Supporting volunteers with homelessness issues
Volunteering offers a route out of social exclusion. As volunteers, people are able to have an input into how their local community and wider society operates. For people unable to work, volunteering is a chance to do something meaningful with their time, and for those wanting to return to work it represents a route to employment, enabling them to build up skills and experience.
Volunteering is very flexible. Volunteer roles can be anything from full time, to a couple of hours a week, to one-off opportunities; so it is easy to fit volunteering alongside other activities and to choose the level of commitment that suits the individual. There is a wide range of roles from hands on support, through to admin, arts and more physical sports and environmental roles. Volunteering does not affect people's benefits, so it is something that people can try out without there being any risk, if they decide it's not for them, they've not lost anything.
Most importantly, if someone volunteers, then they are gaining benefits like experience and increased confidence at the same time as helping someone else.
(Taken from OSW volunteering project)
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