Full-time volunteer opportunities

Cambridge Cyrenians recruit up to six full-time volunteers at any one time to live and work with the residents of our short-stay and long-stay community houses.The position can provide valuable work experience and suitable entry requirements for degree level courses. Volunteers receive pocket money, their own room, time off, holidays and appropriate training and support Volunteers are responsible for the day-today running of the houses, but are supported by experienced staff.

If you are interested in volunteering with us, and gaining experience of working with people for six months or more in a supported way, then this may be for you.

What Cambridge Cyrenians do

Cambridge Cyrenians offers accommodation and support to single homeless adults. The project aims to offer an accepting and supportive environment where people live in a community. The project does not offer hostels, rather homes that aim to be non-institutional and democratic. The project tries to allow people to live as they wish to live.

Our attitudes to homeless people are often determined by preconceived ideas - for instance it is often presumed that the blame for homelessness lies with the individuals themselves. The reality is often quite different, social and economic factors are a major cause of homelessness. These factors have led to many homeless people moving around the country in search of accommodation or work. The deteriorating housing situation for homeless people makes the problems facing them even more severe. There is no easy solution to the problem of homelessness, but any form of approach must be to offer a variety of housing so that homeless people have a real choice.

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