volunteers

Search is on to find Britain's best volunteers

Gabby Logan and Together Mutual Insurance search for Britain’s ‘Community Initiative of the Year’ and ‘Community Hero of the Year’ celebrating local volunteers with national prizes of £25,000 per category

Today, TV favourite Gabby Logan launches ‘Britain Has Spirit’, a new campaign searching for Britain’s best individual and group volunteers. Gabby is calling on the British public to...

Could you become a Silver Line 'Friend'?

Silver Line – the free, confidential 24/7 helpline for older people – is getting set for its phones to be buzzing over the New Year period.

The helpline operates around-the-clock, 365-days-a-year to provide information and support and already receives 1,300 calls a day from lonely older people.

Founded by Dame Esther Rantzen, it offers friendship and advice, and signposts...

Volunteers make Christmas accessible for people with sight loss

A hardworking team of more than 100 volunteers at RNIB’s transcription centre in Ivybridge are creating Christmas cards and choir sheets in a range of accessible formats so that blind and partially sighted people don’t miss out on the festivities this year.

The valuable work is taking place in Ivybridge, Devon at the Personal Transcription Centre managed by sight loss charity RNIB (...

Letter: Parkinsons UK thanks volunteers

Thank you to volunteers who helped to raise nearly £2,000 for Parkinson’s UK

Parkinson’s UK desperately needed volunteers to help at the Annual British Fireworks Championships in Plymouth on Tuesday 18 and Wednesday 19th August.

Volunteers were needed for a couple of hours on each day to help sell official programmes and collect donations.

This was the fifth and final...

Appeal for volunteer dog walkers

The Cinnamon Trust is the national charity whose wonderful volunteers help people over retirement age and those in the latter stages of a terminal illness by offering all kinds of pet care.

We urgently need dog walking volunteers for some elderly residents of Plymouth who are unable to walk their lovely dogs. There is a Shih Tzu, Cocker Spaniel, Yorkshire Terrier and a sweet Jack...

Royal recognition for top volunteers

Two of Devon’s top volunteer groups have received the Royal seal of approval last week as they were honoured with the Queen’s Award for Voluntary Service.

Volunteers for St Luke’s Hospice in Plymouth and Acorn and Squirrels Riding for the Disabled in Exeter were among 187 groups in the UK to receive the prestigious award, the highest honour given to volunteer groups, equivalent in...

People of Plymouth lend a hand at the Big Sort day

More than 40 people including staff from Plymouth City Council, Plymouth Community Homes and members of the public helped sort through the hundreds of bags of donations for families who have been affected by the Clowance Street fire.

The volunteers packed into Stirling House in Honicknowle today to start sorting the bedding, clothes and shoes into sizes before they are moved to The...

Volunteers wanted for fireworks extravaganza

Parkinson’s UK is calling out for volunteers from across the South West, to ensure a fireworks display goes off with a bang.

The charity is asking for local people to volunteer for a couple of hours to sell official programmes and collect donations, at the Annual British Fireworks Championship in Plymouth on Tuesday 18 and Wednesday 19 August.

The event, which takes place at...

Volunteers wanted to help sort donations for fire victims

Around 1,000 bags of donations have been collected and are waiting to be sorted through and distributed to the families affected by the Clowance Street fire.

Since the fire, kind hearted members of the public have literally been flooding Devonport with donations to the families affected, some of whom have lost everything in the blaze.

Devonport based community groups along with...

Appeal for volunteers to tackle beach litter

Marks & Spencer (M&S) is calling on volunteers from Plymouth to descend upon Wembury Beach to help pick up litter as part of the retailer’s 4th annual Big Beach Clean Up.

Taking place on 8 May from 11.30am, the event will be hosted in partnership with the Marine Conservation Society (MCS) and invites local residents, businesses, students and societies to join them in helping...

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