Volunteering

As a Community Champion, you will be a passionate advocate for Momentum Children’s Charity in your local area. You’ll raise awareness, inspire others to get involved, and play a vital role in helping us build a growing network of community-led fundraising support. You’ll take ownership of local engagement and help drive income generation, working alongside a values-led charity team that is committed to making a real difference. 

This is a brilliant opportunity to gain experience in charity promotion and community organising, with access to training, support, and the chance to grow your skills in a purposeful and flexible role. 

Key Responsibilities  

• Social Media Advocacy: Share Momentum’s stories, campaigns, events and even job roles on your personal social media platforms. 

• Community Group Engagement: Help grow a network of supporters by encouraging the formation of a self-led Community Fundraising Group in your area. Taking the lead on organising and delivering at least two events (typically markets or fairs) per year. 

• Collection Tin Coordination: Place and monitor collection tins in local shops and venues, and collect donations (access to a car or ability to travel locally preferred). 

• Leafleting and Posters: Distribute leaflets and put up posters in local shops, schools, libraries, and community spaces. 

• Event Promotion: Help promote local fundraising events and initiatives, encouraging friends, family, and neighbours to take part. 

• Local Networking: Build relationships with local businesses, schools, and groups who may want to support the charity, and feeding leads back to the relevant teams at Momentum. 
• Feedback and Ideas: Share insights from your community with the team to help shape engagement strategy.   

Find more information about the role here.

If you are interested in becoming a volunteer Community Champion , please fill out our Volunteer form and tick the Community Champion option.

Purpose of the Role

If you’re ready to get involved, we’d love to hear from you! Please contact us at volunteers@momentumcharity.org or apply online to get started.  

As a Collection Tin Volunteer, you’ll play a vital part in supporting Momentum’s fundraising in your local community. This is a friendly, social role that gets you out and about on your local high street, building positive relationships with shop owners, café staff, and pub teams who support our charity or want to start supporting us.  

You’ll commit a few hours each month to finding new local businesses to support our cause, as well as visiting existing business supporters to collect full donation tins and replace them with empty ones (at least every three months).  

You will be responsible for handling and banking cash in line with the Fundraising Regulator and Momentum’s policies with training and oversight from the Community Fundraiser. Your contribution helps raise essential funds while also spreading awareness of Momentum and the work we do for local families. 

We are particularly keen to hear from volunteers able to cover the following areas: 

Addlestone, Ashtead, Barnes, Chertsey, Chessington, Cobham, Dorking, Effingham, Epsom, Leatherhead, Shepperton, Sunbury, Sutton, Teddington, Twickenham, and Worcester Park. 

By volunteering as a Collection Tin Volunteer, you’ll not only make a meaningful difference locally, but also gain new skills, confidence, and social connections. 

Key Responsibilities 

• Collecting full donation tins from local shops, cafés, pubs, and other venues 

• Replacing collected tins with empty ones in a timely and professional manner 

• Researching new areas and businesses for tins to be placed 

• Building friendly, positive relationships with local business owners and staff 

• Raising awareness of Momentum and its work to encourage new support 

• Ensuring all collections follow Momentum’s policies and procedures 

• Safely transporting collected tins and returning them as instructed 

• Safely counting and banking cash collected in line with the charity’s policies 
• Keeping the fundraising team informed of completed collections or any issues
   

What We’re Looking for in Our Volunteers 

We’re looking for people who are: 

• Friendly, approachable, and enthusiastic about making a difference 

• Trustworthy and reliable 

• Comfortable chatting with members of the public and local businesses 

• Well organised and able to work independently 

• Empathetic and willing to follow policies and procedures, including safeguarding and confidentiality 

What’s in It for You? 

• Be part of Momentum’s welcoming and supportive volunteer community 

• Meet other likeminded people and build local connections 

• Invitations to volunteer engagement and social events 
• The satisfaction of knowing you are directly supporting families in need 
• Opportunities to get involved in other Momentum fundraising events and activities 

How to Apply 

If you’re ready to get involved, we’d love to hear from you! Please contact us at volunteers@momentumcharity.org or apply online to get started. 

If your company offers staff volunteer days, we would love to have you join us for a few hours, a day, or more. We have opportunities for teams and individuals. Please get in touch and help us to make a real difference for children.

Our events calendar is jam packed with a variety of different activities which need support to make them magic. Special events from comedy to carols, cheering loudly, bucket collecting, to marshalling and meeting and greeting, you can be part of the action.

We often also plan special treats for the families we support, treats which we like to deliver to doorsteps to help brighten days of children who are having to stay home. So, if you fancy being a delivery driver with a difference, this is just the ticket.

We are always on the lookout for event volunteers. Find more information about the role here.

If you are interested in becoming a volunteer, please fill out our Volunteer form.

We’re a small and friendly team who work closely together. From marketing to fundraising, family support to HR, we could always do with an extra pair of hands to help get things done.

Our boat, Moments on the River, is a firm favourite with our families, and it’s our volunteers who make it all happen. You could help with cleaning and preparation or even train up as a Skipper or Deck Hand.