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 can support you through offering volunteer management advice and promoting your organisation's volunteer roles via our online volunteer database.
- We deliver bitesize volunteer management workshops/training throughout the year
- We deliver volunteer management forums, where you will have the opportunity to network with other Volunteer Managers, share ideas and best practice.
- We host an annual volunteer awards ceremony to celebrate Bromley's volunteers.
- We host volunteer involvement fairs - a perfect way for organisations to meet potential volunteers.
Calling All Bromley Organisations – Join Us for Volunteers’ Week Fair 2026!
Volunteers’ Week 2026 is around the corner, and we’re thrilled to mark the occasion with a special Volunteers’ Week Fair on Saturday 6th June. This community celebration hosted by Bromley Community Hub at the United Reformed Church will bring together Bromley charitable organisations to highlight the incredible work of volunteers across our borough.
We’re inviting local organisations, charities, community groups, and volunteer involving projects to take part. The fair will be a great opportunity to:
- Showcase the work your organisation does
- Meet residents who are eager to volunteer
- Recruit new supporters and build your volunteer team
- Strengthen relationships with other Bromley groups
- Celebrate the power and spirit of community action
If your organisation benefits from volunteers, or hopes to welcome more, this event is the perfect platform to share your mission and inspire others.
Register your interest by Monday 6th May. Spaces are free, but booking is essential. To register or find out more, please contact Ruth Howard secretary@bromleyurc.org
Let’s celebrate volunteering together and continue building a compassionate, connected Bromley. We’d love to see you there!
Introducing: The Best Practice Clinic
Welcome to the Best Practice Clinic – your new regular spotlight on practical volunteer management.
We’ll share bite-sized tips, tools, and ideas to support your work with volunteers – from DBS to digital roles, supervision to safeguarding, micro-volunteering to recognition.
Whether you’re new to managing volunteers or a seasoned pro, this space is for you – to learn, reflect, and try out new approaches that make a difference.
Corporate volunteering
We are reaching out to let you know that we have corporate volunteers available to support your organisation on an ad-hoc basis. We have started to receive enquiries from corporate teams who are eager to participate in practical volunteering activities. These teams are available to help with a variety of practical tasks as needed.
Whether it's gardening, painting, clean-ups, sorting, or other hands-on tasks, our corporate volunteers are willing and ready to lend a hand. If you have any ad-hoc projects or tasks that need doing over the coming months, please do get in touch with us at vdm@communitylinksbromley.org.uk. We would love to connect you with these enthusiastic corporates.
We were thrilled to see a fantastic team from One Savings Bank (OSB) Group roll up their sleeves and spend the day volunteering at Leonard Cheshire Care Home, in June 2025; the team made a real impact and brought smiles to residents and staff alike! Check them out below:
Resources
- Reach Volunteering guide on How to recruit volunteers with skills
- Government guidance: Volunteer opportunities, rights and expenses
- Volunteer Management Toolkit launched by Get Out Get Active, in partnership with Volunteering Matters; toolkit provides organisations with a step-by-step guide to building and inclusive and accessible volunteer programme.
- Understanding local patterns of volunteer activity during COVID-19 (research paper)
This research, commissioned by the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport and conducted by The Young Foundation, seeks to improve understanding of the ways in which volunteers were mobilised at local authority levels in England during the COVID-19 pandemic, with the overarching aim to support future policy development on volunteering.