VOLUNTEER

Find out why Linda volunteers for pact in our of our prison visitors' centres - click here to listen to her short story (mp3)

At the moment we are urgently seeking volunteers to work in our visitors' centres in HMP Nottingham and HMP Forest Bank (Manchester).

We are also urgently seeking play area volunteers at HMP Feltham to work at weekends.

Volunteering gives you the opportunity to broaden your horizons, expand your CV, meet new people, and experience new opportunities and fresh challenges. pact's volunteers receive references, expenses, and excellent training from supportive staff.

Our volunteers carry out a variety of roles:

• Survey volunteers: we are looking for people to take part in pact's annual survey, talking to our service users at prison visitors' centres about their experiences
• visitors' centre volunteers: this role involves providing support and advice to visiting families, conducting surveys, booking people in for visits, responding to phone enquiries, and lending a general hand
• play area volunteers work within the prison visits hall in the play area, working alongside the play co-ordinator to normalise children's visits
• hospitality volunteers serve refreshments to prisoners and their families inside prison visits halls
• first night volunteers NOT CURRENTLY AVAILABLE give practical and emotional support to prisoners during their first night in prison. We need volunteers in the late afternoon and evenings. Only available at HMP Holloway and HMP Wandsworth
• court project volunteers: NOT CURRENTLY AVAILABLE only available at HMP Belmarsh, this role involves volunteering at Woolwich Crown Court, meeting with newly sentenced prisoners awaiting transfer to prison that need advice and support.
• community volunteers: Basic Caring Communities is a resettlement project pioneered by pact, helping ex-prisoners settle back into the community. We need volunteers across London who are motivated by their Christian faith.

Where can I volunteer?
Please click here for a list of all pact's projects and their locations.

For more information
To find out more about our various volunteer vacancies, please contact:

Trish Kiss-Wilson, Volunteers Services Manager:
02077359535
volunteers@prisonadvice.org.uk

If you would like to apply to volunteer, please download one of the application forms below, along with the recruitment monitoring form, and post them to the address at the bottom of the form.

Our volunteers handbook is available to download below. It explains your rights and responsibilities as a pact volunteer.

If you would like to find out about other volunteer opportunities in the criminal justice system, read 'What Can I Do?' - a guide produced jointly by pact and the Churches Criminal Justice Forum.