Volunteering

Make a difference to your community and those beyond LSE, discover the value in volunteering and develop your skills through sessions delivered by the LSE Volunteer Centre.

Operation Wallacea Upcoming Conservation Webinars - UK specific talks about the Knepp Estate

Starts: 6 Jan 2026, 1:00 pm
Finishes: 6 Jan 2026, 2:00 pm
Find out all about Operation Wallacea's work and projects, and how you could potentially get involved.

One-off Volunteering: Knitting for Syria

Starts: 7 Jan 2026, 2:00 pm
Finishes: 7 Jan 2026, 4:00 pm
Venue: LSE, Lincoln Chambers, Portsmouth Street, LCH G.01 (LSE Volunteer Centre)
This creative volunteering session is dedicated to knitting warm items which will be shared by charity providing on-the-ground support for civilians in Syria who are displaced as a result of conflict. Here you can learn a new skill and make a difference to those who are in need of support.

One-off volunteering: Coin Street Senior's Christmas Party

Starts: 9 Jan 2026, 6:00 pm
Finishes: 9 Jan 2026, 8:00 pm
Venue: 108 Stamford St, Lambeth, London SE1 9NH
Remaining places: 10
Coin Street are looking for warm and friendly volunteers to join their team for the annual seniors party, Young at Heart 2026! Your role will be to welcome guests, take coats, help serve a delicious dinner and support the cleaning and tidying up.

One-off volunteering: Post Pals

Starts: 12 Jan 2026, 12:00 pm
Finishes: 12 Jan 2026, 2:00 pm
Venue: LSE, Lincoln Chambers, Portsmouth Street, LCH G.01 (LSE Volunteer Centre)
Help ‘post a smile on a child’s face’ by sending a card or letter to seriously ill children and their siblings. You can read a bit about the children, choose to whom you’ll write, and then make a card or write a letter to help make them smile and feel less isolated.

One-off Volunteering: Letters Against Isolation

Starts: 21 Jan 2026, 2:00 pm
Finishes: 21 Jan 2026, 4:00 pm
Venue: LSE, Lincoln Chambers, Portsmouth Street, LCH G.01 (LSE Volunteer Centre)
Letters Against Isolation is a non profit organisation with an aim to improve the wellbeing of those who are at an increased risk of experiencing loneliness.

How to start volunteering

Starts: 23 Jan 2026, 12:00 pm
Finishes: 23 Jan 2026, 1:00 pm
Venue: LSE, Lincoln Chambers, Portsmouth Street, LCH G.01 (LSE Volunteer Centre)
Remaining places: 19
Come along to this seminar, led by the LSE Volunteer Manager, to find out how you can get involved in volunteering whilst you are studying at the School. This seminar will also give advice on how to make a success of the volunteering fair.

Volunteering Fair - Session for Disabled and Neurodivergent Students

Starts: 27 Jan 2026, 4:00 pm
Finishes: 27 Jan 2026, 4:30 pm
Venue: LSE, Lionel Robbins Building, Portugal Street, LSE LIFE Workspace 4
Remaining places: 50
Don’t miss your chance to meet 25 of our charity partners, offering rewarding UK based and international volunteering opportunities that you can fit around your studies.

Volunteering Fair

Starts: 27 Jan 2026, 4:30 pm
Finishes: 27 Jan 2026, 6:30 pm
Venue: LSE, Lionel Robbins Building, Portugal Street, LSE LIFE Workspace 4
Remaining places: 399
Don’t miss your chance to meet 25 of our charity partners, offering rewarding UK based and international volunteering opportunities that you can fit around your studies.

One-off Volunteering: Letters Against Isolation

Starts: 23 Feb 2026, 12:00 pm
Finishes: 23 Feb 2026, 2:00 pm
Venue: LSE, Lincoln Chambers, Portsmouth Street, LCH G.01 (LSE Volunteer Centre)
Letters Against Isolation is a non profit organisation with an aim to improve the wellbeing of those who are at an increased risk of experiencing loneliness.

One-off Volunteering: Knitting for Syria

Starts: 2 Mar 2026, 12:00 pm
Finishes: 2 Mar 2026, 2:00 pm
Venue: LSE, Lincoln Chambers, Portsmouth Street, LCH G.01 (LSE Volunteer Centre)
This creative volunteering session is dedicated to knitting warm items which will be shared by charity providing on-the-ground support for civilians in Syria who are displaced as a result of conflict. Here you can learn a new skill and make a difference to those who are in need of support.

 

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