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Volunteering Opportunities
Looking to volunteer in Cambridgeshire? At Cambridge Acorn Project, we offer a range of volunteering roles to help support children and families in our community. Scroll down to view our current opportunties.
If you are a business interested in staff volunteering, please contact our Fundraising Team at fundraising@cambridgeacornproject.org.uk.
Christmas Volunteer Opportunity - ALL SHIFTS NOW FILLED, THANK YOU!
Could you spare 2-3 hours this December to support Cambridge Acorn Project?
We're looking for volunteers to help with Rotary's Christmas car park fundraising weekends. The more volunteer shifts we fill, the more funding we'll receive to support local children, young people and families. The Rotary Club of Cambridge South runs an annual Christmas Charity Car Parking Scheme in central Cambridge, offering low-cost, all-day weekend and holiday parking where every penny goes to local good causes.
Shifts are available every Saturday and Sunday starting on Saturday 28th November until Sunday 20th December between 8.30am and 4.00pm, with flexible 2-3 hour slots to choose from. The car park is at Downing Site, Tennis Court Road, Cambridge.
No experience needed. Just bring your enthusiasm and festive spirit!
✅ Flexible 2-3 hour shifts
✅ Volunteer with friends or family
✅ Support a local children's mental health charity
We have a limited number of volunteer places available across December, so we'd encourage you to sign up early. Shifts will be allocated on a first-come, first-served basis, and every space filled helps maximise the funding Cambridge Acorn Project receives this Christmas.
Qualified Professionals - volunteers
We are looking to develop an innovative professionals volunteer opportunity for working with children and families who have experienced significant adversity. Our interest lies in qualified professionals with a specialised skillset to tackle inequality and provide timely access to services. We are looking for flexible practitioners who are able to support across a range of opportunities from street-level drop ins to consultation or training for our staff. This can be on an ad hoc basis or more regularly.
This may include professionals such as:
- Educational psychologist
- Clinical psychologist
- Speech and Language Therapists
- Occupational Therapists
- Social workers
- Family workers
- Funding- bids/grant writers
- Media and socials
- Researchers
For more information, please email us at info@cambridgeacornproject.org.uk
When new opportunities are available we will contact you. Please note that we cannot accept CVs.
We are committed to safe and inclusive recruitment
Safeguarding
Safeguarding is at the heart of Cambridge Acorn Project including our safe recruitment processes. We undertake safe recruitment checks on anyone who wants to volunteer with us as we work with children and adults at risk. This means that all our roles which have contact with services users or access to sensitive information, including this position, require an enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check as well as two references. Please note, as part of our commitment to safeguarding, we include value-based questions in our interview. For more information on our approach to safeguarding please refer to our terms of service.
Our commitment to diversity and inclusion
Cambridge Acorn Project believes in a world that is equitable, safe, and free from abuse and coercion and we apply these principles to every part of our organisation fostering equality and inclusion in everything we do. We promote a culture of respect and a sense of belonging for all staff, volunteers, and service users where everyone is free to be themselves. We value lived experience, and we welcome applications from people with marginalised identities or experiences. Cambridge Acorn Project is a warm, flexible, and supportive organisation, and we want to work within a diverse collegiate team where everyone’s opinion and experience matters, and everyone has a voice.
We would be happy to make access adjustments as needed for interviews (and in the workplace). Please indicate your access needs for interview on the application form or, if you would prefer to speak to us directly, contact us at info@cambridgeacornprojecy.org.uk
Data Protection
Cambridge Acorn Project processes data in line with The Data Protection Act 2018 and UK GDPR. For more information, please see our terms of service.