Volunteer with Crisis this Christmas and be there for someone as they build a life beyond homelessness.
Crisis at Christmas 2024 has now finished. We will be opening volunteering opportunities for Crisis at Christmas 2025 later in the year. You can find information about our year-round volunteering opportunities on our Brent, Croydon and London Skylight pages. If you are interested in volunteering in a shop, you can find information about this on our shops page.
Join our friendly and supportive volunteer community that’s passionate about ending homelessness. With many volunteers returning year after year, the connections you make at Christmas can be long-lasting. And the relationships you build with people experiencing homelessness can be life-changing.
Every Christmas, we provide warmth, companionship, and vital services to thousands of people facing homelessness. In London, we provide individual hotel rooms to hundreds of people in most need of support. This is only possible thanks to the support of thousands of volunteers across Britain.
Through our year-round services, hotels and health and wellbeing programmes, we supported over 5,500 people in 2024.
We have a range of roles and shift times across December and January to suit you. You could be welcoming guests, serving hot meals, or running activities and services in our hotels and day centres. Or you could work behind the scenes in our Canning Town Warehouse, helping to get vital supplies out to our services. We also need specialist health and wellbeing volunteers such as physios, opticians, hairdressers and more to support our guests. Whatever your role, you’ll be making a huge difference.
We ask that volunteers commit to at least two shifts. All training will be provided beforehand, including information on what to expect and how to prepare for your role. This year we’re particularly looking for volunteers to fill our night shift and January roles.
