Volunteer with us

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:

1. Safeguarding Children and Adults

2. Dealing with disclosures and concerns about a child or adult

3. Happy Baby Community Code of Conduct

4. Happy Baby Community Confidentiality Agreement

5. 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 www.happybabycommunity.org.uk/research-and-reports

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

OPPORTUNITIES TO HELP THE TEAM

We are currently searching for people in London and in our new Crawley group in the following roles:

Perinatal Support

We welcome volunteers with a background in perinatal support such as Doulas, Breastfeeding Counsellors or Midwifes to provide 1-1 support to pregnant mothers by making weekly calls, Zoom calls or in face-to-face groups.

Therapy Support

We provide 1-1 therapy support to our community members and listening sessions in our face-to-face groups. If you are a qualified therapist and would like to support vulnerable women, you are welcome to apply.

Multilingual volunteers

Most of our community members face difficulties in communication and reaching out for support due to language barriers. We are looking for interpreters or multilingual volunteers to assist our members communicate their needs. The most needed languages are: Kurdish Sorani, Tigrinya, Amharic, Mandarin, Arabic etc.

Friendship groups

We run weekly calls on zoom for mothers who speak the same language, so they can meet and chat with each other. We also provide education sessions in this group. We are looking for volunteers to facilitate the Friendship groups. We are looking for volunteers who speak Kurdish Sorani, Tigrinya, Amharic, Mandarin, Arabic etc.

Practical support

We provide clothes and practical things to our community members. We arrange hospital bags and clothes parcels in Croydon, and we need volunteers to help sort through our donations and arrange these parcels.

Welfare Support

We provide a range of welfare support services to our community members, with help from our experienced volunteers. If you have experience in supporting asylum seekers and refugees with welfare issues such as immigration law, housing, school or nursery enrolments, we will welcome your help.

Community Group and Children’s program Support

Every week we run community groups at five sites in London.   Here  we provide activities and lunch as a way to meet other mums and share our experiences as mums.  We are looking for volunteers interested in making a weekly commitment of around 4 hours to join a group and support the outreach team.  We also need volunteers with experience of providing activities and sessions for children aged 0-3.  

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