In the News

Mail Online: 5 tips on enjoying and making the most out of retirement, trying something new without breaking the bank.

Metro: Volunteering Matters is delighted to be one of 70 charities selected to receive a cut of £12m from the UK Government’s Tampon Tax Fund.

BBC Radio Suffolk: Head of East England, Stephen Skeet was grilled by pupils on air about our emotional wellbeing programme as part of the BBC’s Annual School Report week.

Gov.uk: To mark Steve Holliday’s appointment as Chair of the review into young people’s full-time social action, he and MP Rob Wilson met our full-time volunteers in our London office.

Civil Society: Charities need to do more to make volunteering opportunities for older people accessible and flexible, sector leaders said in Parliament yesterday.

South Wales Argus: Sex Matters Too has been named as the runner up for the WCVA Third Sector Award for health, social care and wellbeing.

Ipswich Star: WASSUP group wins Crimebeat award for the work against gender based violence.

BBC Radio Sussex: A new comedy group aimed at people aged 50 plus is launching in Brighton. The Laughter Club has its launch event at Patching Lodge on Tuesday 14th February.

Carehome.co.uk: Our CEO Oonagh Aitken “Loneliness is no longer thought to be just an older person’s problem – it affects young people too.”

Ipswich Star: Teenage boys of 10 different nationalities have come together through the universal language of football.