and families to medical appointments, to the hospice buildings for day care and short breaks, and to activities they may not normally have been able to attend.
  
• Gardening Volunteers in family homes: These volunteer roles involve tasks such as visiting local families that need help with general garden tasks such as mowing, weeding, pruning and planting, either on your own or as part of a small team of volunteers.
• Support at Home Volunteer: If you enjoy cleaning, organising and helping others, Demelza Hospice Care would love you to join their team of dedicated Practical Support volunteers to help local families with household tasks such as cleaning, tidying and laundry, helping them keep on top of day-to-day pressures, allowing families to focus on what matters most - spending quality time together.

Friends of Animal League (F.O.A.L. Farm)

• Animal General Helper/Dog Walker/Animal Fusser: The volunteer roles involve assisting with the cleaning/mucking-out, feeding, and watering of F.O.A.L. Farm animals and other general tasks that must be undertaken within the individual animal enclosures.
• Charity Shop Assistants: Thes volunteer roles involve assisting and serving customers, taking payments for goods, sorting items. and making sure the shop is clean and tidy at all times.

As the Volunteer Centre for the London Borough of Bromley, Community Links Bromley provides support to volunteer-involving organisations and provides volunteering advice for residents. We work with over 300 different organisations looking for volunteers to help them support local people, in a wide range of ways.

View our privacy policy to see what we do with your personal details when you register to volunteer.

To find out how we can support your organisation, visit our Volunteer-Involving Organisations page.

What is volunteering? 

 'an activity that involves spending time, unpaid, doing something that aims to benefit the environment or individuals or groups other than (or in addition to) close relatives' 

 - The Compact Code of Good Practice in Volunteering, 2005 

Volunteering can be great fun and you can make a real difference in your local community. We are here to help choose the right opportunity for you.

Volunteering can also promote your wellbeing. Watch the video below to find out how.

Want to know more?

• Hear from Bromley's volunteers on the Bromley Volunteering Stories YouTube channel
• Here's some Frequently Asked Questions about volunteering.
• Watch these thank you messages to Bromley's volunteers as part of our celebration Volunteers Week 2024!
• Hear from Bromley's Trustees as they talk about their personal experience of volunteering, challenges, and successes

Podcast feature!

Quest Soul Theatre invited our staff members, Christopher Evans and Mark Gilyead, to talk about volunteer journeys on their brand new podcast ‘Creative Junction’. Watch the video below to hear what they had to say about volunteering in the creative sector, young volunteering, and the difference volunteering makes to our wellbeing. You can also check out the full podcast episode here.

Pandemic Impact Short Film

We put together a short film, providing just a few examples of the extraordinary work of Bromley's third sector at the height of the Covid-19 pandemic, in 2020. A big thank you to all the groups in Bromley that have provided so much support during the Covid-19 pandemic!