What's going on in East Cambridgeshire?
Find out how to support your community.
Find out how to support your community.
Who needs help in your area?
Click on the map, or browse below, to see the many ways to support your East Cambridgeshire community.
Click on the map, or browse below, to see the many ways to support your East Cambridgeshire community.
Organisation role · 1—2 hrs/Week
From home
Volunteer Counsellor - Support Groups
We are seeking a qualified and compassionate counsellor to volunteer their time to facilitate weekly emotional support groups for people living with sight loss.
Posted by Royal National Institute of Blind People - RNIBOrganisation role · 1—2 hrs/Week
From home
Telephone Group Facilitator
Are you a good listener? Are you able to manage group conversations and ensure people feel comfortable together and that groups run smoothly?
Posted by Royal National Institute of Blind People - RNIB
Organisation role · 1—2 hrs/month
From home
Trustee and Treasurer
Help ensure a leading rural charity remains financially resilient, well governed and able to support communities into the future.
Posted by Cambridgeshire ACRE
Organisation role · 1—2 hrs/Week
Flexible location
Volunteer Befriender
The team support adults 18+ in Cambridgeshire by giving information, advice and guidance to improve wellbeing and enable them to access local help.
Posted by Making Space
Organisation role · Flexible hours
From home
Volunteer Coordinator
Coordinators work for about 5-10 hours, 1 week in 5, taking requests from passengers and allocating volunteer drivers to lifts. Note one year min. commitment.
Posted by TAG Lifts (community car scheme for Trumpington and Grantchester)
Organisation role · Flexible hours
Flexible location
Fundraising Trustee
Help Liberation Cycle grow! We need a Fundraising Trustee to build sustainable income, shape strategy, and help our Cambridgeshire charity hire its first staff.
Posted by THE LIBERATION CYCLE
Organisation role · Flexible hours
Flexible location
Community Fundraising Group Volunteer
Join our fabulous fundraising team and become the friendly face of Deafblind UK in your local community!
Posted by Deafblind UK
Organisation role · 2—4 hrs/month
Flexible location
Volunteer Befrienders Needed Across Cambridgeshire
Could you offer a friendly chat, a little company and a listening ear to someone who may be feeling lonely or isolated due to age related hearing loss?
Posted by Cambridgeshire Deaf Association
Organisation role · Flexible hours
From home
Treasurer
The Splash Pad for Ely group are now a registered charity and now require a treasurer.
Posted by Ely Splash Pad
Organisation role · Flexible hours · Starting from 3 Nov 2025
Flexible location
Digital Skills Volunteer – Make a Difference Across Cambridgeshire!
Join Cambridge Online as a Digital Skills Volunteer and help people gain confidence with everyday digital tasks - from sending emails to staying safe online.
Posted by Cambridge Online
Organisation role · Flexible hours
From home
Cambridgeshire Helper
The Helper lends out tandems to people from the Helper's home. The Borrowers take the tandems typically for two months then bring them back.
Posted by Charlotte's Tandems
Organisation role · Flexible hours
From home
Trustees wanted!
This is an excellent opportunity to play a senior role in a respected environmental charity.
Posted by CPRE Cambridgeshire and Peterborough
Organisation role · 6—12 hrs/Week
From home
Chair, CPRE Cambridgeshire and Peterborough
This an excellent opportunity to use your management and leadership skills to help develop and support our small, local environment charity and join our team!
Posted by CPRE Cambridgeshire and Peterborough
Organisation role · 4—8 hrs/month
Flexible location
Volunteer Community Pet Speaker
Are you passionate about helping pets and their owners? Can you engage with young people in a school environment, or adults at community events?
Posted by Woodgreen Pets Charity
One-off · 0—2 hrs
From home
Call Companion Volunteer - Do you have 30 mins a week to call an older person
Have you got 30 mins a week that you could spare? We are seeking volunteers to spend 30 minutes a week chatting with older people aged 75+ who are lonely
Posted by Re-engage
Organisation role · Flexible hours
From home
Volunteer Driver - East Cambs only
As a volunteer driver your role is to take people to various appointments (such as shopping or hospital trips), for residents in East Cambs only.
Posted by VCAEC
Organisation role · Flexible hours · Starting from 16 Jan 2026
Flexible location
Emotional Support Volunteers - Helpline, Email and Live Chat Services
Our volunteers offer vital emotional support to women, girls and AFAB non-binary survivors of sexual violence and abuse by listening and believing.
Posted by Cambridge Rape Crisis Centre
Need additional support?
Contact Voluntary Community Action East Cambs (VCAEC)
Contact Voluntary Community Action East Cambs (VCAEC)
VCAEC are an independent, registered charity based in Ely, Cambridgeshire.
They offer a social car and gardening scheme, both of which are run with the goodwill of volunteers. They also have an active role as a Volunteer Centre, supporting people into volunteering, and promoting volunteering to all sectors of the community.
Visit the VCAEC website to find out more about the support VCAEC can provide to volunteers and volunteer involving organisations in East Cambridgeshire.
Come and speak to us!
If you want to talk with us about volunteering, visit one of our stalls.
If you want to talk with us about volunteering, visit one of our stalls.
The team aims to attend as many community events as possible across Cambridgeshire, so look our for the logo.
If you want to know where we will be, check out our Events page on our Facebook profile.
Here, you can see where the team will pop-up across the county. If you would like us to attend an event, send us an invite to [email protected].
