Resilience, lifelong learning, growth; these aren’t things that we learn by talking or hearing about them. They are products of actions–repeated actions, in fact.

And that’s exactly what volunteering allows us to create; volunteers contribute to the community, and as they do, they learn new skills that push their growth personally and professionally.

The easiest way to understand how this works is to follow a volunteer on their journey or be a volunteer yourself.

So that’s all good in theory, how does it actually work?

Mapping school and volunteer needs

Creating programme basket

Signing up volunteers

Training them

Supporting delivery

Feedback and reflection

Improving programmes

We’ve found volunteering has powerful impacts on multiple levels:

Students:

Exposed to a much wider range of role models

Changes their sense of what’s possible

They connect to people with different life paths

Volunteers:

Challenge their own abilities and

Get new perspectives about the world