Volunteering for Nacro

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Volunteers play a vital role in Nacro’s youth projects, community mediation work and its education and employment schemes – and a growing part in our work with prisoners. Volunteers offer their time, skills and experience and, in return, Nacro offers training and a chance to get involved in positive and effective activities.
 

Volunteers join Nacro for all sorts of reasons - to give young people a good start in life and to put something back into the community; or to gain work experience, receive training, challenge themselves, and meet new people. 

Nacro volunteers get involved in many different roles, including:

• Coaching young people in football projects
• Providing one to one support to learners in our education and employment centres
• Mentoring young and adult prisoners before and after release
• Using theatre and drama to educate and engage young people
• Mediating in disputes between neighbours

Volunteers are recruited from the communities in which Nacro operates. All volunteers have a clearly defined role, agreed between the volunteer and the project, and receive a thorough induction and ongoing support and training.

In a recent survey, nine out of 10 volunteers felt that being a volunteer with Nacro had matched or surpassed their expectations and 99% would encourage other people to become involved in Nacro projects.

If you are interested in volunteering for Nacro, click here to find out about which Nacro projects work with volunteers in different regions of the country and how you can get in touch with them.

If you’d like a bit more information about volunteering for Nacro before contacting us, here’s a leaflet about what’s involved Part of the team: Volunteering for Nacro
 
If you’d like to know even more, here’s the report of our survey of Nacro volunteers ‘Adding that much more’: researching Nacro’s volunteers