Volunteering

Whether it’s four hours a month or four days a week, volunteering with us will help disabled and disadvantaged people have more choice, a better quality of life and new friendships.

Everyone can be great because anyone can serve.
Dr Martin Luther King, Jr.

Giving our time for free to for others is one of the most generous things we can do. It is also often a huge amount of fun! Volunteering shows people we care about and believe in them.
At the same time volunteering opens our eyes and encourages us that we can be part of making the world a better place.

Volunteering gives you new skills for your CV, helps you belong to something meaningful, find new friends and know you achieved a real benefit for someone else.

Recent research has shown that communities with higher levels of volunteerism are more resilient and happier places even in times of economic challenge (source: http://www.ncoc.net/unemployment-release ) Basically through volunteering, everyone wins!

Volunteer with us

The broad range of Livability’s work means there is a huge array of volunteering opportunities and something that everyone can get involved with. So, whether you would like to be an advocate for disabled people in your church, help us with our campaigning, be a mentor for someone trying to start their own self employment, drive people from one of our residential settings to social activities we would absolutely love your help.

During Autumn 2011 Kingston University is volunteering its time to help survey all our volunteers. Together we are asking what motivates our volunteers and what kind of experience they have had. We will be using this learning to form a new strategy for volunteering.

If you have any ideas about your own experiences of volunteering we would be glad to learn from you. Please feel free to get in touch.

If you think you may be interested in volunteering at Livability, then please contact the Volunteer co-ordinator on 020 7452 2109 or complete our form.