Volunteer

Why volunteer at Lifeworks?

It’s simple… using your time to give something back feels amazing. Whether you can give minutes, hours, or days, our volunteer roles are designed to fit around your available time. These small deeds really can make a huge difference to people’s lives – including yours!

People choose to volunteer for a variety of reasons. For some it offers the chance to give something back to the community or make a difference to the people around them. For others it provides an opportunity to develop new skills or build on existing experience and knowledge. Regardless of the motivation, what unites them all is that they find it both challenging and rewarding.

You’ll have the chance to meet some great people who are passionate about the same things as you as each and every one of our volunteers play an important part in supporting our young people to live their best life.

There are lots of different ways you can get involved, maybe joining our young people on the beach surfing, pedalling around the velodrome, wild swimming on Dartmoor or perhaps getting involved in the Duke of Edinburgh Award? Or if that feels a bit too energetic perhaps driving our minibus, a spot of gardening, joining our young people for tea, helping out at events, supporting our fundraising or administrative teams or even becoming a Trustee. Whatever your interest we would love to hear from you.

Building a Diverse and Safe Team:

At Lifeworks, we’re committed to fostering a workplace that reflects the diversity of our community. As a Disability Confident Employer, we actively encourage applications from individuals with disabilities who meet the job criteria, and we guarantee qualified candidates with disabilities an interview.

Lifeworks is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and adults at risk. To achieve this commitment, we will ensure the continuous development, improvement and review of robust safeguarding processes and procedures that continuously promote a culture of vigilance in respect of safeguarding within our organisation. Therefore, all staff undergo Safer Recruitment checks which include pre-employment checks, reference checks, and an enhanced DBS check.

Since 1996, Lifeworks has been empowering people with learning disabilities in Devon to achieve their dreams and build fulfilling lives. Our core values of kindness, respect, and positivity guide everything we do.