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.
Location: London, Harlow
Date Posted: 09/07/2020
Closing Date:
Location: Wimbledon
Date Posted: 07/07/2020
Closing Date: 03/08/2020
Location: Home based
Date Posted: 07/07/2020
Closing Date: 31/07/2020
Trustee for IDE UK (Global Poverty)
Location: London
Date Posted: 06/07/2020
Closing Date: 03/10/2020
Honorary Treasurer – Council for British Research in the Levant
Location: London
Date Posted: 06/07/2020
Closing Date: 05/10/2020
Location: Home based
Date Posted: 06/07/2020
Closing Date: 06/10/2020
Treasurer for PEER (Arts Organisation)
Location: Home based, Various locations
Date Posted: 05/07/2020
Closing Date: 01/08/2020
Location: Redcar and Cleveland Middlesbrough
Date Posted: 05/07/2020
Closing Date: 19/08/2020
Marketing Trustee Kingsley Organisation
Location: Bordon, Hampshire
Date Posted: 03/07/2020
Closing Date: 17/08/2020
Governor (Trustee equivalent) Cripplegate Foundation
Location: London
Date Posted: 01/07/2020
Closing Date: 20/08/2020
Treasurer/Accountant ART AGAINST KNIVES
Location: London
Date Posted: 01/07/2020
Closing Date: 11/08/2020
Location: Home-based London, Greater London
Date Posted: 01/07/2020
Closing Date: 31/07/2020
Legal Trustee The Brain Tumour Charity
Location: Fleet, Hampshire
Date Posted: 01/07/2020
Closing Date: 31/07/2020
Location: Westminster
Date Posted: 01/07/2020
Closing Date: 16/08/2020
Chair of Trustees and 3 Trustees Why me? Victims for Restorative Justice
Location: Home-based London, Greater London
Date Posted: 01/07/2020
Closing Date: 10/08/2020
Volunteer HR Committee Members – National Union of Students
Location: Home based
Date Posted: 01/07/2020
Closing Date: 24/07/2020
Volunteer Finance Committee Members – National Union of Students
Location: Home based
Date Posted: 01/07/2020
Closing Date: 24/07/2020
Trustees | Harper Adams Students’ Union
Location: Home based
Date Posted: 01/07/2020
Closing Date: 24/07/2020
Volunteer Trustee – Lifelong Family Links
Location: SW2, London
Date Posted: 01/07/2020
Closing Date: 01/10/2020
Trustee with the responsibility of Human Resources West Kirby Residential School
Location: Wirral, Merseyside
Date Posted: 01/07/2020
Closing Date: 31/07/2020
External Trustees | University of Wolverhampton Students’ Union
Location: Wolverhampton
Date Posted: 01/07/2020
Closing Date: 10/08/2020
Trustees x 2 for the Scottish Ensemble
Location: Glasgow
Date Posted: 01/07/2020
Closing Date: 27/07/2020
Chair of the Board of Trustees and Trustees for The Elfrida Society
Location: London
Date Posted: 26/06/2020
Closing Date: 26/07/2020
Trustees for the National Examining Board for Dental Nurses
Location: Preston, Lancashire
Date Posted: 24/06/2020
Closing Date: 10/07/2020
Trustee Footsteps Counselling and Care
Location: Home-based Gloucester, Gloucestershire
Date Posted: 24/06/2020
Closing Date: 24/09/2020
Location: Home based
Date Posted: 22/06/2020
Closing Date: 27/07/2020
Location: Home based
Date Posted: 22/06/2020
Closing Date: 22/07/2020
Treasurer for KeyRing Living Support Networks
Location: London
Date Posted: 17/06/2020
Closing Date: 17/07/2020
Location: Chichester
Date Posted: 17/06/2020
Closing Date: 17/09/2020
Chair of Trustees – Criminal Justice Alliance
Location: Greater London
Date Posted: 16/06/2020
Closing Date: 12/07/2020
Trustee for the KFC Foundation
Location: Woking
Date Posted: 15/06/2020
Closing Date: 03/07/2020
Durham University – Lay Members of Council
Location: Durham
Date Posted: 13/06/2020
Closing Date: 13/07/2020
Treasurer for New Venture Theatre, Brighton
Location: Home based
Date Posted: 08/06/2020
Closing Date: 22/07/2020
Location: Belfast
Date Posted: 08/06/2020
Closing Date: 17/07/2020
Treasurer for Parents and Children Together (PACT) (V)
Location: Reading
Date Posted: 08/06/2020
Closing Date: 07/09/2020
National Council Member – Scotland – The MS Society
Location: Home based
Date Posted: 07/06/2020
Closing Date: 07/09/2020
National Council Member – Cymru – The MS Society
Location: Home based
Date Posted: 07/06/2020
Closing Date: 07/09/2020
Location: Home based
Date Posted: 07/06/2020
Closing Date: 19/07/2020
Location: Preston
Date Posted: 05/06/2020
Closing Date: 31/08/2020
Location: Leeds
Date Posted: 05/06/2020
Closing Date: 06/07/2020
NED HR Director for Wiltshire County FA
Location: Devises
Date Posted: 03/06/2020
Closing Date: 03/07/2020
Location: Home based - Wimbledon
Date Posted: 03/06/2020
Closing Date: 03/08/2020
National Council Member – England -The MS Society
Location: Home based
Date Posted: 03/06/2020
Closing Date: 03/09/2020
Location: Aldershot
Date Posted: 02/06/2020
Closing Date: 02/09/2020
Chair of the Board of Trustees for Dreams Come True
Location: City of London
Date Posted: 01/06/2020
Closing Date: 03/07/2020
Treasurer for PEER – Arts Council
Location: Home based -London
Date Posted: 01/06/2020
Closing Date: 01/08/2020
Board Member and Trustee for Bucks Students’ Union
Location: High Wycombe
Date Posted: 23/05/2020
Closing Date: 07/07/2020
Trustees for the Clergy Support Trust
Location: Westminster, Greater London
Date Posted: 20/05/2020
Closing Date: 16/08/2020
Marketing and Fundraising Trustee Atal Y Fro
Location: Barry, Vale of Glamorgan
Date Posted: 14/05/2020
Closing Date: 12/08/2020
Treasurer/Accountant ART AGAINST KNIVES
Location: Central London
Date Posted: 12/05/2020
Closing Date: 11/08/2020
Trustee – Finance Lead Underground Lights
Location: Coventry - home based
Date Posted: 04/05/2020
Closing Date: 04/08/2020
Chair of Trustees for Adoption UK
Location: Home based
Date Posted: 01/05/2020
Closing Date: 30/07/2020
Treasurer for Kingston Carers’ Network
Location: Surbiton, Greater London
Date Posted: 23/04/2020
Closing Date: 23/07/2020
Trustees: Secretary, Treasurer and General, Holy Cow Community Events
Location: Aylesbury
Date Posted: 21/04/2020
Closing Date: 17/07/2020
Treasurer Raising Futures Kenya
Location: Home based
Date Posted: 21/04/2020
Closing Date: 19/07/2020
Trustee and Treasurer for Swarthmore Care home
Location: Gerrards Cross
Date Posted: 21/04/2020
Closing Date: 17/07/2020
Trustees for DASU – Domestic Abuse Safety Unit
Location: Deeside - Flintchire
Date Posted: 16/04/2020
Closing Date: 15/07/2020
Chair and Trustees for Abbeyfield St Albans Society – Grace Muriel House
Location: Greater London, St Abans Hertfordshire
Date Posted: 16/04/2020
Closing Date: 15/07/2020
Trustees for Kinergy -specialist counselling agency (V)
Location: Bristol
Date Posted: 16/04/2020
Closing Date: 15/07/2020
Trustee for The English Association
Location: Home based
Date Posted: 16/04/2020
Closing Date: 15/07/2020
Chair of Trustees Exeter Royal Academy for Deaf Education
Location: Exeter
Date Posted: 15/04/2020
Closing Date: 08/07/2020
Governance and Risk Trustee Team Kenya
Location: Home based - NE England
Date Posted: 14/04/2020
Closing Date: 07/07/2020
Board Member and Trustee Bucks Students’ Union
Location: HP11, High Wycombe
Date Posted: 14/04/2020
Closing Date: 07/07/2020
Location: Greater London
Date Posted: 10/03/2020
Closing Date: 08/06/2020
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.
Jobs with the Media Trust, which acts as a broker between charities needing media skills and people who can provide these skills.