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/Financial Strategist for inVOLve Community Services
Location: Bracknell
Date Posted: 17/04/2019
Closing Date: 16/07/2019
Volunteer Non Executive Director for Age UK Lancashire
Location: Chorley, Lancs
Date Posted: 17/04/2019
Closing Date: 31/05/2019
Trustee with legal experience for Winchester Science Centre (WSC)
Location: Winchester, Hampshire
Date Posted: 17/04/2019
Closing Date: 16/07/2019
Volunteering with Retirement Postponed.
Location: Anywhere in the UK
Date Posted: 16/04/2019
Closing Date: 06/06/2019
Trustees for Care for the Carers
Location: Eastbourne, East Sussex
Date Posted: 16/04/2019
Closing Date: 15/07/2019
Treasurer for Westway Community Transport (V)
Location: Notting Hill, London
Date Posted: 15/04/2019
Closing Date: 30/06/2019
Three+ Trustees for The Kaloko Trust
Location: Home based
Date Posted: 15/04/2019
Closing Date: 12/05/2019
Location: London
Date Posted: 10/04/2019
Closing Date: 03/05/2019
Trustees for Electrical Safety First (ESF)
Location: Greater London
Date Posted: 08/04/2019
Closing Date: 13/05/2019
Trustee – Nursing Specialist – for Julia’s House Children’s Hospice
Location: Poole, Dorset
Date Posted: 08/04/2019
Closing Date: 07/07/2019
Branch Chair – RSPCA Croydon, Crystal Palace & District Branch
Location: Croydon
Date Posted: 08/04/2019
Closing Date: 08/07/2019
Members of the Board of Governors for the University for the Creative Arts
Location: Epsom, Surrey
Date Posted: 05/04/2019
Closing Date: 22/04/2019
Location: Greater London
Date Posted: 05/04/2019
Closing Date: 22/04/2019
Chair for Wales Advisory Committee at the British Council
Location: Cardiff
Date Posted: 05/04/2019
Closing Date: 30/04/2019
Location: Coventry
Date Posted: 05/04/2019
Closing Date: 19/04/2019
Trustee for the Cransley Hospice Trust (Kettering)
Location: Home based
Date Posted: 04/04/2019
Closing Date: 24/04/2019
Trustee (Marketing) for Age Concern Bracknell Forest
Location: Bracknell
Date Posted: 03/04/2019
Closing Date: 01/07/2019
Location: Sheffield
Date Posted: 03/04/2019
Closing Date: 03/05/2019
Trustees x 2 for The Wessex Museums Trust
Location: Home based
Date Posted: 03/04/2019
Closing Date: 07/05/2019
Chair for Wales Advisory Committee of British Council
Location: Cardiff
Date Posted: 03/04/2019
Closing Date: 30/04/2019
Interim Chair of Trustees for Leeds Mencap
Location: Yorkshire
Date Posted: 02/04/2019
Closing Date: 30/04/2019
Trustee for Cheshire Wildlife Trust
Location: Chester Area
Date Posted: 02/04/2019
Closing Date: 24/05/2019
Social media and communications trustee RefugeeEd
Location: New Cross, London
Date Posted: 01/04/2019
Closing Date: 01/07/2019
Trustee for Engineers Without Borders UK
Location: London
Date Posted: 29/03/2019
Closing Date: 20/05/2019
Location: Brent, London
Date Posted: 29/03/2019
Closing Date: 27/06/2019
Location: London
Date Posted: 28/03/2019
Closing Date: 17/04/2019
The Hamlet Charity seeks Trustees
Location: Norwich
Date Posted: 28/03/2019
Closing Date: 17/05/2019
Chair (Woman) of the Board of Trustees for WOMEN IN PRISON
Location: Home based
Date Posted: 28/03/2019
Closing Date: 23/04/2019
Treasurer for The Matthew Tree Project
Location: Bristol
Date Posted: 27/03/2019
Closing Date: 25/06/2019
Public Sector Trustee Vacancy for WellChild
Location: Nationwide
Date Posted: 27/03/2019
Closing Date: 18/04/2019
Chair of Trustees for Allsorts Gloucestershire
Location: Stroud, Gloucestershire
Date Posted: 27/03/2019
Closing Date: 17/04/2019
Trustee Treasurer for Lymphoma charity
Location: Aylesbury
Date Posted: 27/03/2019
Closing Date: 26/04/2019
Trustee with a financial management background for MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES UK
Location: London
Date Posted: 26/03/2019
Closing Date: 17/04/2019
Scout Association – Trustee Lead for Safeguarding
Location: London
Date Posted: 22/03/2019
Closing Date: 26/04/2019
Chair for Cruse Bereavement Care
Location: London
Date Posted: 22/03/2019
Closing Date: 29/04/2019
Trustees for The Bristol & Bath Parks Foundation
Location: Bristol and Bath
Date Posted: 21/03/2019
Closing Date: 30/04/2019
Chair of Trustees- Chiswick House and Gardens Trust
Location: London
Date Posted: 20/03/2019
Closing Date: 16/04/2019
Trustee and Treasurer for Belong (charity reducing the harm caused by crime)
Location: Home based
Date Posted: 15/03/2019
Closing Date: 13/06/2019
Treasurer for The SWAN Project
Location: Bristol
Date Posted: 14/03/2019
Closing Date: 12/06/2019
Chair of the Board of Trustees for The Eikon Charity
Location: New Haw, Surrey
Date Posted: 14/03/2019
Closing Date: 23/04/2019
Location: Croydon
Date Posted: 14/03/2019
Closing Date:
Trustee for Community Transport Waltham Forest
Location: Walthamstow
Date Posted: 13/03/2019
Closing Date: 11/06/2019
Chair of Strategic Development Board Southwark Children’s Centres
Location: London
Date Posted: 13/03/2019
Closing Date: 11/06/2019
Chair of Trustees – GASP Motor Project
Location: Guildford, Surrey
Date Posted: 13/03/2019
Closing Date: 11/06/2019
Trustee for Independent Domestic Abuse Services (IDAS)
Location: Barnsley, South Yorkshire
Date Posted: 13/03/2019
Closing Date: 16/05/2019
Chair of Trustees for Prospect Hospice
Location: Swindon
Date Posted: 12/03/2019
Closing Date: 19/04/2019
Chair and Trustees for the African Prisons Project
Location: Greater London
Date Posted: 08/03/2019
Closing Date: 30/04/2019
Trustee for new Climbing Social Enterprise
Location: Manchester
Date Posted: 07/03/2019
Closing Date: 30/04/2019
Location: Bath
Date Posted: 04/03/2019
Closing Date: 30/05/2019
Trustee/Chair for Bright Futures UK (BFUK)
Location: London
Date Posted: 01/03/2019
Closing Date: 30/05/2019
Business Trustee for Refugee Resource
Location: Oxfordshire
Date Posted: 26/02/2019
Closing Date: 26/05/2019
Trustees x 3 for the Bumblebee Conservation Trust
Location: Home based
Date Posted: 25/02/2019
Closing Date: 30/04/2019
Chair of Trustees for Learning Through Horses
Location: North London
Date Posted: 20/02/2019
Closing Date: 21/05/2019
Trustees for Learning Through Horses
Location: North London
Date Posted: 20/02/2019
Closing Date: 21/05/2019
Steering Committee Member (Company Director) for the Campaign Against Arms Trade (CAAT)
Location: Home based
Date Posted: 19/02/2019
Closing Date: 20/05/2019
Trustees for the PIOT Foundation
Location: London
Date Posted: 09/02/2019
Closing Date: 10/05/2019
Trustees for the Camden Canals & Narrowboat Association
Location: London
Date Posted: 07/02/2019
Closing Date: 08/05/2019
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
Treasurer for Porchlight (Homeless Charity)
Location: Kent
Date Posted: 01/02/2019
Closing Date: 01/05/2019
Trustee for Fulham Good Neighbours
Location: London
Date Posted: 25/01/2019
Closing Date: 25/04/2019
Trustee for the Forever Hounds Trust
Location: Home based
Date Posted: 21/01/2019
Closing Date: 21/04/2019
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.