Volunteer with the Irish Cancer Society

There are many ways you can help the Society work towards a future without cancer. Your time, experience and enthusiasm can make a difference for people currently experiencing cancer and in helping to ensure fewer people get cancer in the future.
Daffodil Centre Volunteers

Volunteer opportunities

We are currently recruiting for volunteers in these roles. Please reach out if you think you can help!

Organising transport

Volunteer Driver

Currently recruiting. Our Transport Service is a volunteer-driven transport service in which patients are brought to and from their chemotherapy treatments in our partner hospitals nationwide.
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Advocacy Volunteer

Currently recruiting. Our advocacy volunteers engage with elected representatives and policy makers amongst others to influence the decisions being made in favour of cancer patients.
Donate to our shops

Shop Volunteer

Currently recruiting. The Irish Cancer Society runs 23 charity shops nationwide. Our shops are very much a part of the local community and rely on volunteers.

Event Support Volunteer

We’re looking for volunteers to join our team in locations across Ireland to help with events such as our Your Health Matters roadshows.

Other volunteering roles

Learn about additional volunteer roles in the Society where we currently have enough volunteers but will be recruiting again in the future.

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Daffodil Centre Volunteer

In our Daffodil Centres, our cancer nurses and trained volunteers are on hand to answer your questions. We have 13 Daffodil Centres in hospitals nationwide.
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Peer Support/Parent Peer Support Volunteer

Peer Support gives people with cancer the opportunity to have a listening ear from someone who really understands in a time when they need it most. All of our Peer Support volunteers have had a cancer diagnosis or are the parents of a child who has been diagnosed with cancer.

Our volunteer policy

Volunteer Policy
Volunteer Policy
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Our policy for volunteers with the Irish Cancer Society