The Big Celebration took place at Preston Town Hall on Friday 6th June. The Big Celebration represented the culmination of Volunteers’ Week, and gave organisations, groups and the community at large within Preston and Central Lancashire an opportunity to express their gratitude for and celebrate the vast contributions volunteers make Read more…
Last Thursday (5th June) saw a host of great organisations working in and around Preston come together at One Co Work to celebrate Volunteers’ Week with Preston Volunteers’ Step into Volunteering Fair. The Fair provided a brilliant platform for groups and organisations to showcase their volunteer opportunities to prospective volunteers, Read more…
Preston Volunteers teamed up with the brilliant LACVS LOCAL team on Wednesday to provide a Funding Fair for delegates from groups and organisations in Central Lancashire at One Co Work. The Fair provided a fantastic marketplace to enable local organisations and community groups to meet funders in person to explore Read more…
This month we have tried to highlight roles which are more flexible around peoples time, roles in which you can give what time you can towards the roles, or short periods during the week. This helps make volunteering more accessible for those with time constraints, who still may find a Read more…
Preston Volunteers have teamed up with Trauma Informed Lancashire to provide two Trauma Informed Training sessions in Preston on Wednesday 21st and Thursday 27th May. The session will help participants gain a basic awareness of how trauma impacts individuals and an understanding of how to create a safe environment for Read more…
We’re offering high quality training for volunteer managers through our Quality Mark workshops – which also give you the chance to get our exclusive Valuing Volunteers Quality Mark. The remaining dates for 2025 are as follows: – Workshop 1 Tuesday 8th AprilPreston Town Hall Monday 16th JuneBoulevard Centre Tuesday 17th Read more…
We are delighted to announce our programme of Community Volunteer Training and Step into Volunteering sessions in Blackburn and Preston during the remainder of 2025. Community Volunteer Training (Blackburn) Our Community Volunteer Training equips volunteers with a wide range of skills and knowledge to enable them – and the organisations Read more…
Preston Volunteers has had a busy year since its launch as Preston City’s go-to volunteering hub. In the intervening time, the service has supported over 150 organisations across Preston to make recruiting new volunteers easier, improve the experience for people volunteering with them and ensure Preston is a place where Read more…
Preston Volunteers are offering a free learning session to help you find out about volunteering. This Step into Volunteering session, which is aimed at anyone who is seeking to take the first steps towards getting involved in volunteering, takes place on Monday 24th March from 10am to 2.30pm at Preston Read more…
Our Preston Volunteers project are looking for dedicated volunteer Support into Volunteering Buddies who can give a few hours a week to support people from Asylum Seeking backgrounds to access volunteer roles which they would otherwise struggle to do so. As a Buddy you will be trained to enable people who Read more…