Volunteering Opportunities
Volunteering for Royal Manchester Children's Hospital Charity is a fun and rewarding way to help us make a difference. Your time and talent is valuable in helping to support our fundraising work.
We're on the lookout for helpful and reliable volunteers to assist with a wide range of volunteer opportunities. Volunteers must be over 18-years-old, under 18s can attend most of our opportunities as long as they are accompanied by their parent/guardian.
All volunteers helping the charity must first register with us before carrying out any volunteering activity. If you have not already done so, please register online at: https://secure.rmchcharity.org.uk/volunteer-registration-form
Whether it is store collections, helping out at our events, or assisting in our charity office, there are many ways that you can get involved. Our current volunteer opportunities are listed below...
Tour de Manc 2021
Type(s) of roles available: Marshals, Food & Beverage distribution
Where: Saddleworth Hotel, Huddersfield Rd, Delph, Oldham OL3 5LX
When: Sunday May 1st 2022
Time: From or Between 9am to 4pm
*Minimum volunteering time: We ask all volunteers to volunteer for a minimum of 4 hours within the above time
Skills Required: Welcoming smiles, cheery outlook and ready to encourage participants. Organisational skills
Age Restriction? 18+
Number of volunteers required: 8 - 12
Details: We are one of three headline charities for this iconic cycling event. Riders tackle one of four gruelling routes spanning the whole of Greater Manchester. RMCH Charity is running the first pit-stop 38 miles into the course, expecting 1500 – 2000 riders to come through.
Further details of role(s)
We need volunteers to help make this event as much fun as possible for our participants. The following roles are available:
- Marshalls – friendly faces within our pitstop showing the way
- Servers – helping distribute snacks and water to riders
- Setting up serve points (tables / gazebo)
All volunteers will be sent a brief specific to their role before the event.
Travel: Volunteers are responsible for making their own way to and from the event. Car parking is available.
If you are interested in this opportunity, please email Jack.Bright@mft.nhs.uk
Great Manchester Run
Types of roles available: Cheer point volunteer, meet & greet volunteer
Where: Manchester City Centre
When: 22nd May 2022
Time: From or between 8:30am to 4pm
Minimum volunteering time: We ask all volunteers to volunteer for a minimum of 4 hours within the above time.
Skills required: Welcoming smiles, enthusiasm, able to chat with event participants and their friends and family.
Age Restriction? 18+
Number of volunteers required
Cheer point: 20+
Meet and greet volunteers: 5
Details: Be a part of the largest 10k race in Europe! We need volunteers to help make this event as much fun as possible for our participants and their families. As well as to thank them for taking on this incredible challenge in aid of our family of 10 hospitals across Manchester and Trafford. It will be an amazing day.
The event will also see the famous Blue Wave, where hundreds of #TeamMFT NHS colleagues complete the route in celebration of our NHS here in Manchester!
Cheer point volunteers:
- Help set up / take down our cheer point on the route
- Create a fun and celebratory atmosphere
- Greet any friends and family of participants who stop by
- Cheer on runners as they go past
Meet and greet volunteers
- Help set up and decorate the marquee, and take down at the end of the event
- Greet friends and family of participants
- Thank and say well done to runners as they arrive
- Hand out drinks and snacks
All volunteers will be sent a brief specific to their role before the event.
Travel: Volunteers are responsible for making their own way to and from the event.
If you are interested in this opportunity, please email lizzie.wilson@mft.nhs.uk
Manchester Charity Dragon Boat Challenge
Type(s) of roles available: Charity stand volunteers
Where: Trafford Watersports Centre, Sale Water Park, Sale, M33 2LX
When: Sunday 8th May 2022
Time: From or Between 12pm – 6pm
*Minimum volunteering time: We ask all volunteers to volunteer for a minimum of 4 hours within the above time
Skills Required: Welcoming smiles, cheery outlook and ready to encourage participants. Organisational skills
Age Restriction? 18+
Number of volunteers required: 6 – 10
Details: The Manchester Charity Dragon Boat Challenge returns to a new venue for the 2022 edition. We will have 4 teams taking part, and a charity stand on the day to talk to supporters
Further details of role(s)
“We need volunteers to help make this event as much fun as possible for our participants. The following roles are available:
- Engaging with charity supporters
- Setting up Charity stand (tables / gazebo)
All volunteers will be sent a brief specific to their role before the event.
Travel: Volunteers are responsible for making their own way to and from the event. Car parking is available.
If you are interested in this opportunity, please email Jack.Bright@mft.nhs.uk specifying which role you are interested in.