Volunteer
Give a couple of hours a week helping at sessions or mentoring. We provide training, a DBS check and a named person to go to.
Volunteer with usThree ways to help
Employers
Work placements, practice interviews or a talk about your industry. An afternoon can change what a young person believes is possible.
Partner with us
Funders and councils
Everything is free to young people, which means someone pays for it. We report plainly on where the money goes and what changes for young people.
Talk about fundingWhat volunteering involves
Most of our volunteers give two or three hours a week, at the same time each week, because being reliable is what matters most.
You might help run a sport session, mentor one young person, join an outreach evening, sit in on practice interviews or help young people get to grips with digital and AI tools. You don't need a youth work background. You need to be steady, turn up when you said you would, and talk to young people without talking down to them. We'll train you in everything else.
We'd especially love to hear from women who could support our girls-only sessions, and from anyone with experience of SEND or of speaking more than one language.
What we give volunteers
- Induction and safeguarding training before you start
- A DBS check, arranged by us
- A named person to go to when something comes up
- Out-of-pocket expenses covered where we can
- A reference and real experience for your CV
Bring FAM to your town
What works in Blackburn is built to be picked up and taken elsewhere. We've already started, with outreach sites in Haslingden and Bolton, and we plan to go further, including Preston. If you're a council, school or community organisation and the young people in your town need somewhere to go, something to do and someone in their corner, let's talk.
We work alongside the youth services already there, not around them.
Ready to talk?
Tell us roughly what you have in mind and how much time you've got. We'll be straight with you about whether it helps.