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We are delighted to announce that Volunteering Matters has been shortlisted for the ‘Community Award’ category in the 2017 Charity Times Awards.

Volunteering Matters is one of 13 organisations selected by the innovation charity Nesta to take part in the Second Half Fund, enabling us to replicate our Grandmentors project in five new areas.

Seven volunteers from Volunteering Matters attended the Queen’s Garden Party at Holyrood Palace on the 4th of July 2017 as a gesture of thanks for their commitment to their roles supporting vulnerable people in the community.

For the eighth consecutive year, in celebration of Discovery Communications’ annual ‘Discover Your Impact Day’, our Employee Volunteering team arranged 23 one-off team volunteering projects across London for 500 employees.

We are delighted to announce our Development Manager in Wales, Sianne Morgan. has won at the Welsh Government Youth Work Excellence Awards.

Sheffield over 50s were joined by special guests including Anne Murphy, the Lord Mayor of Sheffield at Longley Four Greens Community Centre this week to celebrate the launch of Sporting Chance.

Volunteering Matters is delighted that Duncan Tree, our Head of Policy and Performance, has been recognised with an MBE for services to health and social care in this year’s Queen’s Birthday Honours.

Volunteering Matters, with support from strategic funding partners, is commissioning an external review of their Grandmentors programme.

Help at Hand volunteers donate over 3,000 hours of time over two years to stamp out loneliness for elderly neighbours

Middlesbrough’s Sporting Chance group star in a film that forms part of a national campaign to expose the growing crisis of loneliness and encourage people to take action to overcome the problem as part of the Jo Cox Commission on Loneliness.