Expeditions, international adventures, sports, art, wildlife… whether learning a new skill, taking up a new activity or going on an adventure, the list goes on…

Earn your coveted DofE Award. A fun and truly life-changing experience that will help you make new friends, discover new interests and develop new skills.

Calling all nature lovers. Connect with the environment, enjoy and care for wild places while earning yourself a recognised national award. A fantastic way to delve into nature, give back and feel good about yourself.

Develop the skills needed within the workplace. Join our Young Ambassadors programme and become a member of VICTA’s editorial board responsibility for the creation and production of the VICTA newsletter ‘STRiVE’

The British Youth Council empower young people across the UK to have a say and be heard. Help create social and political change.

Join a youth forum, develop skills and be part of an international network.

Get to know an industry that suits your personality, with free courses to help you gain experience. Or build your confidence with one of their youth programmes.

City Year recruits 18-to-25-year-olds for 11 months of full-time volunteering as near-peer role models, mentors and tutors in schools in deprived areas. This simple act of ‘giving back’ through a volunteer service year has a triple impact.

Amplify is a youth-led online digital space helping young people get the knowledge, skills and experience they need to power forward to bright futures in learning and work.

UK Fixers are young people aged 16 to 25 years old using their past to fix the future. They are motivated by personal experience to make positive change for themselves and those around them.

Groundwork is a federation of charities mobilising practical community action on poverty and the environment across the UK. They’re passionate about creating a future where every neighbourhood is vibrant and green, every community is strong and able to shape its own destiny and no-one is held back by their background or circumstances.

The Trust was established in 2004 to fund training and working gardeners in the UK and Ireland. The PGT provides gardeners with the opportunity to acquire skills and gain qualifications through part-time courses and work placements. This enhances their careers and benefits the horticulture profession as a whole.

The Sport and Recreation Alliance works to create a volunteering sector that is growing, representative, and accessible.

Student Hubs runs programmes in partnership with universities to enhance student experiences and, develop employability skills.

Ocean Generation is an inclusive global movement  that exists to restore a sustainable relationship between humanity and the ocean.

Do it is a database of volunteering opportunities across the UK.

A voice for volunteering in Northern Ireland.

They bring people together to overcome some of society’s most complex issues through the power of volunteering. They turn local knowledge and energy into action and progress, building stronger communities and a better future for all.

Explore a range of leadership, mentoring and employability programmes that help young people become leaders to better reflect and represent the communities they serve.

Network of young people engaging in their community. Become a member of a youth group. Choose the one for you below…