Giving your time to the Child Bereavement Charity as a volunteer is of enormous help, both practically by increasing our capacity, but also because more people who may also like to support our work, or be supported through it, will hear about the Charity through you.
Anyone who has experienced a significant loss will tell you how important it is that people acknowledge what has happened. CBC's work raises awareness and understanding of grief and loss. Please become a CBC volunteer and spread the word about our work, so that the people who need help, regardless of where they are around the country, receive it.
What do Child Bereavement Charity volunteers do?
Quite simply, volunteers make this organisation work. Volunteers do so many things that they are hard to list, but we’ll have a go. These are some current opportunities in our teams:
Fundraising & Communications – because without raising money from supporters, the Child Bereavement Charity can't help anyone. So what sorts of things do fundraising volunteers do? Here's just a few examples to get you thinking. Belong to a ‘funding circle’, or a local fundraising group, propose and organise your own fundraising event, help out at events that CBC organise, help with office admin, or writing funding applications and researching prospects, talking to CBC supporters on the phone, proposing CBC for corporate relationships, hand writing individual messages and invites (if you have good handwriting!), undertaking challenge events or recruiting your friends to them, supporting challenge eventers, organising a Snowdrop Walk local to you....but that’s not the half of it really!
Training – We are constantly looking for people who have direct experience of child bereavement to talk about their experiences to professionals at training days and conferences. We also have office based admin work in training.
Bereavement Services – Are you good at listening? Our telephone support and information service is supported by a team of regular volunteers who answer calls from families and professionals. Do you have experience with children? Our family bereavement support service have a team of volunteers who work in our family support weekend programme. Do you like speaking in public? We are developing a team to talk to schools and colleges about child bereavement support. (As you will understand all work involving children requires significant training and CRB checks, which we will provide for free.)
Management – As CBC rises to meet it’s challenge of providing professional emotional bereavement support to all those who want it in the UK, we need to grow, and we need develop. If you are a senior manager or have relevant expertise that might help us, and you think you might be able to give regular time as a mentor or adviser to our management team, please let us know.
Giving your time to the Child Bereavement Charity as a volunteer is of enormous help, both practically by increasing our capacity, but also because more people who may also like to support our work, or be supported through it, will hear about the Charity through you.
The first step to becoming a volunteer is easy - although people under 18 must be permitted by a parent or guardian. Just email Julie, our volunteer co-ordinator, or call her on 01494 568917. Then let's see where we can go together.