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

All face-to-face volunteering is suspended to ensure that you remain safe and well. In the meantime, we will offer telephone and online alternatives where possible. We’re exploring ways that you might be able to volunteer from home and continue to support customers remotely. We would encourage you all individually to follow any government guidance relevant to you by visiting their website. 

Volunteer News

The latest Volunteer News is delivered straight to your inbox to keep you up to date. 

Read the latest update

Helpful information for current volunteers

Resources and guidance

We have lots of useful resources and guidance available during your time as a volunteer, including our policies and procedures.

Share your volunteer story

You can read volunteer stories and share your own too, which allows us to demonstrate the excellent work that you do every day to support us.
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Read our FAQs

Read some of the questions most frequently asked by our volunteers, including claiming expenses and volunteering in another role.
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Helping you to help others

Many people worry about saying or doing the wrong thing when they first work with people with sight loss. Read some of our tips to make you feel more confident.

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Join our Volunteer Council

Our Volunteer Council is a group of around 12 volunteers who meet on a quarterly basis (over Skype/conference call) with our Volunteering and Resourcing Team to share their feedback and discuss improvements they would like to make to the volunteer experience. They represent the volunteer voice in RNIB. Membership changes after the sixth meeting (with a new group joining every 18 months).

If you would like to share ideas, discuss suggestions, issues and solutions on wider RNIB volunteering with a Volunteer Council member, email [email protected]. Or after being a volunteer for some time would like to become part of the Volunteer Council, please email us at [email protected] (you can do this at any time of the year).

Are you a Connect volunteer?

We have several documents available that you may find useful during your time as a Connect volunteer:

More information

RNIB job opportunities

We're really pleased to offer our volunteers the opportunity to apply for our internal and external job vacancies. View the details of our current vacancies.

Contact the team

If you would like to speak to a member of the volunteering and resourcing team you can email [email protected] or call the team on 01733 375 450.