United Kingdom
Volunteer Opportunities in the United Kingdom
Volunteers For Peace offers projects in the United Kingdom every year for volunteers ages 18+. The VFP registration fee is always $350 and for most projects in the UK, that's the only fee. Short-term and long-term opportunities are available! **Volunteers should know upfront that US volunteers require a visa for the UK that involves an extensive application process and fee. Please email us for more information!
The entire experience was probably the best in my life. There were 11 volunteers and we were working in pairs in several youth clubs in London. I spent half my time with the special needs group, kids with learning disabilities, and the other half with what the club called mainstream youth. The work was basically hanging out with the youths, and sometimes supervising them on trips. For example we went fruit-picking one day and to an amusement park another time. The kids were mildly interested about all of our [the volunteers'] lives but I think there were mostly excited to have people from outside the community to interact with because most of them had never (or rarely) spent time outside of their community in east London." Anastasia Kostrominova ~ England 2005
Credit: T. Gardner ~ Scotland 2010