Volunteering

The drive to make a positive difference runs all the way through our organisation, from the range of charities our Board members support to the local causes our colleagues give their time to.

Our colleagues have up to three paid volunteering days each year, where they give hands-on support to our charity partners and other local causes.

Our 2024 volunteering highlights

In 2024, we clocked up 221 volunteering sessions. Some of our highlights include:

• Working with Phoenix Enterprises, a Swindon-based charity improving the lives of vulnerable adults through building their employability skills. We ran three volunteering sessions with Phoenix, with many of our Swindon colleagues helping to assemble and pack boxes, as well as connecting with the diverse range of people supported by the charity.
• Getting our hands dirty to nurture much loved outdoor spaces. Martlets hospice provides care and respite to people with a terminal illness, as well as their families. Our volunteers got to work – rain or shine – in their beautiful garden, weeding flower beds, repairing compost bins and much more.
• Another group spent the day sprucing up the Stanmer community gardens, which provides a safe space for vulnerable adults and volunteers to do gardening and arts and crafts projects.
• We put in several days of hard physical labour at Raystede Centre for Animal Welfare, clearing weeds and building much-needed furniture for the charity.
• Packing sexual health kits with Terrence Higgins Trust, tackling a list of cleaning jobs at Gateway Women’s Centre and sorting donations at Julia’s House children’s hospice and Pelican Parcels.

Find out more in our 2024 volunteering round-up.