This opportunity is ongoing, with no end date.
Free To Be supports particularly vulnerable children to begin to change their stories about who they are, and who they can be. We help children who have often grown up with significant adversity or hardship to more often feel proud of themselves and to experience feeling brave, adventurous, included and successful - often for the first time in a long time.
We do this via overnight adventures and nature based residentials; weekend groups; and mentoring support. We work using the inherent power of the outdoors, animals, nature and self-expression - all of which are integral to the programmes we run. Children experience meeting animals at the farm, building dens in the forest, building rafts in teams to paddle across a lake, standing on the beach for the first time, cooking together in groups, camping out under the stars and a wide range of other activities all carefully designed to both broaden horizons, but also to scaffold the building of self-confidence, resilience, and trust in others.
Free to Be run adventurous, nature based residentials to give vulnerable young people a space to have fun and to feel invited and accepted. You’ll have lots to talk to the kids about whilst they’re meeting animals at the farm, paddling on the beach for the first time, playing football (whilst covered in facepaint of course!) and camping out under the stars. These activities are all carefully designed to broaden horizons but also to scaffold the building of self-confidence, resilience, and trust in others.
As a residential Group Leader, you’ll stay on-site for 1 week, and gain invaluable experience working with a dynamic range of truly incredible children to help them have a break and a chance to get continual positive adult support. Alongside at least one other volunteer, you will help foster the empowerment of young people from a variety of underprivileged backgrounds, showcasing their individual spirits through inclusivity and togetherness. You’ll be there to help them to discover how brilliant they are; showing them kindness, and teaching them to be proud of themselves as they explore and grow through the week.
Benefits to self
Food, board and activities during your time volunteering is covered by us. Full safeguarding training (online); Full induction training with team and other new volunteers (online).
Benefits to others
These activities are all carefully designed to broaden horizons but also to scaffold the building of self-confidence, resilience, and trust in others.
Location
Various around London/Sussex
Training available
Before you come on a project with us, you’ll be given extensive training in working with children and safeguarding by our experienced team. Training takes place online as an interactive session with 2 members of the free to be team, covering the history behind Free to Be, the way we work with our young people, exercises to discuss the different ways of approaching tricky scenarios whilst on project, and how we, and our volunteers, safeguard our young people.
Transport details
Unfortunately, we cannot cover travel costs to and from our project site (usually within an hour of London), however, we can provide car parking and, if you are coming by train, we can usually collect you from the nearest station.
Contact email address
recruitment@freetobekids.org.uk
Contact phone number
02037780323
- EducationSchools, Literacy, Numeracy
- Culture & SportSport, Art & Creativity
- Crisis & PovertyPoverty
- CommunitiesDisabilities, Families, Young People & Children
- LocationOff Campus
- ProfessionsHealth
- What are your reasons for volunteering?Build my confidence, Do something positive with my spare time, Gain work experience/ improve my CV, Give something back to the community, Help others, Learn or try new things, Meet new people
Employability skills
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Communication Skills: Verbal
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Communications Skills: Non- Verbal
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Interpersonal Skills
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Leadership
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