Our News

Thanks to the Freemasons Grandmentors Milton Keynes will reach even more young people leaving care.

At this year’s AGM we wanted to recognise the incredible individual efforts made by our volunteers, and the impact they make every day up and down the UK. We developed a new set of Volunteer Awards, to cover the full range of our work

We’ve launched a new edition of our toolkit aimed at encouraging more young people in to volunteering within health and social care

The 1st of October marks the International Day of Older Persons and we’d like to take the opportunity to celebrate the 8,700 older and retired people who share their time and talents each year by volunteering with us.

Our project WASSUP has won the Third Sector Award for Volunteer Team of the Year!

Mind Matters have been shortlisted in the Advice and Guidance category of the Children & Young People Now Awards 2018!

Staff from People’s Postcode Lottery went to visit Sporting Chance in Stockton to see first-hand the sort of projects their funding supports.

For the second year, volunteers from our North Lanarkshire Befriending Project, Help at Hand, and the Employee Volunteering team from the Co-Op were honoured at the Royal Garden Party at Holyrood Palace!

We’re very proud to announce that our Grandmentors project has received another award nomination, this time for the Good Help Awards from Nesta!

Our Mind Matters team were awarded at the Wales Volunteer of the Year Awards 2018! The peer-led approach allows for a safe space for young people to discuss worries, concerns and work towards supporting the 1 in 10 children in the UK who are affected by mental health problems.