Trafford Community Collective is working with the Trafford Community Hubs to make volunteering more accessible in our local communities. If you’d like to find out more about volunteering in our borough, visit our dedicated webpage at www.traffordcollective.org.uk/volunteer

‘Building Trafford’s Community Volunteer Network’ is the Trafford Community Collective’s project with Trafford’s six community hubs to support and promote volunteering in our local communities. Our new person-centred, hub-based approach places a volunteer coordinator in each of the hubs. Together they have built up a wealth of knowledge on volunteering opportunities in their neighbourhood by working closely with the local VCFSE sector. Our volunteer coordinators use this information to support local residents to find them a range of suitable roles to meet their individual needs. We share our knowledge with Thrive Trafford to help with volunteer brokerage across our borough.

We have begun to make our shared database accessible to the public by releasing information in 6 neighbourhood bulletins.

Each bulletin features a summary of volunteering opportunities for that part of Trafford and all the reports include Trafford-wide roles too. We hope the reports will be useful for support workers helping their clients to find volunteering roles (e.g. social prescribers, social care link workers, jobcentre staff) or for any member of the public interested in browsing a list of local opportunities.

You can find the reports on our brand new webpage dedicated to community volunteering in Trafford, where you can also get in touch with your local volunteer coordinator.

Trafford’s Community Volunteer Network project will deliver at least one volunteer recruitment fair in each of the six neighbourhoods in Trafford each year.
Six Volunteer recruitment fairs were held over the year 2023-24 – with 532 attendees & 112 exhibitor organisations.

We will post regular updates here on the Trafford Community Collective website to keep you informed of future fairs. For any general or Trafford-wide issues, including registering your interest in exhibiting at one of our volunteer fairs, please contact Kaf Bays, Delivery Officer for the Trafford Community Collective, at katherine@stretfordpublichall.org.uk

You may be interested to hear about some of the experiences of volunteers across Trafford. Click below.