Volunteer Training Conference
2025 'save the date' will be shared in autumn 2024
Volunteers are our lifeblood. So, whether you're volunteering on a trip, sharing your story or helping out with fundraising or events, what do you need to know to make sure you can make the biggest difference.
The Trust inspires young people to believe in a brighter future living through and beyond cancer. By giving up your time, you are changing young lives.
Whether you're getting hands-on and supporting young people in one of our trip volunteer roles, sharing your story, or helping at a fundraising event or festival, whatever you do will help a young person feel more accepted, independent and optimistic as they re-establish their place in the world after treatment.
2025 'save the date' will be shared in autumn 2024
So there are a number of things we need to do and check before our volunteers represent the Trust to make sure young people and their families feel confident we are looking after them in the best way possible.
This includes if you are volunteering at an event or festival where you may come into contact with young people.
Completed DBS/PVG checks
Up-to-date disclosure is a must. In England and Wales this means a DBS check (needs updating every three years) and in Scotland and NI this is a PVG Scheme Certificate (a rolling check). Here are some useful links...
Completed a Child Protection course
All volunteers must have completed a Level 2 Child Protection course and have a certificate or training record as evidence. If you have a certificate please email it to us, or we can send you a link to a free course.
Signed our annual Safeguarding Agreement
Safeguarding is an essential part of the Trust’s goal of rebuilding young people’s confidence so every year volunteers must read and sign our Safeguarding agreement.
Be yourself. Every volunteer brings something unique and special to the Trust.
Media phones are specifically to get photos and quotes to help the comms team tell the story of the Trust, including through social media. The media phone(s) will be allocated to a volunteer(s), who will be briefed on how to use them before the trip/event starts. They should only be used by the allocated volunteer (unless with prior agreement of the comms team) and shouldn't be a distraction to the volunteer’s primary role or young people’s experience.
Contact the Comms Team