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Pupils from disadvantaged backgrounds aren’t less able, but they have less access to the tools that support them to progress in school and reach their full academic potential.

Action Tutoring partners with schools to provide cost-effective, evidence-based tutoring that supports pupils facing disadvantage to unlock their full potential. Our trained volunteers deliver targeted support, helping schools meet their academic goals.

The African Caribbean Achievement Project (ACAP) is a grassroots charity rooted in Bradford since 1995. We began by tackling the inequalities faced by Black children in education, and over the years we’ve grown into a vibrant organisation that drives change, celebrates culture, and empowers our community.

At ACAP, no two days are the same. We run health and wellbeing projects, mentoring and advocacy, women’s health programmes, outdoor activities, STEM workshops, employment and IT training, creative arts initiatives and so much more! Our work uplifts and amplifies African and Caribbean voices, while building opportunities that make a lasting difference.

Volunteering with us means more than just giving your time, it’s a chance to connect with community, build skills, and be part of something meaningful. Whether you’re interested in events, social media, youth mentoring, creative projects, or community outreach, there’s a place for you at ACAP.

Join us in challenging inequalities, shaping futures, and making Bradford a better place for all.

We are the only environmental charity dedicated to improving the rivers and becks that flow through the Aire valley.

Flowing from Malham to the River Ouse at Airmyn, the River Aire runs through an enormously varied landscape. Our river brings creatures like kingfishers, otters, a wide range of fish including Atlantic salmon into the heart of the cities of Leeds and Bradford.

A curlew flying from Malham to Airmyn would travel a mere 58 miles but it takes the river over 90 miles to wind its way through the 228 square miles of the valley through which it flows.Along the River Aire you will find shallow upland and hidden city becks, streams full of life.

Volunteer with us to discover our great river. Our work helps reduce flooding, clear up litter and create new space for nature. Volunteering offers a huge range of rewards. Swap the rush of everyday life for the calmness of being by water. Meet new people or learn new skills.

We run practical conservation sessions on Thursdays or Fridays nearly all year round.
Other volunteer opportunities are seasonal, like Community Outreach, or done in your own time on a regular basis, like River Monitors.

Aphasia Support is a registered charity, founded in Yorkshire. Our mission is to improve the wellbeing of people with aphasia and their carers by providing tailored speech and language therapy and long-term support.

We strive to enhance the quality of life for people with aphasia – helping them to regain control, confidence and independence.

Our programme of support includes:

• 1:1 computer therapy focus
• 1:1 supported conversation
• Aphasia Cafe group sessions

We provide our services free of charge and rely on the kindness and generosity of our community. Over the past year, our charity has helped 205 people with aphasia to communicate with confidence.

We believe that nobody in Bradford should go hungry. We help anyone in Bradford who finds themselves unable to feed their families due to a crisis or emergency need. We give emergency food parcels with long-life food, as well as extra items away including bread, fresh vegetables, toiletries and sanitary products. We also provide a hot meal to everyone who comes in.

We feed over 17,000 people in Bradford a year. The cost of living crisis means that food donations has dropped off but the demand for food support has increased. This is why we need your support more than ever.

We also help people deal with the root cause of the crisis by providing benefits advise, job coaching, family legal advice, DWP Job Centre advisors, housing support, and asylum seeker face to face support during our sessions. We provide a taxi and delivery service for those who are too ill to collect their parcels.

Everyone is referred into our Foodbank via organisations working closely with people, so everybody that comes needs a foodbank voucher.

Volunteer | Bradford District and Craven Mind

Link to our online application form: Please note

We do not require a CV/Covering letting.The online application is sufficeient.

Bradford Council Museums and Galleries has been awarded the People Can Volunteering Quality Standard, which recognises good practice in volunteer management for volunteer-involving organisations across the Bradford and District local authority area.

Volunteers contribute to museums and galleries in many different ways, from engaging directly with visitors to working behind the scenes with object displays, family events and collections care teams. They help to provide valuable services that we would not otherwise be able to provide.

As a volunteer with Bradford Hate Crime Alliance, you will:

• Support local campaigns such as Hate Crime Awareness Week and Black History Month.

• Help run information stalls and community events on campus and across Bradford.

• Take part in awareness-raising activities with schools, community groups, and local partners.

• Gain skills in public speaking, teamwork, and community engagement.

• Access free training on hate crime awareness, safeguarding, and cultural competence.

• Join a supportive environment where your voice and ideas are valued.

Volunteering with us is flexible and works around your studies. It’s a chance to make a difference in your community, meet new people, and build experience that looks great on your CV.

Every year hundreds of volunteers helf BLF deliver the most diverse and inclusive literature festival in the UK. If you volunteer at BLF you have the chance to give back to the community, meet brilliant like-minded people, and even gain practical experience for your CV.

Whatever your strengths, we’re keen to help you use your skills and experience to the best of your abilities. Volunteer roles at BLF include:

• Festival Runners: A fast paced and varied role, supporting our Production Team with the day-to-day operations of the festival.
• Workshop Assistants: Assisting in our creative workshops, supporting visitors to create art pieces to be proud of.
• Accessibility Chaperones: Assisting and advocating for those with accessibility requirements, such as assisting guests around the festival site.
• Venue Assistants: Interacting with people from all walks of life, ensure that visitors of the festival are having a fun, safe and organised experience.
• Guest and Green Room Assistants: Helping with the care of high-profile speakers, festival partners, publishers and members of the press.
• Stage Assistants: Seeing how the festival experience unfolds from backstage – supporting our Events Team to prepare festival speakers for their events, assist with stage set up and ensure the event runs smoothly.

To relieve sickness, poverty and promote social inclusion through the provision of treatment, care, rehabilitation, education and training services to persons or members of their families who:

• Have been, or are, or are in danger of becoming substance misusers.
• Have committed or are likely to commit crime.
• Have been, or are, or are in danger of experiencing mental health conditions.
• Have been, or are, or are in danger of becoming homeless.
• Have been, or are, or are in danger of experiencing marginalisation, discrimination or social exclusion.

Each year, over 150 children in Yorkshire are diagnosed with cancer. When a child is diagnosed, lives are turned upside down instantly: not just for the child but the entire family. Getting well again can be a long and challenging journey, emotionally, physically, and financially. Supporting children and families throughout that journey is why our charity, Candlelighters, was formed more than 45 years ago. Our mission is to bring light to every family affected by childhood cancer across Yorkshire by providing emotional, practical and financial support, as well as bringing hope, by investing in vital research to improve the outcomes and lives of children with cancer.

Forget Me Not Children’s Hospice supports local families facing or living with the loss of their child.

No family should have to face the loss of their child alone. That’s why we not only provide expert clinical care and therapy, but also a helping hand, listening ear and a place for families to be together to make the most of every moment. We start with what each family needs, offering them tailored support and we’re always looking for pioneering new ways to support children and families. In doing so, we make a difference that lasts a lifetime.

As a charity, of the £6.5 million we need this year, we must raise 80% ourselves. So we rely on local people, groups and businesses to help, by fundraising, volunteering, taking part in events, visiting our shops, playing our lottery or leaving a gift in their will. Every penny you raise helps children and families get the vital support they need.

There are many ways people can get involved in supporting the hospice with the different events. Our Colour Run and Dragon Boat Race are some of Forget Me Not’s biggest events, families leave tributes in wills and in memory fundraising, we have a lottery and many other initiatives that people can get involved in.

For more information on how you can get involved visit our website www.forgetmenotchild.co.uk or email fundraising@forgetmenotchild.co.uk.

Thank you for your support.

Our mission “To improve health where there is greatest need” is achieved by delivering a wide range of projects and services with individuals and communities, so that they may develop the confidence and skills needed to find and embrace solutions for themselves.

The Halifax Charity Gala happens on the Second Saturday in June.
The Halifax Gala Committee is made up exclusively of volunteers who give up their time throughout the whole year to plan Halifax Charity Gala. We always welcome new volunteers to help grow our event, and support can be in different ways from posting on social media to maintaining the stores, as well as many other useful contributions!

In 2009, we started with 2 acres of fly-tipped, abandoned allotments littered with destroyed sheds and greenhouses in a deprived inner-city area of Bradford. Today, Horton Community Farm is a green sanctuary on the doorstep of thousands of people. It has grown from a group of volunteers into a not-for-profit cooperative run by 4 paid directors. Read more about our history, here.

We help to bring the community together by connecting people with nature and each other. Our free programmes of activities are aimed at sanctuary seekers, families with 0-5’s, people in pregnancy and people wishing to improve their mental health.

Our work is creating an inspirational permaculture centre for food growing and community resilience through 5 main strands: environmental education such as forest schools, horticultural therapy, wildlife, food growing and volunteering.

Slowly but surely, we’ve developed a range of features including a therapy garden, wildlife area, orchard, compost toilet, cabins for storage and a special play area with a willow dome, clambering boulders, sandpit, mud kitchen and erectable shelter for when the weather requires it.

We are proud to be based at Cecil Avenue allotments where, as well as regenerating our third of the site, we have also ensured the other two-thirds remains accessible as allotments.

Horton Community Farm is an official permaculture LAND centre.

For our work with asylum seekers and refugees we are recognised as a Garden of Sanctuary.

We are registered as a limited company and operate as a not-for-profit social enterprise meaning any profit we generate is invested back into the project.

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The Imran Khan Cancer Appeal (IKCA) is a charitable organisation established to support cancer care, research and treatment, especially for individuals and families who lack the financial means to access such services. It operates internationally, with registered charity status in the United Kingdom (Charity Commission No. 1000580) 

The organisation was inspired by Imran Khan, former international cricketer and public figure, following the death of his mother from cancer in the mid-1980s. Motivated by the lack of accessible care for those without resources, he spearheaded a major fundraising effort that culminated in the opening of the first SKMCH&RC hospital in Lahore in 1994. Since then, the network has expanded with additional centres — including Peshawar and the ongoing development of a larger facility in Karachi — all supported through sustained fundraising and community engagement

We work to ensure equality of opportunity for all people to volunteer in ways that are right for them, with the support that each person needs to make volunteering possible.

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If you experience barriers or discrimination whilst volunteering, please let us know.

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We can offer extra support if you are struggling to access volunteer opportunities.

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Practical support:

• We can find the perfect opportunity for you based on your skills and interests

• We can contact the organisation on your behalf

• We can help you complete application forms

• We can take you to visit organisations

• Provide travel training / guidance

• We can arrange a taster/trial session

• We can provide interpreting or translation support

• We can provide ongoing support whilst you are volunteering with a trained support assistant.

• Help design your own volunteer role

• We can cover your travel expenses (and others)

IntoUniversity centres offer a welcoming home-from-home for young people: a safe space to learn, explore and succeed. Each local centre offers an innovative programme that supports young people aged seven and up to realise their ambitions, achieve their academic potential, develop vital skills and gain experience of the world of work.

IntoUniversity has been working at the heart of communities since 2002, and now operates 45 learning centres in 28 UK towns and cities. We have ambitious plans to expand to 50 centres by 2027 and work with thousands more young people in need of our support.

In every location we bring about positive, measurable change. Our annual results show that with our help, thousands of young people achieve their chosen aspiration, including university, further and higher education, employment and work-based training.

Literacy Champions are self-led volunteers who are passionate about making a difference in their community or organisation. They are proven to be trusted local voices in their communities. They are advocates, influencers and fundraisers who understand the power of literacy in changing life stories.

They might be child-minders, youth workers, midwives, sports coaches, electricians, students, professionals, and parents. They all have the same mission: to encourage a love of reading, writing, speaking and listening in the people around them.

Volunteers are provided with guides to help them spread the word on the importance of literacy, share literacy activities and resources, host reading or writing groups, and to share the magic of books through community swaps, borrowing and gifting.

At the National Science and Media Museum, in the heart of Bradford, we explore the science and culture of image and sound technologies and their impact on our lives. We aim to inspire the scientists and engineers of the future to see more, hear more, think more and do more.

Our galleries and exhibition spaces investigate and celebrate photography, film, television, animation, gaming and sound technologies. Our team of Explainers create learning activities that fuel the imagination and get under the skin of our collections and exhibitions. And our three cinema screens—including an IMAX theatre—allow us to showcase the magic of moving images from around the world in Bradford, the first UNESCO City of Film.

Neurohive CIC is a community-focused organisation that supports neurodivergent children and young people through creative, digital, and social activities. We provide safe spaces, both online and in person, where participants can build confidence, develop social skills, explore their interests, and connect with others who understand their experiences. By fostering inclusion, creativity, and positive peer relationships, Neurohive CIC helps young people thrive and feel part of a supportive community.

New Vision Bradford is a service led by Waythrough with partners Project 6, The Bridge Project and Create Strength Group who have been working and supporting people across the district for many years.

The service is commissioned by Bradford Metropolitan District Council and the NHS West Yorkshire Integrated Care Board (through the Bradford District and Craven Health and Care Partnership) to provide drug and alcohol treatment and recovery support across the Bradford District. This includes harm reduction, care coordination, clinical and psychosocial therapeutic interventions.

We work across 5 key areas in the Bradford and Keighley district. Manningham, Windhill, Canterbury, Woodside, Keighley. Using our key values of Honesty, Integrity, Compassion and Excellence. 

Our aim is to enrich children and young peoples lives giving them opportunities, creating pathways to develop and help to enhance there lives. We do this through longevity and consistency in meeting the needs of young people, through engaging them in. ayouth work environement, helping them flourish. 

We rely on our valued team`s of shop volunteers to help with the running of our shops across the country.

In return we provide valuble training opportunities in the Charity retail sector, opportunity to meet new people, work with a vast amount of local agencies, schools, universities, colleges and local busines, refugees and asylum seeker oraganisations, probation services, Local councils and DWP and volunteering centres, social prescribing.

Many of our volunteers have moved on to become shop managers and deputy shop managers.

The primary role of link workers is to work alongside the resettlement and family workers to provide support to men before and after release from prison and to provide support to the families of prisoners in the community. This may include things like supporting them with going to appointments, phone calls to other services such as benefits, council, energy providers etc. Link workers may meet regularly with their service users in the community across West Yorkshire. You will create an action plan with your service user and provide them with practical and emotional support to achieve their goals.