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Our service users are all experiencing either physical, mental or chronic health problems and as a result, they are either in and out of school on a parttime basis, or they are out of school completely. As you can imagine, this has a significant impact on their learning their development of social skills.

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Royal Mencap Society

We are a not-for-profit organisation specialising in care homes for the elderly. We have been delivering care for over 25 years and currently have 98 care homes across England and Scotland. At Sanctuary Care, we have a passion for enriching lives – those of our residents, their families and our staff. We proudly go beyond the standard expectations of good quality care to support our residents to live fulfilled lives. Our volunteers help us to enrich the lives of our residents and they are a vital part of our care home team.

Volunteers add real value to Sense, bringing their passion, enthusiasm and fresh perspectives to the work that we do. We believe that volunteers enable us to bring people together, and provide opportunities for people with complex disabilities to communicate and experience the world.

Our amazing team of volunteers help us run over 100 shops across England and Wales. Every donated item that you sort, prepare and sell helps to raise vital funds to support us in our mission to make sure no one, no matter how complex their disabilities, is isolated, left out, or unable to fulfil their potential. Our shops are at the heart of local communities – sharing the work of Sense, and helping to secure support for our life changing work.

The Gloucestershire Independent Visitors Project works with young people aged 8-18 who live in foster care. Independent Visitors are volunteers who befriend young people, advise and support them during their time in care offering a listening ear, do fun activities and are a friendly consistent role model. We will provide accredited training through Certa and all the skills you need to become an Independent Visitor with on-going support after training. All you need is a genuine interest in the welfare of young people.

St Richard's Hospice is an independent charity caring for over 2,600 patients, their loved ones and carers each year in Worcestershire

The Access Project is an education charity supporting young people from disadvantaged backgrounds across London, West Midlands, East Midlands, West Yorkshire, West Cumbria and Lancashire. The programme provides in-school support which includes one to one mentoring, university trips and workshops as well as personalised academic tuition, to help disadvantaged young people gain places at top-third ranked universities.

At the moment, young people in the UK from disadvantaged backgrounds are six times less likely to progress to a top-third university, compared to their peers working at a similar academic level. We want to change this. We help these young people to see university as something that is “for them”, to support them to make competitive applications and to get the grades they deserve so that they can fulfil their potential.

Organisation in Worcester that seeks volunteers and promotes volunteering opportunities from other organisations 

The Students’ Union is an independent charity, devoted to the educational interests and welfare of all students studying at the University of Worcester.