Volunteering
This vital role helps grow your skills and experience in a workplace environment, can improve your mental health and wellbeing and provides you with the tools to build meaningful friendships to last a lifetime.
Get involved
If you’d like to volunteer with us, we’d love to hear from you!
Alternatively, a Word document version can be downloaded and submitted to communityengagement@trentanddove.org.
Volunteer Opportunity Sign Up Form Word Version
Opportunities are available across all of our community projects.
I’d never dealt with the community before. Of course, you mix, but when work and kids are your life getting out there into the community is near on impossible. So, discovering the joy of volunteering has felt like freedom to me, I’m more in control of my work ethic. It doesn’t mean that my work ethic or professionalism has gone – just my shackles, or what may have felt like shackles, have gone.” — Volunteer, Angie Cresswell
Boost in confidence and wellbeing
Many volunteers report that volunteering has helped them overcome anxiety, feel less isolated, and improve their mental health. Being around others and participating in meaningful, varied, and fun activities helps them feel more purposeful.
Skills and experience development
Volunteering roles allow people to build transferable skills such as communication, teamwork, customer interaction, and organisational abilities. These are valuable tools for growing within the workplace.
Flexible roles for everyone
We offer a wide variety of volunteering opportunities to suit all abilities. If you fancy cooking up a storm in our Warm Spaces cafes, getting your fingers dirty in our Community Gardens or getting out and about with our Coffee Connect van, we have something for everyone at times that suit you.
Making a difference
Our volunteers help transform neighbourhoods and improve social wellbeing. A friendly ear could mean the world to an isolated individual. Perhaps you could volunteer and chat to people at one of our Place of Welcome or help transform a community garden to give our less-abled customers a space to relax.
Pathways to new opportunities
Because of the skills, experience, and confidence they build in their roles , many of our volunteers secure paid work or further roles.
Physical health benefits
For roles involving gardening and moving around our community spaces, there’s a physical activity aspect which helps fitness, keeps people more active.