Volunteer
Whether you want to improve your job opportunities with new skills, meet new people or do something positive for your community, Salford Sidekicks can provide you with a volunteering opportunity to suit you.
Volunteering can not only benefit the community you live in, it can also have positive benefits for you!
Not working and/or not looking for work?
Early retirement but not ready for tea, biscuits and bingo just yet? Want to help people who might think that tea, biscuits and bingo is the only option for them because they have a long term medical condition? Volunteering with Salford Sidekicks might just be the thing for you.
Meet new people
Volunteering gives you the opportunity to meet people from a variety of backgrounds - people you may never come across in your day to day life.
To gain new skills & experiences
Volunteering gives you the chance to learn new skills and do something positive for your community
To build self esteem and confidence
Sharing experiences with new people and learn new skills can improve your confidence and self esteem.
To improve health
In ‘the healing power of doing good' by Allan Luks there is evidence that volunteering can improve your health. These health benefits include:
- A heightened sense of well-being
- An improvement in insomnia
- A stronger immune system
- Speedier recovery from surgery
To gain valuable work experience/ improve job opportunities
A survey carried out by TimeBank (a national charity supporting organisations to develop volunteering opportunities) showed that among 200 of the UK's leading businesses:
- 73% of employers would employ a candidate with volunteering experience over one without
- 94% of employers believe that volunteering can add to skills
- 58% say that voluntary work experience can actually be more valuable than experience gained in paid employment
- 94% of employees who volunteered to learn new skills had benefited either by getting their first job, improving their salary, or being promoted
Salford Sidekicks is a volunteer led project. We have opportunities for our Health Mentors to help people across the whole of Salford.
To register your interest, please complete the volunteer registration section.
If you would like to volunteer, but are not sure whether we have a volunteering role for you, please let us know by completing the ‘contact us' section
Whatever you choose, you will have fun, meet new people and share your skills and experiences.