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Volunteering Projects
There are around twenty student-led volunteering projects, all run by students and aiming to help the local community in some way. If these projects don’t interest you, we have links with a hundred external organisations, so check out the other volunteering pages for more detail. Unlike most student groups, volunteering groups don’t charge a membership fee and members will usually have to attend a Volunteering Induction session, pop along to Student Development for more details or email volunteering@guild.bham.ac.uk
Amnesty International
Amnesty International is a global movement which campaigns to end human rights abuses. We organise things like protests, publicity stunts, petitions, awareness raising, concerts, events of all shapes and sizes and acts of solidarity with those having their right abused. We like to be creative and very ambitious so that we can make a change and have fun doing it. You don't have to know anything about amnesty or our campaigns, because you learn as you go along.
Email: amnesty@guild.bham.ac.uk
Facebook: Birmingham Uni Amnesty International
Barnados
Email: barnados@guild.bham.ac.uk
Buddy a Granny
Buddy a Granny volunteers go to Selly Oak hospital and visit the wards with elderly patients, entertaining them and helping those with dementia and other illnesses that can cause memory loss to go through their memory boxes. Volunteers with this project also befriend older people at St Stephen’s, a nearby residential home. They chat to the residents and entertain them with activities such as bingo, quizzes and board games.
Email: buddy@guild.bham.ac.uk
Facebook: Buddy A Granny
BUST - Birmingham University Stand Together
B.U.S.T is a student led volunteer group who are raising awareness for Breast and Testicular Cancer. We aim to raise awareness and cash by doing bar crawls, cake sales and sponsored walks, runs and swims. So please show your support and join the fight!
Email: standtogether@guild.bham.ac.uk
Facebook: B.U.S.T** Birmingham University Stand Together
Carnival RAG
Carnival is the University’s Raising And Giving (RAG) group, which is all about raising money for good causes through loads of fun activities, including hitch-hikes, parties, fancy-dress bucket-shaking and anything that they can think of. Everyone is welcome, whether they want to suggest or help on one activity or volunteer regularly; Carnival is the Guild’s biggest society with around a thousand members, so there really is something for everyone.
Email: carnival@guild.bham.ac.uk or info@carnivalrag.com
Website: http://www.carnivalrag.com/
Facebook: Carnival RAG
Conservation Volunteers
Volunteers work on a variety of conservation projects around Birmingham, doing activities such as woodland managements, fence making and pond de-silting. BUCV gives students the opportunity to get out in the fresh air and enjoy the countryside, interspersed with drinking in country pubs and the occasional mud fight! Weekly outings take place on Sundays, meeting outside Joes at 10am. There are also residential weekends throughout the year, enabling volunteers to venture further afield.
Email: bucv@guild.bham.ac.uk
Facebook: Brum Uni Conservation Volunteers
Engineers without Borders (EWB)
Our mission is to facilitate human development through engineering. EWB includes opportunities for:
Development-work summer placements (abroad and in the UK);
Weekend workshops (training and development courses);
Email: ewb@guld.bham.ac.uk
Facebook: EWB
Excite
Excite works with a local primary school to motivate children from disadvantaged and ethnic minority backgrounds to learn. Volunteers help in classrooms on a weekly basis, and in the summer term they organise excursions to local attractions, with the aim to extend the classroom to the outdoors and make learning fun.
Email: excite@guild.bham.ac.uk
Facebook: EXCITE Volunteers
Food-Cycle
Email: food-cycle@guild.bham.ac.uk
Helping Hands
Helping Hands volunteers go into local schools to provide support to children who have some form of learning difficulties. Preferably volunteers will be psychology students, as the training offered to Helping Hands volunteers will be particularly valuable to students on this course. If you speak a second language it would be beneficial as most schools have many children with limited English skills.
Email: helpinghands@guild.bham.ac.uk
International Volunteers (Intervol)
Intervol sends around a hundred volunteers a year on sustainable projects in developing countries that benefit some of the poorest children and communities in the world. In recent years, they had projects in Bulgaria, Cambodia, Ecuador, Kenya, Nepal and South Africa. Their projects vary from building classrooms in Nepal to conservation in the South American rainforest, they work a lot with children, both in orphanages and in the crucial task of teaching AIDs awareness. Most projects last between 4-6 weeks and many of our volunteers use the time after their project to travel and experience the amazing countries that we volunteer in.
Email: intervol@live.co.uk
Website: www.intervol.co.uk
Facebook: InterVol
Kids Adventure
Kids Adventure run week long, non-residential, action-packed holidays for underprivileged children in the Birmingham area. They run one holiday during the Easter holidays and two over summer, as well as a Christmas Party for all the kids and volunteers!! Volunteers follow a one-to-one supervision policy, so every day you will have your own kids to look after and by the end of the week they'll all be your friends!! Activities include canoeing, swimming, climbing and loads more. If you want to get involved and make a difference to the lives of some amazing kids, as well as make loads of friends and have an all expenses paid week of fun... come and join this merry band of volunteers!!
Email: kidsadventure@guild.bham.ac.uk
Facebook: Kids Adventure 2010-11
LINKS
'LINKS is a part of St John Ambulance and provides first aid support at various public events including university sports and festivals, V Festival, football matches, cricket and many more. Volunteers are given full training in basic first aid and are also given the chance to undertake more advanced training from resuscitation to emergency ambulance work, and everything in between!'
Email: enquiries@bhamlinks.sja.org.uk
Website: http://member.sja.org.uk/wmids/links/birmingham
Facebook: University of Birmingham LINKS
Lurve
Promoting personal well-being and healthy lifestyle, bringing the student community together for feel-good events and fundraising for mental health charities.
Email: lurve@guild.bham.ac.uk
Marrow
Marrow is a student group working closely with the Anthony Nolan Trust to take back lives from Leukaemia.
They hold regular donor recruitment sessions allowing people the opportunity to join the bone marrow register and potentially save a life. Our volunteers can train as bone marrow counsellors helping us run our clinics or help us fundraise on behalf of the Anthony Nolan Trust to maintain their bone marrow register. Once you have trained as a counsellor, you can help out at as many or as few clinics as you want to. You can put in as much or as little time as you want to. Email us for more details.
Email: marrow@guild.bham.ac.uk
Facebook: Birmingham Marrow
Monday Night Club
Monday Night Club aka MNC is a volunteering society that takes place on monday nights from 7-9 pm in the Chaplaincy. We provide a social platform for a group of adults with learning disabilities, we have volunteers who help look after them and provide general company! We provide the members with activities, from arts and crafts to talent shows, circus workshops, live music performances and have even had Pets for Therapy pay us a visit! We also have fundraising events to raise money and awareness of our cause.
Email: mnc@guild.bham.ac.uk
Facebook: Monday Night Club 2010-11
Nightline
We are a confidential listening & information service for students
Open every night of term 6pm-8am
Our phone number is on the back of your Student ID card
Email us at nightline@guild.bham.ac.uk
Chat to us online from 7pm - midnight find our link on the left hand side of your my.bham homepage
Or come and see us from 6pm to midnight at the side door of St. Francis Hall
Facebook: Birmingham Nightline
Email: nightline@guild.bham.ac.uk
Website: http://students.bugs.bham.ac.uk/niteline
Oxfam Outreach
The group raise awareness of Oxfam, Oxfam's campaigns and raise money to support Oxfam's work.
Email: oxfamoutreach@guild.bham.ac.uk
Website: http://students.bugs.bham.ac.uk/oxfamoutreach
Facebook: Oxfam Outreach Society
Selly Oak Play Scheme (SOPS)
SOPS meet in The Underground in the Guild every Sunday morning, and offer activities to the children in the local community, promoting good relationships between the University and people from the local area. All the children are between 7 and 11 years old, and if you love kids, you'll relish the opportunity to get to know these people. SOPS is a great way for the Guild and its students to give something back to the local area.
Email: sops@guild.bham.ac.uk
Saturday Morning Play Scheme (SMPS)
Double award winning SMPS caters for children with behavioural problems and learning difficulties. The group organises a whole host of trip and activities for the children, who are all between the ages of 9 and 12. SMPS will be the highlight of your weekend!
Email: smps@guild.bham.ac.uk
Sexpression
Sexpression aims to provide sex education in local secondary schools, promote sexual awareness and to provide a forum for school pupils to ask any questions about sex and STDs, in confidence. Sessions take place weekly, but they are also involved in fundraising events and health promotion across campus.
Email: Sexpression@guild.bham.ac.uk
SIFE (Students in Free Enterprise)
SIFE is the biggest on campus volunteering society in the world! It is an international, not for profit organisation in over 39 countries. We organise social outreach programmes that aim to empower people via business. Whether it is helping homeless people set up a small business or providing local solutions to a specific communities’ problems, you could be running you own project and actively helping improve the standard of living for people around the world. SIFE works closely with many large businesses including: Enterprise, Ernst and Young, Beiersdorf, Npower, Wilkinson. The companies act as Business Advisers, who provide SIFE members with the knowledge to conduct successful projects.
Email: sife@guild.bham.ac.uk
Website: http://www.sifeuk.org
Facebook: SIFE Birmingham
Student Action for Refugees (STAR)
Birmingham is home to a large numbers of refugees. Some of them have no relatives or friends and cannot speak English. STAR offers non-judgmental support by befriending refugees, campaigning for them and generally raising awareness. STAR run a number of projects including play schemes for refugee children in emergency accommodation, a refugee awareness programme in secondary schools and a refugee social group in Selly Oak.
Email: star@guild.bham.ac.uk
Facebook: Student Action For Refugees University of Birmingham
The Autism Play Project (TAPP)
The project provides an interactive play session – a chance for children with autism to have fun in a safe environment.
Email: tapp@guild.bham.ac.uk
UNICEF on Campus
This group is for anyone that wants to help raise awareness about children’s rights issues and to support the work of UNICEF, campaigning to ensure students know about the issues and to generate support for UNICEF.
Email: unicef@guild.bham.ac.uk
Facebook: UNICEF on Campus- University of Birmingham UK
Website: http://unicefoncampusuofb.blogspot.com
Vale Festival
Vale Festival is a unique charitable summer event held on the Vale. Organised every year by a dedicated committee of student volunteers, it has a different theme each year, raising money for chosen charities.
Email: Valefestival@guild.bham.ac.uk
Facebook: Vale Festival
WaterAid
WaterAid's mission is to overcome poverty by enabling the world's poorest people to gain access to safe water, sanitation and hygiene education.
Email: wateraid@guild.bham.ac.uk
Facebook: WaterAid Student Project-University of Birmingham
Twitter: WaterAidUniBham
For general information on volunteering, please email volunteering@guild.bham.ac.uk, or pop into the Student Development department of the lower ground floor of the Guild of Students building.
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