What is employee volunteering?

How can you and your colleagues help a local hospice?
There are many ways in which you and your colleagues might be able to help a local hospice, either individually or as a group. Contact your local hospice to find out what support they might need.

• promoting volunteering opportunities on your company's intranet site, notice-boards, newsletters, at staff meetings.
• stewarding at hospice events such as annual bike rides, balls, sports days
• painting and decorating and general maintenance
• gardening
• designing posters, promotional materials
• IT/website support

If you and your colleagues are interested in volunteering and supporting a local hospice you might like to receive a copy of a new video, which Help the Hospices and Rosetta Life have recently produced, as an introduction to hospice care.

Hospice: Patient and Carer Voices
"What does a hospice offer? What is palliative care? In this powerful video, hospice patients, carers, volunteers, consultants and hospice staff share their experiences. To obtain a copy, contact info@hospiceinformation.info

Case Studies

Police Scientific Development Branch, Home Office
Grove House Hospice, St Albans

HBOS plc, Sue Ryder Care, Wheatfields in Leeds

Employee Volunteering at St Catherine's Hospice, Scarborough

To find your local hospice click here