Volunteer
Join our fantastic team of volunteers who are making a HUGE impact in your community. There are a range of volunteering opportunities available to you, from regular volunteering roles working with our patients or in one of our many retail shops, to ad-hoc and micro volunteering with our fundraising or administration teams. Any time you can spare, whether it be just a couple of hours, a morning or an afternoon, every minute of volunteering helps our nurses to deliver extraordinary hospice care closer to home for our patients.
Below are just a few benefits for why you should come and join our volunteering team;
- Make a positive difference to people’s’ lives.
- Improve self esteem, confidence and wellbeing.
- Diverse roles available across the Clinical, Retail and Fundraising teams.
- Gain invaluable work experience.
- Gain new skills and make new friends.
- 20% off in all our shops
What our volunteers have been up to:
Volunteer Voices – Patient Driver
Meet Chris! Chris volunteers as a patient driver, helping to safely transport our patients to our Day Hospice in Wareham.
Volunteer Voices – Shop Volunteer
To celebrate International Volunteers Day on Tuesday 5th December, we spoke to Winton shop volunteer Glenn!
Autumn Newsletter 2023
How you could help our charity:
Clinical
You could help us within the hospice setting, supporting day hospice sessions and providing companionship to patients, through arts and crafts groups by offering a friendly helping hand.
Fundraising
Join us for range of fantastic events and campaigns across the year, including our annual ‘Muddy Dog Dash’, our popular ‘Candles on the Community’ events, and so much more!
COMPLEMENTARY Therapy
If you are a confident Complementary Therapist, you could help us to deliver some relaxation and pampering to our patients.
Charity Shops and ebay
An extra pair of hands in one of our many busy retail shops is always welcome! We have lots of opportunities available from helping serve our customers in store, sort through donations, steaming to taking photos of donated items and listing them on our eBay shop.
PATIENT Drivers
If you have your own car, you could become a Patient Driver, enabling our patients without their own means to attend one of our Day Hospices. If you have a van, you could help our retail teams too with collections, clearances and more!
Admin
Join our fantastic friendly teams in the office; whether it’s scanning and filing, or helping out on reception, our team would love your help!
Receptionist
Reception volunteer are the first face our patients and visitors see when visiting the hospice. If you are a people-person who can offer our visitors a sincerely warm welcome, we would love you to join our team of volunteers.
Befriender
Volunteer Befrienders provide friendship and companionship to patients in their own home. If you are compassionate, a good listener, patient and understanding, we would love you to get in touch and help to brighten someone’s day.
Find out more
We would love to hear from you! Lyndsey, our Volunteer Manager, is on hand to help. Contact her today:
Lyndsey.howard@lewis-manning.org.uk
DISCOVER MORE FUNDRAISING OPPORTUNITIES
Take a look at our upcoming challenges and events!