Crafting Happiness
25 Feb 2026 16:00 - 18:00
Session Details:Date: 25/02/2026Time: 16:00-18:00 Location: OC1.06
This week we will be making Mini canvas painitngs for the Kenilworth centre!
Find us in OC1.06 at 16:00 - 18:00 on Wednesday 25th February!
We encourage you to get in touch if you have any specific access requirements, or need more information about the content and delivery method of a specific volunteering opportunity. If you have any requests related to a disability, please email volunteers@warwick.ac.uk giving at least two working days’ notice if possible.
Community Chit Chat
03 Mar 2026 10:00 - 12:00
Community Chit Chat connects older and younger generations to help ease loneliness and isolation. Volunteers socialise with residents, join activities, and serve snacks and refreshments. Join us for our next session on Tuesday, 3rd March, from 10 am to 12 pm!
Do you like meeting new people? Are you good at chatting to people you’ve just met?
If the answer to these questions is yes, you could be what we’re looking for!
Sessions take place on Tuesdays from 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 noon. Volunteers host tea, cake, and activities with Canley residents, over 50 years old, at the Canley Community Centre. Volunteers help with the delivery of these activities, like crafts with a theme, and provide friendly conversation.
Closing date for applications is 02 Mar.
Youth Mappers
25 Feb 2026 15:00 - 16:30
Warwick youthmappers use satellite imagery to trace buildings, roads and other features to create new map data that can be used to plan for disaster response and helping urban development in underdeveloped areas.
Come to our weekly mapping sessions, where we contribute to open-source maps that help disaster-struck and underrepresented places across the world.
More information about each week's session will be shared through our email newsletter; however, we'll always explain what we are doing at the start of the sessions, and anyone is welcome to attend.
There is no need to attend for the whole session, feel free to drop in or even map at home, just send us an email!
Closing date for applications is 26 Feb.
Kenilworth Phab
04 Mar 2026 18:45 - 21:15
Phab is a weekly opportunity for disabled and non-disabled adults to meet socially and enjoy activities. Student volunteers are valuable members of Phab and come along to chat, provide help and support with activities, and most importantly, have fun. Anyone aged 18 or over is welcome to join and attend as regularly as they would like.
The details of the session are as follows:
Phab is having a music night at Kenilworth Sports and Social Club. No previous experience is required, just a willingness to meet new people, initiate conversations, socialise and have fun!
New volunteers are welcome to join!
Closing date for applications is 04 Mar.
Warwick Digital Cafe
25 Feb 2026 13:20 - 15:50
Volunteers work with older people on a one-to-one basis, helping them to use their laptops, phones and tablets. We are now based in Kenilworth with transport provided or direct by bus from the bus interchange. Register your interest to join the Warwick Digital Cafe mailing list.
We help older people use their phones, tablets and laptops so that they can remain independent and connected with the community.
The clients are mostly elderly people from the local area. There is NO previous experience required! If you know how to work your phone/laptop/tablet then you'll be able to help the older learners to use theirs. Often you'll be teaching them quite basic skills like how to use Google Maps, share photos and send emails. In the event that something that you are unfamiliar with arises during the sessions, one of the project leaders will always be there to help!
The Kenilworth Community Centre is in Kenilworth and can be reached by a bus service direct from the Bus Interchange on campus, the fare being refunded by Warwick Volunteers at the end of the term.
We will meet at 1:20pm at the bus interchange to take the 11 bus to Kenilworth. Sessions last from 2:00pm to 3:30pm on various dates depending on the availability of student volunteers.
Applications closed on 25 Feb.
Warwick STAR
25 Feb 2026 16:00 - 19:00
Volunteers will help Young people of asylum-seeking background to improve their English language. This is offered in a range of ways, including worksheets and games, but most importantly, everyday conversation.To keep up to date and for more information, join our WhatsApp group: https://chat.whatsapp.com/G3UhXe1iT3D3dFKFlk2SC7 And follow our Instagram @staratwarwick
Foodbanks
27 Feb 2026 11:30 - 15:30
Lillington Community Pantry is a community supermarket for those struggling to make ends meet.
What you'll be doing The Pantry needs volunteers to help with stocking shelves and serving the public to ensure vital food provision is distributed to those who need it most. When and where Date and time: Friday, 11:30 am - 3:30 pm Location: Lillington Community Pantry
Transport details We will all meet on campus by the entrance of the Arts Centre and take a taxi there and back. Volunteers who live in the area can make their own way there if it's easier. Just let us know beforehand so that we don't wait for you on campus.
26 Feb 2026 11:15 - 16:00
What you'll be doing The Pantry needs volunteers to help with stocking shelves and serving the public to ensure vital food provision is distributed to those who need it most. When and where Date and time: Thursday, 11:15 am - 4:00 pm Location: Lillington Community Pantry
Omega - Ending Isolation Ending Loneliness
Ongoing
Letterbox is a free pen pal befriending service for socially isolated and lonely people. Our clients are carefully matched to volunteer befrienders, with whom they exchange supportive, friendly letters. They share stories about their lives, families and interests. The time you spend exchanging letters with your client can help them to build self confidence and re-engage with their families, friends and communities. Our clients include, but are not limited to, people who are living with long-term illness, caring for someone or dealing with bereavement. We support people aged 18 and over living in the UK.
As a member of the Letterbox team, you will develop relationships with people who may be socially isolated, and could be dealing with a range of health problems. The aim is to increase their self confidence and emotional wellbeing, and provide a point of contact through regular, friendly letters. As a Letterbox befriender, you will offer much-needed social contact to a client. You will send your client at least 1 letter a month, and they will be able to send you a letter in reply. Letters are an opportunity for clients to write to someone about whatever they want. All letters are exchanged through our offices in Shrewsbury; befrienders and clients will not know each other’s addresses or surnames.
You may be supporting a client with no other sources of support. Don’t underestimate how important your letter is to your client. You should send a regular monthly letter, even if you’re still waiting for a reply to the last one. Your client could be going through a period of ill health, or experiencing some other change of circumstances which makes letter writing difficult for them. Regardless, you should still send letters on a regular basis. You can use the calendar at the end of this handbook to stay on schedule.
Chatterbox is an award-winning enhanced telephone befriending programme aimed at people who are socially isolated and struggling with loneliness. Clients may have a range of complex needs including poor physical or mental health, bereavement, are caring for a family member with an illness. Chatterbox Befrienders offer one-to-one telephone support by calling a client once a week for a friendly chat and to offer a listening ear. Chatterbox befrienders are all ages, from all walks of life, and are located across the UK
This role could be for you, if you:
Requirements of the role:
Support and training provided:
Benefits of this role include:
Location of the role: Home-based.