As well as volunteers from the refugee and asylum-seeking community, we welcome volunteers from the local community. If you support our aims and values, and would like to be a part of our friendly and welcoming team, we’d love to hear from you. These are the current opportunities we have for community volunteers – if you’d like to apply for a role, please download, complete and return our application form. If you have any questions, feel free to get in touch.

Gardening

Volunteers work in our community garden in Gateshead helping with all sorts of gardening tasks. If you have some gardening knowledge that would be an advantage but if you don’t, there are plenty of people who can share their skills with you. We work in the garden come rain or shine so be prepared to get stuck in whatever the weather!

We carry out regular repairs to make sure our garden and allotments are safe for everyone. If you have practical skills and could help with repairs to fences and sheds, or if you can advise on risk assessments or health and safety, then we would love to hear from you.

Session Support

Our regular sessions create many opportunities to help, such as preparing materials, recording (such as taking photographs and videos for our publicity portfolio) and monitoring, and general support to session coordinators. We also organise events ranging from language workshops through to allotment shows, and welcome volunteers who would like to help make things run smoothly. Tasks include behind-the-scenes event organisation, and supporting staff to make sure everyone feels welcome and has the chance to get involved.

English Teachers

We are looking for volunteers to help us provide English as a foreign language on Tuesday and Thursday mornings. Relevant qualifications and/or experience required.