Community Space Volunteer

Spark Community Space is a local Portsmouth charity supporting those facing loneliness and isolation. Spark started as a lifeline for our founder who herself was experiencing isolation after a life changing brain injury. It has evolved from online coffee mornings to a warm and cozy community hub in the heart of Fratton. We are a community centre, donation-based café and charity shop all in one.

What is the role?

Spark Volunteers help in our Space, making drinks and toasties, serving customers, helping in the charity shop, doing crafts and activities and cleaning/ maintaining the space. We also do events which sometimes require extra people to help at.

Who are we looking for?

We don’t ask for any experience as we like to help build up our volunteer’s skill sets. However, we do ask that volunteers at Spark have a passion for helping people, promote kindness and are willing to work as part of a large and varied team of volunteers.

Induction & Training: We have a 4-week trial for all volunteers, after which we have an in-person induction to go through all our policies and procedures, give out a volunteer handbook and fill out a DBS check form (provided by the charity).

Process:

You will need an account to register your interest for this role. Once you have registered your interest you will receive an automatic email with next steps. If you have not received this in a couple of hours, please do get in touch as it may not have registered (volunteering@hiveportsmouth.org.uk). 

You will need to respond to the "Criteria Check" email to progress with this role. 

Please check your junk email folder in case any emails end up there.  Friendly reminder that the charities/organisations emails may end up here too. 

Don't forget you can add up any volunteering hours as part of Team 100 Opportunity - Hive Portsmouth or part of the Donate 100 things challenge Opportunity - Hive Portsmouth.

Skills

• Kindness - if you have a good heart and a smile, you're halfway there
• Good communication – listening as much as talking, being clear and kind
• Empathy – being able to see things from someone else’s perspective without judgment
• Teamwork – working well with others, supporting and encouraging

• Positivity – Keeping things light with a smile

• Reliability - showing up matters more than being perfect
• Patience – people and situations can be challenging; keeping calm is key
• Willingness to learn – no one knows everything, and that’s fine.