12th Lewisham South Scouts

• Beaver section team member: Would you like the chance to canoe, climb, and make bird boxes whilst improving your CV? As a Section Assistant in the 12th Lewisham South (1st Downham) Scout Group you will do all of this and more, using your current skills and learning new ones.
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• Section Leader: Would you like the chance to go camping, climbing, potholing, and to lead community projects while helping prepare young people with skills for life? As a section leader you will do all of this and more, using your skills while learning new ones.

Smile of Hope

• Grant Partner Manager: This role plays a key part in ensuring that Smile of Hope monies are well spent and in line with our constitution and Charity regulation.

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!