Helping you Find Volunteers

Advertising your volunteering opportunity with us is simple and free. You can also get support and advice on all aspects of volunteer recruitment, including designing volunteer roles that attract and retain volunteers.

Register Your Opportunity

Simply complete a quick online form to advertise your volunteering opportunity with us.

Our Offer

We offer a number of supports and tools to local groups and organisations looking to involve volunteers.

Guidance and Templates

We ask all groups and organisations to meet Minimum Standards when advertising their volunteering opportunities with us.

Register Your Opportunity with Us

A member of our Volunteering Team will check all opportunities registered with us before advertising. We may also contact you if we need more details.

Minimum Standards

We ask all groups and organisations to meet Minimum Standards for involving volunteers. If you don’t meet all the minimum standards, we will be in touch with you before advertising your role to chat about what you need and how we can support you to comply. 

  1. Volunteering Policy
  2. Equal Opportunities
  3. Health and Safety Policy
  4. Public Liability Insurance
  5. Protection of Vulnerable Adults Policy (if applicable)

Find out more about the minimum standards and/or download policy templates here. 

We don’t advertise opportunities that:

  • can’t be undertaken in East Renfrewshire and/or doesn’t benefit East Renfrewshire residents
  • are poorly designed and unlikely to offer a quality experience
  • are job substitution

If you are a for-profit (business) organisation, please get in touch with us before registering your opportunity.

Register Your Opportunity Here

Our Offer

  • We use our sister website The Community Hub to advertise volunteering roles to local people. 
  • We will post your role on our & local Social Media channels, giving you even better reach to prospective volunteers.
  • We can also advertise your role on the national database of volunteering opportunities – Volunteer Scotland
  • Quarterly newsletter with good practice tips and resources to help you better involve and support your volunteers.

    Other supports with recruiting & managing  volunteers:
  • Help with designing volunteer roles and descriptions
  • We can help you identify relevant training as well as networking opportunities for invaluable peer to peer support.
  • PVG (previously Disclosure Scotland) advice and guidance
  • Support to obtain the Volunteer Friendly Award

The Community Hub Website

We use our sister website The Community Hub to advertise volunteering roles in East Renfrewshire

Social Media

We will post your volunteering opportunities on our social media channels and share it on local groups, giving you even better reach to prospective volunteers.

Volunteer Scotland

We can also advertise your role on the national database of volunteering opportunities.

Email Newsletter

We will send you quarterly emails with good practice tips and resources to help you better involve and support your volunteers.

Other supports with recruiting and managing volunteers:
Help with designing volunteer roles and descriptions

Before recruiting volunteers, you need to have a clear understanding of what tasks you would like them to do and how to make your role attractive to prospective volunteers. Get in touch with our Volunteering Team for support and free templates.

Training & Networking Opportunities

We can help you identify relevant training as well as networking opportunities for invaluable peer to peer support.​

PVG guidance (previously Disclosure Scotland)

We can guide you through the processes and signpost you to the relevant services.

Support to obtain the Volunteer Friendly Award​

The Volunteer Friendly Award is a user-friendly quality standard. It supports, recognises and rewards groups who are good at involving volunteers.