Volunteer Telford

As a Community Fundraising Volunteer, you will represent Blood Cancer UK in your local area, organising and creating fundraising opportunities to support life-saving research.

Your role will involve raising awareness of our work by hosting events and encouraging donations from the public.

The role is flexible and varied, allowing you to arrange your own team of volunteers to organise events such as quiz nights, liaise with local businesses, or run activities based on your availability.

You will have the freedom to focus on what you enjoy, use your connections, and fit it around your schedule. Our Regional Managers will support you every step of the way, providing training and all necessary materials to ensure your events are successful.

Please note, you need to be 18 or over for this role. This is an opportunity where you will play an important part in raising funds and spreading awareness in your community.

Key activities

Organising and hosting your own fundraising events, such as quiz nights, music events, and community gatherings

Participating in local events, like fetes and festivals, selling goods or running games

Applying to host bucket collections at local venues

Encouraging others in your network to volunteer and support your events

Attending and supporting bucket collections in your area

Engaging with the public to raise awareness of Blood Cancer UK’s work and services

Handling donations and ensuring funds are paid in either online, at Barclays Bank, or at a local post office

Completing risk assessments for your fundraising activities with the support of your Volunteer Manager

Activity Assistant.  We hold a regular Youth Club for any young carers who want to come, on alternate Wednesday evenings (5-7pm) for different age carers (one week primary school age, the following week secondary school age). 

If you're over 16 you can support our younger group and if you're 18+ you can support both groups.  You'll work in within our team of staff and other volunteers, preparing and taking part in activities (games, crafts, lego, computer games, sports etc). 

We also provide a filling meal so you might be on kitchen duty some weeks! You'll play alongside the children, making sure they have lots of fun, and also be a listening ear if they have any worries they want to talk about. 

Join our fun-loving team and we'll pay you for any travel or other expenses and you'll receive training and ongoing support.

The Royal Life Saving Society UK (RLSS UK) is the Drowning Prevention Charity and the UK’s leading provider of water safety and drowning prevention education. We rely on local groups of volunteers to help us deliver our ambitions in their areas, and the Shropshire Branch is looking to develop it's ability to deliver these messages.

We are seeking individuals who are keen to learn CPR, choking and drowning prevention skills, and then be able to share these with others in informal settings. We will provide all the training needed to fulfil the role, allowing you to help save lives. All resources will be provided. Whilst you will be trained and developed locally, and be part of a team in your area, you will also be part of a larger organisation, and learn about national activties and campagns which you may wish to get involved with.

You will learn how to demonstrate basic CPR skills, and ways to deal with choking and drowning incidents to save a life. You will also be able to provide water safety information to the public in fun and engaging ways.

You will be part of a team of instructors in the Telford and Wrekin area.

The knowledge that you are giving people the skills to save a life. You will also gain the skills to perform CPR yourself. You will be part of a local team, so will meet new people and make friends. You will also be part of a wider society that has ambitions of seeing a world where no on loses their life to drowning.

Out of pocket expenses will be reimbursed to fulfil this role.

Approximately 3 hours for each event.There will be various times and dates, which will be agreed with you.

Various locations across Telford and Wrekin.

Volunteers will not be responsible for others, unless they want to have this as a development.

Our event crew play an essential part in making sure our events and activities run smoothly and that all participants and supporters have fantastic experiences.

You can get stuck in setting up and stewarding events like the iconic Dragon Boat Festival, dramatic Fire and Ice Challenge and the poignant Lights of Love service – all of which help us generate vital funds to support our care services.

There are so many exciting opportunities to get involved from welcoming and registering participants, car parking, marshalling a route to handing out medals or running a merchandise stall.

It’s also a brilliant way to volunteer on an ad-hoc basis and can fit around busy lives.