Cancer Research UK are looking for help in the run-up to Christmas. Christmas card and gift sales assistants and Christmas delivery assistants are required in their shops. Call into a Cancer Research UK shop or click www.cancerresearchuk.org for details of these and other opportunities.

The Red Cross needs volunteers. Go online to www.redcross.org.uk to see specific opportunities and apply online.

Current volunteering opportunities with Save The Children are online at www.savethechildren.org.uk or available over the phone – call 020 7012 6400.

Women’s Aid in Belfast need volunteers to staff their domestic violence helpline. The next 6-week training programme begins in January. Click on www.womensaidni.org for details of this and of opportunities outside Belfast.