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The LSE Volunteer Centre team organises lots of different volunteering events throughout the year for you to get involved in. You can find all our events listed below and you can book your place on CareerHub.

One-off volunteering

Afraid you don’t have time to volunteer? Or have you never volunteered before? Why not join one of our one-off volunteering opportunities and meet students from around the school whilst doing something good. Opportunities take up maximum one day, with no further commitment.

One-off Volunteering: Welcome messages for refugees

Starts: 3 Nov 2025, 12:00 pm
Finishes: 3 Nov 2025, 2:00 pm
Venue: LSE, Lincoln Chambers, Portsmouth Street, LCH G.01 (LSE Volunteer Centre)
Conversations Over Borders is a refugee advocacy and support organisation working on a number of projects across London, they are seeking the help of volunteers to send messages to welcome refugees to the UK, reinforcing a welcoming and supportive messages for communities

One-off Volunteering: C4WS Camden Homelessness Project Club Volunteers

Starts: 5 Nov 2025, 9:30 am
Finishes: 5 Nov 2025, 12:00 pm
Venue: C4WS Holborn
Remaining places: 0
C4WS are a service operating in Camden to support those who are affected by homelessness and rough sleeping, at this session you can support them as a volunteer, to deliver their weekly drop-in Wednesday Club service, offering food, connection and facilities to the community.

One-off Volunteering: Knitting for Syria

Starts: 12 Nov 2025, 2:00 pm
Finishes: 12 Nov 2025, 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: Post Pals

Starts: 17 Nov 2025, 12:00 pm
Finishes: 17 Nov 2025, 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: C4WS Camden Homelessness Project Club Volunteers

Starts: 26 Nov 2025, 9:30 am
Finishes: 26 Nov 2025, 12:00 pm
Venue: C4WS Holborn
Remaining places: 5
C4WS are a service operating in Camden to support those who are affected by homelessness and rough sleeping, at this session you can support them as a volunteer, to deliver their weekly drop-in Friday Club service, offering food, connection and facilities to the community.

One-off Volunteering: Letters Against Isolation

Starts: 26 Nov 2025, 2:00 pm
Finishes: 26 Nov 2025, 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.

One-off Volunteering: Be Enriched Food Canteen

Starts: 8 Dec 2025, 10:00 am
Finishes: 8 Dec 2025, 3:00 pm
Venue: Crossways Church Hall 18 Hampton Street, SE17 3AL
Remaining places: 10
Be Enriched is a South-London based charity focused on reducing social isolation through food, they are looking for volunteers to help cook and share food at their community canteen service.

Insights, tips, and tricks

Do you wonder what the benefits of volunteering are? Or how you can get involved? Find out more during these seminars.

Community Engagement Programme Information Event ZOOM

Starts: 30 Oct 2025, 5:00 pm
Finishes: 30 Oct 2025, 6:00 pm
Learn more about the Community Engagement Programme 2025-6, the LSE Volunteer Centre's consultancy programme open to all students

LSE School Governor Scheme - November Information Session

Starts: 11 Nov 2025, 12:00 pm
Finishes: 11 Nov 2025, 1:00 pm
Join this information session hosted by LSE and Governors for Schools to explore what it means to volunteer as a school governor.

Introduction to Volunteering Session

Starts: 17 Nov 2025, 10:00 am
Finishes: 17 Nov 2025, 2:00 pm
Venue: Westminster City Hall, SW1E 6QP
This session is ideal for anyone 16 or older, who is interested in volunteering, and making a difference in their community - but isn’t sure where to start.

TED Talk: The Way We Think About Charity Is Dead Wrong

Starts: 20 Nov 2025, 1:00 pm
Finishes: 20 Nov 2025, 2:00 pm
Venue: LSE, Lincoln Chambers, Portsmouth Street, LCH G.01 (LSE Volunteer Centre)
Remaining places: 22
What is charity? Is the way we think about charity right? Join us in a TED Talk viewing and open discussion around the way that charity works.

Meet charity representatives on campus

Come meet and chat to charity representatives on campus offering various volunteering roles.

Charity Tuesday - UAID international

Starts: 11 Nov 2025, 12:00 pm
Finishes: 11 Nov 2025, 1:30 pm
Venue: LSE, Lincoln Chambers, Portsmouth Street, LCH G.01 (LSE Volunteer Centre)
Every Tuesday we celebrate Charity Tuesday by inviting a charity partner onto campus to talk to students about the volunteering opportunities they have to offer.

Charity Tuesday - ICYE UK

Starts: 18 Nov 2025, 12:00 pm
Finishes: 18 Nov 2025, 1:30 pm
Venue: LSE, Lincoln Chambers, Portsmouth Street, LCH G.01 (LSE Volunteer Centre)
Every Tuesday we celebrate Charity Tuesday by inviting a charity partner onto campus to talk to students about the volunteering opportunities they have to offer.

Charity Tuesday - EcoSwell

Starts: 25 Nov 2025, 12:00 pm
Finishes: 25 Nov 2025, 1:30 pm
Venue: LSE, Lincoln Chambers, Portsmouth Street, LCH G.01 (LSE Volunteer Centre)
Every Tuesday we celebrate Charity Tuesday by inviting a charity partner onto campus to talk to students about the volunteering opportunities they have to offer.

Charity Tuesday - TimeGivers

Starts: 2 Dec 2025, 12:00 pm
Finishes: 2 Dec 2025, 1:30 pm
Venue: LSE, Lincoln Chambers, Portsmouth Street, LCH G.01 (LSE Volunteer Centre)
Every Tuesday we celebrate Charity Tuesday by inviting a charity partner onto campus to talk to students about the volunteering opportunities they have to offer.

Charity Tuesday - Making the Leap

Starts: 9 Dec 2025, 12:00 pm
Finishes: 9 Dec 2025, 1:30 pm
Venue: LSE, Lincoln Chambers, Portsmouth Street, LCH G.01 (LSE Volunteer Centre)
Every Tuesday we celebrate Charity Tuesday by inviting a charity partner onto campus to talk to students about the volunteering opportunities they have to offer.

Personalised advice

Would you like more advice or do you want to talk about anything volunteering related? Book a one-to-one discussion with the Volunteer Centre Manager.

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