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.
NED/Treasurer Malvern Special Families
Location: Wiltshire
Date Posted: 28/12/2018
Closing Date: 27/02/2019
Location: Cardiff
Date Posted: 12/12/2018
Closing Date:
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:
Trustees x 4 for The Alzheimer’s Society
Location: Nationwide
Date Posted: 10/12/2018
Closing Date: 14/01/2019
Trustee (Honorary Treasurer)Liverpool Guild of Students
Location: Liverpool
Date Posted: 07/12/2018
Closing Date: 07/01/2019
Clinical Trustee Air Ambulance Kent Surrey and Sussex
Location: South East London
Date Posted: 04/12/2018
Closing Date: 07/01/2019
Location: Greater London
Date Posted: 04/12/2018
Closing Date: 04/03/2019
NEDs for the City of York Trading Ltd
Location: York
Date Posted: 23/11/2018
Closing Date: 14/12/2018
Trustee for Care for Veterans (formerly The Queen Alexandra Hospital Home)
Location: W Sussex
Date Posted: 23/11/2018
Closing Date: 10/12/2018
Location: Nottingham
Date Posted: 23/11/2018
Closing Date: 31/12/2018
Trustees for Crisis, the homelessness charity
Location: London and Nationwide
Date Posted: 22/11/2018
Closing Date:
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
Netball Scotland Board Director
Location: Glasgow
Date Posted: 21/11/2018
Closing Date: 10/12/2018
External Trustee for Oxford University Students Union
Location: Oxford
Date Posted: 16/11/2018
Closing Date: 03/12/2018
Designated Safeguarding Lead & Advisor – Board of Trustees – Angel Shed Company
Location: Islington
Date Posted: 15/11/2018
Closing Date: 15/12/2018
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
Trustee for HCYC (Harborough District Children and Young People’s Charity)
Location: South Leicestershire
Date Posted: 14/11/2018
Closing Date: 01/12/2018
Location: Hackney, North London
Date Posted: 13/11/2018
Closing Date: 03/12/2018
Support for the Life Education Centre Nottinghamshire
Location: Nottinghamshire
Date Posted: 13/11/2018
Closing Date:
Members of the University Governing Council – University of Derby
Location: Derby
Date Posted: 12/11/2018
Closing Date: 07/01/2019
Board Member and Governor – Nottingham College
Location: Nottingham
Date Posted: 12/11/2018
Closing Date: 10/12/2018
Trustee & Hon. Treasurer South London Botanical Institute
Location: South London
Date Posted: 12/11/2018
Closing Date: 31/12/2018
Trustees for Revolving Doors Agency
Location: Southwark, London
Date Posted: 09/11/2018
Closing Date: 07/02/2019
Location: Greater London
Date Posted: 09/11/2018
Closing Date: 30/11/2018
Trustees x 2 + Hon. Treasurer for Changing Faces
Location: London
Date Posted: 08/11/2018
Closing Date: 07/01/2019
Trustee for Alder Hey Children’s Charity
Location: Liverpool
Date Posted: 08/11/2018
Closing Date: 30/11/2018
Carers Trust Wales Advisory Committee Member
Location: Wales
Date Posted: 08/11/2018
Closing Date: 14/12/2018
Trustee for the Children’s Liver Disease Foundation
Location: Birmingham
Date Posted: 08/11/2018
Closing Date: 17/12/2018
Trustee with Field Studies Council
Location: Nationwide
Date Posted: 07/11/2018
Closing Date: 25/11/2018
Trustee for Bradford Counselling Services (BCS)
Location: Bradford
Date Posted: 07/11/2018
Closing Date: 01/12/2018
Trustees x 4 for Students’ Minds Charity
Location: Leeds
Date Posted: 07/11/2018
Closing Date: 07/12/2018
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
Location: Flexible
Date Posted: 06/11/2018
Closing Date: 06/12/2018
Chairman of Trustees for the Wildheart Trust
Location: Isle of Wight
Date Posted: 05/11/2018
Closing Date: 01/02/2019
Severn Trent Water Charitable Trust Fund Trustee
Location: West Midlands
Date Posted: 05/11/2018
Closing Date: 05/01/2019
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
Trustee for the Dog Aid Society of Scotland
Location: Edinburgh
Date Posted: 24/10/2018
Closing Date: 15/12/2018
Chair of the Board at START Inspiring Minds
Location: Salford, Manchester
Date Posted: 20/10/2018
Closing Date: 19/01/2019
Trustee for Citizens Advice Bureau Torbay
Location: Torquay
Date Posted: 18/10/2018
Closing Date: 16/01/2019
Location: Southwark, London
Date Posted: 18/10/2018
Closing Date: 16/01/2019
Trustee (Finance) for Campaign Bootcamp
Location: London
Date Posted: 17/10/2018
Closing Date: 15/01/2019
Trustees for Citizens Advice at the Wirral
Location: Wirral, Merseyside
Date Posted: 17/10/2018
Closing Date: 14/12/2018
Healthwatch Hounslow Committee Chair and Vice Chair
Location: West London
Date Posted: 15/10/2018
Closing Date: 13/01/2019
NED for TESYouth Social Enterprise
Location: Greater London
Date Posted: 15/10/2018
Closing Date: 13/01/2019
Trustee for Peterborough Youth Services – Centre 33
Location: Peterborough
Date Posted: 08/10/2018
Closing Date: 06/01/2019
Chair of Trustees for People to Places
Location: Maidenhead
Date Posted: 08/10/2018
Closing Date: 06/01/2019
Trustees and Treasurer for the Food Train
Location: Dumfries and Galloway, West Central Scotland
Date Posted: 08/10/2018
Closing Date: 06/01/2019
Trustee with legal expertise for Centre 33
Location: Cambridge
Date Posted: 08/10/2018
Closing Date: 06/01/2019
Location: Cambridge
Date Posted: 08/10/2018
Closing Date: 06/01/2019
Fundraising Trustee for Computer Aid
Location: Hackney, London
Date Posted: 08/10/2018
Closing Date: 06/01/2019
Treasurer for Malvern Special Families (MSF)
Location: Wiltshire
Date Posted: 08/10/2018
Closing Date: 14/12/2018
Treasurer for the Maypole Project
Location: Bromley, Kent
Date Posted: 04/10/2018
Closing Date: 02/01/2019
Trustees for Our Lady of the Lillies
Location: Manchester
Date Posted: 23/09/2018
Closing Date: 23/12/2018
Non Executive Director and Trustee – Quay Theatre, Sudbury
Location: Sudbury, Suffolk
Date Posted: 28/08/2018
Closing Date: 31/12/2018
Location: Dumfries and Galloway, West Central Scotland
Date Posted: 28/08/2018
Closing Date: 31/12/2018
Trustees for Relate Northamptonshire
Location: East Midlands
Date Posted: 27/07/2018
Closing Date: 01/12/2018
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.