Volunteer

Benefits

The great thing with volunteering is that it’s just as rewarding for the volunteer as it is for the people and projects they support. For example, volunteering can help:

  • Increase your confidence – by giving you the chance to try something new and build a real sense of achievement.
  • Improve your CV – by providing you with opportunities to learn new skills, gain valuable experience and sometimes even qualifications.
  • Make a difference – by having a real and positive affect on your local community and its residents.
  • Grow your friendship circle – by helping you meet different kinds of people and expand your social network.
  • Make you feel part of a community – by supporting you to feel part of something outside of your immediate friends and family.
  • Challenge yourself – by providing you with opportunities to try something different / new, achieve personal goals, practice using your existing skills or discover hidden talents.
  • Have fun – because volunteers have a great time, regardless of why they do it. 

All these benefits add up to improved health, wellbeing and happiness, reduced loneliness and isolation and greater overall life satisfaction.

So what are you waiting for? Whether you want to:

  1. Volunteer for ICA (internal)
  2. Find a volunteer role with another organisation (external)
  3. Develop volunteering within your own organisation.

ICA can offer support.

ICA Volunteers

ICA’s volunteers are our most precious asset. They make it possible for us to deliver our many activities and services, from fundraising to our activities for younger and older people.

Here are just a few of our current roles:

  • Befrienders
  • Club support
  • Drivers
  • Events support
  • Fundraisers
  • Office support
  • Role players (e.g. zombies for our interactive trails and Nothe of the Living Dead event)
  • Tutors and trainers

NB: ICA provides training and ongoing support for all of its volunteering roles. In addition, ICA volunteers are subject to reference and, where relevant, DBS checks (e.g. where volunteers are working one a 1-2-1 basis with vulnerable adults).

Non-ICA Volunteers

As Portland’s official Volunteer Bureau, ICA co-ordinates a wide range of non-ICA volunteering opportunities, whether you are looking to volunteer or create your own volunteering opportunities, we can provide you with practical advice and support. Just get in touch.

ICA works in collaboration with Volunteer Centre Dorset.

A few photos featuring some of our volunteers in action.