Volunteer
If you would like to Volunteer for The Happy Baby Community, please read the following documents which form our volunteer information pack and include our safeguarding policies, code of conduct and our confidentiality agreement:
Dealing with disclosures and concerns about a child or adult
Happy Baby Community Confidentiality Agreement
Once you have read these and feel you can abide by them, please fill in the application form at the bottom of this page and agree that you have read and understood the documents above and agree to abide by our code of conduct.
RECRUITING London-based DOULAS
Happy Baby Community is a charity working in Greater London with pregnant and new mothers who are also seeking asylum. We've grown a strong programme of doula and perinatal support. The families we work with face extreme challenges and vulnerability. The excellent care of doulas gives them comfort that they can't find anywhere else, plus measurably improved perinatal outcomes.
Doulas do a combination of paid and volunteer work with us. To apply or discuss, email perinatal@happybabycommunity.org.uk
Read more about HBC and in particular the perinatal programme at https://www.happybabycommunity.org.uk/research-and-reports
OPPORTUNITIES TO HELP THE TEAM
We are currently searching for people in the following roles:
Weekly Callers
Every week we call over 300 mums in our Community. We would really welcome new volunteers to make these calls. This can be just 45 mins a week, at a time that suits you. We have lot of support for our team of volunteers who taking up these roles. We are searching for callers who speak both English and the following languages urgently: Kurdish Sorani, Vietnamese, Mandarin, Albanian, Turkish and Tigrinya
English Support
Every week we have 70 people attending English lessons on Wednesdays and Fridays. We urgently need more teachers to support these lessons.
If you have taught English as a tutor or through TEFL or in school, and have an hour free on a Wednesday or Friday we would welcome your help.
THANK YOU SO MUCH.
If you might be able to help please fill in our volunteer application form at the bottom of this page or email us: volunteer@happybabycommunity.org.uk
Many of our volunteers bring something unique to the Community, so if you have skills that you think would be helpful or fun; from dancing to pottery, legal support to baking, don’t hold back — we would love to hear from you using the form below.
The Happy Baby Community is a user-led charity, with an ongoing programme to support Community members with the right skills to be leaders. It you are interested in being a mentor or a coach to our members and have skills in areas such as charity governance and finance, please get in touch below and tell us a bit about you.
Please note: all our volunteers are required to complete an Level 1 Safeguarding Training, attend information workshops and complete a DBS check.
THANK YOU
