Volunteering is simple. It’s about giving your time to do something useful, without getting paid. In many cases volunteers work alongside paid members of staff, complementing the work they do. Volunteering is a two way process. As a volunteer you will have your own motivations and reasons for getting involved. A good volunteering organisation will ask you about your motivations and try to meet you needs as well as their own.

Why Volunteer? Volunteering gives you the opportunity to:

• Meet new people

• Learn new skills and gain useful experience

• Use your skills in something that you are interested in

• Give the others the benefit of your experience s

• Have fun!

• Volunteers get the satisfaction of time and effort well spent, and seeing the results of the difference they make to their local community.