Clothing challenges and Gift-sorting challenges are controlled by the amount of donations that we receive. Because we are allowing bookings upto 4 months in advance, we are limiting the clothing challenges to what we think donations will be arriving in 4 months time.. We would hate to accept a request to volunteer, and then be forced to cancel because we have nothing for your team to sort. If there are opportunites where we can increase the number of dates available, or if there are cancellations, we will open the diary to more opportunities.
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What Our Volunteers Say
We had such a brilliant morning working with the staff at the mission and also serving the clients - both who were very appreciative for the help. I would like to thank Lisa, Joe, Cameron, Luke, Nikola and Mark for their hard work throughout the morning. Also thank you to Steph Lewin who organised the morning for us!
John Murphy, Company Secretary and General Counsel
J. Murphy & Sons Limited
Last week some colleagues from our London office took part in the Breakfast Challenge at Whitechapel Mission.
The Mission is open daily for anyone who needs it, serving around 300 people a day; the guests also have the opportunity to shower there, and to receive help from the advice centre which is run by staff and volunteers.
The Mission is open daily for anyone who needs it, serving around 300 people a day; the guests also have the opportunity to shower there, and to receive help from the advice centre which is run by staff and volunteers.
Marieke Schrauwers
Birketts LLP
At Trinnovo Group we give all of our people two paid charity days per year, to allow them to time out of work to support a good cause. Today, Marita Harper and I spent the morning at Whitechapel Mission, supporting their Life Skills Advice hub.
Hayley H.
Trinnovo Group
3,013
volunteers so far this year
28,078
volunteering hours so far this year
112,475
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Frequently Asked Questions
We do not charge for volunteering at the Whitechapel Mission. We wish to encourage volunteering as a concept and especially at the Mission. This means that our volunteering programme is very popular and we must always leave room for our long-term supporters. Priority over our diary will always go to our Priority Partners.
We have to give our priority partners first chance at the diary and only those organizations can book that far a head. Our experience also shows that bookings made more than 4 month inadvance get cancelled more often than not.
These companies are members of our 5000Club and recognized as Priority Partners
Due to the popularity of our Volunteering programme, we can only offer one of each challenge in a given month.
These dates have been requested by a group but not yet confirmed by staff of the Mission. We will always attempt to confirm at least 1 month (usually 6 weeks) in advance. These dates are "provisionally booked". Striped backgounds are awaiting confirmation!
This is possible, but you are only likely to get the date, if the first request is not confirmed or the compant decide to pull out.
This is usually reserved for our priority partners only
This usually only happens when you book a long way in advance and we are not able to confirm yet. We will be in touch. If there is less than 6 weeks to go, it is always worth an email to [email protected]
Of course, there may always be very good reasons which may force you to cancel, but we do need a high level of commitment once the date has been agreed by both parties. Cancelling with months of notice isn't a problem at all. Failing to show or canceling at short notice is likely to result in us not being able to accept another request to volunteer.
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