Volunteering
You don’t have to have any experience or qualifications to volunteer with us, just a bit of empathy for people with a learning disability, and of course some free time. Lots of people use volunteering as a way back into work after a break, or as a change from their paid employment, or just because they want to make a contribution. You can either volunteer to work on our services, or as part of our administration. We try to recruit volunteers from a wide a spectrum of the community as possible, just like our service users.
Why do we involve volunteers?
A volunteer is someone who gives time and effort freely to the organisation through personal choice. Sutton Mencap believes that volunteers offer a wide range of life experiences, backgrounds and skills which many not be available within the paid staff team. Volunteers also allow extra support to services and help Sutton Mencap to cope with the changes in workload which naturally take place in such an organisation. Sutton Mencap also believes that the knowledge that some people are working with them without receiving a financial reward has a great benefit to the self esteem and enjoyment of the service users.
Sutton Mencap believes the organisation is improved by including volunteers, over and above the additional support they are able to offer staff in providing services. We do not believe that volunteers should be used as a source of cheap labour, nor that they should replace skilled, paid staff.
Volunteer task descriptions
Adult sessional volunteer task description
Allotment volunteer task description
Membership and publicity volunteer task description
Office admin volunteer task description
Play service volunteer task description
Trustee task description
Volunteer Policy and procedure
What people say
about us
“My child was safe, happy and excited about going - she was cared for and not just left to get on with it”
“My daughter is always looking forward to the next Breakaways, what she can wear, what she will be doing, she looks forward to meeting up with friends”
“I come because I love it a lot. I see all my friends”