For Volunteers

Introduction for Volunteers

Reach helps skilled volunteers use their experience to contribute to the voluntary sector, allowing them to take on new challenges and make a difference to their community.

Who can be a Reach volunteer?

If you would relish the variety and stimulation that skilled volunteering can bring, then Reach is for you.

We would love to hear from you if you have three or more years' experience in management, IT, marketing, accountancy, project management, HR, finance, business or many other areas.

Our volunteers are varied, some are retired, others are not in work or on career breaks, many are working either full or part time. We have volunteers of all ages across the UK.

The unique Reach service

Our personalised service allows volunteers to choose for themselves what kind of organisation they would like to get involved with, whether it be a local group or a big charity. 

It may be that you are interested in a particular area such as child welfare, the environment or the arts. You may have many hours to spare during the week or an hour or two in the evening. Perhaps a short term project appeals to you, or the fixed term position of a trustee appointment, others prefer an ongoing role. The benefit of the Reach service is that you can shape the role or roles that you take around your individual needs and passions.

We will hand-select a shortlist of interesting opportunities for you based on your requirements, and you can explore our list of registered roles yourself.

The Reach expertise  

Reach has been finding exciting roles for skilled volunteers for over 30 years. We work with over 10,000 organisations across the UK. There are over 6,000 Reach volunteers working on any given day and every year we place over 1200 volunteers in new roles.  We currently have over 4,000 opportunities on our register. We do our best to ensure that our volunteers would find all our roles stimulating and fulfilling.

Registering with Reach

Registering is simple, free for volunteers and carries no obligation. No organisation will contact you until you give specific permission for your name to be put forward.