Volunteering Opportunities
Age: 18+
Hours: Minimum of 10 hours per month
Location: Volunteers must live, work or study in Buckinghamshire
Deadline: Ongoing
Volunteering with Brook gives you the opportunity to develop your skills and knowledge while fighting stigma and reducing health inequalities.
Our volunteers assist individuals in their local communities to access a range of sexual health and wellbeing services, helping them to take responsibility for their own health needs.
We are looking for enthusiastic individuals with an interest in Sexual and Reproductive Health, becoming influencers in their local communities, and supporting the delivery of our sexual health promotion and outreach service, as part of Buckinghamshire’s Integrated Sexual Health and Wellbeing service (bSHaW).
We have remote and face to face opportunities available.
However you volunteer, you will make an invaluable difference to our work, support others and there are great benefits for you too.
By volunteering for Brook, you will have the chance to:
- Increase your knowledge of a sexual health charity
- Improve your professional skills
- Meet other people who are interested in sexual health and wellbeing
- Enhance your CV
- Gain a valuable job reference
- Receive free training and regular support
- Learn from, and work alongside, experienced staff
- Give something to the community
We value all of our volunteers and seek to ensure their experience with us is rewarding and valuable. We offer a variety of opportunities that volunteers can get involved in, from working directly with people in the community, assisting with research, to supporting our digital communications.
Examples of volunteering opportunities you could get involved with include (but are not limited to):
- Encouraging and inspiring others to tackle stigma and discrimination by delivering clear, sex-positive messages.
- Supporting or co-facilitating our education and training programmes for young people and adults
- Supporting with event preparation (e.g. materials, resources).
- Attending health promotion and prevention events with the Brook team.
- Supporting with condom distribution and signposting to relevant local services.
- Providing advice and information on a range of sexual health and wellbeing topics and signposting to relevant local services.
- Co-delivering community engagement and networking events with other volunteers or Brook Specialists.
- Distributing materials (flyers, posters, leaflets) across community settings to promote our service offer.
- Promoting awareness of and improving access to bSHaW’s clinical services (including online services).
- Supporting our communications through writing articles, blogs or real stories.
- Creating/sharing digital content through our social media channels.
- Helping us create and promote surveys to gain feedback and improve our services.
“THE WORK BROOK DOES TO SUPPORT AND EMPOWER YOUNG PEOPLE IS AMAZING. THEY’RE A REALLY TRAILBLAZING ORGANISATION, AND THE BENEFITS OF VOLUNTEERING ARE ENDLESS! THERE ARE SO MANY EXPERIENCES THAT HAVE DIRECTLY HELPED ME PROGRESS FURTHER WITH MY CAREER AND ALSO ENRICH MY SOCIAL LIFE.”
(Kirsty, Lead Volunteer for Participation and Volunteering)
“DO IT! YOU’LL HAVE AN AMAZING TIME; THE OPPORTUNITIES ARE ENDLESS, THE STAFF ARE GREAT AND YOU’LL BE PART OF AN AMAZING TEAM.”
(Harry, Volunteer since September 2016)
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HOW TO APPLY
If you are interested in volunteering with Brook, you can submit an expression of interest form. We will then contact you to arrange an informal discussion about the role, so we can understand more about why you would like to volunteer at Brook and for you to learn more about the role and what it might involve.
View the volunteer role specification (pdf)
QUESTIONS?
If you have any questions about volunteering or the application process, please get in touch by emailing us at: bucks@brook.org.uk