Fundraising Volunteer
Current opportunities
We are currently looking for volunteers to help at the following events:
Santa's Helpers
Join Shirley Lions with their Santa and sleigh and help collect donations and spread festive cheer around the streets of Shirley.
Volunteers needed on the evenings of Thursday 12 and Tuesday 17 December.
Christmas Fayres
We are looking for volunteers to represent Age UK Soihull at various Christmas Fayres and other events. You would stand on a stall, giving out leaflets and selling Christmas cards and Christmas Raffle tickets.
Gift Collections
Several local schools and businesses are kindly collecting Christmas gifts for us to give to older people at our Christmas parties. We would appreciate some help with collecting the gifts from various places in the Solihull borough.
Please email fundraising@ageuksolihull.org.uk or leave a message on 0121 704 7842 if you are interested in helping and we will provide further details.
Like most charities, we need to raise much needed funds to help pay for our services. As well as receiving funding from sources such as the local authority, trusts and foundations and gifts in Wills, our fundraising team organise community events and activities throughout the year, with the aim of not only raising money, but also to engage with the local community and raise the profile of the charity.
Volunteering for fundraising doesn’t mean raising money yourself (although if you want to that’s fine!), but helping out at events and with campaigns.
It is ideal if you don’t want to commit to a regular slot each week or have a full-time job, which means you can only help now and again.
Opportunities include:
- Joining our Fundraising Committee to help us to organise fundraising events and activities
- Helping at one-off events – e.g. meeting and greeting guests, selling raffle tickets, making teas/coffees, helping out on a stall
- ‘Stuffing’ envelopes – for example, our twice-yearly newsletter
- Finding homes for collecting cans (visiting shops, pubs, clubs etc. to ask if they will take a can and collect when it’s full)
- Office work – from time to time we have projects that we need help with such as internet research, data inputting or managing spreadsheets.
