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Volunteering changes lives
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Volunteering changes lives

Are you looking for something new? Want to meet people, build on your skills or feel useful? Volunteering might be what you're looking for. It can be rewarding, challenging, interesting and most of all, enjoyable.

Becoming a volunteer can improve your career prospects; you can try new things and build up your CV. It can help to build confidence. Getting involved in a project that you're passionate about is a great way to share ideas, skills and hobbies and to help the community. The possibilities are endless, find out today how you can get involved.

Be the difference - Volunteering changes lives!

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Volunteering opportunities in Kirklees Council

Some of the many opportunities to get involved and volunteer in the council.

Community Partnerships
Choice, independence and fulfilling lives for all. A diverse range of volunteering opportunities for adults over 18 with locally funded community organisations and groups.

Gateway Volunteering Project
Information and support for volunteers who have a specific health or social care need or would like to volunteer in a health and social care setting.

Conservation Kirklees
Opportunities to volunteer with Kirklees Countryside Unit.

The Highfields Garden Project
Day care for adults with learning disabilities and opportunities to volunteer.

Kirklees Domestic Violence Team
Listen to a podcast by Thelma Singleton of the Domestic Violence Team talking on Sunrise Radio.

Oakwell Hall volunteering
Volunteering in the country park and helping with the maintenance of the site, the gardens and the park's features couldn't be easier.

Volunteering in the Communities and Leisure Service
Information about volunteering within the Kirklees Culture and Leisure Service.

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Other exernal volunteering opportunities and information

Mediation Yorkshire
Community mediation services.

Volunteering England
An independent voluntary agency committed to supporting, enabling and celebrating volunteering.

Volunteering Kirklees
Information on many different and varied volunteering opportunities that are currently available, and guidance on what to expect as a volunteer.

Vinspired
If you're 16-25 years old and thinking about volunteering or work experience, then vinspired has the right opportunity for you.

To search for volunteering opportunities in Kirklees, go to do-it.org.uk

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The Voluntary and Community Sector (VCS)

An introduction
Find out more about the Voluntary and Community Sector in Kirklees.

Voluntary Action Kirklees (VAK)
Advice and practical help for new and established voluntary and community groups.
Info and links for groups looking to recruit volunteers.

The Voluntary Action Network (VAN)
A network of community and voluntary groups in Kirklees. VAN works on the principle that a combined voice for the voluntary and community sector is more effective than a hundred individual organisations all trying to be heard separately.

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Live life to the full

Getting Involved in your Community (PDF: 75kb)

Chapter 8 - Information on getting involved in your community
From the Live Life to the Full campaign. For 50+

Ways to wellbeing

From the A to Z of Mental Health support solutions 'Ways to wellbeing' for adults in Kirklees:

Employment and training (PDF: 947kb)
Chapter 7 - Getting into work or returning to work, if you have a mental health need, can be daunting but there are many ways to take small positive steps towards employment.

Learning and further education (PDF: 296kb)
Chapter 8 - Learning in adulthood has been shown to have a positive effect on your mental health