Volunteering for the Martlets can be a life changing experience, bringing with it personal satisfaction and new friends, not to the mention the new skills that you’ll learn along the way. Many volunteers have discovered that volunteering can also help you get back to work.  According to recent research volunteering can even help you live longer!

At the Martlets you might be surprised to learn that volunteers make up the majority of the work force, in fact the Martlets has over 550 volunteers.

Volunteers are essential within all parts of the organisation not just directly working with patients at the hospice itself. It costs over £3 million a year to run the hospice and, as the hospice is not part of the NHS it must generate these funds through charitable activities. Volunteers have a huge part to play in this fundraising: from staffing the six Martlets charity shops, to sorting stock donations in the warehouse, to shaking a collection bucket, to marshalling at the Midnight Walk – there is always help needed. 

The hospice itself also needs volunteers; it’s a very different kind of work as volunteers work directly with patients. Volunteer drivers are essential and our reception is purely staffed by volunteers. If you have green fingers and have admired our gardens, perhaps you can lend a hand? The hospice gardens are cared for by a team of volunteer gardeners. 

The amount of time you are able to regularly commit is up to you. If you’d like to support the hospice but can only spare just a few hours a month perhaps supporting fundraising with collections is for you.

Whatever you would like to gain from volunteering at the Martlets our volunteer coordinators will work with you to help you achieve it. To find out more about volunteering for the Martlets please contact our Volunteer Coordinators on 01273 273400 or via email on volunteering@themartletshospice.co.uk