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.

To support the development of volunteering, the Glasgow City Health and Social Care Partnership has signed up to the Glasgow Volunteering Charter. The Charter programme is led by Volunteer Glasgow and key partners have committed to it.  This programme enables more organisations to involve more people who can support their work by volunteering their time, energy and skills. 

Fiona Moss, Head of Health Improvement and Equalities for the Partnership said: “The Partnership pledge and ambition is to increase the number of appropriate volunteering opportunities for people within our organisation.  A Partnership Volunteer Charter working group has been established to gather baseline data and to develop an action plan to fulfil our pledges.  Our baseline data and action plan have now been accepted and published and the Partnership awarded the Charter Mark.”

More information on the Volunteering Charter can be found online at www.volunteerglasgow.org/charter/ where you will also find the Partnership listed as one of the Phase 1 signatory organisations with copies of our baseline and action plan.

Should you be interested in learning more about the Volunteering Charter working group then please contact Fiona.Moss@ggc.scot.nhs.uk