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Girlguiding Glasgow volunteers run meetings and activities for Rainbows (aged 5-7), Brownies (7-10), Guides (10-14) and Rangers (14-18) at locations across the city. There are opportunities to become a leader (completing Girlguiding's leadership qualification) or unit helper.

• Youth workChildren's charity

Do you have parenting experience and want to support local families or have experience of working or volunteering with children/families?Home-Start are looking for volunteers with parenting experience to help local families (with at least one child aged 8 or under) who could use some additional support.

• Community workSocial care

Home-Start Volunteers are often parents themselves or have experience of the challenges of young family life. They choose to share their time, friendship, skills and experience because they understand the demands and stresses on young families. We match each family with the right volunteer for them and the volunteer commits to digital support 1-2 hours per week.

• Community workBefriending, Social care
• Youth workChildren's charity

The role provides an opportunity to support The Glasgow Tool Library with its core activities: sorting and cataloging, repairing and maintaining, and service delivery - sharing tools with our members and advising people with their projects.

We need help delivering our emergency support packs to people across the city. This can be done by car, bike or on foot. Packs are picked up from our office in the city centre and delivered all over the city.

This is a very flexible role and we are willing to work with you to help us help people with sight loss live the life they choose. Our ambition is a future where every person with sight loss has the confidence and support they need to live their lives to the full.It costs £58,000 to support one single guide dog throughout it's life, so without our amazing Fundraisers raising money for us, we wouldn't be able to provide our life changing services! As a fundraiser you'll be working with a group of other volunteers to organise events in your local area to help raise money and awareness for Guide Dogs! We have a fundraising group in Glasgow with guide dogs and puppies in training who are part of the group, so this is a great volunteering role if you like dogs! This is a great role for anyone who has never volunteered before as you don't require any prior knowledge or experience. You'll be able to learn new skills while giving back to the community and making new friends! You'll learn a lot about visual impairments too which is important knowledge you'll have for the rest of your life. “One thing that I absolutely love about volunteering for Guide Dogs is that you feel part of a family, you make lots of friends and you feel like you are all part of the Guide Dogs family and it’s just wonderful.” - Guide Dogs student volunteer

• Fundraising/Awareness and MediaCampaigning, Champion/representative, Event stewarding

Could you be that person who can help us make the difference to the lives of those living with sight loss? Collection boxes are a great way for us to raise essential funds to do the work we do within Guide Dogs.Guide Dogs help people with sight loss live the life they choose. Our ambition is a future where every person with sight loss has the confidence and support they need to live their lives to the full.It costs £54,800 to support one single guide dog throughout it's life, so without our amazing fundraisers raising money for us, we wouldn't be able to provide our life changing services! In this flexible role as a Collection Box Coordinator, you'll be responsible for placing and collecting our iconic Guide Dogs collection boxes around local venues and businesses. Collection boxes raise a huge amount of income for us so it's a really important role.This is a great role for anyone who has never volunteered before as you don't require any prior knowledge or experience. You'll be able to learn new skills while giving back to the community and making new friends! You'll learn a lot about visual impairments too which is important knowledge you'll have for the rest of your life. It's also a great role for students as the time commitment required is flexible and the role can easily be incorporated into your daily life. “You don’t have to give loads and loads of time, you can give whatever time you can give and we'll still be really grateful" - Guide Dogs student volunteer and guide dog owner

• Fundraising/Awareness and MediaAdministrative volunteer, Campaigning, Champion/representative

The Comradeship Circles service enables socially isolated older members of the veterans’ communities to enjoy camaraderie with others who share an armed forces background in regular and facilitated telephone group calls. This volunteering role aims to provide technical support to ensure the smooth running of the comradeship circles.

• Fundraising/Awareness and MediaAdministrative volunteer, Campaigning, Champion/representative

The Comradeship Circles service enables socially isolated older members of the veterans’ communities to enjoy camaraderie with others who share an armed forces background in regular and facilitated telephone group calls. This volunteering role aims to support the facilitation of the circle and involve members in group discussions and conversations.

• Fundraising/Awareness and MediaCampaigning, Champion/representative

The Students’ Association is looking for an approachable, reliable, and organised individual with a strong interest in photography to lead the society. The convenor’s role is to recruit new members and to run meetings and activities which will be engaging for the membership.