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LTGF is always looking for enthusiastic volunteers wanting to gain experience working for a dynamic voluntary organisation. Our main focus areas are regeneration, planning, community participation, transport, housing, employment, gender, and the environment.
Volunteers enhance LTGF's ability to deliver high quality services by bringing new skills, ideas and enthusiasm to our campaigns and other activities. We provide new volunteers with in-house training, opportunities for future career development, constructive feedback and a friendly working environment. We like our volunteers to view their placement with LTGF as an opportunity to gain experience in a range of activities within the voluntary sector. Tasks could include general administration, database maintenance, conducting research for LTGF campaigns and/or news articles, and copywriting. We will also provide a reference, subject to satisfactory completion of tasks and duties. We hope that you will enjoy working with us and feel a full part of our team.
Volunteers are encouraged to consider staying longer with LTGF to gain experience working on larger scale projects, such as compiling new research, conference organising, and petition writing.
Our research volunteer, Jo, had this to say about her time spent volunteering with LTGF: "Volunteering at the London Thames Gateway Forum has been an interesting and rewarding experience for me. From my two years working there, I have gained a breadth of experience which I think is quite unusual from a voluntary post. Whereas many voluntary groups focus on a particular social or environmental issue or represents the interests of a group, the Forum deals with the whole range of issues affecting people across the Thames Gateway.
With such a broad span of interests and range of contacts, working in the Forum meant I learnt how to participate in policy development including lobbying and how to work in partnership with other groups. My output over the two years included helping to draw up the Forum’s response to consultations on the Olympics, Crossrail, Thames Gateway Bridge and the waste strategy for East London, and writing articles for the newsletter and website. Other jobs were to analyse and prepare a reporting on a quality of life study and to write letters to MPs, members of the House of Lords and others.
The Forum allowed me the flexibility to organise work as I wanted, so that I could continue to meet family and other commitments. The outcome is I now have recent work experience to put in my CV and access to a reference. Also, the range of work experience is relevant to many potential areas of employment and I can point to a portfolio of publications as evidence of my work."
To apply to become a volunteer please fill out our ‘volunteer information form’, which will allow us to have a better idea of your skills and experience, and then email, fax or post it back to us. If your skills and volunteering expectations are appropriate for LTGF, you will then be contacted for an interview. We will also require references from a previous employer, tutor or other suitable professional.
LTGF is firmly committed to diversity in all areas of work.
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