Office volunteers
Volunteering for Diabetes UK
There are many ways you can volunteer for Diabetes UK in our offices. If you want to know more, or if no office volunteer vacancies are available at the moment, simply contact the Volunteer Development Team and we can help find the right opportunity for you:
Volunteering in Diabetes UK offices
You can volunteer at our central office, based in Camden Town, London, or at any of our regional offices. There are many areas within the organisation which could benefit from your time and experience.
The sorts of roles which volunteers are currently involved in include: organising events, providing administration support, researching and gathering information, and helping with enquiries.
Our office volunteers bring with them a vast range of skills and experience. Diabetes UK has a very flexible approach to your commitment: we want you to be able give the time that suits you while making the best use of the skills and experience you have.
Equally, the length of volunteer service varies considerably. Some volunteers stay with us for many years. Others only have a short amount of time to offer and move on to other things. Some posts are more full-time because of the nature of the role while others are more flexible.
Our current opportunities
When we have vacancies for office volunteers, they will be displayed below, with a link to the full description and downloadable application form. If no vacancies are displayed, please watch this space, as opportunities do arise regularly.
We’re looking for a highly organised individual who would enjoy working in the charity’s Creative Services team.
Art-working and/or proof-reading skills would be really useful but aren’t essential.
The Creative Services Team is a new team providing creative services to all parts of the charity, in support of the charity’s strategic objectives.
To support the National Events Team Co-ordinator and London Fundraising team with a variety of admin tasks.
The London Region Fundraising Team is responsible for fundraising throughout the Greater London area. The National Events Team is responsible for fundraising throughout the UK. Both teams do this in a number of ways including signing people for sports events (running, swimming, cycling etc.) to raise sponsorship, supporting individuals holding their own events, working with local companies, and organising our own events such as the London Bridges Challenge and Swim 22.
As Bupa’s nominated charity partner for the entire Bupa Great Run Series, the Bupa Events team are responsible for the smooth delivery of all running events in the series. The volunteer role will involve supporting the events team with all pre and post event tasks and will therefore be a varied one. The role will primarily involve contacting our runners to confirm their support and commitment to fundraising. We’ll also need help creating and sending fundraising packs updating supporter information, as well as ad hoc tasks ranging from organising our event materials to sourcing new advertising opportunities.
Diabetes UK, the charity for people with diabetes, is looking for a volunteer to provide valuable administration support to its Equality and Diversity Team based at Diabetes UK’s Central Office in Camden, London.
As a volunteer you will have the opportunity to gain experience of working within the charity sector, and the chance to experience office work as part of a busy team.
The main purpose of this role is to support a busy team within the organisation and provide administrative support for the delivery of training courses and events that provide knowledge and raise awareness of Diabetes and its associated health risks amongst partner organisations. It will give you good office and team work skills, and give you an opportunity to build on organisational and time management skills. We would work with the individual selected to see what your interests are and see if you can be involved in any other aspects of the projects in our team.
The purpose of this role is to complete telephone based research to support the Marketing and Brand team in evaluating a recent advertising campaign.
The Marketing and Brand Team is a busy and enthusiastic team, responsible for raising the profile of the charity and to raising awareness of the condition through communications campaigns.