Luton
313531
Hours: Flexible within working hours
Closing Date: Ongoing
Volunteer Role: Activities Volunteer / Peer Mentor / Community Navigator / Life Skills Volunteer / Opportunity Coach / Befriending and Social Connection Volunteer.
Location: Role available at various services in Luton and Bedford. Please note that not all of our services have step‑free access.
Make your speculative application with us!
We’re excited to be looking for volunteers to support our services in a range of meaningful ways. While the role descriptions give a good overview, they’re not set in stone and we’re really open to the unique skills, experience, and ideas you can bring.
These roles are all about creating more opportunities for the residents and participants we support. Whether that’s through increased social connection and community access or valuable additional one‑to‑one time, you’ll be helping people take steps towards their personal goals. You can find out more about our roles here.
By getting involved, you’ll play a key part in boosting confidence, reducing social isolation, and helping people build meaningful connections in their community – making a real and lasting difference to their journey of recovery.
What is the Commitment?
We’re looking for volunteers who can commit to joining us regularly for at least six months. The main value of volunteering with us comes from building genuine social connections, and these relationships naturally take a little time to develop. That said, we’re flexible and will do our best to help you fit volunteering around your other commitments.
Volunteering takes place during daytime working hours (which may vary slightly depending on the service), but again, we’re happy to work with your availability wherever possible.
About You
We’re looking for volunteers who are friendly, reliable, non‑judgemental, and empathetic, and who share our trauma‑informed approach to support. You’ll find more detail on specific qualities within each role description, but beyond that, we’re really open to what you can bring – your personality, skills and life experience all matter here.
What You Can Expect From Us
To support you and set you up for success in your volunteering role with us, you can expect that we will:
- Work with you to find a volunteering arrangement that works for you and for the service. We will be as flexible as we can!
- Reimburse you for agreed expenses relating to your volunteering.
- Welcome you warmly into our team and support you to get the most from your experience.
- Recognise and celebrate your contribution to the team! We can provide references to confirm your achievements and contributions upon request.
- Provide the training and guidance you need to understand the context of our services and to keep you and residents and participants safe.
- Provide regular supervision and opportunities to provide feedback on your experience.
- You will be eligible to register with Blue Light Discount Card.
About Social Interest Group (SIG)
SIG is a not-for-profit organisation providing thousands of people with good-quality support and care in residential, drop‑in centres, community floating support settings, probation settings, and hospitals. We do so across London, Brighton, Bedfordshire, Luton, Kent and Liverpool. Our goal is to transform lives through empowering change.
We believe good care and support improves lives with the vision to create healthier, safer, and more inclusive communities. Join us on our mission to empower independence through trauma‑informed solutions and dynamic partnerships that keep people out of prison, out of hospital, and off the streets.
Want to know how we work? Watch our short Theory of Change video to see how we support people towards a brighter future: Theory of Change. Further details can be found on our website here: Theory of Change – Social Interest Group.
Additional Information
This role may close early, for a better chance to be considered, we recommend applying as soon as possible as we screen on an ongoing basis. We encourage applicants from all backgrounds. If you have any questions regarding this, please contact us on the details below. If you need support with making your application, for example, due to learning needs or a disability, please email volunteering@socialinterestgroup.org.uk or call our central office on 020 3668 9270 to request a call back. Please note that this will take you through to our Central Administration team, who will then communicate your enquiry with us and we will arrange to call you back.
For information about our volunteer recruitment processes, please see our website and Volunteer Recruitment Policy.
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