If you would like to volunteer, Voluntary Norfolk is here to help 

Volunteering is good for you - it provides a personal sense of pride; you learn new skills (and get to put your existing skills to good use); it builds confidence; it looks good on your CV. Volunteering can help build new friendships and local communities.

We can find you volunteering opportunities that match your interests, whether you are keen on arts, heritage, working with animals, giving advice and information, serving as a trustee, fundraising, working in charity shops or driving. If you have a specific interest in mental health or issues affecting disabled people, or in helping an individual in your community, we can help you to turn this interest into positive action.

If you wish to volunteer, please contact your local Volunteer Co-ordinator or make an appointment at one of our Volunteer Centres.

Volunteers can also contact their local Volunteer Co-ordinator to find out about the different types of volunteering opportunities that are available. As a volunteer you could carry out practical tasks such as gardening and decorating, or be partnered with someone in the local community who is socially or physically isolated and who needs social interaction and a friendly face to enable them to maintain their health and well being.

Volunteering with your local health team can involve helping with motivating patients to maintain exercise programmes set by physiotherapists, meeting and greeting people attending clinics, chatting to patients in community hospital wards, giving health related information, running refreshment trolleys, doing administrative tasks or relieving carers by sitting with the cared-for.

Once you have established the area in which you would like to volunteer, we will assist you through the registration process, which involves obtaining character references and running criminal record checks. You will be invited to participate in training which will prepare you for your volunteering role in the community.  Volunteers are supported by their Voluntary Services Co-ordinator and will have the opportunity to undertake additional training.

We welcome volunteers of all ages, backgrounds and abilities and you choose how much time you want to give as a volunteer

If you wish to volunteer, please contact your local Volunteer Co-ordinator or make an appointment at one of our Volunteer Centres.

We all need help from time to time.

Whether you are a voluntary or community organisation, you have a friend, neighbour or family member who would benefit from some assistance, or you would personally like some help from a volunteer, please contact Voluntary Norfolk using the contacts below.

We will do all that we can to assist.  All enquiries are treated in the strictest confidence.

If you need help in:

Norwich

Norwich Volunteer Centre at Voluntary Norfolk, 83-87 Pottergate, Norwich, NR2 1DZ

Telephone 01603 614474

Email: reception@voluntarynorfolk.org.uk

Opening hours: Monday to Thursday 8.30am to 4.00pm, Fridays 8.30am to 1.00pm

Great Yarmouth

Great Yarmouth Volunteer Centre, Neighbourhood Centre, 143 Kings Street, Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, NR30 2PQ

Telephone 01493 845926

Email gtyarmouthvc@voluntarynorfolk.org.uk

Opening hours: Monday to Friday 1.30pm to 5.00pm

Thetford

Thetford Volunteer Centre, Thetford Community Healthy Living Centre, Croxton Road, Thetford, IP24 1JD

Telephone 01842 767670

Email thetfordvc@voluntarynorfolk.org.uk

Opening hours: Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday 9.00am to 3.00pm 

North Norfolk

North Norfolk Volunteer Centre, Merchant's Place, 16 Church Street, Cromer, NR27 9GW

Telephone 01263 510 701

Email northnorfolkvc@voluntarynorfolk.org.uk

Opening hours: Monday to Friday 9.30am to 4.30pm

Other

For other Norfolk communities please contact your local Volunteer Co-ordinator