Volunteering is a great way to maintain skills post retirement or during a career break, as well as providing opportunities to learn new skills while making a positive contribution to the community.  It can also offer fun and social contact as well as being a route into work after time out. There are lots of different ways you can volunteer for the OCC:

Through donating specialist skills

If you have any specialist skills you feel could benefit our organisation, you could donate your time either for a specific time-bound project or a regular slot of an hour or two a week/ month on an ongoing project.

Organising fundraisers or collections

A great way to support our work is to organise an easy event (link to Organise an event), raffle or collection for us. A coffee morning or street collection can help raise awareness as well as much needed funds, and doesn’t take too much of your valuable time. Organising these types of fundraisers can be really sociable and fun, and can quite easily turn into a welcome annual date on your calendar.

Virtual volunteering for osteopaths and other therapists

If you’d like to work alongside us to make treatments available to more families, then you could do so by donating a treatment’s fee from the comfort of your own clinic.

Volunteering osteopaths

If you’re a specialist paediatric osteopath, holding a DPO, and you want to maximise your exposure to a wide range of paediatric patients, and can volunteer one day a week, give us a call.

If you’d like to volunteer your time, please call Marketing on 020 8875 5290 or email marketing@fpo.org.uk in the first instance.