Our News

Our Chief Executive Oonagh Aitken will be retiring after seven years with Volunteering Matters. In that time she has led the charity’s transformation from Community Service Volunteers (CSV) to Volunteering Matters.

From International Women’s Day 2019 this 8th March, Volunteering Matters will be taking part in the Period Dignity Campaign, which is being run by union ‘Unite’.

Volunteering Matter’s Grandmentors programme won a prestigious national award recognising its transformational work in mentoring young care leavers. The Grandmentors programme received the honour in the Third Sector category at the recent National Mentoring Awards, in recognition of the 1:1 support that Grandmentors provide young people leaving care. One of the key areas that impressed … Continued

Our SAFE Males project launched their social action project film, which focuses on the topic of ‘mate crime’ for those with a disability.

Volunteering Matters CE and president of Volonteurope, Oonagh Aitken, gave her update of the new Erasmus+ Project ‘Job Bridge’.

Our new project for women aged 16-35 across Gwent who have learning difficulties or autism, empowering them to recognise sexual harassment and abuse

We’ve made the final shortlist for the National Mentoring Awards 2019 with our Grandmentors programme!

We’ve got a new opportunity for Norwich volunteers to make a massive different to a young person’s life.

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