Volunteering & work experience

Volunteers are essential to what we do. Their time, skills, care and compassion make our services what they are.

Volunteering is also a pathway to work experience and we can offer work experience opportunities in a supportive and encouraging environment. You can gain hands-on skills, develop your confidence and ability to work with others and build your CV.  

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Volunteers at the Olive Tree Cafe in Swindon

Why do we need volunteers?

“Volunteering is at the very core of being a human. No one has made it throughout life without someone else’s help” Heather French Henry. 

Without the contribution of volunteers across our services, it would be impossible to fulfil our mission, provide the range of activities and support we do, and create the sense of belonging and support our service users so appreciate!

Volunteering opportunities

Whether you have green fingers, fancy yourself as a dab hand in the cafe, or simply want to be part of what we do, there are many volunteering opportunities available. Do take a look!

Olive Tree Cafe
TWIGS Community Gardens
Board Member

Whether you’d like to contribute your time, or you think volunteering will help improve your mental health - The Olive Tree Cafe would like to hear from you. We are currently in need of the roles listed below, however if you don’t feel suited to these - please complete our volunteer application form anyway (linked further below).

View roles

We have a range of different volunteering opportunities at TWIGS, from baking cakes on our open days, to just lending an extra pair of hands! Whether you’re interested in one of these, or doing something else entirely, please complete our volunteering application form (linked below) and one of our team will come back to you.

Mental health referrals

If you feel that participating in the therapeutic activities at TWIGS could be beneficial to your mental health (or the mental health of someone you know), then please view our referral page. 

Are you passionate about supporting mental health and making a lasting impact? The Recovery Tree Charity is seeking dedicated individuals to join our small team of trustees. If you share our commitment and would like to help shape the future of our charity please complete our application form (linked to below). 

Complete our application form to become a volunteer

If you’d like to volunteer, please complete our online application form. Alternatively, you can download it and send the completed form to us via email, or you can drop it in to us at The Olive Tree Cafe or TWIGS.

Online application form Download form
A volunteer at TWIGS

Phyllida Richards
Olive Tree Cafe Manager

“Here’s why we do this. Recently, one of our volunteers came in for coffee with a friend. The next day she was volunteering, and told me that as she was driving home at the end of the day she had a glimpse of ‘what a sense of belonging might feel like’ – she had never had that growing up, or in her work life… although she had provided that for many others.”

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Volunteer for us

If you’d like to volunteer, please complete our online application form. Alternatively, you can download it and send the completed form to us via email, or you can drop it in to us at The Olive Tree Cafe or TWIGS.

Online application form Download form

The Recovery Tree Charity,
Manor Garden Centre,
Swindon,
SN2 2QJ

01793 523 294
Have a question about volunteering?

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