Volunteer with us and inspire positive change in the workplace.
Use your HR skills and experience to tackle barriers to work
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Use your HR expertise to change someone’s future
Your experience as a people professional has the power to open doors for those who need it most. By volunteering your skills, you can help individuals overcome barriers to work and take confident steps towards employment.
We offer flexible opportunities to suit your time and interests, whether you can give an hour, a day or longer-term support. You could mentor someone returning to work after a career break, support a refugee navigating the UK job market or help someone leaving prison build the confidence and skills they need to secure a job.
There are opportunities to get involved in different ways:
- Deliver or join webinars, sharing your insight into recruitment and what employers are really looking for
- Support local Jobcentres through workshops and jobs fairs, offering CV advice and employability guidance
- Provide one-to-one mentoring to help individuals build confidence, prepare for interviews and develop job search skills.
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Volunteer your skills and experience to help others
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How CIPD Trust volunteers are shaping more inclusive workplaces for all
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Watch nowVolunteering doesn’t just make a difference to others – it benefits you too. 68% of our mentors say they apply what they’ve learned to improve their own workplace, gaining fresh perspective, insight and professional growth.
However much time you can give, your knowledge can have a lasting impact. Join us and be part of a community to create fairer, more inclusive access to work.
Featured opportunities
Mentor a person returning to work
Use your professional skills to boost the confidence of a career returner and help them return to the right job.
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Provide face to face support for jobseekers
Use your professional HR skills to support jobseekers by offering CV guidance, employability support and confidence building during one-off workshops and sessions with our partners.
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Mentor an aspiring people profession leader
Use your leadership experience to empower a future leader in the HR profession.
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Mentor a refugee to succeed in work
Use your unique skills to support refugees to re-enter the workplace in the UK and develop in existing roles.
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Support a person with a conviction to find work
Empower people with experience of the criminal justice system to re-enter the workplace and thrive.
Find out moreOpportunities with the CIPD Trust
Support prison leavers back to work
Use your expertise in employee development and recruitment to help someone to re-enter the workplace and thrive.
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CIPD Member-to-member Mentoring programme
Share your experience in the people profession to help others to progress and develop your own career.
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Speak on our job search webinars
Join our list of potential speakers to share your knowledge and experience of recruitment with jobseekers
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Help people in prison prepare for job interviews
How you can use your experience of conducting interviews to run mock interviews and support people to secure work following their release from prison.
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Share your expertise to support the next generation
How you can use your business skills, experience and networks to co-create careers programmes that impact young people’s futures.
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Guide your local prison on employment
Share your expertise and network by joining your local prison's Employment Advisory Board.
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