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.
Trustee for York Museums Trust
Location: York
Date Posted: 17/02/2020
Closing Date: 24/03/2020
Trustees for The Alan Turing Institute
Location: London
Date Posted: 17/02/2020
Closing Date: 08/03/2020
Non Executive Director The Boat Race Company Limited
Location: London
Date Posted: 17/02/2020
Closing Date: 02/03/2020
Location: Edinburgh
Date Posted: 10/02/2020
Closing Date: 01/03/2020
Board Members – Women’s Pioneer Housing Association
Location: White City - London
Date Posted: 09/02/2020
Closing Date: 09/03/2020
Independent Director National Union of Students
Location: Home based
Date Posted: 07/02/2020
Closing Date: 27/02/2020
Treasurer for the British Dragonfly Society
Location: Home based
Date Posted: 07/02/2020
Closing Date: 31/03/2020
Wales Rugby League Non-Executive Directors
Location: UK/Wales
Date Posted: 06/02/2020
Closing Date: 28/02/2020
Chair for NCVO -the National Council for Voluntary Organisations.
Location: London
Date Posted: 05/02/2020
Closing Date: 16/03/2020
Treasurer for Wiltshire Rural Music
Location: Home based
Date Posted: 05/02/2020
Closing Date: 05/05/2020
Trustees for Discovery (Dimensions UK Group)
Location: Bridgwater, Somerset
Date Posted: 04/02/2020
Closing Date: 02/03/2020
Safeguarding Trustee Angel Shed Theatre Company
Location: Home based -London
Date Posted: 03/02/2020
Closing Date: 20/03/2020
Trustee with HR Expertise Lymphoma Action
Location: Aylesbury
Date Posted: 02/02/2020
Closing Date: 02/03/2020
Treasurer for Abbeyfield Kings Langley
Location: Kings Langley, Hertfordshire
Date Posted: 01/02/2020
Closing Date: 27/04/2020
Chair of the Board of Trustees Prospect Hospice
Location: Swindon
Date Posted: 01/02/2020
Closing Date: 26/02/2020
Chair of Trustees for The Plunkett Foundation
Location: Woodstock, Oxfordshire, with most meetings held in Central London
Date Posted: 01/02/2020
Closing Date: 27/02/2020
Trustee – Legal Expertise WellChild
Location: Cheltenham, Gloucestershire City of London, Greater London
Date Posted: 27/01/2020
Closing Date: 06/03/2020
Independent People Committee Member for Parkinson’s UK
Location: Home based
Date Posted: 22/01/2020
Closing Date: 16/02/2020
Aberlour Child Care Trust – Chair of the Board of Trustees
Location: Stirling
Date Posted: 22/01/2020
Closing Date: 14/02/2020
Trustee with communications expertise NAT (National AIDS Trust)
Location: Greater London
Date Posted: 22/01/2020
Closing Date: 14/02/2020
Fundraising Trustees for WellChild
Location: Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, City of London, Greater London
Date Posted: 22/01/2020
Closing Date: 06/03/2020
Advisory Group and Committee roles The Chartered Institute of Environmental Health
Location: Central London
Date Posted: 21/01/2020
Closing Date: 21/02/2020
Chair of Trustees for Abandon Normal Devices
Location: Home-based Manchester, Greater Manchester
Date Posted: 20/01/2020
Closing Date: 14/02/2020
Chair of Trustees Plunkett Foundation
Location: Woodstock Oxfordshire and London
Date Posted: 20/01/2020
Closing Date: 28/02/2020
Finance Trustee East Grinstead Museum
Location: W.Sussex
Date Posted: 20/01/2020
Closing Date: 28/02/2020
Trustees – Golden Lane Housing
Location: London
Date Posted: 20/01/2020
Closing Date: 14/02/2020
Location: Oxford
Date Posted: 20/01/2020
Closing Date: 28/02/2020
Chair of the Board of Trustees Dreamland Heritage Trust
Location: Margate
Date Posted: 20/01/2020
Closing Date: 10/02/2020
Trustee for Together for Mental Wellbeing
Location: London
Date Posted: 20/01/2020
Closing Date: 10/02/2020
Trustees for Wooden Spoon (Childrens Rugby Charity)
Location: London
Date Posted: 20/01/2020
Closing Date: 14/02/2020
Trustees (Adult Social Care) The Avalon Group
Location: Harrogate
Date Posted: 14/01/2020
Closing Date: 13/04/2020
Trustees (Criminal Justice sector & Music Industry expertise) The Irene Taylor Trust
Location: Shoreditch, Greater London
Date Posted: 14/01/2020
Closing Date: 21/02/2020
Location: Leicestershire
Date Posted: 14/01/2020
Closing Date: 14/02/2020
NED for British Athletes Commission
Location: London and Nationwide
Date Posted: 10/01/2020
Closing Date: 19/02/2020
Trustee (Chair and Chief Executive Officer) Head2Head Theatre
Location: Surrey
Date Posted: 10/01/2020
Closing Date: 21/02/2020
Trustees for The National Rheumatoid Arthritis Society
Location: Windsor and Maidenhead
Date Posted: 10/01/2020
Closing Date: 09/04/2020
Chair of the Board and External Governors for Greater Brighton Metropolitan College
Location: Brighton
Date Posted: 06/01/2020
Closing Date: 03/02/2020
Digital Trustee + 2 other posts for Carer Support Wiltshire
Location: Trowbridge, Wiltshire
Date Posted: 06/01/2020
Closing Date: 06/04/2020
Fundraising Trustee for Russam-GMS
Location: Marylebone, Greater London
Date Posted: 06/01/2020
Closing Date: 07/02/2020
Location: Stratford-upon-Avon
Date Posted: 05/01/2020
Closing Date: 05/04/2020
Trustees for Pelvic Radiation Disease Association
Location: Home based
Date Posted: 03/01/2020
Closing Date: 02/04/2020
Chair of Governors at York College
Location: York
Date Posted: 23/12/2019
Closing Date: 10/02/2020
Governor for Nottingham College
Location: Nottingham
Date Posted: 23/12/2019
Closing Date: 03/02/2020
Treasurer/Trustee for The National Network for the Education of Care leavers (NNECL)
Location: Home based
Date Posted: 23/12/2019
Closing Date: 18/03/2020
Trustees for St. Catherine’s Hospice
Location: Crawley
Date Posted: 23/12/2019
Closing Date: 21/02/2020
Trustees (Marketing, Treasurer and Fundraising) for Greater Manchester Immigration Aid
Location: Manchester
Date Posted: 20/12/2019
Closing Date: 16/03/2019
Location: Cambridge
Date Posted: 20/12/2019
Closing Date: 19/01/2020
Trustee for the Thames Water Trust Fund
Location: London
Date Posted: 19/12/2019
Closing Date: 16/03/2020
Chairperson for Work Stress Solutions
Location: Epsom, Surrey
Date Posted: 19/12/2019
Closing Date: 17/03/2020
Trustees for Swarthmore Care home
Location: Gerrards Cross, Bucks
Date Posted: 06/12/2019
Closing Date: 05/03/2020
Volunteers with Retirement Postponed.
Location: Anywhere in the UK
Date Posted: 05/12/2019
Closing Date: 03/02/2020
Trustees for Coldharbour Mill Trust Ltd
Location: Cullompton, Devon
Date Posted: 03/12/2019
Closing Date: 02/03/2020
Chair of Trustees for EnhanceAble
Location: Kingston upon Thames, Greater London
Date Posted: 03/12/2019
Closing Date: 02/03/2020
Trustee Institute of Commercial Management (ICM)
Location: Ringwood, Hants
Date Posted: 27/11/2019
Closing Date: 27/02/2019
Trustees for Keech Hospice Care
Location: Luton
Date Posted: 27/11/2019
Closing Date: 27/02/2020
Hampshire Committee Member/s Crimestoppers
Location: Hampshire
Date Posted: 26/11/2019
Closing Date: 23/02/2020
Location: London
Date Posted: 26/11/2019
Closing Date: 24/02/2020
Trustees for the Young Carers Development Trust
Location: Bristol
Date Posted: 26/11/2019
Closing Date: 24/02/2020
Trustee and Treasurer for Rape & Sexual Violence Project
Location: Birmingham
Date Posted: 26/11/2019
Closing Date: 26/02/2020
Chair for the Lichfield Garrick Theatre
Location: Lichfield
Date Posted: 25/11/2019
Closing Date: 20/02/2020
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.
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.