Posts from the LSE Volunteer Centre
GalleryChristmas volunteering opportunities
Volunteering over the winter break/Christmas holidays can be a fantastic thing to do. Whilst it’s a time of parties, food and drink it’s also a time of giving and helping others. We also know that many of you will be spending time in the UK over the festive period, away from your families, and so will be looking for companionship […]
GalleryVolunteering for Talking Spaces
As part of London Student Volunteering Week, LSE Volunteering Ambassador Kirin shares with her you experience of volunteering for charityTalking Spaces.
Hi all, my name is Kiran and I am a PhD student at LSE. As its London Student Volunteering Week, I thought I would write a small piece to illustrate how much of an impact volunteering can make in […]
GalleryLSE volunteers restore ancient orchard and harvest apples for cider
On Tuesday 1 November, a group of LSE Geography and Environment Students travelled to Mill Hill Broadway to spend the morning volunteering with The Orchard Project.
The Orchard Project is the only national charity dedicated solely to the creation, restoration and celebration of community orchards. They work closely with community groups in hubs around England and Scotland helping to plant new […]
GalleryHow to volunteer sensitively and be aware of power dynamics
A blog from David Coles who is Volunteer Coordinator at LSE – where he helps connect students with over 400 charities.
Last week I spoke at the excellent ‘A refugee like me’ conference run by the Wonder Foundation at The Baytree Centre. The two day conference, attended by young people from many countries including the UK, Sweden and Slovenia, was all […]
GalleryLondon Student Volunteering Week
7-11 November is London Student Volunteering Week, and the LSE Volunteer Centre is bringing this city wide event to campus! To celebrate this special week, see what events are on offer and make sure you book on and sign up. We also hope to share with you various student volunteering blogs, so if you’re feeling inspired to share your […]
GalleryLSE graduate wins prestigious Team London volunteering award
On 31 October Ashish Patel, BSc in Mathematics and Economics 2016, won the the Under 25’s category for Mentoring and Coaching in the Team London volunteering awards at City Hall for his work with IntoUniversity.
Ashish has volunteered over 200 hours at IntoUniversity’s education centre in East Ham since 2014 and in this time he has gone above and beyond to support their […]
GalleryMeet your Student Volunteering Ambassadors
Each year the LSE Volunteer Centre recruits a number of students to act as ambassadors for volunteering on-campus. This normally involves being on stalls around campus, posting blog entries and generally telling other LSE students how fantastic volunteering is! We’d like to introduce you to this year’s ambassadors and let them tell you why they signed up.
Alice Robinson
Hey! […]
GalleryLaunching a report at parliament as a volunteer
Hsiang-Yun Lai, MSc in International Political Economy 2016, volunteered with the WONDER Foundation doing research for a report that was subsequently launched at Parliament. Here she writes about the work that she completed and what she learnt.
I have been interning with the Wonder Foundation, a not-for-profit organisation aiming at empowering vulnerable women and girls through education, since this April. My work is specifically on researching refugee […]
GalleryVolunteering with Age UK Islington
Josephine Field, MSc Social Policy 2016, was a Volunteer Adviser for Age UK Islington, spending time once a week conducting appointments with clients. In this role, she helped clients with consumer disputes and with their benefits. It involved calling up government services and speaking with companies on their behalf and resolving a wide range of issues on behalf of many […]
GalleryGetting a job as a result of volunteering: a LSE graduate’s perspective
Nadia-Rei Erlam currently works at the Gender Institute at LSE after graduating in MSc in Gender, Policy and Inequalities in 2015. In this blog Nadia-Rei explains how volunteering can really help in skills development for a future career.
I currently work at the Gender Institute at LSE supporting the administration team and in developing student-led resources. What I want to […]
