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Regular Volunteering Opportunities
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RSP Friends of Children
RSP FOC will be holding semester 2 Recruitment.
Find out more at their booth at Social Impact Week 2023!
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Agency for Integrated Care (SHINE)
Peer Supporters for Youths with Non-Suicidal Self-Injury
Type: Temporary Initiative with regular, physical sessions
Location: Clementi
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Description of volunteering opportunity:
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Walk with Me (WWM) is a pilot peer support program for youths/service users aged 15-25 who are engaging/ at risk of NSSI.
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WWM aims to reduce prevalence of NSSI behaviours and improve youths' mental wellness in the longer run. This is an add-on service, to complement and support existing professional intervention.
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Program also aims to build up a community of peer supporters, that feel empowered in their ability to effect change and advocate for youths with NSSI in society.
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Program objectives for peer supporters/volunteers include (1) equipping them with knowledge of the needs of youths with NSSI to facilitate advocacy and (2) increasing self-efficacy of peer supporters in providing empathetic emotional support to youths with/at risk of NSSI.
Additional details:
As a volunteer, you will be required of the following:
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Between 19 - 35 years old
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Commit minimally 8 months for each run
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Willing and able to commit to trainings, group supervision sessions and monthly meetups with youths
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Comfortable working with youths aged 12 to 25 years old
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Comfortable supporting youths at risk of or engaging in NSSI
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Enjoy interacting with youths and supporting them with their mental health concerns in their mental wellness journey
No. of volunteers required: 30
Agency for Integrated Care (SHINE)
Outreach & membership ambassadors
Type: Regular home visits
Location: Spooner Road and Jalan Bukit Merah
Description of volunteering opportunity:
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Community Social Work (CSW) under SHINE works directly with lower-income children, youths, and their families in their community. Additionally, we develop relationships with partners who wish to support us in our mission to increase the
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Social mobility of our children & youth, through engagement and developmental work.
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Volunteers are required to outreach to families to promote, educate and support them in the application of our Clubhouse membership for their children.
Additional details:
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Volunteers are required to commit at least once a week in Jan 2023, or Feb 2023, on weekdays 2.30pm - 5.30pm
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Volunteers are required to attend a briefing (online/physical) closer to the start date
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Volunteers needs to be at least 19 years old
No. of volunteers required: 30
Agency for Integrated Care (SHINE)
Reading Inspirator
Type: Regular home visits
Location: Spooner Road
Description of volunteering opportunity:
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The Reading Odyssey (RO) is a reading programme for children with low reading ability. Through collaboration with community groups and volunteers, the movement encourages:
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A guided reading approach
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The development of information processing skills in children
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The increase of well-being and social mobility in children, and their meaningful inclusion in society
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The programme serves primary school children who are vulnerable by their social circumstances or unmet need
Additional details:
Volunteers are required to:
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Undergo a training prior to a programme run to be equipped with information on programme and guided reading approach
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Read with children, either in pairs or in small groups
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Listen to children reading aloud
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Engage in discussion with the children to build up their confidence and reading and comprehension skills
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Take part in relevant pre-post session briefing / debrief sessions as part of skills development and support
Agency for Integrated Care (SHINE)
SHINE Skilled Volunteers
Type: Virtual/ Physical volunteering
(1x volunteering opportunity is available too)
Location: no fixed location
Description of volunteering opportunity:
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The Reading Odyssey (RO) is a reading programme for children with low reading ability. Through collaboration with community groups and volunteers, the movement encourages:
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A guided reading approach
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The development of information processing skills in children
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The increase of well-being and social mobility in children, and their meaningful inclusion in society
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The programme serves primary school children who are vulnerable by their social circumstances or unmet need
Additional details:
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As a Graphic Design volunteer, you are required to have
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Interest and flair in graphic designing and communications
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Proficient in Canva and/or Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator
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Has Outlook email
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As a Social Media volunteer, you are required to have
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Interest and flair in social media content curation
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Has Outlook email
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No Pax limits
Agency for Integrated Care (SHINE)
SHINE Ambassador
Type: Fundraising through a variety of means
(1x volunteering opportunity is available too)
Location: no fixed location
Description of volunteering opportunity:
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Use your skills, talents, and time to raise awareness and funds for the children, youths and families
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Do what you do best and inspire others to do the same in support of our programmes and services
Additional details:
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No Pax limits
Dementia Singapore
Dementia Singapore Centre Volunteer
Type: In-person, centre-based engagement
(1x volunteering opportunity is available too)
Location: Dementia Singapore’s dementia day-care, New Horizon Centres (Toa Payoh, Bukit Batok or Jurong Point)
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Description of volunteering opportunity:
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Engage persons with dementia in cognitively stimulating activities led by the centre staff, which includes arts and crafts, senior-friendly games, or simple body exercises
Additional details:
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Volunteers are required to undergo a volunteer orientation session prior to volunteering. This is to provide volunteers with a better understanding of dementia, share communication tips when engaging with persons with dementia, and to go through their volunteering guidelines
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Their centres will only be able to accommodate a group of 5 to 8 volunteers per session
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Minimum age required for volunteers is 16 years old
Care Corner
Befriender to seniors/ tutoring children/ activity organizers
Location: Woodlands/ Toa Payoh/ Tampines
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Description of volunteering opportunities: refer to this document
Additional details:
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Should the opportunities be unavailable by Jan/ Feb 2023, volunteers will be screened for other potential opportunities
Saint Joseph's Home
Adaptive Sports/ creative movement/ walk with me
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Description of volunteering opportunities: refer to this document
1x volunteering opportunity is available too
Samaritans of Singapore
24-hour Hotline, 24-hour Care Text services
Type: permanent initiative
Location: 10 Cantonment Close (24-hour Hotline & CareText), or remote (24-hour CareText)
Description of volunteering opportunity:
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SOS’ volunteers are trained to provide confidential and empathetic emotional support to individuals in distress, through our 24-hour Hotline and CareText services.
Additional details:
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23yrs and above for our 24-hour Hotline
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18 & above for our 24-hour CareText services
Skillseed
Volunteer Journalist
Type: permanent initiative
Location: Hybrid (remotely and in-person)
Description of volunteering opportunity:
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Volunteer journalists who are keen to document human-interest stories with our communities on the ground.
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Volunteer journalists would have the opportunity to engage and interview our community members and share impactful stories on social/ environmental topics
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To work on 2 articles per month
Presbyterian Community Services (PCS)
Check out their brochure for volunteering opportunities!
1x volunteering opportunity is available too
Unseen City
Description of volunteering opportunity:
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Content researcher & specialist
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Graphic illustrator
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Social media specialist
Additional details: opportunities are open throughout 2023
One-time Volunteering Opportunities
RSP Volunteer Movement
Description of volunteering opportunity:
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Teaching the Elderly tips and tricks on how to use their mobile phones to take pictures
No. of volunteers required: 20
Earthlink_NTreeU
Description of volunteering opportunity:
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Tree-planting on NTU campus
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No background experience in tree-planting required, our facilitators will be guiding you in groups of 5 to plant 5 trees per group.
Date: 25 feb 2023
Time: 0900 - 1100 (Registration opens at 0840)
Venue: 94 Nanyang Cres, Singapore 637034
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Red Cross Youth NTU Chapter
Description of volunteering opportunities:
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Project iAppreciate (March 2023)
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Semester 2 Blood Donation Drive (21 - 23 March 2023)
No. of volunteers required: 20 each
Unseen City
Content Writing
Type: one-time volunteering, minimum 3 months commitment
Location: Remote, Own-time-own-target
Description of volunteering opportunity:
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Uncovering the unseen on thematic issues through digestible and engaging medium, Unseen City is focusing on issues related to sexuality education this year. Write opinion articles of your interest backed by research and your views onto our blog post to normalise sex-ed conversations amongst youths.
Additional details:
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Must be able to commit to bi-weekly meetings and be receptive to feedback. (1hr per meeting)
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Volunteers should possess a responsible attitude towards their work and be a team player.
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No recruitment limit.