A Day in the Life of a Volunteer Manager - Home-Start Hertfordshire

For #SmallCharitiesWeek, Lara Norris, CEO Home-Start Hertfordshire, talks us through a day in the life of a volunteer manager, and shows us how hard small charities work for their service users.     … Read more

"I’m becoming more confident which helps me with my volunteering"

One of the youngest volunteers to be featured on our website, 12 year old Ella Fox, helps out at the Watford FC Trust Premier League Dance sessions. She loves working with the younger students to reac… Read more

"Sometimes I feel like I’m a kid in a candy shop when volunteering."

Barry Freedman is a volunteer for Watford FC Community Sports & Education Trust. He has volunteered at a few locations in Watford, and having been a Watford football fan for over 55 years, thought… Read more

"Volunteering has shown me how I can use my current skills in the community."

Karen Shields has been a registered CNHC Nutritional Therapist since 2012. She started volunteering for the Triangle Community Garden Growing Health Lunch Club, three years ago in Hitchin. She te… Read more

"Volunteering gives me the benefit of keeping fit and the pleasure of seeing people enjoying walking and socialising."

May is National Walking Month, which celebrates walking and encourages more people to take it up. We caught up with Jacky, a Hertfordshire Health Walk Leader and Ambassador with Countryside and Rights… Read more

"Why I’m still passionate about volunteering"

Sue Pearlman from TP Consultants, discusses how volunteering helped shape her career.      I owe my career to volunteering. As a young Mum who had been a secretary before having children, I wanted… Read more

“I cannot recommend volunteering enough, it’s so good to be doing something finally”

On the 7th April 2018, its “World Health Day”. Evidence suggests that volunteering brings health benefits to both volunteers and the people that they help. We caught up with Sharon, who was voted… Read more

“Despite being a large national business, we are committed to helping our local communities”

A study from the London School of Economics and Political Science has identified the key role corporate volunteering plays in establishing charitable cultures, both inside and outside of the work… Read more

"Volunteering together really broke the ice and we became a much stronger unit"

Sharon and her colleagues took part in volunteering as part of their corporate volunteering. She shares her experience and benefits of volunteering. I work for a company called Ipsos MORI. We’re a… Read more

“The work of volunteers means that anyone can access coaching and running support to improve their fitness.”

2018 is the Hertfordshire Year of Physical Activity, aiming to make Hertfordshire the most active county. One in five adults in Hertfordshire do less than thirty minutes of activity a week and miss… Read more