Work
Starting to draw a pension doesn’t mean the end of your career. But it does mean you have choices. What you do, how much, who for, how long and when – they now all belong to you.
Volunteering
Giving of your experience and your time, putting something back into the community can be uniquely rewarding to the volunteer.
Research has shown that, apart from financial reasons, many people keep working because they want to stay active or contribute and be productive. More people are using the second stage of life to take on second careers, start businesses or follow long-delayed dreams to serve their communities.
At RP, we have an association with Reach Volunteering, https://reachvolunteering.org.uk. A leading charity providing a comprehensive national service to all those involved in volunteering. In our listing of voluntary positions available on this page, we feature a number from Reach, but do register with them if you'd like to be kept in closer touch with opportunities as they arise.
Treasurer for Spires (Homeless charity)
Location: London
Date Posted: 18/02/2019
Closing Date: 18/03/2019
Lay Members for Recruitment Advisory Committee
Location: Wiltshire, Hampshire and Isle of Wight
Date Posted: 18/02/2019
Closing Date: 15/03/2019
Trustees x 2 for The Agnes Hunter Trust
Location: Edinburgh
Date Posted: 14/02/2019
Closing Date: 08/03/2019
Trustee Board Director for Liverpool Hope Students’ Union
Location: Liverpool
Date Posted: 14/02/2019
Closing Date: 08/04/2019
Trustees x 2 for Action against Medical Accidents (AvMA)
Location: Croydon, South London
Date Posted: 12/02/2019
Closing Date: 11/03/2019
Chair of Trustees Board at The Bat Conservation Trust
Location: Home based
Date Posted: 12/02/2019
Closing Date: 25/03/2019
Independent Trustees for Libraries Unlimited
Location: Devon
Date Posted: 12/02/2019
Closing Date: 04/03/2019
Trustee Treasurer for Projects4Change
Location: Newcastle
Date Posted: 11/02/2019
Closing Date: 11/05/2019
Legal Trustee for Sport 4 Life UK
Location: Birmingham
Date Posted: 11/02/2019
Closing Date: 22/02/2019
Trustees for the PIOT Foundation
Location: London
Date Posted: 09/02/2019
Closing Date: 10/05/2019
Location: Cleveland
Date Posted: 09/02/2019
Closing Date: 01/03/2019
Location: London
Date Posted: 08/02/2019
Closing Date: 07/04/2019
Family Procedure Rule Committee (FPRC)
Location: London
Date Posted: 08/02/2019
Closing Date: 01/03/2019
Trustees for the Camden Canals & Narrowboat Association
Location: London
Date Posted: 07/02/2019
Closing Date: 08/05/2019
Trustees for the RSPCA Sussex, Chichester & District Branch
Location: Chichester
Date Posted: 07/02/2019
Closing Date: 31/03/2019
Chair of the Board of Trustees for Bike for Good
Location: Home based
Date Posted: 06/02/2019
Closing Date: 03/03/2019
Trustees for the Heart of Kent Hospice
Location: Aylesford
Date Posted: 06/02/2019
Closing Date: 28/02/2019
Chair and Trustees for Proforma (Arts Charity)
Location: Manchester
Date Posted: 05/02/2019
Closing Date: 24/02/2019
Trustee for CAMEO Day Care Services
Location: Surrey
Date Posted: 05/02/2019
Closing Date: 06/05/2019
Trustees for the Bethel Health and Healing Network
Location: West Midlands
Date Posted: 05/02/2019
Closing Date: 06/05/2019
Lay Adviser, Dorset, for MAPPA (HM Prison and Probation Service)
Location: Dorset
Date Posted: 04/02/2019
Closing Date: 15/03/2019
Chair for British Council – Scotland Advisory Committee
Location: Edinburgh
Date Posted: 04/02/2019
Closing Date: 04/03/2019
Location: Brent, NW London
Date Posted: 03/02/2019
Closing Date: 11/03/2019
Location: Cardiff
Date Posted: 02/02/2019
Closing Date: 19/02/2019
Treasurer for CAPE (MentalHealth Charity)
Location: Ealing, West London
Date Posted: 01/02/2019
Closing Date: 20/03/2019
Trustee for OnSide (National Youth Charity)
Location: Greater Manchester
Date Posted: 01/02/2019
Closing Date: 25/02/2019
Trustee for Women for Women International- UK (WfWI-UK)
Location: Central London
Date Posted: 01/02/2019
Closing Date: 25/02/2019
Trustee – Honorary Treasurer – Liverpool Guild of Students
Location: Liverpool
Date Posted: 01/02/2019
Closing Date: 25/02/2019
Treasurer for Porchlight (Homeless Charity)
Location: Kent
Date Posted: 01/02/2019
Closing Date: 01/05/2019
Hon. Sec. for The Oxfordshire Campaign to Protect Rural England
Location: Oxford
Date Posted: 01/02/2019
Closing Date: 02/05/2019
Board Members – West Lothian College
Location: West Lothian
Date Posted: 01/02/2019
Closing Date: 22/02/2019
Trustee for Battersea Dogs & Cats Home
Location: London
Date Posted: 28/01/2019
Closing Date: 17/02/2019
Board Member for Wirral Methodist Housing Association
Location: Wirral, Merseyside
Date Posted: 25/01/2019
Closing Date: 22/02/2019
Charity Trustees x 2 for Chance for Childhood (Africa)
Location: Home based
Date Posted: 25/01/2019
Closing Date: 17/02/2019
Trustee for Fulham Good Neighbours
Location: London
Date Posted: 25/01/2019
Closing Date: 25/04/2019
Independent Board Members, Great Britain China Centre
Location: London
Date Posted: 24/01/2019
Closing Date: 24/02/2019
Trustee for the Campaign to Protect Rural England (CPRE)
Location: London
Date Posted: 22/01/2019
Closing Date: 22/03/2019
Trustee for the National Museum of the Royal Navy
Location: London
Date Posted: 22/01/2019
Closing Date: 22/02/2019
Trustee for Railway Paths Limited
Location: Home based
Date Posted: 22/01/2019
Closing Date: 08/03/2019
MAPPA Lay Advisors x 2 Warwickshire
Location: Warwickshire
Date Posted: 21/01/2019
Closing Date: 22/02/2019
Trustee for the Forever Hounds Trust
Location: Home based
Date Posted: 21/01/2019
Closing Date: 21/04/2019
Hon Treasurer for Environmental Charity
Location: Norwich
Date Posted: 21/01/2019
Closing Date: 08/02/2019
Governor (Finance) – The Legal Education Foundation
Location: London+
Date Posted: 18/01/2019
Closing Date: 15/02/2019
Trustee (with financial expertise) for The Cure Parkinson’s Trust
Location: Home based
Date Posted: 18/01/2019
Closing Date: 18/02/2019
Trustees x 2 for The Story Museum
Location: Oxford
Date Posted: 18/01/2019
Closing Date: 15/02/2019
Trustee for Relate (N & SW Sussex)
Location: Crawley
Date Posted: 15/01/2019
Closing Date: 15/04/2019
Chair of Trustee Board for The Air Ambulance Service
Location: Home based
Date Posted: 15/01/2019
Closing Date: 15/04/2019
Location: Peterborough
Date Posted: 14/01/2019
Closing Date: 14/04/2019
Trustee for the Forget Me Not Children’s Hospice
Location: Home based
Date Posted: 14/01/2019
Closing Date: 14/04/2019
Trustees for Families Against Violence
Location: Home based
Date Posted: 11/01/2019
Closing Date: 08/02/2019
Trustee – Overseas Director for Purple Field Productions
Location: Home based
Date Posted: 11/01/2019
Closing Date: 11/04/2019
Trustee for Cotswold Archaeology
Location: Cirencester
Date Posted: 11/01/2019
Closing Date: 28/02/2019
Trustee for The IARS International Institute
Location:
Date Posted: 10/01/2019
Closing Date: 10/04/2019
Trustee (SEN) for The Children’s Trust
Location: Tadworth, Surrey
Date Posted: 09/01/2019
Closing Date: 28/01/2019
Finance Director for Tennis Wales
Location: Cardiff
Date Posted: 08/01/2019
Closing Date: 28/02/2019
Treasurer for The Greater London Fund for the Blind
Location: London
Date Posted: 04/01/2019
Closing Date: 28/02/2019
Location: London
Date Posted: 03/01/2019
Closing Date: 04/04/2019
Treasurer/Trustee for the Baby Bank Network
Location: Bristol
Date Posted: 02/01/2019
Closing Date: 02/03/2019
Treasurer for The Maypole Project
Location: Greater London
Date Posted: 02/01/2019
Closing Date: 04/04/2019
NED/Treasurer Malvern Special Families
Location: Wiltshire
Date Posted: 28/12/2018
Closing Date: 27/02/2019
Trustees for Independent Advocacy
Location: Kenilworth
Date Posted: 19/12/2018
Closing Date: 19/03/2019
Chair for Independent Advocacy
Location: Kenilworth
Date Posted: 19/12/2018
Closing Date: 19/03/2019
Honorary Treasurer and Trustee for DeafKidz International
Location: Rugby, West Midlands
Date Posted: 17/12/2018
Closing Date: 17/03/2019
Volunteering with Retirement Postponed.
Location: Anywhere in the UK
Date Posted: 11/12/2018
Closing Date: 08/03/2019
Trustee for Transforming Autism Project
Location: Kingston-upon-Thames
Date Posted: 11/12/2018
Closing Date: 11/03/2019
Trustee for CBM (Disability Charity)
Location: Cambridge
Date Posted: 10/12/2018
Closing Date: 01/02/2019
Location: Hackney, London
Date Posted: 10/12/2018
Closing Date: 10/03/2019
Trustee/Chair Stratford Village Board
Location: London
Date Posted: 10/12/2018
Closing Date:
Location: Greater London
Date Posted: 04/12/2018
Closing Date: 04/03/2019
Trustee/Treasurer for The Olive Ridley Project
Location: Flexible
Date Posted: 22/11/2018
Closing Date: 20/02/2019
Trustees for Voluntary Action Islington
Location: Islington
Date Posted: 22/11/2018
Closing Date: 20/02/2019
Treasurer for United Social Ventures
Location: International-Uganda
Date Posted: 14/11/2018
Closing Date: 12/02/2019
Treasurer for The Colombian Caravana
Location: London and UK
Date Posted: 14/11/2018
Closing Date: 12/02/2019
Trustees for Revolving Doors Agency
Location: Southwark, London
Date Posted: 09/11/2018
Closing Date: 07/02/2019
Independent Director for Greyhound Trust
Location: Horley, Surrey
Date Posted: 06/11/2018
Closing Date: 04/02/2019
Trustees for the Hamelin Trust
Location: Essex
Date Posted: 06/11/2018
Closing Date: 04/02/2019
Executive Chair for The Abbeyfield (Berkhamsted and Hemel Hempstead) Society Limited
Location: Berkhamsted
Date Posted: 04/11/2018
Closing Date: 31/01/2019
Chair, Secretary, Treasurer, Fundraising Trustees for Bridgwater Arts Centre
Location: Bridgwater, Somerset
Date Posted: 01/11/2018
Closing Date: 30/01/2019
Trustee for the Revolution Foundation
Location: South East
Date Posted: 27/10/2018
Closing Date: 25/01/2019
Trustee for Trafford Domestic Abuse Services (TDAS)
Location: Manchester
Date Posted: 24/10/2018
Closing Date: 25/11/2018
Chair of Trustees for Feltham Community Chaplaincy Trust
Location: London
Date Posted: 24/10/2018
Closing Date: 22/01/2019
Reach are specialists in skilled volunteering. The range of things you can do as a volunteer is huge – from guiding the strategic development of a charity to delivering frontline services.
Reach volunteers have built websites, designed new marketing materials, mentored young people, been legal advisors, become treasurers, advised on IT, chaired boards, undertaken audits, managed projects, worked on campaigns and analysed data - the list is extensive.
As well as a wide range of skilled volunteering positions, Reach also source trustee roles. Many people believe they lack sufficient experience to become a trustee when in fact their skills would be an ideal match for a charity's board, so it's worth finding out more about exactly what is being asked for before you decide if something is for you or not..
Reach has introduced The Trustee Works Service, a new service for finding trustees for Charities. This matching service is free for organistions with under £1m turnover.
Social entrepreneurship pioneer and Civic Ventures CEO Marc Freedman has published a book on the subject, The Big Shift. “It’s a time,” he writes, “when many have insight about what matters, a special impetus to act on this wisdom, and the ability to do so. In this respect, it’s a potential sweet spot, a confluence rather than a reinvention.”
Here are some of the ways we have found to do it.
Charities
Most charities both local and national rely heavily on the work and experience given freely by retired people.
For a comprehensive oversight of information on charities
http://www.guidestar.org.uk/Default.aspx
is supported by HM Treasury, the Charity Commission and various trusts.
If you have specialised expertise and abilities, you might like to become a consultant with Eastside Primetimers, and bring your contribute directly into community projects
Or plug into the largest selection of heart-warming work opportunities on
https://www.ncvo.org.uk/ncvo-volunteering
See also:
https://do-it.org/
Reach helps to connect volunteers with voluntary organisations
http://www.jobsincharities.co.uk/
is a specialist recruitment website for the not-for-profit and charity sectors.
Community Action Network supports and networks social entrepreneurs who are seeking to improve the quality of life for all, but particularly disadvantaged communities.
CF Appointments specialises in recruitment of senior executive talent for the charity and non profit sector
Jobs with the Media Trust, which acts as a broker between charities needing media skills and people who can provide these skills.