Meet our team members and trustees

It was seeing the power of volunteering first hand that motivated me to move from the world of finance to the charity sector nearly 25 years ago – a move I have never regretted. I am incredibly proud to be working with such a talented team who are all committed to maximising the impact of volunteering on the health and wellbeing of local communities.

As a nurse with a career of more than 30 years, I have witnessed the fantastic contribution volunteers can make. My goal at Helpforce is to enable more organisations to grow the role of health and care volunteers, ensuring people and their families receive the support that they need.

My personal driver is social change and Helpforce is a fantastic opportunity to help communities as well as support our brilliant NHS. Based on my own volunteering experience, the magic of helping other people is a win-win for all involved and should play a role in all of our lives.

Driven by Helpforce’s vision and passionate staff, I am committed to enhancing community health through strategic collaboration and financial leadership. My goal is to foster lasting positive change in health, care, and communities by aligning resources with our mission and amplifying our collective impact.

I love working at Helpforce because it gives me the opportunity to use my data and research skills for a good cause. I hope that our evaluations continue to build recognition of the great impact volunteers can have, and provide evidence to enable our clients to grow and develop their volunteering services.

My role at Helpforce allows me to use my research skills to provide evidence demonstrating the impact of volunteering. Raising the profile of volunteering and supporting health and care organisations with their challenges is fulfilling.

Through years of working in the charitable sector, I have seen first-hand how vital volunteers are in delivering quality care and support. Through our work in the Insight and Impact service, I love being able to support our clients to demonstrate the value and impact of volunteering services, to continue to harness and build upon the incredible support being offered.

My passion for the transformative power of volunteering motivates me to work for Helpforce. As a Project Coordinator, I am dedicated to supporting health and care organisations develop impactful volunteer service models, enhancing patient and staff experiences, and empowering volunteers in pursuing fulfilling careers or further education in the health and care sector.

From experience working within the health and care landscape, I have seen the immense difference volunteers can make to patients at any stage of their care pathway. I am motivated to make that achievable by any health and care organisation. I want to prove to health system leaders that there are endless possibilities for making volunteers part of the solution to the challenges keeping them up at night.

As a Programme Manager leading on Helpforce Volunteer to Career Programme, I'm very proud to see 66% of volunteers who joined this programme have embarked on careers or secured employment in health and care. I take great pride in this programme, knowing it is helping the health and care sector to connect with local communities and address their workforce needs.

My role at Helpforce allows me to help organisations effectively integrate volunteering initiatives into the organisations and/or across place, helping them to improve their efficiencies or ensuring people have the support they need outside of hospital. I really enjoy supporting organisations to adopt approaches that will work in their local context.

Having worked and volunteered for many health related charities over the past 20 years, I know the benefits that volunteers can bring to those experiencing health challenges and to their families. I want to support as many organisations as possible to develop high impact volunteering services that tackle some big challenges around areas including discharge and missed appointments and, most importantly, that help people to live well.

As Helpforce Network Manager, I aim to make sure the Network continues to grow and evolve, providing a thriving and supportive community for professionals from statutory and voluntary sector organisations with an interest in volunteering in health and care. I feel very lucky to witness the connections being made and the problems solved by bringing people together.

Working with Helpforce has given me a unique opportunity to meet and work with inspirational people whose goal is to improve people’s health and wellbeing with the help of volunteers. My role within the Network team helps to bring Network members together so that they can support each other by sharing their knowledge and challenges.

Learning is my passion. At Helpforce I feel honoured to support our Network members in sharing their knowledge with each other. Gaining new insight every day by supporting our amazing Network members to grow and sustain their volunteer services in health and social care is a real joy.

Volunteers already do so much across health and care - but could do so much more. I'm pleased to be working alongside this great team to share the message about how Helpforce can support organisations to develop volunteering services, and about our extensive evidence of the difference volunteers make.

I’m fascinated by the power of volunteering and truly believe that volunteering plays an important role in our society. From using my extensive knowledge and skills in communications, marketing and PR, I aim to raise Helpforce's profile widely, so that more health and care organisations can learn about the support that we offer to accelerate the impact of their volunteering.

Volunteers provide invaluable support to the UK health and care system. I’m delighted to help shine a light on the work healthcare and community organisations do to build their volunteer systems and share the positive impact they have on staff and service users.

I believe the strongest aspect of humanity is our ability to help each other. That's why I leverage digital innovation and development to empower this movement. Working with Helpforce is incredibly exciting; they focus on unlocking the potential of community and volunteer innovation within healthcare and social care.

My role at Helpforce allows me to support an incredibly passionate, committed and competent team to continue to deliver great programmes within the volunteering sector. The health and care organisations that Helpforce supports are achieving amazing progress in volunteering, and I am proud to be a part of something that is so vital, but also so inspiring.