Volunteer Recovery and Events Support

Change Grow Live; Cardiff; On-site; GBP 10,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A community support organization in Cardiff is looking for an Activity and Events Volunteer to help develop and grow their social activity programme. This role involves supporting service users, organizing events, and promoting activities, both in-person and online. Suitable candidates should be 18 or older and have a passion for engaging creatively with people. This rewarding role makes a difference in the community.

Qualifications

• Must be 18 years or older.
• Willingness to engage creatively with service users.

Responsibilities

• Support with creating a safe space for our service users to connect and have fun
• Support with organising and preparing activities and events for our service users
• Support the promotion of events on social media and within the service/community
• Support the Volunteer and service user involvement lead to manage budgets for events
• Support with hosting live events/activities in person or virtually
• Work with those who access our service to develop new activities/events

Job description

Overview

It’s often overwhelming for the people we support to make changes in their lives, to enter treatment, develop recovery capital and grow into their lives.

As an Activity and Events volunteer, you will play a key role in proving a safe space for our service users to get together, connect and have fun.

This a new and exciting opportunity for someone to develop and grow our social activity programme. You will support the service user involvement team in organising, promoting, and facilitating fun recovery focused activities both within the service and in the community/externally.

You will support the Service User Lead with researching the needs of our service, looking at what new activities we could develop which would strengthen and enhance the opportunities on offer to those that access our services.

You will be working alongside the team, service user reps and other volunteers, liaising with our partners, building, and strengthening links with the wider community, and developing service user led activities to St Helens clients.

This is a rewarding and exciting role for someone who wants to make a difference in their community, and who has a flare for engaging and working creatively with people and developing activities to support the wellbeing of all.

Responsibilities

• Support with creating a safe space for our service users to connect and have fun
• Support with organising and preparing activities and events for our service users
• Support the promotion of events on social media and within the service/ community
• Support the Volunteer and service user involvement lead to manage budgets for events and organise prizes, refreshments and food as required
• Support with hosting live events/activities in person or virtually using platforms such as Zoom
• Work with those who access our service, staff and the community to develop new activities / events

Closing Date

10/10/2025

Contact

Andy Bourne | [e-mail] | 07490202318

Please note that we require you to be 18 years of age or older to be considered for this volunteering role. This post is subject to a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check at an enhanced level.