Thornbury Volunteer Centre

Who we are

We are the volunteer development agency for Thornbury and district. We promote, support and develop volunteering and provide a service which matches volunteers with organisations that need voluntary help. We provide training, advice and support.

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Be a volunteer

We can tell you about local, national and international volunteering opportunities, which may include both regular and one-off placements. We can find you appropriate training courses and offer support and advice throughout your volunteer experience.

Your next step

Find a volunteer

We help organisations find volunteers for recurring and one-off projects, work with them to identify and develop new volunteering opportunities, advise them on good practice when working with volunteers, and can provide training, subject to funding.

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Encourage staff

Give employees the opportunity to volunteer. This may be time off for individual volunteering, or in a programme you develop, such as an ongoing arrangement with a community partner. We have helped local employers establish such links and can do the same for you.

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Volunteers in action

Facepainting a young visitor at the Wild Place project.
Checking donated clothes at the British Heart Foundation shop.
Adding donated books to the shelves in the Thornbury Lions Bookshop.
Collecting donated furniture for sale by the Multiple Sclerosis People’s Help.
Staff from Essilor helping in Turnberrie’s garden on an employer-sponsored scheme.
Serving a customer at the Over 60s Tearoom in the Town Hall.
Red Cross volunteers attending a local event.
Guiding a group at WWT Slimbridge.
Giving technical advice in Thornbury Library.
Serving a customer at the Oxfam Shop.
Painting a locomotive cab at the Vale of Berkeley Railway.
Cataloguing donated tools at the Thornbury Museum.

News & information

Personal Resilience and Stress Management Workshop. A second workshop has been organised for 4 September. More details.

We’ve popped up again! Our pop-up shop opened on 12 May, and was an immediate success. More here.

Annual report Our annual report for 2018 is published. View or download here.

Volunteer Managers’ Network Our next meeting will be held on Wednesday 20 June. More here.

AGM date announced: It will be on 18 July with guest speaker and refreshments. All welcome! More details.

Big grant permits local projects: We have been granted £2000 from Tesco's Bags of Help scheme. We plan a series of events during 2018 to bring organisations and volunteers closer together. More information.

General Data Protection Regulation: We helped organise two successful workshops to assist local organisations to come to grips with new data protection regulations. Details here.

Quiz nights at the Swan: Our funds benefited by more than £400 from the April quiz nights at the Swan. Details here.

Volunteering opportunities: Most of our many volunteering opportunities are advertised nationally and can be searched online here. Some are advertised locally only and are listed here.

We’re on social media: Follow us on Facebook and Twitter for news and events. And all our volunteering opportunities appear there as they’re published.

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