Readers' Panel Volunteer

Thank you for your interest in volunteering with Independent Age. Our volunteers play an important role in us being able to achieve our goal of improving the lives of older people facing financial hardship.
 
Please note that Independent Age treats all personal data and sensitive (special category) data collected in this form in accordance with our Data Protection Policy and the Data Protection Act 2018. We take your privacy very seriously and will never sell your data or disclose it without your consent unless required by law.
 
For more information on how data will be processed and kept secure, please refer to our Privacy Policy.
Eligibility  
At the moment you must be at least 18 years old to volunteer for Independent Age. Please confirm below that you are over the age of 18:
You can volunteer in the UK if you have one of these: the right to work in the UK, a visa that allows volunteering, refugee or asylum seeker status. Do you have one of these?
Name
DD/MM/YYYY
We are asking for your date of birth so that we can be sure that older people are represented on our Readers’ Panel
Contact Details
Your email address, home address and phone number are required for our records and communication with you about your volunteer role

The majority of our communication with Readers' Panel members is via email. If you do not have an email address, we are able to communicate via post instead.
Further Information  



Keeping you informed about Independent Age  
As a Readers' Panel Volunteer, we will periodically contact you relating to your role and to keep you informed about Independent Age, in line with our Privacy Policy.

You can also choose to hear about more of our work, in addition to this.

Third Party Consent
Occasionally, we support other organisations and our corporate partners by providing feedback on their information products or website.

Feedback will be shared anonymously as we do not share your personal information with 3rd party organisations.
Confirmation of details
Thank you, you have now provided all the information required to become a Readers Panel volunteer with Independent Age.
Equal Opportunities Monitoring 
The next section, Equal Opportunities Monitoring, is optional.

Equal Opportunities Monitoring involves asking some questions about your personal information, which we ask to help us evaluate whether our volunteering opportunities are open and accessible to all and to help us make improvements.

The information provided in this section is separate to your application form and will not impact your application or your volunteering. It is optional for you to complete and you have the option of answering 'Prefer not to say' for each question

You can withdraw your consent to providing this information at any time, by contacting volunteering@independentage.org

The information collected will be stored securely and processed in accordance with Independent Age's Data Protection and Confidentiality Policy, the Data Protection Act 2018 and UK GDPR. The information will be used solely for the purpose of preparing anonymised statistical reports for quality monitoring. You will not be identifiable. For more information, please refer to our Privacy Policy.

If you do not wish to complete this section, then scroll directly to the bottom of the page and click submit.











Next Steps
Thank you, you have now provided all the information required to become a Readers' Panel volunteer with Independent Age. You will soon receive an email explaining how to start your volunteering. 

If you have any queries about this form, or how your data will be handled, please contact the Volunteering Team on 020 7605 4255 or volunteering@independentage.org
Independent Age is only able to support volunteers who are at least 18 years old.

You are only able to volunteer in the UK if you have the right to work in the UK, have a visa that allows volunteering or have refugee or asylum seeker status.

You have selected that you do not have one of these and you are under 18, so are not able to volunteer at Independent Age.

If you have any questions please call the Volunteer Team on 020 7605 4255
Independent Age is only able to support volunteers who are at least 18 years old.

You have selected that you are under 18 so are not able to volunteer at Independent Age.

If you have any questions please call the Volunteer Team on 020 7605 4255
You are only able to volunteer in the UK if you have the right to work in the UK, have a visa that allows volunteering or have refugee or asylum seeker status.

You have selected that you do not have one of these, so are not able to volunteer at Independent Age.

If you have any questions please call the Volunteer Team on 020 7605 4255