Volunteer With Us
Do you want to volunteer your time as a mentor, to help someone achieve a goal?
People may want a bit of support from you to start attending something new, build their confidence, find out information, fill in a form or even write a letter.
Do you want to help Inclusion Gloucestershire do some of their work?
We are often looking for people with important life skills who can support us in different project related roles.
We pride ourselves in supporting volunteers well and will help you to achieve your personal goals or signpost you elsewhere if we can’t.
Current volunteer oportunities
Thank you for your interest, our current volunteering opportunities will be listed below as and when they arise.
If you do not see any roles listed, it may mean that we don’t have any opportunities to offer at the moment. If you would still like to submit a prospective application to volunteer with us in the future, we are happy to keep this on file (with your permission) and contact you if a potentially suitable opportunity becomes available.
Please let us know if you would not like us to save your application for this purpose.
Advocacy Volunteer – Peer Mentor
Peer mentors support people to build or regain their confidence and independence. We are looking for volunteers with lived experience of disability to help us delivering advocacy and mentoring to disabled people in Gloucestershire.
We are looking for people to support us with:
- 1:1 peer mentoring: working with people to identify what support they would like and working with them to help improve their quality of life
- Befriending: including supporting people to attend Inclusion hubs and other local activities and events
- Group advocacy (speak up groups): Supporting people to have their say in a group environment on topics that are important to them
- Supporting people with completing forms: to access support to improve their quality of life.
- Attending meetings and events: to help us to share information about our peer mentoring.
As part of the training for this role we are planning a whole day face to face training event at Railway House on Saturday 26 July 2025.
Do you simply want to find out more about the role?
Please download the role description or to find out more contact Faye Longley, Advocacy Co-ordinator: 07525 848514 or email fayel@inclusion-glos.org
Click here to download our application form.
Please send your completed application form to volunteering@inclusion-glos.org
Please include your permission to hold your application on file for future opportunities (if you are happy for us to do so).
Dramatic Change ‘Content Creators’ Volunteer
Do you have lived experience of Neurodivergence?
Are you part of the LGBTQIA+ community?
Are you passionate about supporting others to ‘Speak Up’ and self-advocate?
Our new social media group, Content Creators, is part of Dramatic Change, our drama and advocacy offer. The course is designed to provide a safe space for neurodivergent individuals, who are part of the LGBTQIA+ community, to produce issue-based videos for social media, on topics that are important to them.
We are looking for an enthusiastic, proactive and caring individual to join our Coordinator and Expert by Experience to facilitate the running of the course.
Do you simply want to find out more about the role?
Please download the role description or to find out more contact:
Click here to download our application form.
Please send your completed application form to rosannag@inclusion-glos.org together with your permission to hold your application on file for future opportunities if you are happy for us to do so.
MHELO – Mental Health Experience Led Group member
We are a group of people with lived experience who have come together to form independent voice for people with mental health problems and services.
Do you (or does anyone you know?) have interest, passion, knowledge or experience of mental health in Gloucestershire? You can offer up some regular time, a specific area of expertise or you could just come and get to know us and support what we are doing. Experience of / in mental health is not required although it would be helpful.
We are looking for committed compassionate and caring people from all walks of life with any skills or interest relevant (you need to be recovered enough to be committed to regularly attending meetings & contributing as a collective alongside the group)
Do you simply want to find out more about the role?
Please download the role description or to find out more contact our MHELO Co-ordinator lisah@inclusion-glos.org Mobile: 07889 213462 (working days are Wednesday to Friday 10am-4.30pm), for more information and an invite to our upcoming monthly meeting…. to help us to MAKE A DIFFERENCE in mental health care & services across the county.
Click here to download our full application form.
Click here to download our Easy Read application form.
Please send your completed application form to volunteering@inclusion-glos.org together with your permission to hold your application on file for future opportunities if you are happy for us to do so.
Additional information
- You can give as little or as much time as you can.
- We will pay any travel expenses that you have.
- We will make sure you have training and support in your role.
Volunteer & Advocacy Quarterly Newsletters
We are pleased to share our first joint Volunteer and Advocacy Newsletter with you.
We hope that this provides some helpful information, along with news, current volunteering opportunities, and insights about our volunteering and advocacy work.
Many thanks to all volunteers who contributed to this newsletter.
2024
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Issue 1
Autumn 2023 Newsletter
