Interested in becoming a volunteer?
All our volunteers are Durham students, coming from a variety of backgrounds. No previous experience is necessary to become a volunteer with us.
Prospective volunteers must first attend one of our termly training weekends, after which there will be further training and a selection process.
Fluent and clear spoken English is a required skill. Volunteering commitment is flexible above our minimum commitment of two duty shifts per term.
Training Weekends
The links for our upcoming training weekends can be found here.
All Durham students are welcome to attend our training weekends.
Regardless of whether you’re considering volunteering for Nightline, training for welfare, or simply just interested in improving your listening skills, we encourage you to attend the weekend.
We run a training weekends once a term, in October, February, and June.
The weekends consist of a series of talks on topics such as depression, anxiety, suicide, loss and bereavement, and identity. These talks are accompanied by group workshops where we use role-plays to practice listening skills.
We publicise every training weekend across our social media channels, so keep a look out on those if you are interested in volunteering.
