Involve recruit, train and support volunteers to be in a befriending/ Independent visitor role on a one to one or in a group setting to meet the needs of individual children, young people, families, adults with various needs or older people. We have a variety of schemes that engage people in need in Swansea.

Involve Volunteering Project is a partnership between Swansea Council for Voluntary Service, Swansea Council's Social Services Department, SBUHB and Swansea City of Sanctuary. 

Established in November 1987, Involve is one of SCVS’s own volunteering projects. Our volunteers provide local people with support.  Volunteers befriend children, young people, adults or families in our local community on a one to one basis, or in a group setting.

All Volunteers have to satisfy our safeguarding  requirements, by providing two references and undertaking a Disclosure and Barring Service check (DBS). Volunteers also need to attend a two-day or four-evening Induction training course. 

 Find out more about the projects within Involve below.

Telephone Befriending - Do you want to make a difference in your community from the comfort of your own home? Join our team of volunteers who offer a friendly ‘how are you?’ to combat loneliness and isolation.

Wassup - Independent Visitors - a consistent figure in the life of a looked after child or young person...

Interact - Volunteers reducing isolation and loneliness, and increasing confidence of adults...

Mental Health and Wellbeing Volunteering Project - Volunteers supporting people who have been affected by mental ill health...

Transcend - a mental health peer mentoring project...

A Better Welcome to Swansea - helps to welcome and support asylum seekers and refugees in Swansea to reduce isolation, encourage active participation, promote well being and enhance Integration...

SGO - Volunteers building a positive relationship with children/young people who are living with a Kinship foster carer...

If you are worried about an adult, please ring 01792 636519. After office hours, the Social Service Duty Emergency number is 01792 775501.

COVID 19 - We want to reassure you that SCVS/ Involve are ensuring, that we have the latest guidance from Public Health Wales in relation to Coronavirus.  Please click here to read guidance for volunteers and staff, which we will update with any official guidance changes.

For general enquiries and referral forms please email [email protected] 

For more information on the process of Volunteering click here.

Existing volunteers, please click here for Volunteer Travel expense form and also Diary sheet.  

We would like to encourage our volunteers to print out their own forms to complete.  However, please note that these are PDF versions, so volunteers will be unable to use these forms to send via email.

If you require an email version or if you would like copies sent to you in the post when you require them, please don't hesitate to contact the office by email: [email protected]

Volunteers, please take note of the important information at the bottom of the Expense Form.

Please check out our Volunteer mail-out. It's full of information for volunteers, including any training available!  If there is anything you would like included in our mailouts, let us know!

We take data protection seriously - click here to view the Involve Privacy Statement