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The Aim
The Aim
The aim of the Volunteering section is to give you the chance to make a difference to people’s lives and use your skills and experience to help your local community.
The aim of the Volunteering section is to give you the chance to make a difference to people’s lives and use your skills and experience to help your local community.
Bronze
Bronze
For your Bronze Award, you must undertake your chosen Volunteering activity for 3 or 6 months.
Silver
Silver
For your Silveer Award, you must undertake your chosen Volunteering activity for 6 or 12 months.
Gold
Gold
For your Gold Award, you must undertake your chosen Voluteering activity for 12 or 18 months.
The volunteering activity needs to be a regular activity of approximately 1 hour a week for 3 to 18 months depending on the Award level. The volunteering role could be in many different forms such as; coaching, teaching and leadership, Community action and awareness-raising, helping a charity or community organisation, helping people or working with the environment or animals. These roles could be with a sports team or club, your old School, a youth club or organisation such as Scouts or Guides, a national Charity or any organisation where the role covers one of the sections above. The role could be something you already do or it could be something you are planning to do to support your course. For example, if you are on a Sports course and you want to do your work experience with a local football club, this could also count towards you DofE Volunteering section as long as it meets the time requirements.
To see a list of all the approved activities, click on the link below.
To see a list of all the approved activities, click on the link below.
Volunteering opportunities
Volunteering opportunities
Work-Based Learning Team
Work-Based Learning Team
The WBL team can help you find opportunities related to your course.
If you are having issues accessing your WRA Google Classroom, please email beth.rawden@sheffcol.ac.uk.
Student Careers Team
Student Careers Team
The Careers team offer support for all students breadth of resources and can help you find volunteering opportunities to further support your career and next steps.
Click to book an appointment or email ceiag@sheffcol.ac.uk.
Opportunity Finder
Opportunity Finder
The DofE opportunity finder can help to search for local or national Volunteering, Skill, Physical or Residential opportunities.
Use the filter to select the Volunteering section, the location and the correct level award.
Volunteer Centre Sheffield
Volunteer Centre Sheffield
Find volunteering opportunities in and around the Sheffield area.
Yorkshire Sport Foundation
Yorkshire Sport Foundation
Find sporting volunteering opportunities. Use the map feature to search your area.
Do-it Volunteer Opportunity Finder
Do-it Volunteer Opportunity Finder
Volunteer with a youth organisation such as Scouts. They work with Children ages 6 to 18 years old.
Email admin@syscouts.org.uk.
Girlguiding - Meet people, gain skills and do something good for you and your community
Missing Maps - Putting the World's Vulnerable People on the Map.
NHS Volunteer Responders - Help local communities during the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.
Scouts - You don't need to be Bear Grylls to volunteer... .
Useful documents
Useful documents
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