How we can help healthcare organisations
Helpforce works with partners across healthcare and the community to develop and evaluate services that optimise the difference volunteers can make.Here we explain how we can help organisations meet key challenges and the specialist services that allow us to do this.
Volunteering services that meet organisations'challenges
We work like a consultancy, and will start the partnership by finding out more about the challenges healthcare organisations face. Once we understand their situation, we will work with them to deliver volunteering solutions that help meet their challenges – and evaluate those solutions to make sure they do.
Our Back to Health framework
At Helpforce, we develop solutions based on our Back to Health framework, putting volunteering services in place to help people in hospital, in their home and in the community.
Our Impact
103
healthcare and community partners have developed or evaluated services with us
Over 1M
people have been supported by those services
87%
of staff agree volunteer support improves the quality of service they can provideHow we help - our specialist services
We are the only charity focused exclusively on encouraging high impact volunteering in healthcare. We bring specialist knowledge, expertise and tools to our partnerships with NHS and community organisations:
Developing volunteering services:
We have provided expert support and proven services models to dozens of healthcare organisations.
Evaluating volunteering's impact:
We build robust assessment into all our partnership projects and can evaluate other volunteering services. We have built up a unique bank of over 480 evidence findings.
Sharing volunteering expertise through our peer Network:
Nearly 1,000 individuals and over 700 organisations are part of the Helpforce Network, sharing resources and knowledge about creating better volunteering services.Making your service sustainable and scalable
Any volunteering solution we work on should be sustainable and built into business as usual. To achieve this we:
Work with organisations' existing volunteering infrastructure
To build capability and capacity to manage any new services
Secure stakeholder support
We will work with organisations to secure clinical and other stakeholder support for new or evolving services
Create community links
We will help build links between health and community-based voluntary services, creating referral pathways
Embed evaluation and data collection
We will help organisations embed evaluation and data collection in all services to ensure they deliver as planned – or are changed if not
Sustain and scale up
We establish a body of data as the basis for future development or funding proposals to sustain or scale up the project
Find out more about Helpforce
Our ICS Back to Health programme
Building on our existing pioneering work with Integrated Care Systems (ICSs), this Lottery-funded programme will improve thousands of people’s healthcare across the NHS and in local communities.
Our essential evidence
Explore Helpforce's unique data bank about the impact of volunteering,
Meet our team
We are a tight-knit team and passionate about transforming healthcare volunteering.
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