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Celebrating our volunteers

Published: | Volunteering

National Volunteers’ Week takes place from 1 to 7 June every year and is a celebration across the UK of all the contributions volunteers make within their community.

Summer in the Garden at Gartnavel Royal Hospital

Published: | Mental Health , Volunteering

Now that Autumn is here and winter approaches, the Growing Spaces in the garden at Gartnavel Royal Hospital have started to take on new colours and shapes. Seed heads and falling leaves carpet the walkways and yet the Sunflowers still offer a striking reminder of the summer now gone.

Volunteers' Week Highlights Virtual Volunteering in Leverndale Hospital

Published: | Volunteering , Mental Health

This year’s Volunteers’ Week is from 1 to 7 June, and is a time to say thanks and recognise the fantastic contribution made by volunteers across Glasgow City Health and Social Care (HSCP) services.

Peaceful Haven in the Hospital Grounds

Published: | Mental Health , Volunteering

The Art in the Gart creative recovery programme at Gartnavel Royal Hospital has welcomed five times as many visitors as last year to the Growing Spaces sites in the hospital grounds during lockdown.

Staff Volunteering in their Communities in response to COVID-19 - Anthony Leebody

Published: | Volunteering

Anthony Leebody, Senior Finance Officer in Glasgow City Health and Social Care Partnership, reached out to his neighbours at the start of lockdown. He set up a neighbourhood chat group to bring people together and help identify those who needed extra support.

Thanking our Volunteers during Volunteers Week 1 - 7 June 2020

Published: | Volunteering

National Volunteers’ Week takes place from 1-7 June every year and is a celebration across the UK of all the contributions volunteers make to their community.

National Volunteers Week runs 1-7 June 2019

Published: | Volunteering

1-7 June marks the 35th annual National Volunteers' Week, a celebration  across the UK of all the fantastic contributions volunteers

Vounteers' Week Celebrations

Published: | Volunteering

Volunteers’ Week is an annual celebration of the fantastic contribution that millions of volunteers make across the UK. To mark this event and thank their volunteers North West Locality staff organised an award ceremony and lunch for volunteers followed by a visit to the Tall Ship, Riverside.

Partnership Signs Up to the Glasgow Volunteering Charter

Published: | Volunteering

There is good evidence that volunteering brings benefits to both the person volunteering and the people and organisations they support.  Volunteering means choosing to spend time unpaid doing something to help other people or groups, other than (or as well as) close relatives.

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