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  1. Royal Voluntary Service joins National Dementia Action Alliance

    Tuesday, 25 September 2018

    As part of Royal Voluntary Service’s commitment to support the NDAA, it pledges to engage in collaboration and partnerships with other service providers, stakeholders and relevant bodies. This will help raise awareness of the effectiveness of the work of volunteers in hospitals and communities in supporting people living with dementia and their carers to deliver on the NDAA’s Dementia Statements.

  2. London Ambulance Service pilot reduces 999 calls & visits to A&E

    Thursday, 13 September 2018

    Royal Voluntary Service ‘mobility volunteers’ provided support to older people at risk of falls and social isolation in two London boroughs

  3. Make volunteering part of student life

    Thursday, 16 August 2018

    Royal Voluntary Service is keen to welcome more students into its own volunteer family, but also wants to encourage young people to think about making volunteering, more generally, a part of student life.

  4. Celebrating 70 years of volunteering in the NHS

    Thursday, 05 July 2018

    As the NHS marks its 70th anniversary, Royal Voluntary Service is highlighting the vital role its volunteers have played in supporting the service over the last seven decades

  5. Dementia training for Royal Voluntary Service volunteers

    Wednesday, 27 June 2018

    Royal Voluntary Service in partnership with Dementia Adventure to receive specialist training to support people living with dementia

  6. Royal Voluntary Service presents NHS Greater Glasgow & Clyde with £250,000 gift

    Tuesday, 26 June 2018

    Royal Voluntary Service presented NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde with a gift of £250,000 at The Merchants House of Glasgow, 21 June 2018.

  7. Simplyhealth supports Basingstoke Home From Hospital service

    Thursday, 21 June 2018

    Simplyhealth supports Royal Voluntary Service by funding Basingstoke Home From Hospital service

  8. Royal Voluntary Service café at Stirling Community Hospital transformed thanks to generous donations

    Tuesday, 12 June 2018

    A ceremony took place to thank the local organisations whose generous donations have helped transform the Royal Voluntary Service cafe at Stirling Community Hospital.

  9. Volunteers truly making a difference

    Friday, 01 June 2018

    Royal Voluntary Service thanks volunteers for their dedication and highlights the tangible difference they make to thousands of people

  10. Dame Patricia Routledge marks 80 years of Royal Voluntary Service at Wiltshire Museum event

    Thursday, 17 May 2018

    Exhibition at Wiltshire Museum marks 80th Anniversary of Royal Voluntary Service and tells the story of how one woman and her ‘army that Hitler forgot’, quietly changed Britain forever

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