Give Your Time to Volunteer
Give your time to support our small small team of 3.5 full time equivalent paid staff – you’ll be enabling us to do more for Mashamshire! Your time helps provide more help, it enables us to keep our running costs as low as possible, and helps us raise vital funds to support ourselves.
At the same time, volunteering is a positive move and keeps you connected with what’s going on. Our volunteers tell us that they give their time because they can see how our services are really making a difference to our community.
We know that not everyone has time to give on a regular basis. But if you have skills to share, ad hoc help is always useful too – anything from helping at events to marketing, copywriting, proof reading or posting on social media. Help can come in smaller packages and still make a big difference!
Here are a selection of our regular volunteer roles to give you an idea…
Local Volunteer Driver Scheme
Our new volunteer driver scheme launched in April and is growing from strength to strength. We already have 50+ members signed up and have completed many journeys thanks to our volunteer drivers. This service is not free but reasonable charges apply, making essential travel more accessible across our rural community.
If a local resident is in need of transport for a pre-booked health appointment and they are unable to arrange travel to attend, our new volunteer driver scheme could help.
With limited transport options available to the most vulnerable in our community, MCO are seeking volunteer drivers to join us in an exciting new venture.
Volunteer drivers provide a vital door-to-door service for people who need help to access appointments related to their health and well-being. Why not volunteer as a driver and help support our local community?
Click on our Frequently Asked Questions to learn more about the role or contact us for more information:
Tel: 01765 680200
E-Mail: info@visitmasham.com
Volunteer Driver Enquiry FormVolunteer Minibus Drivers
If you have time and enjoy driving, we’re looking for drivers for our new schedule of community social outings and trips, using the Heck Community Bus.
We’ve put together a plan of interesting outings that will enable members of our rural community to get out and about – shopping visits, seaside trips and interesting visitor destinations. If these trips prove popular, then we may look to extend them and we’ll be needing to know who can help support and develop this new service.
Join a community trip.
Contact Us to Find Out MoreVolunteer Walk Leaders
Volunteer as a walk leader and we’ll provide training to enable you to guide and support our community Wellbeing Walks.
We currently offer short and slightly more challenging walks around Masham and the local area. You could help develop new routes, or perhaps even devise new walking routes that we can convert into maps to sell to visitors and support our fundraising.
We are currently exploring ‘Visitor Guided Walks’ for Summer 2025 – so if you would like to be involved in sharing our fantastic scenery and history with those visitors this summer – then get in touch.
Contact Us to Find Out MoreCommunity Library Volunteers
Our community library is open 6 days a week and is run entirely by volunteers, with resources and support from NYC Library Services.
Become a Library Volunteer and you can help new members to join, coordinate the ordering of books and replenishing of shelves, help members find their perfect next read and host storytime with Acorns pre-school children. It is a varied role and typically involves half a day of time per week. All training can be provided.
Contact Us to Find Out MoreCommunity Information & Support Volunteer
If you’d like to be the friendly face that helps members of our community to access the vital information and help they need to access Council Services, make informed decisions, improve their wellbeing and connect with others, this could be the role for you.
You’ll need to enjoy helping people and be someone who likes taking on board a wide range of information from different sources. It is a varied and developing role and typically involves half a day of time per week. All training can be provided.
Contact Us to Find Out MoreVisitor Information & Support Volunteer
If you are proud of where we live, have a passion for local history, a love of the countryside around us, or good knowledge of great places to visit and things to do, why not share all this with visitors?
You could be that welcoming face that makes a great impression on visitors to Masham, helping them to appreciate what we have to offer. They could even decide to make Masham a regular haunt as a result!
This is an interesting role and varies according to the season. Typically it involves half a day of time per week. Training can be provided but a good local knowledge is very useful.
Contact Us to Find Out MoreCommunication & Marketing Volunteer
If you have an eye on news, information and what people need to know, maybe you’d like to explore this role as a volunteer. We need help to help keep our website up to date with information and what’s happening locally, we need help formulating and distributing information via social media, email marketing and other promotional materials. If you like to be creative, we also need help making short promotional videos, writing copy and PR.
In this age of constant communication and information, we ALWAYS need people who have skills or want to learn, to help us shout about the great things we do.
These roles could be regular or ad hoc according to what fits with you.
Contact Us to Find Out MoreDigital Support Volunteer
Join the team as a digital support volunteer and help people with digital challenges to overcome their problems. Whether it’s help to get online, stay safe or stay connected, many people in our community feel out of their depth and you might be able to help.
You need to listen to work out people’s issues and be able to clearly explain what they need to know. If you are already confident with using apps, tablets, phones, the internet and computers generally, that’s great, but additional training is available.
Our team of volunteers run regular drop-in sessions at various locations to champion the use of technology to make people’s lives easier.
Ideally these roles require a couple of hours a week but could be more ad hoc, according to what fits with you.
Contact Us to Find Out More