Volunteering

Welcome to 3VA’s volunteering page. On this page you will find links to volunteer roles in your area, volunteer stories and essential guides to volunteering including recruitment and retention.  

 

Essential Guides to Volunteering:

Ways to find volunteering opportunities

As many volunteer involving organisations use their own websites for recruitment, try searching the internet using the organisation name or your interests as key words. 

To view all the latest volunteering opportunities in your local area, please have a look at: 

All groups can post your volunteer opportunities here:

Post Job (3va.org.uk) 

Welcome to Tribe Volunteering App

3VA are supporting the promotion of a digital volunteering app called Tribe The platform helps connect Volunteer Involving Organisations with individuals in their area who either want to help, or who need help and can be used in several ways including:

  • recruit volunteers
  • advertise services
  • support existing volunteers
  • promote events
  • and more
Tribe can help your organisation’s opportunities reach more potential volunteers.
It is free to list opportunities on Tribe and we recommend taking a look and registering your organisation on The Tribe Project where Staff there can talk you through how to register your organisation on the platform and take you through the process of directly posting your volunteer opportunities. You can also find out more and ask for all the help you need by booking some one-to-one support for your organisation by contacting Bronze Labs directly at Tribe @ Bronze Software Labs, e-Innovation Centre, Priorslee, Telford, TF2 9FT. +44 (0)1952 288 215, [email protected]
 
You can also email us [email protected] to inform us that you are no longer recruiting volunteers for a specific role, or any other volunteering-related enquiries you may have.

If you need further information, advice or support to find volunteering in one of these areas, please contact one of our local partners:

Eastbourne:  

Volunteers Network CIC 

Website: volunteersnetwork.co.uk 

Tel: 01323 763 762 

 Email:[email protected] 

 

Lewes District:  

The Havens Community Hub 

Website: www.havenscommunityhub.co.uk 

Tel: 01273 918 226 

Email:[email protected] 

  

Wealden:  

Uckfield Volunteer Centre 

Heathfield and District Volunteer Centre 

 

Hastings:

Hastings Voluntary Action

Website: hastingsvoluntaryaction.org.uk

Tel: 01424 444 010  

Rother:

Rother Voluntary Action 

www.rva.uk.com 

Tel: 01424 217 259 

Email: [email protected]  

Get inspired! – Volunteer Stories 

If you are not sure what kind of volunteering you might like to do, or what it might be like to volunteer, have a look at some stories of the kinds of things people do here: 

Eastbourne Samaritans
Sanctuary Café
Eastbourne Dementia Action Alliance

Being a Trustee

Having a committed and effective Board of Trustees (or Management Committee members) is vital to the well-being of any community group or charity. 

Each year the work of nearly 1 million trustees across the UK are recognised and celebrated during National Trustees Week.

We have put together some short stories from local trustees which you can view here: 

The House of Friendship
Leaf Hall
Eastbourne Mencap