Residential opportunities

If you want to volunteer away from home but don't want to go overseas, there are plenty of organisations with opportunities to offer.

It's a chance to get really stuck into a project, and is a great way to learn skills and meet new people.

Charges for board and lodging vary, as does the work you'll be doing. The opportunities here aren't necessarily endorsed by do-it or YouthNet, so do your research thoroughly before signing up to anything!

ATD Fourth World

Working alongside families living in poverty.

Break

Holidays and respite care for children and adults with disabilities at centres in North Norfolk.

BTCV

Environmental working holidays.

Camphill UK

Join a community to support children, adolescents or adults with disabilities.

Centre for Alternative Technology

Learn about sustainable technology and practices.

CSV

Volunteer full-time for 4-12 months on social care projects in the UK.

Jesuit Volunteer Community

Work with people who are homeless, refugees and asylum seekers, disabled, excluded from education or at risk in other ways.

Madhyamaka Buddhist Centre

Working breaks to learn about meditation.

RSPB

Live and work as a volunteer warden on one of 36 reserves throught the UK. 

Sense

Give up your time to help deafblind people make the most of their holidays.

The Simon Community

Living and working with London's street homeless, and also in Northern Ireland.

Vitalise 

Help with the provision of short holiday breaks for people with disabilities and their carers.

Waterways Recovery Group

Volunteering on Britain's inland waterways.

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