Volunteer Portal
Everything You Need as an Electric Umbrella Volunteer
Thank you for everything you do!
Volunteering with Electric Umbrella is more than just giving your time—it’s about making a real impact.
Video: About Electric Umbrella.
What You can Expect:
- Offer equal opportunities to everyone who wants to volunteer.
- Find out what you want to get from volunteering and match you with a role that makes the most of your skills and experience.
- Welcome you to Electric Umbrella and show you how you fit in and make a difference.
- Keep you safe by risk assessing your role.
- Assign you to a member of staff as a point of contact.
- Offer you suitable training and support to help you in your volunteering.
- Provide agreed out-of-pocket expenses in line with our expenses guidance.
- Respect your views, listen to your concerns and suggestions and ask for your feedback.
- Provide you with a clear volunteer role description so you understand what we expect from you.
- Keep you up to date with our work.
What we Need:
- Make a regular commitment of your time and let us know if you can’t make it.
- Behave respectfully and professionally with our members and enthusiastically as ambassadors of Electric Umbrella.
- Check with us if you don’t understand any part of your role, tell us if you have any suggestions.
- Take appropriate health and safety precautions that are in line with our policies and procedures.
- Chat with us on your first day, when you will learn about how to keep yourself, our members and your fellow volunteers safe.
- Attend any relevant training and share your positive experiences with us and other volunteers.
- Understanding of our Expenses Policy.
- Let us know how you feel about your volunteering – the good bits and anything you would like to improve.
- Share your volunteering successes with us.
Frequently Asked Questions
If I can't make it to a session on a particular day, who should I tell?
Ideally, tell the session leader. Otherwise, please let Nicola know.
My circumstances have changed, and I can no longer be available as I planned. What should I do?
Have a chat with Nicola, and see whether there is a different way for you to help us if you’d like to do so. If not, then we thank you and hope to see you again sometime in the future!
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Get to Know the Team
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