St John’s enables / runs a number of initiatives that needs volunteers. Without our volunteers, these initiatives would struggle to run.
| Initiative | Category | Goals |
|---|---|---|
| Community Fridge | Care for our environment &community | To reduce food waste and thus carbon emissions, by collecting food from supermarkets and shops and redistributing the food to everyone from any background. This also provides a safe space for the community to interact with each other to foster a stronger community. Runs every Saturday from 11am-1pm. To volunteer, fill form below. |
| Hope Cafe | Care for our community | This is our community cafe that enables everyone from any background to have a hot nutritious meal. We embrace a zero waste philosophy. Runs every Wednesday from 11.30am-1.30pm |
| Infant Feeding Clinic | Care for our community: Health & Wellbeing | Enables young mothers to access professional NHS advice. To provide a safe space for mothers and their partners to come learn about baby nutrition and care, and to interact with other parents to foster a stronger community. To volunteer, fill form below. |
| Genesis Project | Care for our environment & community | We have planted about 700 trees around Egham Orbit and in the Quincy Road green. We need help to maintain the trees, weed around them, water the trees during summer and mulch the trees. |
| Litter Pick | Care for our environment & community | To safeguard our environment and to reduce the amount of human waste that would harm our animals and communities especially toxic waste like cigarette butts, plastic, car batteries, etc. To find out when we do our next litter pick, join our facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/StJohnsEghamEcoChurch |
| parkrun | Care for our community: Health & Wellbeing | St John’s enabled the development and creation of a 5k run/walk at Egham Orbit that first ran on the 25th January 2025 and continues to support it as part of improving the health and well being of our communities. This run/walk is managed by the parkrun organisation. To volunteer please see here: https://www.parkrun.org.uk/eghamorbit/volunteer/ |
| Playtime | Care for our community: Health & Wellbeing | To provide a safe space for under 5 children to play, interact, and develop social-ability. At the same time, provides a place for carers and parents to interact with each other to foster a stronger community. To volunteer, fill form below. |
| Repair Clinic | Care for our environment & community | To reduce landfill / incineration waste by empowering our communities to learn how to repair items that they thought they could not use. |
To be able to lead an initiative or to be part of an initiative that involved children, you are expected to have completed the COE safeguarding course that you can find here: https://safeguardingtraining.cofeportal.org/ You will need to enter that you are part of the Guildford Diocese
The following table breaks down the volunteer roles that are required. It is also to help develop CVs & write reports. These are skills you will learn:
| Ministry | Volunteer Role | Skills Learned |
|---|---|---|
| Community Fridge | Processing Food | Food Hygiene and Safety, Teamwork, Observational |
| Community Fridge | Collecting Food | Logistics, Organisational and Communications, Teamwork |
| Community Fridge | Distributing Food | Public Engagement, Empathy, Teamwork |
| Community Fridge | High Street | Public Engagement, Presentation, Speaking |
| Community Fridge | Managing the Volunteer Schedule (Remote) | Organisational and Communications, Teamwork |
| Community Fridge | Leading | Leadership / Managing, Communications, Observational, Directing. Need to complete a safeguard certificate https://safeguardingtraining.cofeportal.org/ |
| Community Fridge | Closing Down and Reset | Logistics, Teamwork |
| Hope Cafe | Help serve and talk with customers | Service, Teamwork, Communications, Empathy |
| Hope Cafe | Help prepare food in the kitchen | Need at least a level 1 food and safety hygiene certificate or completed the inhouse training |
| Infant Feeding Clinic | Serving parents | Empathy, Communications, Need to complete a safeguard certificate https://safeguardingtraining.cofeportal.org/ |
| Infant Feeding Clinic | Closing Down | Logistics, Teamwork |
| Litter Pick | Litter picking | Environmental Awareness, Teamwork, Communications |
| parkrun | Marshal | Public Engagement, Empathy |
| parkrun | Run Director | Leadership / Managing, Communications, Observational, Directing, Presentation. Recommended to do a safeguarding course https://safeguardingtraining.cofeportal.org/ |
| Playtime | Setting up | Organisational, Teamwork |
| Playtime | Serving parents and children | Empathy, Communications, Teamwork, Need to complete a safeguard certificate https://safeguardingtraining.cofeportal.org/ |
| Repair Clinic | Repair Coach: Fixing Items | Problem Solving, Critical thinking, Teamwork |
| Repair Clinic | Registration, identifying items to fix, helping coaches | Public Engagement, Managing customers and helping repair coaches |
If you would like to volunteer with us, we would love to have you onboard and would be grateful if you could fill in our volunteer form:
If you’re from Royal Holloway, we would also encourage you to register at the RHUL volunteering hub: https://volunteering.royalholloway.ac.uk/index-classic