Twins Trust's trustees serve for a fixed term as set out in our governing documents, which means that we periodically recruit for new Trustees. These recruitments will always appear on our website. If you are interested in a Trustee role, please send a CV and short personal statement detailing your reasons for wanting to join the Board and what you would be able to contribute to [email protected] to be added to our pool of interested candidates. We value all expressions of interest and will do our best to respond to everyone promptly, but please be aware that there may not be an appropriate vacancy available at the time you submit your expression of interest.

Our Twinline helpline volunteers are all parents of twins or triplets. As a volunteer we would ask for you to be available for up to six hours a month (two shifts) to take calls from fellow parents, carers, health professionals or someone supporting with twins, triplets or more. You receive the calls to your own home phone or mobile via a freephone number. Volunteers would be expected to attend a virtual training session, complete a safeguarding online module (every three years) and keep up to date with Twins Trust resources and information.

For an informal chat about becoming a Twinline Volunteer, please email [email protected] or call 01252 332344 (option two for Family Services) on weekdays between 10am - 3pm.

We are seeking professional volunteers in four key areas:

• Education - we are looking for qualified teachers to support multiple birth families by responding to referrals from Twins Trust concerning primary and secondary school issues. We are currently particularly interested in hearing from qualified teachers in Scotland.
• Educational psychology - we are looking for qualified educational psychologists to volunteer and help with cases involving multiples.
• Family therapy - we are looking for qualified family therapists, psychotherapists and psychologists to volunteer and help with cases involving family's of multiples. For example: parents encountering difficulties after the birth of their twins, triplets or more; psychological issues between multiples and parents; adolescence; adult twins who have lost their twin; and couples where one is a twin.
• Speech and language therapy - we are looking for qualified speech and language therapists to volunteer and help with cases involving multiples.

We're reaching out to parents who have experienced the loss of a baby or babies from a multiple pregnancy. We're in need of compassionate volunteers to join our peer to peer phone support service. As a volunteer you'll provide emotional support and a listening ear to families who have experienced the loss of one or more of their babies. Your role will be to offer understanding, empathy and a safe space for individuals to express their feelings.

This type of volunteering can be emotionally demanding and at times may require emotional resilience. Ensuring the wellbeing of our volunteers is really important to us, so we kindly ask that you are at least two years bereaved.

No previous volunteering experience is required - just a genuine desire to support others and a commitment to complete our comprehensive training programme.

If you are interested and would like more information about the service and how to apply, please email [email protected].

If you are a qualified Norlander, you can volunteer to support our families at home through the Family Crisis Support service.

Please note this part of volunteering is only open to those who have been trained and completed their training at Norland College. All applications for volunteering are shared with the Norland Agency.

Lorna Marshall has been volunteering for Twins Trust since she became a qualified Norlander.

For more information on our partnership with Norland please contact [email protected].

We are always looking for people to help raise funds for us so we can continue providing our families with the information and support they need to enable them to thrive. Help us to raise awareness, invest in research and campaign for the best possible outcomes for our families.

You can help by taking on a challenge to raise funds, or why not nominate us as your charity of the year at your workplace? Take a chance on the Twins Trust Lottery, or simply make a straightforward single donation or monthly donation, and don’t forget to Gift Aid it!