Join our community of Amma volunteers
Volunteers are at the heart of everything we do at Amma. Our incredible team of volunteers provides the direct support that helps improve birth outcomes and experiences for women and birthing people facing inequalities across Glasgow.
We offer a range of volunteer roles to match different skills, schedules, and availability. From hands-on birth and postnatal support to mentoring, driving, and welcoming families at our weekly groups, there are many ways to contribute. You’re welcome to apply for multiple roles that suit your interests and circumstances.
Find the role (or roles!) that’s right for you below.
Birth Companion
Birth Companions offer emotional and practical support to women and birthing people in Glasgow who need extra care during pregnancy and childbirth. The support our volunteers provide helps improve birth outcomes and experiences for people facing inequalities.
Companions accompany clients to appointments, help create birth plans, provide hands-on support during labour and birth, and advocate for birth rights. This on-call role requires flexibility from week 37 of pregnancy.
Currently recruiting
Postnatal Companion
Postnatal Companions support and nurture parents’ physical and emotional recovery from birth during those crucial early weeks. Our volunteers help ensure parents are rested, nourished, and able to bond with and comfortably feed their baby.
Support includes helping with infant feeding, assisting with domestic tasks like food preparation, and accompanying parents to appointments. Whilst not on-call, some flexibility is needed as babies may arrive early.
Currently recruiting
Parent Supporter
Parent Supporters strengthen our support services by helping families with specific tasks on an ad hoc basis. This is our most flexible companionship role, perfect for those with limited availability.
Volunteers provide practical help like dropping off baby items, preparing homes for new babies, attending appointments, or shopping for essentials. Support is provided in homes, at hospitals, and occasionally at the Amma office.
Currently recruiting
Mentor
Mentors provide an extra layer of support and guidance to our volunteer companions, playing an integral role in helping Amma be an informed, safe, and supportive organisation.
Mentors have substantial experience in midwifery, doula/birth work, offering guidance through arranged meetings via phone, video calls, or in person.
This flexible, remote-friendly role works within your schedule — you choose when you have capacity to support.
Specialist Infant Feeding Supporter
We’re in the process of shaping a new volunteer role for people with specialist knowledge or experience of infant feeding.
If you have a background or strong interest in this area — whether through professional practice, lived experience, or both — we’d love to hear from you.
Group Supporter
Group Supporters help our weekly family events run smoothly, creating a warm and welcoming environment for parents and children.
Our volunteers are the friendly faces at the door, welcoming families, holding babies, playing with older children, helping with food preparation, and encouraging participants to join in and make friends.
Volunteers are asked to commit to just one event per month. This role is perfect for retirees or anyone who loves being around families.
Language Supporter
Language Supporters help parents feel seen, heard, and supported during pregnancy, birth, and early parenthood. Many parents we work with speak little or no English. At Amma, we are committed to providing every parent, regardless of language or background, with care, guidance, and advocacy throughout their birthing journey. As a Language Supporter, you play a vital role in making this possible.
We are especially looking for volunteers who speak English and at least one of the following languages: Arabic, Farsi, Kurdish Sorani, Vietnamese, or Albanian.
Delivery Driver
Volunteer Drivers provide a safe and trustworthy method of delivering much-needed baby items to families across Glasgow, helping to reduce pressure on companions.
Our drivers pick up prams, furniture, car seats, and other supplies from the Amma office, deliver them to clients’ homes and potentially set them up.
This is a flexible role with no minimum time commitment. Volunteers need a current driver’s license and ULEZ compliant vehicle with insurance.