Volunteers’ Week is an annual UK-wide campaign held from the first Monday in June to celebrate and recognise the contributions of volunteers. Launched in 1984, this initiative has been running for over 40 years, providing organisations and communities a platform to thank volunteers for their invaluable efforts. Volunteers’ Week fosters connections between national organisations and grassroots groups, celebrating the spirit of volunteering that enriches communities each year.
Join us at the beginning of June (2-8), as we say a huge thank you to our incredible community of volunteers who are passionate about ending homelessness.
Throughout the week we’ll be sharing volunteer stories on our socials and hearing about how it feels to be part of a movement to end homelessness.
From all of us at Crisis, thank you.
Volunteers’ Week is all about volunteers and the special work they do throughout our communities across the UK. This is a chance to really reflect, celebrate and inspire.
Volunteers’ Week allows us as an organisation to acknowledge what a crucial contribution volunteers make to the work that Crisis does in our day-to-day service delivery, e-commerce, retail, fundraising, as specialists, within central teams and with Crisis at Christmas.
The hard work and commitment of our volunteers supports Crisis to change people’s lives and ultimately, to end homelessness.
Volunteering with Crisis supports people facing homelessness in a variety of ways.
In our local services, they work directly with people as they find ways out of homelessness, in collaboration with other volunteers and Crisis staff, whilst in shops, e-commerce and fundraising they support us with raising vital funds to help more people out of homelessness.
Specialist volunteers offer us professional skills that they have developed through their careers and academic studies - this could be in marketing, finance, project management, data and digital – to help deliver effective solutions to ending homelessness whilst Christmas volunteers provide a warm welcome when people walk through our doors looking for support, deliver festive hampers in their local community, crucial health services or provide personalised advice. And we also have corporate supporters, whose time, energy and expertise helps end homelessness in a number of ways.
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We have a dedicated community of over 4,300 volunteers
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580 of our volunteers have lived experience of homelessness
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Our longest standing volunteer has been with us for an impressive 46 years
Our volunteers make our work possible, supporting people out of homelessness and campaigning for the changes needed to solve it altogether.
From serving customers in our local shops to working directly with people experiencing homelessness, there are so many ways you can get involved.
Volunteering with us is a great way to meet new, like-minded people, gain useful skills, build confidence, and learn more about how homelessness and housing insecurity can be ended in your local community.
