Landing a job with no experience can seem almost impossible these days.
So we’ve pulled together a small list of opportunities you can get in Dundee now!
Can’t wait to get that job/work experience? Sign up for the Volunteering & Work Experience Fair
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1. ACS Aviation
We offer Structured Modular Flight Training. Whether you want to fly as a hobby or become a commercial pilot. We offer training to make you ready for your first airline job.
2. Amina – Muslim Women’s Resource Centre
Amina MWRC is organisation that seeks to offer support and services to Muslim and BME around Scotland. Our mission is to inspire Muslim women to fulfil their true potential and empower them to participate fully in all aspects of society, without fear of discrimination or inequality.
3. Bridge FM Hospital Radio
Bridge FM Hospital Radio is the award-winning station for patients in and around Dundee.
We are run entirely by volunteers.
We present our own live programmes during most weekday afternoons and evenings and from mid-morning at weekends. At other times our computer system plays a great selection of music and recorded programmes to keep you entertained 24 hours a day.
4. Cats Protection Dundee
Cats Protection Dundee is a voluntary organisation providing shelter for unwanted and abandoned cats. The shelter requires volunteers to help look after around 30 cats that need fed and cared for until new homes are found for them.
5. CCUSA
CCUSA have been sending young people to Summer Camp in the USA and Canada for over 30 years.
We give people the opportunity to work and travel at the same time during their summer break. You could work anywhere in the US or Canada and then afterwards travel all around the country with your new mates and with the money that you have just earned.
This program is suited for anyone and is an amazing way to spend a summer and couple that with traveling and getting a sun tan as well!!
6. Challenges Abroad
An exciting fundraising Challenge, a sustainable volunteering project, and countless unforgettable experiences! Add an unparalleled level of support, where we help our students develop their skillset and grow as individuals, and you have Challenges Abroad.
7. Opportunities Project: Leisure & Culture Dundee
As part of the public library and Information Service in Dundee ‘The Opportunities’ project emphases is on providing support to individuals to develop digital skills. The project has a specific focus on working with members of public who are claiming welfare benefits or seeking employment.
www.leisureandculturedundee.com/opportunities-room
8. Radio Lollipop
Radio Lollipop is an International Charity working in Children’s Hospitals. Volunteers are “Playmakers”. They use Play and Radio to help sick children in cope with hospitalisation. In Dundee, we work in Ward 29, Ninewells Hospital.
Play is one of the best therapies for children recovering from an illness.
Experience has shown that a happy, motivated child can respond faster to treatment.
9. Relationships Scotland
We offer Family Mediation, Counselling, Child Contact Centres and other family support services to children, young people, individuals, couples and families facing relationship difficulty, separation or divorce.
www.familymediationonline.co.uk
10. Royal Voluntary Service
The Royal Voluntary Service focuses on supporting the elderly in the community and are presently operating a Home from Hospital Service in Dundee. This valuable service supports the elderly after having a spell in hospital, we help them gain confidence again and support the integration to home life. We are seeking to build awareness of this service and are looking to recruit volunteers in the Dundee area.
www.royalvoluntaryservice.org.uk
11. Tayside Cancer Support
Tayside Cancer Support offers a free, confidential, one-to-one befriending service for those affected by cancer in the Tayside area. This service is provided by volunteer befrienders who have received relevant and professional initial and ongoing training, enabling them to offer this support.
Referrals to the charity for the befriending service are generally received from local hospital wards, doctors, nurses and other health professionals; however individuals who feel that a family member or indeed, they themselves would benefit from this support are welcome to get in touch. The befriending contact may be by telephone or face-to-face depending on each individual’s circumstances and needs.
www.taysidecancersupport.co.uk/
12. Save by the Bell
Save by the Bell is a Financial Education project that runs in primary schools and nurseries in Dundee. The main aim of this project is to elevate poverty through educating and developing money management skills in primary pupil. As a part of the project, Save by the Bell runs collection points in various schools across Dundee.
13. The Hearing Voices Network
The Hearing Voices Network is a service user led registered charity which seeks to create acceptance that hearing voices is a valid experience. Support is provided to voice hearers and people with a range of mental health issues through befriending/mentoring, self-help groups, activity groups and volunteering opportunities to promote independence and increasing confidence levels.
www.hearingvoicesnetwork.co.uk
14. Victim Support Dundee
Victim Support Scotland is the leading charity in Scotland supporting people affected by crime. Our service is delivered in both the community and court settings by a team of trained volunteers. Our service is confidential.
Although we work closely with statutory agencies such as Police Scotland and The Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal service we are an independent agency offering advice and support to people affected by crime.
15. Youth Link Dundee
Youth-Link is a Dundee based charity and was established in 1981, since then we have provided help and support to thousands of vulnerable and disadvantaged children in the Dundee area.
Youth-Link acts as a resource for vulnerable/disadvantaged children aged 5-18 providing them with a One-to-One Befriending Service.