Welcome to Bluefield, WV! As you acclimate to living here in Bluefield and begin to make it home, you may be interested in learning how to become an active member of the community. There are both one-time and ongoing service opportunities so you can engage with your local community in a way that fits your schedule. Whether you are looking for opportunities as an individual or are seeking projects to participate in as part of a group or organization, we have partners to match your interests and availability.
Below, you will find a variety of different organizations in the area to whom you can reach out. Contact information is listed for each organization, and there is a diverse array of different service options to choose from. Even though you may not have lived in the area for long, your contributions are so valuable to your neighbors—please take advantage of these unique opportunities and programs:
Bluefield City Park
Our local park’s trails, kids’ stations, and other things are maintained by local volunteers. As a volunteer, you can assist with helping to widen trails, painting lines on the road through the park, or sponsoring a kid’s station on the Family-Friendly trail to help maintain it.
Mickey
(304)-952-6255
Mercer County Animal Shelter
The shelter needs volunteers to help with a variety of tasks such as walking dogs, feeding animals, taking dogs out into the community so that they have a break from shelter life, and can be seen by potential adopters, cleaning out pens and litter boxes, and collecting donations.
961 Shelter Rd, Princeton, WV
(304) 425-2838
mcas@frontiernet.net
Mercer County Clean-up
This organization sets up roadside clean-ups of trash and debris in the area. You can join a clean-up with a group of others or set one up on your own! They provide trash bags, vests, and trash grabbers for volunteers to use. If you set up your own clean-up in the county, they will even come and pick up your trash bags for you the next day!
Josh Parks
(304)-320-0036
The Granada Theater
The theater is looking for volunteers to take tickets, help sell concessions, and run the gift shop before a movie shows. Volunteers even get to view that movie showing for free!
537 Commerce St, Bluefield, WV
Phone: (304) 589-0239
The Union Mission
Those who volunteer here can help in a variety of ways, including feeding people and packing snacks and meals into individual packages for easier serving later.
2203 Bluefield Ave, Bluefield, WV
(304) 327-8167
sarahsult@bluefieldunionmission.com
The Wade Center
This organization serves children living in the Bluefield area. They welcome volunteers to help tutors in the classrooms, lead devotionals, and pack weekend food bags.
1400 Highland Avenue, Bluefield, WV
(304) 323-3777
Beckley options:
Hospice of Southern West Virginia
Their opportunities for serving would include Patient Companionship Visits and Office Support. Patient companionship is where the volunteer would sit with a patient while the primary caregiver would be able to leave to run an errand or just take a much-needed break. This could be an hour or two at a time. Office support would be helping with daily office duties or areas such as helping with mailings, making telephone calls, and maybe filing. They are also always open to suggestions that students would have for areas of service.
PO Box 1472, Beckley, WV
Joe Wolfe
(304) 255-6404
jwolfe@hospiceofsouthernwv.org