Ensuring Your Health and Safety While Volunteering Abroad

At Vocational Impact, ensuring your health and safety while volunteering abroad is paramount. Read through what we have in place to make sure your volunteering abroad experience is not only amazing, but safe and comfortable.
Choosing the Right Volunteer Placement: Questions to Ask

Choosing the right organisation to volunteer with will make a huge difference to you and the community you wish to work within. Find out which questions to ask to be sure they align with your values.
That’s A Wrap! Vocational Impact’s 2024 Review

As Christmas is now over, and 2025 looms ever closer – we wanted to take a moment to look back on 2024 and what a fantastic year it was for us.
How Can Volunteering Abroad Kickstart Your Career in Law?

Find out how a volunteer abroad programme can help to get you started in a career in law.
Psychology Student Placements Abroad: How to gain practical experience and make a difference

Thinking of boosting your psychology career with real-world experience? Discover how volunteering abroad can be a game-changer for psychology students.
Why Volunteering Abroad Isn’t Free

WHY VOLUNTEERING ABROAD ISN’T FREE? “I thought volunteering abroad would be free. Why do you charge for your volunteer abroad programmes? Where does the money go?” Why volunteering abroad isn’t free. Breakdown of where your money goes How we distribute and invest your fee What’s included in your fee Our partner projects – who they […]
How Has Volunteering Abroad Changed After Covid

How Has Volunteering Abroad Changed Since Covid Like many volunteer abroad organisations, the global 2020 pandemic hit hard. Our partner projects suffered the loss of income from volunteers that Vocational Impact has been sending for many years, which then impacted their budgets and ability to run. The whole world ground to a halt from March […]
Cover Letter: Do’s and Don’ts!

Cover letter dos and don’ts, our top tips and advice on how to make your cover letter shine through and beat the competition when apply for jobs, and graduate schemes. It is so important that your cover letter makes an impact on the employer. This is the first piece of information they receive about you […]