Further Volunteering Roles
Ambulance Service Charity Volunteer
Our ambulance service charities need your help to continue their valuable work. There are many ways you can do this by volunteering to fundraise, helping out at fundraising events or supporting your charity team with admin and social media.
If you’re interested in volunteering for your local ambulance service charity, please click the link for your nearest service below.
North West Ambulance Service | Support our Charity
Yorkshire Ambulance Service | The YAS Charity
East Midlands Ambulance Service NHS Trust | Charitable Donations
East of England Ambulance Service NHS Trust | The EEAST Charitable Fund
London Ambulance Service NHS Trust | Support the London Ambulance Charity
South Central Ambulance Service | The SCAS Charity
South East Coast Ambulance Service | Making a Donation
South Western Ambulance Service | The South Western Ambulance Charity
Or if you fancy a one-off volunteer fundraising opportunity, why not Outrun an Ambulance?
The Ambulance Staff Charity
The Ambulance Staff Charity (TASC) is the national UK charity dedicated to supporting the mental, physical and financial wellbeing of the UK’s ambulance community including serving/retired staff, their immediate family members, paramedic science students and ambulance service volunteers.
TASC volunteers make a huge difference to the ambulance community. Whether it’s raising awareness in their workplace, encouraging others to get involved, supporting staff at events or speaking at conferences, TASC volunteers make a real difference to the work we do.
If you’re interested in volunteering for TASC, please click the links below.
NHS Volunteer Responders
NHS Volunteer Responders (NHSVR) was launched in April 2020 as part of the national response to COVID-19. Due to the fantastic support provided by so many dedicated volunteers, NHSVR is now developing for the longer term and is being reshaped to help the NHS support people’s needs, locally and nationally.
It will also continue to provide emergency support to the NHS across England when needed. The new NHSVR will include a range of additional roles and opportunities.
Find out more at https://nhsvolunteerresponders.org.uk
NHS Volunteering
If you are looking for volunteering opportunities in the NHS you can find links to all the NHS trusts (including Ambulance trusts) on the NHS Volunteering website here.
Additional Resources
Video:
Helen Vine, (former) Strategic Lead for Volunteering, AACE and Emma Valentine, Voluntary Partnerships Lead, NHS England presented the plans for the National Ambulance Volunteering Strategy at ALF 2022. Watch the recording here.
Article:
National Ambulance Workshop underlines importance of Volunteers
Getting involved:
NHS and Care Volunteer Responders Stakeholder Webinars (Aug & Sept 2023)
The Ambulance Volunteering Dashboard:
Insights about our volunteers and the activities they undertake with our three pilot ambulance trusts
Volunteer role descriptions – AACE guidance:
A guide to assist volunteer leaders when writing volunteer role descriptions for ambulance volunteers
Ambulance Volunteering Newsletter – Autumn 2024
A quarterly update on Ambulance Volunteering
Volunteering leadership maturity matrix
The volunteering leadership maturity matrix is a self-assessment tool for ambulance trusts to use. It provides a framework for analysing the leadership structures and trust-based support for volunteering. We encourage trusts to use this tool with a wide group of stakeholders including volunteers, volunteer managers, senior leaders and other key stakeholders.
Download it here.
If you have any questions, or would like support, please contact joe.crook@aace.org.uk
Our Volunteering Strategy
This is the first National Ambulance Volunteering Strategy and demonstrates our commitment to supporting and enhancing volunteering opportunities in the ambulance sector and healthcare more widely.
View our Strategy On A Page (Phase 2 September 2024) here.
View our Strategy On A Page (Phase 1, January 2023) here.
If you have any strategic queries about ambulance sector volunteering, please contact joe.crook@aace.org.uk
