Galleries to view
Welcome to our photo gallery. Flick through and get to know the Volunteer Centre, its staff team and the kind of events we hold. Below are galleries showing our location by the canal on a beautiful day, what it's like to visit us at the Drop-in Centre, what you might expect when you attend a forum, conference or training event, and see this year's pictures of our special annual event: the Awards Ceremony.
Welcome to Canalside House
Inside and Outside our Drop-in Centre and office
This is where our Drop-in Centre is located and where our Job Club, and many of our forums, conferences and training sessions take place.
Volunteer Centre art competition entries
We would like to send a big thank-you to all the artists that entered our competition
Congratulations to the winners chosen from more than 100 entries in Volunteer Centre’s 40th anniversary art contest. We thought that all the finalists’ works exhibited great sense of fun colour and a sophisticated sense of design. Diverse in media, wide-ranging in content and style, these paintings pictures and even a sculpture were all very impressive. We thank our judges Mary McGowan (curator of many exhibitions and Manager of Lyndon’s Arts Trust) and Martin Gannon (vo...
Solidarity Sports
Find out how Solidarity Sports works in the community
Sean was a documentary maker until he decided to give up his day job and set up his own charity providing an out-of-school activities to children in Earls Court. “I’d been running sports clubs for schools for about seven or eight years and parents were always asking me why I didn’t do weekends and holidays. But I was busy. I left university and threw myself into documentary making. Slowly, I realised that I was enjoying spending time with the kids much more than making the document...
Portrait exhibition goes on tour in 2010
Get a sneak preview of the exhibition here.
The exhibition showcases the work of Jason Wen, a photographer who has volunteered for charities all over the world (see more of Jason's photography here) . Each portrait is accompanied by a compelling story of how each person became a volunteer.