Thank you to all healthcare organisations and volunteers supporting NHS staff and patients this festive season. Helpforce is proud to work alongside you to build impactful volunteer services. #ThankYouVolunteers #FestiveGiving

Volunteering connects people and supports patients’ emotional wellbeing. Helpforce helps healthcare organisations create roles that enable meaningful engagement.

Dean’s transition from IT CEO to ED volunteer shows how diverse skills enrich healthcare. Helpforce helps organisations design roles leveraging varied talents. https://ow.ly/Sqn150XKY5r #VolunteerSkills

What a year! Working alongside NHS partners, we've won a GSK Impact Award, had volunteering discussed in Parliament, supported 1M+ people via Back to Health, & launched 'Giving Back, Transforming Care' with amazing endorsements.

More at our website! #GivingBackTransformingCare

Freya’s journey from teenage volunteer to paramedic highlights how volunteering inspires healthcare careers. Helpforce supports youth volunteering pathways. https://ow.ly/XSSj50XJyzp #YouthVolunteering

Volunteering reduces loneliness and anxiety for patients without visitors. Helpforce partners with healthcare organisations to embed these vital roles. https://ow.ly/O42A50XJxTJ #PatientWellbeing

Suzie’s journey from stroke survivor to NHS volunteer shows volunteering’s healing power. Helpforce partners with healthcare organisations to create roles enabling such transformation. https://ow.ly/OrqT50XJvcI #GivingBackTransformingCare

Super delighted to share that we've been shortlisted for the #HSJPartnershipAwards 2026. Our Volunteer to Career initiative has been recognised in the ‘Staffing Solutions of the Year’ category. Read the full press release here. https://ow.ly/swVo50XJx47 @HSJ_Awards.

Catch up on our webinar on ‘Securing Funding for Volunteer Services’ and learn creative ways healthcare organisations can sustain volunteer programmes: https://ow.ly/i9Zn50XzZJs #VolunteerLeadership

Robert, 75, urges others to volunteer their skills to help the NHS. Helpforce supports healthcare organisations to develop roles that harness valuable expertise. Read his story: https://ow.ly/qPW350XzW1T #VolunteerLeadership

This is an interesting report. Discharge can fall apart without the correct support in place. That is why we partnered with NHS trusts like Kingston and Richmond NHS FT to develop volunteer service roles that support patient discharge and falls prevention follow up in the community. And it works.

International Volunteers Day is today! Helpforce partners with healthcare organisations to embed volunteering as an essential part of care. We celebrate volunteers and the organisations that support them. #InternationalVolunteersDay #ThankYouVolunteers

Across north London, our volunteers, specialist massage therapists and support hub help ease loneliness among patients spending the winter months in hospital.

Your donation could help support lonely patients this winter: myrfc.co/wabs25

#Health #Wellbeing #NHS #Charity #London

What is the neighbourhood health service?

Ruth Rankine, the director of our Primary Care Network, spoke to BBC Politics London to set it out.

🟡With the NHS, but not just the NHS
🟡Delivering more joined-up care
🟡A new kind of relationship between services and communities.

📊 Young adults leading #NHS support! 33% of 18-24s would volunteer—that's 1.9m potential helpers. With 86% of NHS staff confirming volunteers improve care, we're calling on Government to invest in recruitment as treatment backlog hits 7.3m. Join our 'Giving Back, Transforming Care' campaign!

Health care volunteering charity @helpforce.bsky.social​ has called for a mass mobilisation of volunteers to support the NHS as a poll by @yougov.co.uk​ finds a third of 18 to 24-year-olds would consider gifting their time to bolster the NHS.

Read more ⬇️
https://bit.ly/3Kv993x

We're buzzing from winning a GSK IMPACT award! Our trustee and co-founder, Dr Anna Dixon (MP), wanted to share what this award means to her, to our org, and to all our NHS partners.
@thekingsfund.bsky.social @karenbonner.bsky.social
#GSKIMPACTUK Learn more: helpforce.community/connecting/n...

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