You don't necessarily need any particular skills or experience to be a Re-engage volunteer. If you are friendly, have good communication skills, and enjoy giving back, we think you'll fit right in. Each of our volunteer roles have some key skills and characteristics that we look for in appplicants, which we outline in the role descriptions.

You'll have the opportunity to discuss them with us as part of the application process. Volunteering is also a great way for you to develop new and existing skills. You can find more details in the role descriptions for all of our voluntary roles that are currently available.

Please check our voluntary roles to see the level of IT literacy required for our various opportunities. Please note that we primarily communicate with our volunteers via email and we can only accept new volunteers who have an email address.

If you would like to get set up on email, your local library might be able to help. There are also guides available online that a friend or relative might be able to help you access, for example Getting Online One Click at a Time from the BBC.

Our current volunteering opportunities are open to anyone aged 18 and over.

At the moment, our services are UK only. If you would like to support our work here in the UK, you can make a gift on our website.

Or you may like to introduce an older person, who would benefit from having a call companion, to us: Refer an older person to Re-engage.

If you apply to volunteer with Re-engage you will be asked to declare any unspent criminal convictions as part of the recruitment process. If you apply to volunteer as a driver or a group coordinator for a tea party group these roles also require a DBS/PVG. 

Having a criminal record does not necessarily mean you will not be able to volunteer; we will look at this on a case by case basis.

Our volunteers are not subject to a probationary period.

It is important to us that volunteering improves people’s understanding of loneliness and the challenges that older people face. However, we do not support unofficial research being conducted on our older people, including using our older people as case studies as part of an educational course.

Re-engage’s impact team oversee all research and the delivery of our monitoring, evaluation and learning activities to measure our impact and deliver our mission to end loneliness and social isolation in older people. This work follows ethical research principles and is done alongside our older people, all of whom have given their consent.

If you are interested in learning more about the research we conduct, or how we measure our impact, please contact impact@reengage.org.uk.

We offer a limited number of unpaid student placements every year. If you want to learn more, please contact impact@reengage.org.uk.

At Re-engage we ask all older people, volunteers and staff to provide contact details of someone who can be contacted in an emergency.

Your emergency contact can be anyone you choose, but should be someone you would want us to inform if you have an accident, become unwell or need immediate help.

Your emergency contact details will be stored within Re-engage’s secure database and will only be used in an emergency.

Yes! Please check out our volunteer opportunities section on our website. There are many other things you can also do to help us, either through giving us a shout out on social media, letting your friends and family know about our volunteering roles and the possibility to refer isolated older people, or even making a small donation to us.