Benefits of Volunteering

There are so many benefits to volunteering, you may be surprised how volunteering can help you!

Volunteering can help you get a job or better job:

• Boost your CV, provides valuable experience 
• Access training and development opportunities
• Increase networking opportunities
• Increase your knowledge of health & social care
• Helps you explore your interests and possible career areas/paths
• Lets employers know that you are able to show commitment
• Keeps you in touch with the daily routine of being out and meeting people.
• 73% of employers would employ a candidate with volunteering experience over one without
• 94% of employers believe that volunteering can add to skills
• 94% of employees who volunteered to learn new skills had benefitted either by getting their first job, improving their salary, or being promoted. 
• 58% say that voluntary work experience can actually be more valuable than experience gained in paid employment.

• Build your confidence
• Help reduce stress
• Help improve your own health & fitness.
• There is evidence that volunteering helps with insomnia and improves well-being.
• Using your own negative experiences to help others can help you make sense of them.
• Gives you the chance to pass on your skills and talents which can really help you feel good about yourself
• Broadens your experiences and horizons
• It can help you get out and about (reducing isolation), giving you routine and a sense of purpose
• Have fun
• Make new friends, broaden your social circle.

• Improve health & social care in Brighton & Hove
• Give something back to your community
• Help people who are seldom heard from get their voice heard.