Gap Year Opportunities
Volunteering Matters run a Full Time
Volunteering programme for students who are leaving school and looking to gain
work experience and skills or for those wanting to take a constructive year out
before starting university or employment. Placements are available
throughout the year for a period of 6-12 months.
The type of opportunities are largely within
health or social care settings. Typically these might include:
- Supporting adults with a physical or learning disability to live independently in their own home
- Helping disabled students at university e.g. by note taking or helping with day-to-day living
- Providing respite care for full time carers
- Volunteering in a group or community home
- Providing support or help in a homeless shelter
- Helping in a special needs school
- Mentoring and befriending young people leaving care
Our volunteers move away from home and are
provided with accommodation and subsistence which includes £35 per week for day to day
expenses plus food (or up to £40 per week to buy food). Volunteers could be placed anywhere in the UK
depending on the project to which the volunteer is matched. There are hundreds
of opportunities and a wide range of different activities volunteers can get
involved in.
Volunteering Matters placements are a great
opportunity to gain practical skills and experience, improve employability,
make new friends and make a difference to people’s lives. No previous
experience or qualifications are required. Volunteers should be aged between
18-35 and be UK/EEA nationals living in the UK.
Heidi
Boyes, a former Full Time Volunteer was placed at a homeless shelter in London.
Her experience helped her secure a full-time job as a trainee Keyworker
for a homeless charity based in London.
“Without my experience
with Volunteering Matters, I cannot see how I would have been able to find work
in this sector, and also I would not have had such a fantastic eye-opening year.”
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