Volunteer With Childline
Note: If you speak the languages of Ukraine and can help Childline provide support to children and young people who have come to Ireland, please email [email protected] Thank you!
Volunteers play a vital role in helping Childline to listen to, and support children at our units spread across Ireland. The Childline Listening and Digital Support Services are manned by a team of volunteers, under the guidance of staff members, who train and supervise volunteers to ensure a consistent and high-quality service to children and young people.
Childline Volunteers are of all ages and come from all backgrounds. They unite with a common purpose: to support children and ensure they have someone who will listen. Childline volunteers do not need any prior qualifications as comprehensive training and ongoing support are provided to all Childline volunteers before engaging with children and young people over the phone, online chat or via our Digital Mental Health and Wellbeing Programmes service.
If you are computer literate, comfortable with written communication, empathetic and supportive and have an interest tools and techniques that encourage wellbeing, then volunteering for our Digital Support Service might be for you.
Our Childline Listening service invites volunteers who are comfortable with real-time communication and active listening, and who are non-judgmental, empathetic and would like to support the empowerment of children and young people.
Each Childline volunteer completes a weekly four-hour shift. See below for more information about volunteering at a location near you.

Find out more about what it’s like to help Childline listen to and support children by checking out these pieces written by volunteers at our Childline unit in Castlebar, County Mayo.
Volunteer experience piece by Patricia Breslin
Experience of a male Childline volunteer
What it’s like to be a Childline listening volunteer: Dee’s Story
Find Out More About Volunteering At Your Nearest Location
ISPCC, Distillery House, Dyer Street, Drogheda, Co. Louth.
If you want to find out more about becoming a Listening/Digital Support volunteer, or sign up for an upcoming training, please email [email protected]
If you want to find out more about becoming a Listening/Digital Support volunteer, or sign up for an upcoming training, please email [email protected]
ISPCC, 115 O’Connell Street Limerick.
If you want to find out more about becoming a Listening/Digital Support volunteer, or sign up for an upcoming training, please email [email protected]
ISPCC, 21a Penrose Wharf, Penrose Quay, Cork.
If you want to find out more about becoming a Listening/Digital Support volunteer, or sign up for an upcoming training, please email [email protected]
ISPCC Galway, Unit 6, The Plaza Headford Road Galway.
If you want to find out more about becoming a Listening/Digital Support volunteer, or sign up for an upcoming training, please email [email protected]
ISPCC, Unit 14c N5 Business Park Mooneen Castlebar Co. Mayo.
If you want to find out more about becoming a Listening/Digital Support volunteer, or sign up for an upcoming training, please email [email protected]