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

Volunteer Managers’ Network Meeting The next meeting is on 12 September, focussing on the publicity and promotion of volunteer roles. More details.

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

Volunteer Organiser Forum. To be held in October to bring together local coordinators of volunteers to discuss issues and solutions. More here.

New trustee. Allan Taylor has joined our management committee. More about Allan here.

Summer opening: From Monday 23 July we are open only on Mondays and Wednesdays, but at our usual times. We return to normal opening on Tuesday 28 August.

AGM and Networking event. We had two excellent combined afternoon meetings. More 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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