Volunteering Refugee Action Kingston

Are you passionate about making a difference in the lives of refugees and asylum-seekers? Consider joining our team at Refugee Action Kingston. We are always looking for dedicated individuals who share our values. We are a small, friendly team, driven by a passion to create positive and lasting change in our community.

Volunteer Counsellors

We are always in need of Qualified Volunteer Counsellors with experience of trauma and PTSD who can spare some time once a week and support our work. We need Counsellors who are fluent in a second language like Arabic or Farsi.

Job Hub Volunteer

Can you support someone to apply for jobs online, tailor CV’s, help with supporting letters and help prepare for interviews. We run a Job Hub session on a Wednesday. A job hub volunteer provides one to one support, whilst motivating and encouraging their job seeker to find a great job. If you are interested, please apply soon.

Volunteer Interpreters

Can you speak, Arabic, Farsi, Dari, Pashto, Korean, Kurdish (Kurmanji and Sorani), Mandarin, Tamil, Sinhalese or Vietnamese? We are looking for volunteers to help with interpreting and translation. If you are qualified interpreting looking for experience then please get in touch. If you are confident interpreting and have experience of interpreting for family and friends and would like to support others to communicate their needs please make a volunteer application, we would love to meet you. (this can be remote role on the phone or online)

Advice Volunteers

We are looking for volunteers interested in supporting our advisers. You will be trained to deliver face to face advice around education, health and benefits under the supervision of our Advice team. We ask for a weekly commitment of three hours in termtime.

Social Media influencers

We are looking for budding influencers who care about refugees and want to help curate content for our social media platforms. We are looking for people who can commit to two hours a week.

Community Hub - ESOL Volunteers

We are looking for ESOL teachers and/or people with experience of teaching English in the community. Please join our team of Community Hub volunteers delivering session, workshops, conversation groups and much much more.

Community Hub - Creative Volunteers

Do you have skill, talent or hobby, you would like to share with our Community Hub clients. Writing, acting, yoga, mindfulness, wellness, fitness , cyclist, footballer, table tennis player, cook, DIYer, social media influencer, job coach, upcycler, we NEED you. Please make an application and we can talk about how you can involved.

Homework Club volunteers

Do you have a teaching qualification and want to volunteer supporting school age children with their studies? We deliver a homework club once a week after school on a Thursday to support mainstream studies.