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Enable visitors to meet with local residents who are enthusiastic and keen to share the area they know well. Greeters will provide a rewarding experience for visitors and tourists travelling to the capital. To book a greet, go to the website: www.londongreeters.org.

Women's theatre, education and new-writing company founded by ex-prisoners and open to all women with experience of the criminal justice system and women at risk of offending due to mental health needs and/or drug/alcohol abuse.

Supports, promotes and involves older people (aged 50 plus)working as volunteers or wanting to work as volunteers in the community. Projects include the Networkers Programme - volunteers using their skills and experience to pass on information to local elders; school volunteers; knitting groups; befrienders.

Local branch of national network which gives disabled people of any age assistance with computer problems, hardware or software. Volunteers visit people in their homes to give them help with their own computers.

Food provided to those in need. At weekends they offer a change of clothes and showers to any man or woman who needs it.

Organises volunteers of all ages and backgrounds, offering a wide range of services for patients in the Trusts hospitals: University College Hospital, Royal London Hospital for Integrated Medicine, the Heart Hospital (in Westminster) and the National Hospital. Volunteers need to be over 18 and be…

Recruits and organises volunteers to work with sick children and their parents.

Weekend volunteering scheme with one-off projects at community venues: painting, gardening, digging etc. No application procedure, volunteers should check the website calendar and contact the coordinator if there is an event they wish to attend.

Provide a range of outreach services for street homeless people in London, including tea runs and soup runs. Some accommodation is provided in a community house in Camden and ongoing support through a visits programme. Cold weather shelter Jan-March.

Independent custody visitors are volunteer members of the public appointed by the Mayor's Office for Policing and Crime. They are authorised to visit detainees in Camden's police stations at any hour, to ensure that they know and receive their rights and are well cared for.…

For blind and partially sighted people resident within the twelve inner London boroughs. Provide advice and information, small grants (up to £250) and aids to daily living. Loans audio equipment to registered blind and partially sighted people. Provides a welfare rights advice service. Visiting and…

Promotes and supports reciprocal volunteering among members and prospective members with the aim of bringing people from very different backgrounds together to get to know each other, learn new skills and knowledge and provide services and facilities within the community. Runs two after school clubs…

National organisation of 2000 volunteer knitters making knitted goods for worthy causes. Donations of wool required. Local knitting organisers arrange distributions to hospitals, hospices and foreign aid convoys.

Provides information, advice, support, advocacy, counselling, translation, English language lessons, business start-up, NVQ management courses for BME women only. Various courses including community leadership, digital media, IT for users, ESOL and research. Immigration casework (OISC registered).

A group formed from people involved in the management of Camden's various volunteer-run nature reserves. Aims include educating local people about wildlife conservation, maintaining and increasing the wildlife habitat, promoting volunteering at the reserves, running training sessions, public meetings, visits to nature reserves around London…

Mayor of London initiative to provide support to people sleeping rough for the first time. Work closely with the borough's own homelessness services. Volunteers welcome. Project extended until 2015.

Organises events and trips including 4 day breaks for people of all ages in the West Hampstead, Kilburn, South Cricklewood, Swiss Cottage areas. Also organises fundraising activities to enable all members of local community to take part. Self awareness workshops. Music/sound equipment and a bouncy…

Volunteer visiting and befriending service for housebound people who are over 60.

Works with families offering a range of play activities for children and various classes for adults, with creche. Free laundry service; secondhand clothing and toys; toy lending library. Volunteer opportunities.

National campaigning organisation. (The details shown here were taken from the organisation's website).