Tag Archives: Volunteers

A letter from L. Green – Volunteering

A letter from L. Green – Volunteering

Reading your articles about loneliness takes me back twenty years to when I took early retirement. I was as nervous as I would be for applying for a job when I approached a relatively new group about ...
Volunteering at any age can be fun!

Volunteering at any age can be fun!

This is the story of Mike, and how he helps national children’s charity, Over The Wall, by volunteering at their summer camps for seriously ill children. Founded in 1999 by Hollywood legend, Paul Newm ...
The value of older volunteers

The value of older volunteers

Age-Friendly and Inclusive Volunteering, a new review of community contributions in later life by the Centre for Ageing Better, calls on charities, voluntary organisations and the public sector to do ...
Could you be an Alzheimer’s Society volunteer?

Could you be an Alzheimer’s Society volunteer?

Alzheimer’s Society’s Side by Side is a new service that helps people with dementia to keep doing the things they love. The UK’s leading dementia charity aims to reconnect people living with dementia ...