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Royal Voluntary Service
- Her Majesty The Queen announced as Patron of Royal Voluntary Service
- Her Majesty The Queen gets creative at charity craft session
- Her Majesty Queen Camilla delights charity guests during Royal Voluntary Service visit
- Royal Voluntary Service appoints Patrick Dunne OBE as Chair for next phase of development
- Tribute to Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, Royal Voluntary Service's Patron
- OBE for Sam Ward, Royal Voluntary Service Deputy CEO
- Royal Voluntary Service and HRH The Duchess of Cornwall kick off search for nation’s Platinum Champions
- Tribute to Mike Bury, Royal Voluntary Service Trustee
- Ex-Samaritans Chief joins Royal Voluntary Service as new CEO
- HRH The Duchess Of Cornwall launches ‘Our Amazing People’ campaign
- Elaine Paige takes on new role as Royal Voluntary Service Ambassador
- Royal Voluntary Service teams taste success at healthyliving awards
- Royal Voluntary Service celebrates 80 years of helping others
- Dame Patricia Routledge marks 80 years of Royal Voluntary Service at Wiltshire Museum event
- Royal Voluntary Service joins National Dementia Action Alliance
- The Gift of Time exhibition opening at London’s OXO Gallery
- Stephen Dunmore appointed as Chair of Royal Voluntary Service
- Exhibition tells of 80 years of Royal Voluntary Service in Glasgow
- Royal Voluntary Service named London Book Fair Charity of the Year 2020
- A history of voluntary service in crises
- New trustees appointed
- COVID-19 confidence crisis as millions fear leaving their home
- Royal Voluntary Service supports 'Your Later Life' campaign
- Report reveals serious gaps in dementia support
- Her Majesty The Queen brings joy to Royal Voluntary Service guests at community “Festive Spread”
- New platform aims to supercharge volunteering in Britain
- Royal Voluntary Service marks VE Day 80 by honouring the heroic women of WWII
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Volunteering
- Thank you to all our volunteers, past present and future
- Productivity boost from volunteering ‘adds £4.6 billion to UK economy each year’
- The Big Help Out returns on 7 to 9 June 2024
- Gaby Roslin joins Royal Voluntary Service to launch volunteer recruitment campaign
- Charity joins forces with Good Morning Britain for its 1 Million Minutes Campaign
- 30,000 volunteers stand up to support the NHS and care systems this winter
- Call for 25,000 volunteers as NHS celebrates 75th milestone
- Government to use successful NHS programme to recruit care volunteers
- Blog post - Keep Calm and Carry On Helping Out!
- Rishi Sunak and Kier Starmer support Royal Voluntary Service Big Help Out events
- Coronation awards joy for UK’s most exceptional volunteers
- Coronation Calls initiative launched for The Big Help Out
- Stars come out to support Coronation Champions Awards
- Coronation Champions Awards launched by Royal Voluntary Service and Her Majesty The Queen Consort
- Bring volunteers into care homes to improve quality of life says report
- Volunteers’ Week message of thanks
- Royal Jubilee recognition for the nation’s most extraordinary volunteers
- Ross Kemp launches ‘Cheers for Volunteers’
- Charity proves value of volunteering as a social prescription
- New research finds pandemic has negatively impacted health and social fabric in Britain’s poorest neighbourhoods
- Urgent call for next generation of charity volunteers
- Millions to do voluntary service this Christmas
- Hospital volunteers step up to support the NHS
- Millions of people consider gifting their time to support our NHS
- Volunteers truly making a difference
- Dementia training for Royal Voluntary Service volunteers
- Celebrating 70 years of volunteering in the NHS
- Make volunteering part of student life
- Celebrity photographer Nicky Johnston tells the story of volunteering today
- New report finds volunteers reduce pressure on frontline NHS staff
- Millions plan to give the gift of time this Christmas
- Army of volunteers to ease NHS winter pressure
- Pressure on our community services sees one million people volunteer for the first time in the past year
- Teaming up with Legal & General in major volunteer recruitment campaign
- Senior socialites out and about making new friends at 70
- The UK’s got talent
- Thank you to all our volunteers
- The formula for a happy retirement
- British parents urged to encourage volunteering to improve child’s happiness
- Yakult supports Royal Voluntary Service in new #MakeADifference campaign
- Royal Voluntary Service welcomes Daily Express as ‘Step Forward’ partner
- Brits set to give 74.3 million hour Christmas Gift
- Major call for volunteers to help NHS fight coronavirus
- NHS Volunteer Responders: 250,000 target smashed with three quarters of a million committing to volunteer
- NHS army of volunteers to start protecting vulnerable from coronavirus in England
- HRH hails volunteers ‘the backbone of our country’ as NHS Volunteer Responders reach 250k milestone
- Thanking the nation’s volunteers for helping others
- Royal Voluntary Service leads major call up for public to volunteer through COVID winter crisis
- NHS Volunteer Responders scheme extended to support the public and NHS staff over winter
- The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge make surprise visit to Royal Voluntary Service client at Batley Community Centre
- HRH The Duchess of Cornwall visits NHS Volunteer Responder volunteers at COVID-19 vaccination site
- Prime Minister, Boris Johnson thanks NHS Volunteer Responders and St John Ambulance Vaccination Volunteers
- The Queen and The Duchess of Cornwall thank pandemic volunteers
- Report launch: Volunteering, COVID and integrated care – how the recent surge of volunteer support must be ‘wired-in’ to healthcare for long-term gains
- Volunteering key to improving job prospects
- "Royal Voluntary Service’s report should give us all cause for optimism" - People’s Postcode Lottery
- Ross Kemp kicks off ‘Cheers for Volunteers’ to thank pandemic helpers
- Volunteering can build the kind of society we all want to live in
- Students to swap beachwear for high viz this summer
- Ross Kemp toasts hard-working pandemic helpers at ‘Cheers for Volunteers’ event
- Major call up for public to volunteer as mental health benefits revealed
- Urgent call for volunteer drivers to address transport shortage
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Fundraising
- Players of People’s Postcode Lottery raise staggering £5m for Royal Voluntary Service
- McCarthy & Stone raises more than a quarter of a million pounds for Royal Voluntary Service
- Simplyhealth supports Basingstoke Home From Hospital service
- Royal Voluntary Service launches £5million COVID-19 Emergency Appeal
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Our services
- Try-ing something new: Ben Youngs swaps playing scrum-half for serving patients
- Mood-boosting menu created to help banish winter blues
- Cost of living fears take toll on nation’s health and wellbeing
- Royal Voluntary Service joins British Red Cross in project to support even more vulnerable people this winter
- Move more, feel better in mind and body, says Mr Motivator MBE
- Community planting events recognise vital role of green spaces with Billion Seed Challenge
- 62% of Brits suffer from pandemic hangover
- New programme launches to fuel innovation in social prescribing
- Addenbrooke’s Chair opens healthy options café
- Tips for keeping older people well this winter
- Community shed projects across Britain receive vital funding
- Three new services to open to help reduce loneliness and isolation
- Partnership with London Ambulance Service to pilot programme which aims to reduce calls to 999
- Sheds Grant Fund opens to local communities
- Millions of pre-retirees aspire to revive Britain’s communities
- Royal Voluntary Service presents Leicester hospitals charity with £285,000 gift
- Old age, no age to give up the lycra
- Royal Voluntary Service launches new volunteer-led commissioned services to improve experience of ageing
- Volunteers transform patient snack trolleys to offer healthier options
- Royal Voluntary Service café at Stirling Community Hospital transformed thanks to generous donations
- Royal Voluntary Service presents NHS Greater Glasgow & Clyde with £250,000 gift
- London Ambulance Service pilot reduces 999 calls and visits to A&E
- MasterChef’s toughest critic awards volunteer cooks five stars
- Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals Trust presented with £94k gift
- HRH The Duchess of Cornwall visits local lunch club
- Lack of visitors has detrimental effect on patient recovery
- Every day thousands of older people skip meals or rely on ready meals
- HRH The Duchess of Cornwall joins fan making class
- HRH The Duchess of Cornwall visits Royal Voluntary Service’s Cornhill Centre in Oxfordshire
- HRH The Duchess of Cornwall and Elaine Paige OBE launch charity’s Big Trolley Push campaign
- Hundreds of thousands of older people missing out on health benefits of exercising with others
- Advice and support on staying well at home
- Vulnerable people get direct Line to NHS volunteer army
- National lockdown activity programme for older people launches
- Royal Voluntary Service marks VE Day with virtual singalong
- Royal Voluntary Service volunteers ready to make 100,000 companionship calls, thanks to Asda Foundation
- HRH The Duchess of Cornwall visits Rickmansworth Lunch Club
- Support to help older people stay safe, well and warm this winter
- Home cooking loses its flavour for millions as food fatigue sets in
- What the World Needs Now
- A phone call a day keeps the doctor away
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