Befriender
Our Current Volunteer Opportunities
AVSEDplus
AVSEDplus is our specialist dementia day service, providing a safe, welcoming and stimulating environment for people living with dementia while offering valuable respite for family members and carers.
Every session is designed to promote wellbeing, encourage independence and reduce social isolation. From music, gentle exercise and reminiscence to arts and crafts, games, quizzes and themed activities, every day is filled with opportunities for our members to laugh, connect and continue enjoying meaningful experiences.
As an AVSEDplus volunteer, you'll work alongside our fully trained and experienced specialist dementia staff to enhance our members' experience. You'll be part of a caring and supportive team, helping to create a calm, friendly environment where every member feels valued, included and respected.
Whether you're chatting over breakfast, encouraging someone to join an activity, sharing a laugh during a game, or simply offering reassurance and companionship, your time can make a genuine difference to someone's day. As a regular weekly volunteer, you'll build meaningful relationships with members, becoming a familiar, trusted face they look forward to seeing each week.
When?
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Every Tuesday, Thursday or Friday (From October)
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Volunteer hours: 10:00am – 4:00pm
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Session time: 10:30am – 3:30pm
Full training provided — including wheelchair and safe handling, Dementia Friends, food hygiene, and more.
Minimum requirement: 18+
By giving just one day a week, you'll help people living with dementia enjoy friendship, purpose and fulfilling experiences, while giving families the reassurance that their loved one is spending the day with a caring and experienced team.
Variety Club
Our Variety Club is the weekly social club for our members who enjoy being entertained!
From quizzes to bingo, singers to speakers, the Variety Club provides a warm welcome, a friendly atmosphere and the chance to meet and make new friends.
As a volunteer you work with the other volunteers and Activity Coordinator Ella to make sure the room is set up, the drinks are flowing, the quiz questions are ready, your microphone voice is warmed up, and every member gets greeted with that extra special AVSED welcome we are fanous for.
The group runs every Tuesday afternoon between 2pm and 4pm and we look for volunteer support between 1pm and 4.30pm.
Full training provided — including wheelchair and safe handling, Dementia Friends, food hygiene, and more.
Minimum requirement - Age 18+
Complete the enquiry form by clicking here.
Kitchen Support
Are you handy in a kitchen? Are you great working in a team? Do you love food?
Help support our Cook to provide nutritious home cooked food for our members attending our memory groups and lunch clubs and support the cleaning of the kitchen after service too.
With help needed on different days of the week and support between 10am and 3.30pm, we are looking for individuals who are happiest when in the kitchen.
Minimum requirement - Age 18+
With full training given including food hygiene training, this role is ideal for anyone looking to build skills in a kitchen, or wishing to share their skills in cooking and baking. Complete the enquiry form by clicking here.
Umbrella Club
Are you friendly, caring, and a true team player? Come and make a real difference at the Umbrella Club — a welcoming, supportive group for people living with dementia and other inclusion needs, including sensory challenges and restricted mobility.
As a volunteer, you’ll work alongside Judith, our fantastic group lead, to create a safe and uplifting space for our members. You'll help provide a healthy light lunch, support gentle exercise and activities, and enjoy the rewards of seeing members thrive.
This role is all about teamwork, helping people maintain their independence, and bringing joy to their day. You’ll support members with mobility, so being physically able to push a wheelchair and help set up and tidy away tables and chairs is essential.
Full training provided — including wheelchair and safe handling, Dementia Friends, food hygiene, and more.
Enhanced DBS required for this role
Minimum requirement - Age 18+
Complete the enquiry form by clicking here.
Befriender
Can you spare an hour for to relieve loneliness?
Along with providing exercise, social activities, dementia and inclusion groups, trips, and fish and chips on a Friday, we provide an important befriending service to our more lonely or isolated members.
Spending up to an hour a week at a time that suits you and your partner, a befriender helps provide company, friendship, and a connection to the outside world. Being a listening ear, someone to reminisce with, play games, share skills, hobbies and stories, a volunteer befriender is an important and rewarding role here at AVSED.
Enhanced DBS required for this role
Minimum requirement - Ages 18+
With full training and support given, this role does require an enhanced DBS check to take part. If you would like to learn more, Complete the enquiry form by clicking here.
Minibus Driver
Our door to door transport service is key to providing some of our members the independence they need to access our services and activities and avoid remaining isolated and lonely at home.
Volunteer minibus drivers help to pickup members for different activities throughout the week, with a general time commitment being a morning or afternoon per activity. We are looking to recruit volunteers with a friendly, happy demeanor and a confident driving style, or someone who is willing to learn how to drive our adapted minibus.
Ad-hoc and regular weekly hours are available.
Enhanced DBS required for this role
Minimum requirements - Ages 30 - 70. Full UK licence held for at least 2 years.
With full training and support given, this role does require an enhanced DBS check to take part. If you would like to learn more, complete the enquiry form by clicking here.
Passenger Assistant
Our door to door transport service is key to providing some of our members the indepence they need to access our services and activities and avoid remaining isolated and lonely at home.
Volunteer Passenger Assistants support our minibus drivers and help to pick up members for different activities throughout the week, with a general time commitment being a morning or afternoon per activity. We are looking to recruit volunteers with a friendly, happy demeanor who can support our members from door to door and provide company, companionship and guidance on and off our transport
Ad-hoc and regular weekly hours are available.
Enhanced DBS required for this role
Minimum requirement - Ages 18+
With full training and support given, this role does require an enhanced DBS check to take part. If you would like to learn more, complete the enquiry form by clicking here.
Car Driver and Wheelchair Accessible Vehicle Driver
Our door to door transport service is key to providing some of our members the indepence they need to access our services and activities and avoid remaining isolated and lonely at home.
Using your own vehicle or driving our Wheelchair Accessible Vehicle (WAV) you would meet members at their own homes, helping them into the vehicle and driving them to the AVSED building or activity. At the end of the activity, you would return to pick them up and take them home ensuring they are safely back within their home again.
Ad-hoc and regular hour weekly hours are available.
Enhanced DBS required for this role
Minimum requirement - Ages 18+, own vehicle
With full training and support given, this role does require an enhanced DBS check to take part. If you would like to learn more, complete the enquiry form by clicking here.