Celebrating Volunteers’ Week
We’re celebrating national Volunteers’ Week by highlighting some of the friendships we’ve seen blossom through our volunteer befriending scheme (June 3-9, 2024). We’ve also launched a series of ‘Volunteer Stories’ here on our website to give you information on what volunteering entails. Our Manager, Annie explains: “We’re often asked by people thinking of volunteering with... Read More
We’re calling for drivers during Volunteers’ Week
We’re asking drivers with their own cars who can spare 30 minutes to an hour each week to sign up during Volunteers Week (June 1 – 7) to transport lonely and isolated people in Southampton. We are looking for helpers to convey isolated and often lonely individuals to a weekly intergenerational CommuniTea event at Weston Adventure... Read More
Our wonderful volunteers have won an award!
It’s Volunteers Week next week and we’re delighted to announce our Communicare Volunteers have received this award for outstanding volunteering from Southampton Voluntary Services. We nominated the whole team because of their amazing response to the covid crisis. Our volunteers were very quick to respond to our requests to volunteer in new ways, for example... Read More
It’s Volunteers Week 2020
Volunteers Week takes place every year in early June. It’s a chance to say thank you for the wonderful contribution millions of volunteers make across the UK. Many new volunteers have come on board at this vital time to help respond to the Coronavirus pandemic, but we’d still love to have more, especially drivers. We’re... Read More