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:

HOPE Community Allotment Project

Do something good and help people with learning disabilities or long-term unemployment learn how to grow their own produce and socialise through gardening

Sustainability and Food!

Volunteer in schools and help kids get sustainability savvy

Spooky Volunteering Opportunities!

Spook up your free time with these fantastic Halloween themed activities...

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It’s Project Proposal Season!

Got an issue you’re passionate about? Want to develop your leadership skills? Why not design and lead your own volunteering project?
Each year over 2000 volunteers from Sheffield Volunteering work hard in the city tackling some of the most pressing needs. From sustainability to mental health, from refugees to homelessness, students are making a difference.
If you’ve got an idea to address an issue that you or your society / sports team cares about, you can apply for 1:1 support, training and funding from Sheffield Volunteering.
Come in to the office to chat with us or get stuck right in through the proposal form link below. Deadline for project proposals is 12th of June, but the earlier your submission the better.

Submission Form

'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?

Causes in our city Read the article

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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