Volunteer for us

Volunteering for Beating Bowel Cancer is a fantastic way to get involved in the daily workings of a high-profile charity, as well as giving you the opportunity to use your professional/personal skills and to ‘give something back’. You may have spare time on your hands and be looking for a new challenge, like Angela, having raised your family, or perhaps the current economic climate means you are temporarily out of work.

The benefits of coming to work as a volunteer for Beating Bowel Cancer are:

• A chance to keep your skills sharp
• A proactive initiative to add to your CV and impress your next employer
• The satisfaction of contributing to a worthwhile cause that helps thousands
• A great working environment with fun charity people
• Insights into a new field of work that may offer new career ideas
• New connections and, who knows, possible employment opportunities.

If you have advanced computer and administrative skills, we could use your help at Beating Bowel Cancer for a variety of fundraising, data entry, administrative and other projects.  Whatever your personal situation, if you live locally to our office in Teddington and would be interested in finding out about volunteering opportunities with the charity, please contact Jo Garnham on 020 8973 0007.

For details of our Internship scheme, please click here.

“In January 2008 I contacted Beating Bowel Cancer to see if they would be prepared for me to volunteer for them and to use the charity as a case study for my MA in Charity Management.  I began volunteering at the charity two mornings a week, initially updating the database, stuffing envelopes and answering the telephone as well as interviewing some very obliging team members for my studies.  I enjoyed my time at the office very much and it gave me the opportunity to see what life was really like in a busy charity rather than just learning about it in the classroom.   When I heard that Beating Bowel Cancer were looking for a new database I was happy to help as, before I  had my children, I worked for a large database company.  I helped the team with their product selection and in December was asked to join the team on a temporary contract, working three days a week on the database project.  We went live on 1st April and I am delighted to have been offered a permanent role as Database & Direct Marketing Coordinator.”  Angela Cummings, former volunteer