Volunteering in your community - we need you!

Would you like to make a difference to people’s lives or to the environment, meet new people and make new friends, take on a new challenge or learn a new skill and improve your job prospects? Have you ever thought about becoming a volunteer?

Within Leicestershire County Council’s Community Services Department there are exciting volunteering opportunities that can get you to get involved in your local community, help the environment and develop your interests.

Some of the things you could get involved with are:

See our Volunteering Opportunities Page for more details.

In many tasks you would work alongside experienced staff - enabling you to broaden your knowledge and develop new skills. You’ll make new friends, meet likeminded people and generally have fun whilst doing something very rewarding!

If you’ve got some spare time and would like to have more information about the volunteering opportunities open to you, contact our Volunteer Coordinator - Joan Berry on 0116 305 5956; or email her at jiberry@leics.gov.uk .

Look out for this symbol throughout the Leicestershire Events Guide to see some of the volunteering events happening in country parks, libraries and other areas.

There are several warden schemes which help to conserve trees, archaeology and our heritage. For more information see: Heritage Wardens or Tree Wardens.

If you’d like to have more general information on volunteering and things to consider when becoming a volunteer, then you can visit these websites