Hospice Volunteers Recognised during National Volunteers Week 2025

• 30 May 2025

From 2-8 June 2025, National Volunteers Week is an opportunity to come together to celebrate and thank the very special 600 plus volunteers who support Arthur Rank Hospice Charity.

Volunteers at the Charity are integral to keeping services free for people in Cambridgeshire living with an advanced serious illness or other life-limiting condition and those who need end of life care.

Our amazing and generous volunteers donate their time in a wide variety of roles across the Charity. For example; at the Inpatient Unit, in our Living Well Service, in reception, the garden and our Bistro at the Hospice in Cambridge, at the Alan Hudson Centre in Wisbech, at our nine retail opportunities across Cambridgeshire and at our flagship and community events. People like George Jeffery who volunteers to serve afternoon Tea in the Inpatient Unit, Jean Donnellan who volunteers in the Inpatient Unit and our shops, Anna Elliott who volunteers at events for the Alan Hudson Centre and Muriel who volunteers by delivering a Laughter Session at Arthur’s Shed are just some of the examples of how our volunteers support patients and their families.

Hannah Touhey, Voluntary Services Manager shared what this week means to her:

“Arthur Rank Hospice Charity is incredibly privileged to be supported by so many wonderful volunteers. It reflects the outstanding care we provide, that we have so many people come forward to offer their time. What I love most about the service here is the way in which volunteers are truly considered part of the team. Staff remember birthdays, know who has just become a grandparent or who is about to graduate; they make the time, as they would for colleagues, to get to know them.

Similarly, in the Voluntary Services department, we take great pride in providing a flexible and tailored volunteering experience which makes the most of the volunteers’ expertise, interests and motivations. It’s not uncommon to bring someone in for one role and have them leave with another following their interview, we don’t simply assign roles, we matchmake!

Hannah concluded by adding a personal message to our volunteers:

“This week is an opportunity to pause and take time to really show our appreciation for our volunteers who allow us to make every moment count for those we support. From your own homes, to the Hospice in Cambridge, at our Alan Hudson Centre, in our retail spaces or out in the community, you all make such a difference, thank you.”

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If you would like to volunteer for Arthur Rank Hospice Charity please see our current vacancies here.