Faith & HIV Volunteer
Are you Passionate about supporting others and creating a warm welcoming inclusive space.?
Faith Lane is looking for dedicated volunteers with lived experience to join our team as co-facilitators and support volunteers. Faith Lane is a dedicated space within My Community designed for Christians living with HIV to find support, connection and purpose. Its where spirituality meets solidarity-a home for Joy, Justice and Journey
Joy-Participate in an uplifting community feed filled with prayer huddles, listening prompts, quizzes, memes, and interactive film nights—all designed to dissolve stigma and spark lasting friendship
Journey-Engage in a structured six-week discipleship experience that moves participants from Unworthy to Worthy, fostering faith, resilience, and advocacy.
Justice-Collaborate on focused, six-week advocacy sprints tied to key moments in the Christian calendar (World AIDS Day, Easter, Pride, Pentecost), empowering participants to influence churches, media, and policy by sharing their lived experiences.
What is My Community?
My Community is a free online space for people living with HIV to feel supported, connect, share experiences, seek advice, find reliable information and get involved.
- Members can share personal experiences of living with HIV. This ranges from worries and concerns to celebrating successes and advances.
- Members can ask questions and seek advice from peers about living with HIV.
- The forum offers peer support and community, helping individuals feel less alone.
- It serves as a resource for reliable information about HIV including diagnosis, treatments and managing multiple health conditions.
- Members can promote and sign up to events and opportunities across the UK.
If you are compassionate, faith driven and would like to offer spiritual encouragement and would be confident to offer or be trained in this role, we would welcome your interest.
Tasks;
- Volunteer/Moderator should be willing to co-facilitate and co-host virtual sessions aligned with Faith Lane`s Journey, Joy or Justice tracks.
- To maintain a nurturing digital environment that supports open dialogue, spiritual encouragement and mutual respect, and be able to provide spiritual, emotional support, to actively engaging in discussions and activities.
- Be confident in assisting in the development and delivery of culturally sensitive content
- Successful volunteers will be expected to capture feedback from participants to enhance ongoing community development
- Be confident in collaborating with the wider Faith Lane team to continuously improve and innovate services
Volunteering at Terrence Higgins Trust
Today, volunteers continue to be an integral part of the work that we do across the UK. Volunteers help out in most teams within the charity and from 2022-2023 they contributed nearly 13000 hours supporting national projects.
Help us build our vision of a world where people with HIV live healthy lives free from prejudice and discrimination, and where good sexual health is a right and reality for all. Let's work together to try and become the first country in the world to end new cases of HIV by 2030.
Anyone aged over 18 can volunteer with us as long as they fulfil the role description and meet the volunteer requirements.
If you are successful in your application you will need to complete your volunteer training which includes an online volunteer induction, a data protection course and a safeguarding course as well as role specific training within your team. You must aim to complete your training before you can begin volunteering with us.
If you are unsuccessful in your application you can discuss other volunteering opportunities with the Volunteer Office.
Some volunteer roles may have rolling recruitment. If we receive sufficient applications we reserve the right to close recruitment early. We therefore advise you to apply for any roles you are interested in as soon as possible to avoid disappointment.
An ambitious organisation
Since 1982, we’ve acted boldly and passionately to meet the challenges of this ever-changing epidemic .We are working to end HIV transmission in the UK by 2030, support people to live with HIV and fight HIV-related stigma. It’s a critical moment – for the first time our goals are within reach. We are working together with our beneficiaries and partners to make the end of HIV transmission a reality.
A collaborative organisation
As the UK’s leading HIV charity, we are looking to take new, innovative steps to drive forward our ambition but we can achieve none of our goals alone. We do this through a strong team approach internally and working with partners externally. This might be others in the HIV or sexual health space, or organisations with very different expertise, cultural competencies or reach.
A people organisation
Terrence Higgins Trust is its people – our service users are central to our organisation and the services we provide are informed by their lives, voice and experience. Our talented staff create innovative and engaging programmes, many of whom are also living with HIV. We know that equity, diversity and inclusion are critical to the work we do. We are striving to be an anti-racist, anti-sexist, more inclusive organisation and are committed to having a workforce with people from different backgrounds.