Professional and Skilled

• www.volunteers-abroad.com Volunteer placements worldwide, providing unique travel and work experiences to people of all ages and backgrounds
• www.volunteerafrica.org An International 'not for profit' organisation that is run by a team of volunteers spread around the world
• http://www.aegisstudents.org/ Aegis Students, a subsidiary of Aegis Trust, is an international student-based genocide prevention movement, committed to educating, campaigning and fundraising to end genocide and mass atrocities.
• www.globalvolunteers.org A non-governmental organization (NGO) in special consultative status with the United Nations, Global Volunteers mobilizes some 150 service-learning teams year-around to work in 18 countries on six continents, and is the internationally recognized leader in this field of work
• www.internationalservice.org.uk An international development organisation providing skilled and experienced people to work in local partner organisations in Latin America, West Africa and the Middle East.
• www.i-to-i.com An award-winning organisation providing unique travel and work experiences to people of all ages, from all backgrounds
• www.ivs-gb.org.uk Hundreds of voluntary projects in Europe, North and South America, Africa and Asia
• www.unaexchange.org Supports community development through volunteering in more than 70 countries
• www.worldexchange.org.uk Supports the social, economic and spiritual development of villages and local urban communities in the developing world.
• www.ceci.ca A Canada-based organisation which supports development in many of the poorest countries on the planet.
• www.unv.org Volunteer arm of the UN, it serves as a partner in developmental cooperation.
• www.worldvolunteerweb.org Supports the volunteer community by serving as a global clearing house for information and resources linked to volunteering.
• www.workingabroad.com The international networking service for volunteers, workers and travellers. It's involved in projects in over 150 countries worldwide.
• www.volunteer.org.uk New Zealand based, it offers voluntary work in community projects throughout the developing world, supporting the work of local community organisations.
• www.casa-alianza.org Based in Latin America, it provides basic necessities to children 365 days a year.
• www.ivs-gb.org.uk Works for sustainable development of local and global communities worldwide.
• www.challengesworldwide.com Scottish based charity, matching skilled individuals with short-term voluntary placements overseas.
• Aviva provide placements working with children or conservation for a period of between 4 – 6 weeks in South Africa, costs vary.
• Concern enable willing volunteers the opportunity to undertake global challenges in a variety of locations including the Himalayas, China, Peru and Europe. Challenges last 2 – 4 weeks, and costs vary.
• Africa & Asia Venture is a specialist gap year organisation and a founding member of the Year Out Group. They offer a wide variety of opportunities including; teaching, coaching sport, conservation work and construction projects in Africa and Asia. Typical placement length is 5 – 6 months and costs vary depending on location.
• Africa Trust offer placements working with disadvantaged children in the UK, Ghana, Morocco and the Cameroon. Placement lengths vary between 3 – 6 months, some last longer and costs vary depending on time and location.
• BUNAC provide voluntary placements ranging between 6 – 12 months in North America, Australasia and South Africa. Placements enable volunteers the opportunity to help in conservation, teaching and general working holidays. Costs vary depending on location.
• www.csv.org.uk/Volunteer/Full-time CSV’s full-time volunteers participate for 4-12 months in the UK helping to change the lives of people in need, facing new challenges, making new friends, and developing essential personal and workplace skills.
• www.findagap.com A comprehensive gap-year directory of gap-year ideas, gap-year travel destinations, gap-year jobs, gap-year placements and expeditions, backpacking information & much more.
• www.gapwork.com/gap-year-educator Free gap-year magazine that will guide you through your gap-year options.
• www.iaeste.org.uk Provides course-related summer placements abroad for science, engineering and applied arts students.
• www.springboard.org.uk/volunteering/ Springboard for Children’s full-time volunteers commit to working 35 hours per week, from September to the following August, working one-to-one with children between the ages of 6-11 years, helping them to learn to read and write.
• www.yearoutgroup.org A website packed with information and guidance on taking a gap-year or career break.
• Travelling & Living Overseas Travel advice and tips for British travellers on staying safe abroad and what help the FCO can provide if something goes wrong
• Gap Year Review.co.uk Gap Year Review is an independent website that provides you with objective reviews of all of the big gap year companies so you know before you go.
• Platform2 is a global volunteering experience funded by the Department for International Development and run by Christian Aid, Islamic Relief and BUNAC
• Responsible Travel since 2001, have been handpicking inspiring holidays from all over the globe to give their customers a fantastic experience and make a real difference to local people and the environment.
• Tourism Concern is the only UK organisation campaigning on exploitation in the global tourism industry.
• Volunteering England works to support and increase the quality, quantity, impact and accessibility of volunteering throughout England.
• Winant Clayton Volunteer Association offers British and Irish volunteers a variety of two month placements in the United States working with children, with the elderly and with the disadvantaged.

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