Why volunteer?
- Make a difference. Volunteering provides unique opportunities to make a difference to people's lives. You can use your skills and experience to help and enrich the local community.
- Enhance your employability. Volunteering proves to your future employer that you have developed necessary skills & are a committed person. This is especially useful for CVs, application forms and job interviews.
- Build experience.Volunteering gives you a chance to get experience in a field you’d like to work in.
- Gain training.Many of the volunteer projects will include training, which will be useful both on the project and in later life.
- Inform your career choice.Volunteering gives you the opportunity to test out potential career choices.
- Experience diversity.Volunteering provides the chance to meet people both from within and outside university who you would not normally come across.
- Have fun.Volunteering can be both fun and fulfilling, allowing you to experience a variety of opportunities generally unavailable any other way.
How to volunteer
- Join one of UEA Volunteers Projects
- Research your own volunteering from a variety of sources
