Student Volunteering Week 2022

Student Volunteering Week 2022 is the 21st year of this national celebration of student volunteering. Taking place from 7 – 13 February, Student Volunteering Week will celebrate volunteering and its impacts, including: 

• Improving student wellbeing
• Developing students’ employability skills
• Its positive contributions to both the wider and local community

Student Volunteering Week is a unique, inspiring opportunity to learn all about volunteering and how you can get involved. And if you’re already a student volunteer, it’s the perfect chance  to showcase your society and all the wonderful things you do to students interested in joining you.

With students so often at the forefront of campaigns and work on social issues such as  sustainability and social entrepreneurship, volunteering is an excellent way to make an active contribution to the causes you care about. We hope Student Volunteering Week will give you the information and motivation you need to get involved and make a difference.

LUU and The University of Leeds have got lots of exciting events and talks planned during this week, including a fair with groups such as Leeds Uni Boob team, Marrow Society, SSAFE and many more. The University Volunteer team will also be there to answer all your volunteering related questions.

The University is also running many Volunteering talks during this week including How to Become a Student Volunteer and a talk from Yorkshire’s Brain Tumour Charity.

On top of this we have a Community Litter Pick taking place on 9 February.

That’s just a snapshot of everything taking place during Student Volunteering Week, so head over to Engage to see everything on offer.

To find out more about what students all over the country are up to this week, you can also follow Student Volunteering Week on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram, or visit their website.

Podcast lover? Listen to the brilliant Leanne from the Careers Service talk to Rachel (Volunteer Manager) and Leane (Student Volunteer) from the Leeds Hospitals Charity as they chat about volunteering for the charity, how volunteers make a difference and how you could get involved.

Listen to the podcast here, or on Spotify here.

There’s also a survey live right now for you to share your experiences with volunteering! Whether you have volunteered before or not, we’d love it if you could take a few minutes to answer our short, simple survey.

Finally, to kickstart the week we chatted to our Wellbeing Officer Beth about her experience as a Student Volunteer. Read the interview here.