Volunteer Centre

Swansea Volunteer Centre can provide you with all the support you need to start volunteering. We can offer one to one advice and guidance appointments, telephone assistance or help to access Swansea volunteering information via the Volunteering Wales website.

We also help organisations become registered to help them recruit volunteers.

To make a volunteering advice appointment at our Centre based on Walter Road, Swansea, please call 01792 544000.

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Our Volunteer Centre is open 9am - 5pm, Mon-Fri, so feel free to come into the centre and take a look though the lists of available opportunities in our reception area.

Search the Volunteering Wales Website for local volunteering opportunities by clicking here!

TIP: This is a database of all the opportunities across Wales. Pop Swansea or your postcode into the location, indicate 5 miles radius and click search - this will show you local opportunities. If you then click advance search (top right corner) this filters the opportunities further. If the amount of opportunities proves to much to search through, please make an appointment to see one of our guidance workers and we'll help you decide!

As well as running the Swansea Volunteer Centre, SCVS also run some direct volunteering projects which were developed as a response to an unmet need in the County. Click here to see volunteering projects coordinated by SCVS.

Are you under 25 years of age and interested in volunteering? We can provide help and information for young people under 25 who are interested in volunteering. Find out how to become a volunteer and get your volunteering hours accredited by clicking here.

Are you an organisation that would like to register your need for volunteers?

You can do this online via Volunteering Wales website and Swansea Volunteer Centre will email you to ask for a copy of your Volunteers policy later, or you can submit the information to us directly.

Please click here to access the Volunteer Centre registration forms for organisations needing volunteers. We will also ask you to send a copy of your volunteering policy.

Please click here to take you to our support for organisations page, which includes information sheets regarding managing volunteers and more.

Find out more about National Volunteers Week 2016 here!

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