Welcome to Volunteering

Sheffield Volunteering helps students to make an impact in our city through community volunteering. Join our friendly volunteering family of over 2,200 students and staff sharing their time, skills and enthusiasm with the Sheffield community. Develop your skills, discover your city and make fantastic new friends along the way!

Featured Opportunities:

Take Action in Your Green City!!

Boost your physical and emotional health, and do some worthwhile outdoor work on this community allotment - digging, clearing, planting and weeding. Green City Action are an award-winning charity raising awareness of environmental issues and improving Sheffield’s green spaces.

Manor Lodge Secret Garden

At the beautiful historical Sheffield Manor Lodge and Manor Oaks Farm, there are a variety of tasks to do whilst listening to robins and other birds sing in the hedges. You’ll meet our lovely pygmy goats, donkeys, guinea pigs, rabbits and more on the day too!

Literacy Sessions at Wales High

Share your love of reading and help boost literacy skills in a local high school.
Give your time to boost the reading skills and confidence of pupils, predominantly boys, who are struggling to keep up.

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HEAR.

Higher Education Achievement Report

It is possible to have any volunteering activity completed through Sheffield Volunteering, or found through the Sheffield Volunteering website recognised on your HEAR.
There is no minimum number of hours needed to put you volunteering on your HEAR. You must, however, have met the project's requirements. This will be judged by the project leaders, or if there are no leaders on your project, by staff in the Volunteering Office.
As always, if you have any further questions or need any advice feel free to reply to this email, pop into the Volunteering Office or phone us on 0114 222 8626.

Higher Education Achievement Report

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The Volunteering Awards

The Sheffield Volunteering Awards are our annual celebration of all things volunteering. Hosted by the Volunteering Committee, it's a night of tasty food, entertainment and of course the awards themselves which recognise exceptional individual volunteers and projects who have made a big impact on our city over the year. This year's ceremony will take place on Monday 14th May in Foundry and Fusion.

'Can you spare some change mate?'

We’ve all experienced it. Around the University campus, in the city centre or anywhere in between, if you’re a Sheffield student it’s likely you will have been approached by people begging for money. Sheffield students are generous, and want to help - but is giving money on the street the best way to do that?

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Tom leads the way to welcome asylum seekers

'I feel priviledged to have met people from all over the world'

Medical student Tom is determined to tackle the challenges that face asylum seekers and refugees who are making a new home in Sheffield. Read on to discover how his Global Community Basketball project uses the universal language of sport to create a fun and welcoming space for some of the most disadvantaged members of our community.

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