Tagged with 'volunteering'
Celebrating Volunteering- National Volunteers Week June 2021
Volunteering epitomises everything that is good about humanity. Individuals who manage and juggle their responsibilities whilst looking to give and help others goes unnoticed. This past year we were reminded about the good in people, how warm and selfless they can be in times of great uncertainty. Often when we… Read More
2nd Jun 2021
Trustees’ Week – meet the Helplines Partnership Trustees
Trustee week recognises and celebrates the key role that trustees play in the governance and leadership of charities, volunteering their time and working together to lead the organisation and decide how it is run. We would like to introduce you to our Board and explain a little more about why they chose to become Helplines Partnership Trustees. What motivated you to become a Helplines Partnership Trustee? Karen… Read More
2nd Nov 2020
Helpline Awards - Helpline Employee of the Year 2019
We spoke to Pat McBride, winner of the 2019 Helpline Employee of the Year Award about what winning means and the work of The Pituitary Foundation. First-hand experience I’ve been most privileged to work for The Pituitary Foundation for the past 20 years. As a pituitary patient from 1986, there… Read More
22nd Jan 2020
Five Tips for Volunteer Recruitment, Retention and Succession Planning
In the second of a series of blog posts we look at the topics from this year’s six Conference seminar sessions. We were joined by Sarah Merrington, Board Director at the Association of Volunteer Managers (AVM), who delivered a seminar that focussed on working with volunteers, ‘volunteer vacancies: risky recruitment… Read More
12th Dec 2019
Helpline Awards - Volunteer of the Year 2018
The Helpline Volunteer of the Year recognises the contribution of full-time or part-time helpline volunteers who have shown a real commitment and gone above and beyond the volunteer role. This year, Pauline Green, a helpline volunteer for Families Need Fathers won the award and talks to us about volunteering. A… Read More
5th Dec 2018
Leeds Survivor Led Crisis Service
Leeds Survivor Led Crisis Service (LSLCS) is a mental health charity based in Leeds. They provide out-of-hours support to people in acute mental health crisis with the aim of reducing hospital admissions, A&E visits, and use of statutory crisis services. One of the ways they do this is through their… Read More
23rd Jul 2018
Harnessing the power of skilled volunteers
Doing more with less is a challenge facing many charities. When time and resources become stretched it can be difficult to focus on much beyond delivering the service your helpline provides. If you don’t have the specialist skills within your organisation, or you need a little bit of extra support… Read More
21st Jun 2018
Celebrating Volunteering - National Volunteers' Week
Figures released by NCVO, in their UK Civil Society Almanac 2017, show that in 2015-16, around two in every five adults aged 16 and over reported volunteering formally at least once in the previous year. To mark National Volunteer Week, an opportunity to celebrate volunteering in all its diversity, we… Read More
1st Jun 2018