responsible volunteering from award-winning people and places
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why volunteer with people and places?

want to volunteer responsibly and ethically?
this can be challenging! which organisations are ethical and which aren't?
people and places is here to address this
we identify local needs and match them to your skills to create an individual placement just for you
you will work with – not instead of – local people - share and learn
we need to put the right people in the right places – that’s our job!


"people and places has exercised leadership in a sector bedevilled by poor practice"
The Judging Panel, Responsible Tourism Awards


Winner WTM Awards 2020

we match the RIGHT people to the RIGHT places ... ask us how
we can help you volunteer abroad or from home
call us 01795 535718 or message us


OK - so what volunteer placements do we offer?

Not an easy question to answer, because we work with each individual volunteer to learn about their skills, experience and goals. Each and every individual placement is a custom-made, bespoke match between the volunteer’s personal goals and the needs of the project community. We do not invent placements – you can be confident that your work will be contributing to a real need as identified by the projects themselves, with our support. You have goals and the project has goals … our job is to match them.

Below are just a few examples of the sort of volunteer work you could be doing. Learn about ALL of the projects we work with HERE

e-volunteer - read a story or demonstrate a skill (EV)
Location: FROM HOME
Project Type: e-volunteer
Film yourself reading a story or demonstrating a skill - crafts, business or educational - to be used by partners in schools, child support community projects and small businesses, providing training in skills and giving ideas for activities which may not be available locally


- [learn more]
building micro-business skills in The Gambia (CW)
Location: Gambia
Project Type: community support
Share your business and mentoring skills with people in The Gambia to enable them to build better livelihoods. Volunteer to help create local wealth, through trade not aid. - [learn more]
e-volunteer - story reading (EV)
Location: FROM HOME
Project Type: e-volunteer
Film yourself reading a children's story to be used by teachers in education and child support projects, providing access to stories not available locally and enabling children to hear stories read in English by native English speakers.


- [learn more]
empowering Girls in Morocco through Education (WE)
Location: Morocco
Project Type: womens empowerment
This project provides opportunities for girls from mountain villages to continue with their education. Whilst helping the girls to reach their potential, as a volunteer you will learn about Berber communities in the stunningly beautiful High Atlas. - [learn more]
No Woman Left Behind - a women's empowerment programme in The Gambia (WE)
Location: Gambia
Project Type: womens empowerment
Share your business and training skills to help support women in The Gambia who have been exploited in their past to become independent earners and build livelihoods and business opportunities for themselves.  - [learn more]
people and places match volunteer skills to project needs
we need teachers, nurses, healthcare and social workers, business & practical skills … and more!
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