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Welcome to Volunteer Centre Dorset

Welcome to the Volunteer Centre Dorset Website we have hundreds of ideas and projects to get involved with. You can help if you have or want to help for years to come. There are a wide variety of positions available for all kinds of skills, from Environmental and Conservation roles to Arts, Culture or Sports, there is always room to help your community.

Come and talk to us and we can match your skills and free time with a suitable and fulfilling vacancy.

Our Dorchester office in Acland Road is normally open Monday to Thursday, 9am to 4.30pm and closed on Friday. Please note if you are travelling to see us it is advisable to phone us to make an appointment so that one of our team can assist you.

I Want to Volunteer

There are many ways to find information about volunteering and get involved. Many people will just contact local branches of organisations and ask if they can help. However, other people may be unsure what they want to do and if you are new to the area you probably don't know all the local organisations that use volunteers. We have details of hundreds of organisations and thousands of volunteer positions and details are constantly updated so we can offer accurate information to potential volunteers.

I Need Volunteers

Our volunteering opportunities website has a self-service section for organisations to manage information about their organisation, advertise opportunities, and to contact volunteers who are suitable for specific opportunities. At the Dorset Volunteer Centre details of voluntary organisations and their current volunteer opportunities are all listed on VC Connect, our online volunteering database.

About VCD

The Dorset Volunteer Centre is part of a national network of volunteer centres that help voluntary and community organisations recruit and manage their volunteers, and help people interested in volunteering to find interesting and enjoyable opportunities. Our centre covers the whole of Dorset (except Bournemouth and Poole which have their own centre). We encourage and support volunteering by everyone, irrespective of age, education, background, health or wealth.

Recent Opportunities and News

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Places Still Available on our First Aid at Work Course

We still have 2 places left on our first aid at work course on Monday 19th November in Sturminster Newton...

Published on: 13th November 2018

Volunteer Centre Trustee Recruitment

If you are business orientated, good at marketing and want to work with a skilled, experienced and vibrant team then consider joining us as a trustee....

Published on: 7th November 2018

Neighbourhood Fund Open for Applications 5th November - noon on 12th December

Our flagship Neighbourhood Fund supporting local charities and community groups whose work addresses local issues, social problems and disadvantage due to age, illness, disability, isolation, discrimi...

Published on: 7th November 2018

Surviving Winter Appeal Re-Launch

Our annual Surviving Winter Appeal which supports older people in fuel poverty is launching tomorrow with an emotive stint on Bournemouth Beach where DCF staff and volunteers are going to lay dow...

Published on: 7th November 2018

Dorset Blind Association’s second charity shop opens in Christchurch

Lord Lieutenant of Dorset, Angus Campbell, officially opened Dorset Blind Association’s second charity shop on Monday 29th October, in Saxon Square, Christchurch....

Published on: 31st October 2018

Free entries for charities in a new recycling directory for Dorset

Would your charity or voluntary organisation like a free entry in a new 20-page bi-monthly recycling directory called We Need That – Dorset which has been produced for Dorset Waste Par...

Published on: 30th October 2018

Split and seasoned logs for sale

Over the past year, our EuCAN contractors and volunteers have been thinning an area of woodland at Nether Cerne. It has been a fairly mammoth challenge but we now have a large stack of split and seaso...

Published on: 30th October 2018

Operation Christmas Child - 1st - 18th November

Pack a shoebox filled with gifts to give to children all over the world this Christmas and drop them off at the Volunteer Centre before the 18th November...

Published on: 29th October 2018

News & Alerts Samaritans Purse Shoeboxes Please drop off your gift-filled shoeboxes to us between the 1st and 18th November

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