Be a Volunteer

As a Breakthrough volunteer, you can make a big contribution to the work we do.

If you’re available in the daytime, evenings, or even just occasionally, there’s a wide range of activities that you could help us with.  There are opportunities in both our London and Edinburgh offices.

If you can offer day-to-day office administration support and think you’d enjoy volunteering for Breakthrough, get in touch.

Ideally, we’re looking for volunteers who can be with us during normal office hours – 9.30am - 5.30pm Monday to Friday, from 1 – 5 days per week. There is no minimum commitment; however, ideally we’re looking for people that could volunteer for three months or more.

Please see our volunteer vacancies page for current positions.(link to be added)

Monday and Thursday evenings are volunteer evenings at Breakthrough. On these days, between 5.30 and 7.00pm, volunteers join us to help out with data inputting and preparing mailshots.

From time to time as an evening volunteer, you could also find yourself at theatres or other venues where we organise collections.

There’s no minimum commitment required for the evening sessions – just come along and join in when you can.

If demands on your time mean that a regular commitment is impractical, helping out at events is an ideal way to make a contribution.

Throughout the year, Breakthrough is involved in many events. We’re always grateful to have extra people around to offer refreshments to thirsty runners, cheer our teams on, hold collections and carry out other valuable tasks. 

Again, there’s no minimum requirement - though we’d especially like to hear from you if you can do weekdays.

A professional volunteer is someone who can bring specific skills, experience or knowledge to some of our more specialist or strategic projects.

At the moment, we’re particularly keen to hear from interested volunteers who could contribute to these projects:

• new reward model
• e-recruitment development
• three–year strategic plan
• database review
• competency–based recruitment
• handbook for staff who supervise volunteers

To find out more about volunteering for Breakthrough please contact info@breakthrough.org.uk

We are looking for volunteers to cheer our Breakthrough runners on at the Great North Run on the 19 September in South Shields - download further details here (29 kb) .   If you are interested please email Emma Cornish at emmac@breakthrough.org.uk. Closing date 13th September.

We also need volunteers to attend the National Wedding Shows at London Earls Court and Birmingham NEC and collect donations in buckets for us - further details of the events are below. If you are interested please email Harjit Kaur at harjitk@breakthrough.org.uk. Closing date 27 September.

We need volunteers for: 

London Earls Court
Friday 1st  October: 3 - 7 pm
Saturday 2nd October: 2 - 6pm
Sunday 3rd October: 1 - 5 pm

Birmingham NEC
Friday 8th October: 1 - 5pm
Saturday 9th October: 2 - 6 pm
Sunday 10th October: 1 - 5 pm