Volunteer for SHINE
Are you, or somebody you know, interested in giving their time to help the disadvantaged children our projects support?
Although we cannot place volunteers directly, SHINE can broker relationships with the programmes we fund to help identify projects that can make best use of the skills and interests of individual volunteers.
If you are thinking of volunteering yourself, please remember that many of the children and young people with whom SHINE-funded programmes work are disengaged from the education system and extremely vulnerable. This can make them a challenge to help and requires any potential volunteer to be prepared to commit to help at regular intervals over a consistent period of time (this might be, for example, once per week for a term – or even for a whole school year). In some of our projects, potential volunteers may also need to undergo training in the specialised educational techniques used by those particular programmes.
If you would like to volunteer in some other way – such as supporting one of our projects with your skills and experience in, for example, accountancy, business development or fundraising – we will try to link you to a project that needs this kind of help.
If you would like to donate your time, please ring the SHINE office on 020 8393 1880.
