LSHTM volunteering links
Staff and students from LSHTM take part in many different volunteering activities including talks in schools, advising NGOs, giving time to charities and many other types of volunteer work. Below are links to some general opportunities for volunteering in London, including some recommended by LSHTM staff and students. You can also look at our news page to see any opportunities coming up for staff or students within LSHTM. You can also use the 'non-School' subsection of the LSHTM Discussion Forums to share ideas.
* General volunteering opportunities
LSHTM Careers website (accessible only to LSHTM students & staff)
Do-It! - part of the registered charity YouthNet, a non-profit-making organisation, this website allows you to search for volunteering opportunities.
Volunteer Centre Westminster has a range of services available to people who want to volunteer.
Camden Volunteer Bureau - provides information, advice and support to individuals wishing to undertake voluntary work.
Voluntary Service Overseas - an international volunteering organisation.
TimeBank London is a resource for finding ways to volunteer in London.
London Friend - volunteering opportunities supporting the lesbian, gay and bisexual community.
Volunteering agency for England.
CharityJOB - Provides details of volunteering opportunities in its volunteering section.
E-mentoring with the Brightside Trust - to help underrepresented school pupils interested in a career in healthcare or medicine.
Higher Education Empirical Research Database - database for evidence-based published research relating to higher education
* Specific links suggested by staff and students
The following links are to some of the charities and organisations that School staff and students have recently been involved with (information based on survey carried out about volunteering activities).
London Lesbian and Gay Switchboard (LLGS)
Sangath - a mental health NGO in India
InSpire - a learning/arts/community centre in Walworth
Food Chain - provides nutrition services including home delivered meals, to people who are chronically sick as a result of HIV related illness.
The Chiltern Society - Ewelme Watercress Beds and Local Nature Reserve
SHARP (Sedgeford Historical and Archaeological Research Project), north-west Norfolk
Doctors of the World UK "Doctors of the World is a humanitarian organisation working in over 70 countries. It helps vulnerable people across the world, from young mothers and their babies in the slums of India to children on the streets of Cairo and victims of natural disasters, like the recent earthquake in Haiti or the flood in Pakistan. Here in the UK we run Project:London where we help some of the community’s most vulnerable, including victims of torture and people fleeing violence, pregnant mothers unable to access antenatal care, and babies in need of basic immunisations. We advocate tirelessly to make sure that everyone gets the healthcare they need. Because health is a human right."
