Our Friends

Thank you to all our partners. We couldn't do it without you.

do-it

YouthNet runs the National Volunteering Database, do-it. This valuable resource, compiled by volunteer centres all over the country is used to give TimeGivers their first taste of volunteering opportunities in their local area. TimeBank works closely with YouthNet's technical staff and with timepartners to ensure do-it is kept up to date with good quality information.

Volunteering England

Volunteering England is the national volunteering development agency for England, committed to supporting, enabling and celebrating volunteering in all its diversity. They link research, policy, innovation, good practice and grant-making in the involvement of volunteers. Their membership ranges from national charities to voluntary agencies across the length and breadth of England; from NHS Trusts to arts organisations; from local community projects to government think-tanks.

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v, the national young volunteers service, is an independent charity dedicated to helping young people volunteer in ways that matter to them. Its mission is to make volunteering opportunities so diverse, compelling and easy to get involved with that giving up your time to help others becomes a natural lifestyle choice for 16-25 year olds in England.

TimeBanking UK

TimeBank is working with Time Banking UK to promote a shared vision of mutual involvement and redefine volunteering. Many community time banks are working jointly with TimePartners to deliver local opportunities and promote involvement.

Samaritans

Samaritans is a confidential emotional support service for anyone in the UK and Ireland. The service is available 24 hours a day for people who are experiencing feelings of distress or despair, including those which may lead to suicide. Volunteers offer support by responding to phone calls, emails and letters. Alternatively people can drop in to a branch to have a face to face meeting.

Employability Forum

The Employability Forum promotes the integration and employment of refugees and migrants in the UK. It works with voluntary sector organisations, government departments, professional bodies and employers to develop practical solutions to the barriers refugees and migrants face in the labour market and building a new life in the UK.

Read the latest volunteer reviews for Employability Forum

Trinity Hospice

Trinity provides the only dedicated end of life care service for 750,000 people living in our central and south west London community – each year 10,000 of these people will find out that they have a life-threatening illness.

Last year Trinity Hospice gave specialist end of life care to more than 2,000 people with illnesses such as cancer, cardiac, respiratory, renal and neurological diseases. They cared for 1,750 people in their own homes and more than 400 people in our Inpatient Centre – we supported their families and friends too. Their future priority is to expand our community care services so that more people are able to die in their own homes, which is where most people would prefer to be.

Read latest volunteer reviews for Trinity Hospice

Contact the Elderly

Contact the Elderly volunteers fight loneliness and give older people something to look forward to. Monthly Sunday afternoon tea parties for people over 75, who live alone with little or no contact to family and friends. Members are picked up by volunteer drivers and spend afternoons full of fun and laughter at a volunteer host’s home. A real lifeline.

Read latest volunteer reviews for Contact the Elderly

The Diana Award

The Diana Award recognises and supports exceptional young people for the amazing work they do in their communities. 30,000 inspirational people have received a Diana Award for their commitment to improving the lives of others.

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British Red Cross

A volunteer-led humanitarian organisation that helps people in crisis, whoever and wherever they are. They enable vulnerable people at home and overseas to prepare for and respond to emergencies in their own communities. And when the crisis is over, they help people recover and move on with their lives.

Christian Aid

Christian Aid works to expose the scandal of global poverty, to help in practical ways to root it out, and to challenge and change the systems that favour the rich and powerful over the poor and marginalised.

Read latest volunteer reviews for Christian Aid

Victim Support

Victim Support is the only independent charity for victims and witnesses of all crimes in England and Wales. They were set up 35 years ago and have grown to become the oldest and largest victims' organisation in the world. Every year, they contact over 1.5 million people after a crime to offer our help.

Victim Support depend on thousands of specially-trained volunteers to deliver our services to victims and witnesses and could not run the services we provide without them. Although we work closely with the police, courts and other parts of the criminal justice system, they are quite separate and just like any other charity they need funds to support our work. They have Victim Support offices across England and Wales managed by their National Centre in London and we run the Witness Service in every court.  They also run the national helpline Victim Supportline.

Sue Ryder Care

Sue Ryder Care is a national charity providing health and social care services in local communities. They provide indivualised, compassionate care services to people with end of life and long-term needs. They offer this in people's own homes, in the community and in our hospices and care centres. They also support families, friends and carers.

Through innovation and research we work to improve standards in long-term and end of life care. They have recently received government recognition for improving end of life care for people with long-term conditions and their research partnership with the University of Nottingham is extending skills and knowledge across the sector. They have piloted leading hospice at home services and holistic care management programmes for people with complex physical and psychological needs.

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Marie Curie Cancer Care

Employing more than 2,700 nurses, doctors and other healthcare professionals, they expect to provide care to around 29,000 terminally ill patients in the community and in our hospices this year, along with support for their families. We mainly care for people with cancer but we also care for people with other life limiting illnesses. Their services are always free of charge to patients and their families. The charity is best known for its network of Marie Curie Nurses working in the community to provide end-of-life care for patients in their own homes.

Read latest volunteer reviews for Marie Curie

Greater London Volunteering

Greater London Volunteering (GLV) is the region coordinating voice for volunteering. We represent and support:

• Volunteer Centres (helping local volunteers and charities find each other)
• Regional and specialist volunteer development agencies (e.g. TimeBank and YouthNet who help promote volunteering)
• National volunteer-involving organisations (e.g. National Army Museum, Samaritans)

Together we provide advice and support for over 26,000 registered charities, 70,000 community groups, and 2.5million volunteers across the Capital. For volunteers, we run the Wave of Friendship volunteer bursary scheme ) and the Events Volunteering Calendar.

Volunteer Reading Help

Volunteer Reading Help is a national charity (registered charity number 296454) which provides literacy support for children aged 6 -11 in areas of deprivation across England. It works through 16 local branches in the North, Midlands, Greater London and Kent.

Each of its 1,700 fully trained volunteers gives three hours a week for a school year to help children, one-to-one, with their reading. Currently it is helping over 5,000 children per year and they wish to reach many more.

Read latest volunteer reviews for Volunteer Reading Help

WRVS

WRVS is an age positive charity that offers a range of practical services to help and support older people to live well, maintain their independence and play a part in their local community.

You may be looking for help for elderly people. The good news is that WRVS helps older people across Great Britain in their homes, in the community and in hospitals. WRVS works in partnership with other charities and organisations, local authorities and the NHS, supporting communities throughout England, Scotland and Wales to be strong and cohesive.

Volunteers play a vital role: over 45,000 of them - both men and women - give up their time to offer help to other people and to make life better in their communities. Together with WRVS staff they deliver professional services with a friendly face.

Age UK

Age UK is the new force combining Age Concern and Help the Aged. We are a national charity and social enterprise working to transform later life in the UK and overseas. Our vision is of a world in which older people flourish. We aim to improve later life for everyone through our information and advice, services, products, training, research and campaigning.

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