Volunteers' Week is a national celebration of volunteers and volunteering which takes place from 1 – 7 June each year. It plays a huge part in raising the profile of England’s 22 million volunteers while encouraging others to get involved.
Volunteers’ Week began in 1984. Each year more and more organisations get involved in the Week and participants take part in various events throughout the UK. These range from award presentations to setting-up information booths or sponsored walks and team challenge events with everything in between!
Volunteers' Week is an initiative of Volunteering England, Wales Council for Voluntary Action, Volunteer Development Agency Northern Ireland and Volunteer Development Scotland.
This year we celebrated the 25th anniversary of Volunteers' Week. The Volunteers' Week website provides you with a lots of information and resources to help you make the most of the week.
Each year the Volunteers' Week website brings together a number of new features to make the week go off with a bang! In the past this has included:
- an event finder to find details of a local event taking place during Volunteers' Week. Search using your postcode, date or region.
- a range of branded merchandise which is available for purchase (at discounted rates to Volunteering England members). Each year the range is updated to contain some great new items, as well as all of the items that you would expect to buy for your local volunteering events.
- Stories from volunteers across the country
- thank volunteers for the difference that they have made to beneficiaries or to the organisation that they have been volunteering for on the 'thank you' page
- Free downloads of marketing materials which you can use for your event. These include posters, flyers and thank you certificates.
Everyone across the UK is invited to join this national celebration of volunteering; it's up to you to decide exactly how you join in.
If you would like to become more actively involved in Volunteers' Week in the future email us at volunteersweek@volunteeringengland.org.
If you are interested in sponsoring any element of the Volunteers' Week activities in the future, please contact jocelyne.boorman@volunteeringengland.org.
