Cambridge University Skills Portal

Community-based learning and volunteering

• Cambridge Student Community Action
  Get involved in local issues and gain experience, confidence and skills at the same time.
• Volunteering and community participation
  Further opportunities for volunteering and getting involved.
• Non-medical assistance scheme
  Helping disabled students in the University in a non-medical way.
• CUED outreach volunteers
  Activities to promote Engineering in Cambridge and nationally.
• CU environmental consulting society
  Voluntary organisation, aiming to have a positive impact upon environmental problems by helping organisations and individuals (primarily within Cambridge) to alter their practices in cost-effective, efficient and environmentally sound ways.
• Design club
  Open society organised by the Engineering Department to enable students of any discipline to take part in practical engineering projects.
• Linkline
  Student-run volunteer listening support and information service.
• ChaOS (Cambridge hands-on science)
  Student society dedicated to transferring enthusiasm about science to the public.
• CU first aid society
  A division of St John Ambulance.
• Millennium maths project
  Maths education initiative for ages 5-19 and the general public, based at the University of Cambridge but active nationally and internationally.
• Student-run computing facility
  Service maintained by a group of volunteers, providing web hosting, shell accounts and various other computing services to members of the University and groups such as University societies.