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The Endless Benefits of Becoming a
Volunteer at KASP

By September 8, 2025No Comments

What are the options for volunteering for KASP?

Volunteers are at the heart of everything we do at KASP.

With limited funding available, we simply couldn’t offer our full range of services without your support.

We offer a variety of meaningful volunteer opportunities, including:

Counselling Placement

Learn, Grow, Make a Difference

Are you currently undertaking a diploma in counselling or psychotherapy and need a placement to complete your practice hours?

KASP could be the perfect placement provider for you!

We offer short term and open-ended counselling, which provides a rich and varied experience. While this can be a challenging placement, it’s also incredibly rewarding—helping you grow not only as a practitioner but also as a person.

Volunteering with KASP gives you the opportunity to:

  • Gain real-world counselling experience
  • Develop your skills and confidence
  • Make a meaningful impact in people’s lives
  • Be part of a supportive and passionate team
  • Enhance your personal and professional growth

If you’re ready to take the next step in your journey, we’d love to hear from you!

Volunteer Counsellors

Make a Meaningful Impact

Are you a qualified counsellor or psychotherapist looking to give back, grow professionally, or explore new areas of practice?

KASP would be delighted to welcome you as a volunteer. Whether you’re eager to share your expertise or interested in expanding your horizons by working with survivors of childhood sexual abuse, this is a powerful opportunity to make a real difference.

Volunteering with KASP offers you:

  • The chance to support survivors through compassionate, trauma-informed counselling
  • Opportunities to develop specialist skills in working with complex trauma
  • A supportive environment where you can grow personally and professionally
  • The satisfaction of contributing to a cause that truly matters
  • Connection with a team of dedicated and like-minded professionals

If you’re ready to use your skills to help others and deepen your practice, we’d love to hear from you.

Volunteer Befriender

Make a Lasting Difference

Are you looking for a meaningful volunteer opportunity that can help you grow personally and professionally?

KASP’s Befriending Project supports adults in Fife who feel lonely or socially isolated due to the lasting impact of childhood sexual abuse. As a befriender, you’ll play a vital role in helping individuals rebuild confidence, improve wellbeing, and reconnect with their community.

Volunteering as a befriender offers you:

  • The chance to make a real difference in someone’s life
  • Opportunities to develop communication and interpersonal skills
  • Experience that may support your studies or career path
  • A deeper understanding of trauma-informed support
  • Connection with a supportive and compassionate team

If you’re empathetic, a good listener, and passionate about helping others, we’d love to hear from you.

Volunteer Trustee

Lead with Purpose

Would you like to make a meaningful impact in your local community and help shape the future of a vital charity?

KASP is seeking passionate individuals to join our Board of Trustees. As a trustee, you’ll play a key role in guiding the organisation, ensuring it is professionally run and remains true to its mission of supporting survivors of childhood sexual abuse across Fife.

Becoming a trustee offers you:

  • The opportunity to influence positive change in society
  • A chance to develop leadership and governance skills
  • Experience that can enhance your professional profile
  • The satisfaction of helping a charity deliver life-changing services
  • A collaborative environment where your voice and expertise matter

If you care about our work and want to help steer KASP’s future, we’d love to hear from you.

What do our volunteers say?

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My befriending experience started 4 years ago with kasp, and I thoroughly enjoy my time as a befriender. I look forward to visiting my befriendees every week, and believe that doing something so worthwhile leaves a lasting positive impact on them too.

Volunteer Befriender
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As a trainee counsellor supporting adult survivors of childhood sexual abuse, I’ve found the experience both deeply meaningful and professionally enriching.
From the outset, I’ve felt genuinely welcomed and supported by the team. The environment you’ve cultivated is not only trauma-informed and client-centred, but also one that fosters learning, reflection, and growth. It’s clear that staff are not only passionate about the work but also committed to holding space with compassion, sensitivity, and integrity. That ethos has been invaluable to witness and be part of.
I’ve also appreciated how thoughtfully the service integrates support for trainees. The supervision, ongoing guidance, and informal check-ins have been essential in helping me develop my confidence and clinical awareness. I’m grateful for how seriously you take the learning journey, and for how invested the team is in helping trainees develop safe and ethical practice.
As a trainee social worker I had several placements, and have found my current one with you far superior.
Thank you again for the opportunity to be part of this important work. It’s been a privilege, and I’ve learned a great deal that I’ll carry forward in my development as a counsellor.

Volunteer Counsellor Placement
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I’m thoroughly enjoying my role as a befriender with KASP, it has taken me out of my comfort zone and allowed to me to meet a variety of people I wouldn’t have crossed paths with otherwise. The difference a couple of hours of my time makes to someone who is socially isolated is immeasurable. My confidence has grown over the last year and my voluntary role has given me a new direction in life. I have recently started the COSCA counselling skills course and although I’m finding this challenging, I’m hoping that the skills I’m learning will be of benefit. I’m delighted to be a part of the KASP family, and I’m proud of the work we do and the people we engage with.

Volunteer Befriender
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My experience as a trainee on placement at KASP was a very valuable part of my training that I have taken a lot away from. I will always remember my time here and the clients I worked with will always be in my thoughts. I'm very humbled by the feedback I received from them and the fact that people who have such deep rooted trauma felt they could open up to me in the way that they did.
The team at KASP are lovely, very welcoming, friendly and approachable, always supportive and offering to listen if I ever needed a bit of support throughout my time here. I would recommended KASP as a placement for trainees to accrue their clinical hours while at the same time working in a nice atmosphere and also being offered very valuable CPD which furthers both your learning and knowledge as a counsellor and is valuable to use in your practice.
I feel my confidence as a counsellor has grown as a counsellor since working with KASP as well as gaining further knowledge and experience both through client work and the various different training courses I done throughout my time training here.

Volunteer Counsellor Placement
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Thank you all for the support you've given over the past two years. The structure you provide holds us all - counsellors and clients. It's what makes the whole thing possible.
Thanks to KASP, I dared to venture into a field that would have been way too daunting on my own. I'd never have dared take on that responsibility alone. I've learnt so much during my time at KASP - about shame and trust, the legacy of childhood trauma, and also the possibilities that open up when you really try to understand someone's experience from their point of view over a sustained period.
Thank you - for the flowers and the card but most of all for being there.

Volunteer Counsellor
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I have so enjoyed my time with KASP. I felt included and involved right from the start. The training was thorough and gave me a real grounding for starting to work with survivors.
Someone from the staff team was always available when I came out of my sessions in the evening. Support was gentle and encouraging. Having my placement with KASP has given me the tools to be more confident to be able to provide my own service to clients.
I really just cant thank you enough for giving me the opportunity to volunteer.

Volunteer Counsellor
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This has been an awesome journey and all the people have been fabulous. I have become a better person for it. Thanks everyone x

Volunteer Counsellor

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