How you can help

Donate

Online

You can make single or regular donations using your credit card.

Justgiving.com is quick, easy and 100% secure for you to use. It"s also tax efficient and reduces admin for us! Click the button below to donate.

Paper

You can make single donations by cheque or regular donations by standing order.

Print off and fill in this form and post it to Switchback, 66 Commercial Street, London, E1 6LT.

Fundraise

You can fundraise for Switchback using Justgiving.

Sponsorship for sporting events, support for personal challenges, asking friends and family can donate to Switchback as a gift to you for birthdays or weddings ... the list goes on!

To set up your own fundraising website for Switchback click the button below.

Work for Switchback

We are always keen to meet people who want to be part of the Switchback team. Please contact Alice at alice@switchback.org.uk to find out more.

We do not take on volunteer mentors. Switchback Mentors are full-time, paid members of staff.

From time to time, we have unpaid opportunities for the roles of:

• Admin Volunteer (one day a week, helping with data entry and office work)
• Caseload Volunteer (one day a week, helping with researching opportunities for trainees and their families)
• Trustee
• Switchback Advisor

Provide opportunities

We work with a small number of trainees and a wide range of employers. To maximise the chances of success, we bring them together on a case-by-case basis, when the trainee is ready.

If you are an employer who is keen to help, here are some things you can do:

• Offer to show one or more trainees around your establishment so that they can get a better understanding of the different working environments.
• Take on a trainee on an unpaid work placement.
• Ask one of our trainees to do one or more trial shifts with a view to filling a vacancy.

We are interested in hearing from employers from all industries, not just catering.

All we ask is that you agree to be added to our list of "willing" employers. We will only contact you if we have a trainee that might fit well with your organisation and then we take it from there. If you are happy to be added to this list, please get in touch .

Eat at the café

You can encourage trainees and support our partner charity, Crisis, by coming along to sample some of the delicious food in the Crisis Skylight café in Spitalfields, London. Let us know if you’re coming and we'll come downstairs and say hello!