Volunteering

High Life Highland’s Learning for Life service provides free, confidential tuition on a one-to-one or small group basis. We provide help to people seeking to improve their literacy, numeracy and digital literacy skills, and encourage personal confidence and lifelong learning. We also work with people who speak English as a second language.

Opportunities:

Volunteer Learning Support

• Commitment of minimum two hours per week
• Supporting a Tutor to deliver high quality learning for groups of adults
• Identify individual learning needs and goals of learners, and provide opportunities for personal development

Volunteer Tutor (One-to-One Learning)

• Commitment of minimum one hour per week
• Planning and delivering one-to-one literacy, numeracy or digital literacy tuition for adults
• Identify individual learning needs and goals of learners, and provide opportunities for personal development

Essential attributes of volunteers include:

• Reliability
• Excellent communication skills
• An inspirational personality that engenders enthusiasm and trust
• A commitment to undertaking Learning for Life’s tutor training course