Our News

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.

We are delighted to announce our project, Sex Matters Too, and our Development Manager in Wales, Sianne Morgan, have been shortlisted for the Welsh Government Youth Work Excellence Awards.

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.

We are delighted to be providers on the Access Impact Management Programme, to build the capacity of charities and social enterprises – helping them increase their social impact and diversify their incomes.

We are delighted to be one of five organisations selected to take part in the Give More Get More programme, receiving an award of £99,335 to develop a new volunteering opportunity for people over 50.

We want to tell the stories of our Full Time Volunteers from the last five decades – if you were once a Full Time Volunteer with us, find out how you can get in touch…

Our project, Sex Matters Too, has been nominated in the health, social care and wellbeing category of the Third Sector Awards Cymru, taking place on the 16th of February in Cardiff.