Volunteering matters
National charity Volunteering Matters has been awarded £600,000 in funding from players of People’s Postcode Lottery to support its work in tackling social isolation and boosting the health and wellbe ...
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British Red Cross is looking for more volunteers like Tricia
When Tricia Lodge, 71, retired and moved to the North Yorkshire Dales she was keen to find a new interest that would get her out of the house. A friend gave her a newspaper article about a new Red Cro ...
The great work of hospital volunteers
The Royal Voluntary Service have 14,000 volunteers working in hospitals across England, Scotland and Wales providing vital support to patients, staff and visitors every single day of the year. Many pe ...
Study shows that those 55+ make the most confident readers
New research released today by children’s literacy charity Beanstalk shows: That older adults are far more confident readers than younger adults Despite this, nearly a quarter still say that learning ...