Due to the volume of applications we receive, it may be a few weeks until we can respond.
We are always looking for volunteers to help us with our day-to-day work and our community projects. We are also happy to support work-placements referred to us by other organisations. We work to create a welcoming environment for everyone, where we all work together.
Volunteering is a great way to get involved in the community, to meet new people, to gain useful work experience, to learn new skills and to share your own skills and knowledge with others. Whether it’s food, gardening, admin or caretaking – we have opportunities for everyone.
Volunteering at St Sid’s is a two-way process. You’ll be supporting us and the wider community by contributing to the day to day running of the Centre and, at the same time, we’ll be supporting you to fully realise your unique potential. Placements are organised with you – so the times and days suit you, and you can get involved with the things that interest you. We also provide one-to-one mentoring, access to our weekly Work Club & a range of training opportunities.
If you are interested in getting involved you can get in touch for more information or fill out an application form.
Volunteers at St Sidwell’s can get involved in any (or all!) of the following areas. If you have already got skills and experience, fantastic! If not, don’t worry, we’ll teach you.
Café and Bakehouse
- Show off your cooking skills (or learn to cook), help with food preparation, serve, operate the till, wash up, bake cakes, develop your barista skills making lattes, and other coffees.
- Join other volunteers in our fight against local food waste, making jams, chutneys, soups, etc out of surplus produce. Some of the produce is just-out-of-date fruit and veg from local supermarkets, some is surplus produce from local gardeners, allotment holders and farms.
Garden & grounds
- Come and help us achieve our ambition of turning St Sid’s grounds into a beautiful, green oasis – for the benefit of everybody. We always need more green fingered volunteers to help with seed sowing, planting, weeding and lots more.
- Not everybody knows that, hidden away, St Sidwell’s has an award-winning vegetable and herb garden, complete with greenhouse. South-facing and peaceful – despite being in the centre of the city – it’s an ideal spot for keen gardeners.