By giving their time, skills and enthusiasm to activities that support us, volunteers are the heart and soul of the Friends of Friendless Churches. As a small but busy charity with a dispersed and varied collection of buildings, without them we simply could not achieve all that we do.
Most volunteers help to care for a FoFC church or chapel near them. As a local volunteer, you might:
You can find out more about what our local church volunteers do here.
If there isn’t a FoFC church or chapel near you, or you can’t make a regular commitment, we have other ways to get involved, including:
Volunteering with us is flexible and we hope that there will be something that appeals to you. However, we are not able to offer work experience placements and you must be aged 18 or over to volunteer with us.
Whatever inspires you to get involved, we’d love to hear from you! Email our Volunteer Coordinator at volunteers@fofc.org.uk.
Read more about how we work with volunteers in our Volunteer Policy (English) / Polisi Gwirfoddoli (Cymraeg).
Volunteer Grazyna Tutak at St Mary Magdalene’s, Caldecote, Herts
John Chance, past Chair of the Friends of St Andrew’s church, Wood Walton, Cambs
By volunteering with us you can:
“Would I recommend volunteering with the Friends of Friendless Churches? Absolutely! If you’re someone who appreciates heritage, volunteering offers a chance to make a real impact. It’s a flexible, rewarding way to contribute your skills, meet like-minded people, and help safeguard beautiful places for future generations.”
Lily - FoFC volunteer
"Sutterby - what do you see? A signpost; a few houses; a small church; a hard-working agricultural landscape of tractor and barn.
Step back - look again - for here under the grass and plough is another landscape - one of the people, of heritage, of owls, of lichens, of hidden marl and soft, sacred Spilsby sandstone. Second sightings of a lost congregation glimpsed through inventories and wills. Iron Age visitors scattering flints now precious mementoes of a forgotten and lost world.
Stop and listen for the church has a story to tell ...
Tiny, ancient, humble with an open door, which invites you to enter. As you do so, you take the first steps into seeing not just one building in a lost landscape, but the first steps into understanding history pared down into one community viewed over time.
This small church has drawn together an eclectic, delightful mix of people, thoughts, skills and ideas bonded together by a desire to understand one deserted corner of the Lincolnshire Wolds. We dig, record, research, survey, plant, plan, weed, sow, broggle. We meet our villagers through gravestones, vellum, pottery and flints. We meet them through learning their crafts. We meet them as we stare together at the stars.
Saved by the Friends of Friendless Churches, St John the Baptist, Sutterby stands sentinel to its past yet has a beating heart in the present.
We welcome you to visit the Spirit of Sutterby website and learn more ... "
If you’re interested in volunteering, or would like to learn more, please contact us at volunteers@fofc.org.uk.
