How to volunteer with us

We offer a wide range of volunteer roles.

Supporting at youth groups

You could be working directly with young people as a volunteer Youth Worker at their youth groups, or working with other youth workers to support the delivery of fun and engaging programmes.

Event support

You could be assisting with planning and running youth events.

Administrative help

You could be providing behind-the-scenes support like social media, communications, or fundraising or even at the reception desk in one of our youth centres.

Cooking and baking

You could be providing healthy and tasty food to our young people at our youth groups or teaching young people how to cook and bake,

Gardening and landscaping

You could be helping maintain our grounds or support youth groups to plant flowers or litter pick in their communities.

Sports

You could be helping young people in a variety of sports activities or teaching them specific sporting skills.

Crafting

You could be teaching young people skills such as painting, drawing, sewing and pottery, or supporting at our art groups.

Painting and decorating

You could be helping maintain our buildings or support young people to have a creative input in how their youth space looks.

Janitor

you could be helping maintain the youth buildings to ensure it’s a safe space for young people.

Digital Team

If you're interested in photography, videography, podcasting or graphic design - get in touch with us about opportunities with our Digital Team

Driver

Help us safely transport our young people to events or pick up deliveries. A vehicle is provided with this role.

Roles that require training

Our priority is making sure we are supporting and providing opportunities and safe spaces for young people across the region. As a result we are not able to support people into volunteering if they are unable to complete the relevant training and information sessions.

For our volunteer programmes, the training aspect will vary depending on the role you would like to do with the minimum time required for training being four hours. The training is used to make you aware of:

• what's expected of the role
• the support that will be provided to you as a volunteer
• the code of conduct

The training also gives you the chance to meet with the people you’ll be volunteering alongside.

If you want to volunteer at Youth Beatz

If you only want to volunteer at Youth Beatz, then keep an eye on social media for our Youth Beatz volunteering expression of interest form.

Youth Beatz - Facebook page

Using your volunteering hours towards awards

We’re happy to provide documentation of your contributions for Saltire Awards or Duke of Edinburgh Award (DofE).

If you don’t know what Saltire or DofE is, we can discuss this at the meeting with the volunteer co-ordinator- they are both ways of getting extra benefit from your volunteering.

Volunteering with family

If a family member works for us, you could volunteer with them. This will be reviewed on a case-by-case basis.

We advise that you do no volunteer at groups that your child attends. This is to allow them the independence to attend a group with their peers in the same way as other young people would. This will be reviewed on a case-by-case basis.