Beacon / Touchstone

Beacon Volunteer Project provides meaningful activities for individual Beacon service users who face many barriers to personal development. You may support individuals who are the beginning of their journey away from homelessness.

We also give service users the chance to receive 1-1 Befriending and peer support from trained volunteers with lived experience.

Please see more about our service here: Beacon Housing - Touchstone (touchstonesupport.org.uk)

The Beacon Volunteers Project offers individuals the opportunity to train to volunteer with our service users many of whom face significant barriers in their lives. You may be able to use your own lived experience, perhaps as a previous service user, or gain invaluable experience supporting clients to move forward by providing befriending support and volunteering alongside support workers across the Beacon service.

Tasks and responsibilities

• Supporting client activities at supported housing environments
• Providing one-one befriending support to identified clients
• Attending mandatory and ongoing training in the role
• Accompanying clients to recreational, training and community activities
• Ability to work collaboratively with Support Workers
• Gain experience of homelessness-related housing services