Volunteering

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Become a volunteer

Our volunteers are crucial to almost every aspect of what we do.

Without people generously giving their time and skills, we would be unable to continue delivering vital care and support to our patients and their families. In 2021/22, even with Covid restrictions meaning many volunteers could not return to their roles, they still contributed nearly 50,000 hours of their time, skills and knowledge.

There are so many ways you can get involved as a St. Michael’s Hospice volunteer, whether it is at the Hospice, in the community or in one of our shops.

Ways to volunteer

With 12 shops located across North Hampshire including our specialist Furniture Store, we have a wide range of volunteering opportunities available.

Our retail volunteers hold a vital role in ensuring the ongoing running of our stores, assisting with tasks including serving customers and sorting donations. Our donation centre is the hub of our retail operation with donations being dropped off and sorted by our team of staff and volunteers. Our van drivers assist by collecting and dropping off our donated goods to our shops across North Hampshire.

At our Hospice in Basingstoke, we offer a number of patient-facing roles that provide assistance to patients, families and staff throughout our inpatient unit.

Please note, due to the ongoing situation with COVID-19, certain Hospice based volunteers (other than those specifically advertised on our volunteer vacancies page) are currently stood down. We are still accepting new applications, with all volunteer roles listed on our application form. Once we have received your application form, our Voluntary Services Manager will get in touch with you directly. Once guidelines confirm that it safe to do so, volunteering will resume.

Throughout the year we have a calendar of fundraising events for which we often need volunteers to lend a hand.

Volunteers are so important, especially to the Fundraising Team.

We couldn’t put on our events without our dedicated volunteers who will get up super early or stay until late to help us. Whether manning the car park, serving refreshments, or handing out medals they always do it with a huge smile on their faces.