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.
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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.

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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.

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 provide

How 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.
Find out how we help them

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.
Learn more about our evaluation service

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.
Learn more about the Network

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:

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Work with organisations' existing volunteering infrastructure

To build capability and capacity to manage any new services

2

Secure stakeholder support

We will work with organisations to secure clinical and other stakeholder support for new or evolving services

3

Create community links

We will help build links between health and community-based voluntary services, creating referral pathways​

4

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

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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.
Learn more about this programme

Our essential evidence

Explore Helpforce's unique data bank about the impact of volunteering,
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Meet our team

We are a tight-knit team and passionate about transforming healthcare volunteering.
Find out about our staff and trustees' expertise and experience

Contact us

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