Summary of Corporate Volunteering Levels

Service	Approx. No. of registered volunteers (June 2025)	Role(s)
Countryside Volunteers	167	Checking paths, low-level maintenance and conservation tasks
Rotters	33	Events/shows, schools workshops and talks to groups all promoting reduction of food waste, home composting, recycling and reuse
Libraries	1,549	Help customers in library, help with shelving and stock, deliver books for home library service, help with children’s activities and IT
Records and archives	0*	Digitising records, cataloguing, organising materials
Archives	30	Transcribing and organising records, gathering oral histories and helping at open days and family history events
Democratic Services	36	Volunteers serve as appeals panel members for exclusion or admissions appeals
Major Incident Response Team	18	Supporting people affected by an incident
Ready for Anything	386	Database of community volunteers to be called on in an emergency
Adult learning	14	Volunteer teaching assistants (Syrian Refugee project and English classes)
Community Connectors (previously Children’s Centres)	7	Supporting new parents, signposting them to information and resources
Youth Justice Service	28	Panel members, appropriate adult, mentor, reparation supervisor
Flying High	0*	A youth voice project for young people with special educational and/or additional needs
Young People’s Council	5	A youth voice project for young people who have experienced Care Services
Youth Voice Executive	12	A youth voice committee representing young people’s view across North Yorkshire
SENDIASS	3	Independent support for parents of children or young people with special educational needs or disabilities (SEND), or for young people (16-25 years) with SEND to ensure their education, learning or training needs are supported
School governors	1776	Serve as governors and trustees on school boards (estimate based on 330 establishments x average 10 per board)
Chaperones	10	Chaperones who accompany children who have a licence to act or perform, to auditions/performances
Gardeners	0*	Supporting service users with gardening and conservation activities
Craven Museum (Skipton Town Hall)	23	Giving visitor information and helping in the shop
Craven Tourist Information	15	To provide information services to the public
Harrogate Museum	6	Cataloguing artifacts
Mercer Art Gallery	12	Audit collections at the gallery
Local Access Forum	5	Office holders assisting with issues in regard to countryside access
Community Volunteers	143	Providing conservation services, including In Bloom and Friends of groups
Walk Leaders	27	Take out groups of walkers on planned routes.
Living Well Stop Smoking	0	Help smokers completely stop smoking
Total	4,305

N.B Figures in italics are estimated from previous quarterly reports

* Services currently engaged in the Corporate Volunteering Programme and are either reviewing volunteer involvement and/or are seeking to recruit volunteers