Volunteering hub for our current volunteers
Thank you for volunteering with RNIB. From your induction onwards, we provide ongoing support that ensures you're gaining the right skills and knowledge to succeed in your role and beyond.
In this hub you’ll find guidance and information on everything that you’ll need to know as an RNIB volunteer, such as the training available to you, our volunteer FAQs and even how our volunteers can connect with each other. Want to know more about RNIB? Find out more about our various teams and the work that they do.
Volunteering and coronavirus
As you know, much of our face-to-face volunteering is suspended due to coronavirus to ensure you remain safe and well. Some volunteering roles can be done from the comfort of your own home to continue to support customers remotely. We have restarted some activities where safe to do so, however we are keeping this under review. We will pause activity as required due to events like a local or national lockdown.
Update – 5 November 2020: From 5 November 2020, all face-to-face volunteering activity is paused in England during the national lockdown alongside other local lockdown areas.
RNIB Volunteering Position Statement
We’ll do our best to keep you up to date with our progress with involving volunteers in our work. Find out more about our current opportunities.
If you have any questions, you can reach us at [email protected] or call us on 0303 123 9999 (option 4).
You should follow the latest UK government advice relevant to where you live. Specific advice for Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales is available, as local rules may vary. This is very important as the rules are continuing to change and may be different in each nation.
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Helpful information for current volunteers
Join our Volunteer Council
The volunteer council are a small group of volunteers who meet to share ideas, discuss issues, make suggestions and find solutions with members of the volunteering team. They represent the volunteer voice in RNIB and meet quarterly via phone or Microsoft Teams.
Amanda said: “I love being on the Volunteer Council because I can give my opinion without feeling I'm causing problems. I’m working with lovely people on the Council and also there are lovely staff working with us. I feel people should join the Volunteer Council because you will be able to help make decisions in RNIB and be part of things.”
We’re currently recruiting new members who haven’t previously served a term on the Council, so if you’re a solution focused RNIB volunteer and would be interested, please apply. If you’ve got an issue that you’d like to raise with the Council for discussion at a future meeting, please contact our volunteer Chair Person at [email protected].
Are you a Connect volunteer?
We have several documents available that you may find useful during your time as a Connect volunteer: