Single parents are great at supporting each other in our groups and digital communities! If you’d like to take it one step further, we have two volunteer roles to choose from, supporting single parents in a local group or in our digital community.

We offer all volunteers support, flexibility and appreciation. Volunteering with Gingerbread makes use of your experiences as a single parent and can help you make friends, rebuild confidence, or gain useful experience for work. No particular experience or knowledge is needed and full training and support is provided.

‘It’s literally changed my life’

Sherisha is a Gingerbread volunteer. Find out why she finds volunteering so rewarding.

Recruitment process

When we receive your application we will contact you for a quick chat to answer any questions. We’ll then arrange an informal interview, contact your two referees and complete a basic DBS criminal record check. If your application is successful, we’ll ask you to sign the Gingerbread Volunteer Agreement  then arrange your training and introduce you to other volunteers.  Getting started as a volunteer group lead, which we refer to as our on-boarding process, takes about 4 weeks from making your initial application through to completion.  The training involves an induction and a safeguarding session, both of which take about 1.5 hours.

Learn more about our onboarding process.