Make a difference in your local community
Our Compassionate Communities offer community-based support across Bucks and Herts to provide support for both patients and their families that goes beyond their end-of-life care or bereavement needs. We have a variety of opportunities for volunteers from 1:1 support as a Compassionate Neighbour to group support as a Compassionate Communities Group volunteer. Our volunteers are provided with regular training so that they can offer the correct support and signpost effectively. If you have time to give and would like to join our team, we would love to hear from you!
Volunteer today!
Whether you have specific experience you’d like to put to good use, or fancy learning some new skills, we’d love to hear from you.
Below are some examples of the kind of roles our volunteers do across the hospice, please scroll down for our current list of opportunities.
Volunteer with our communities
Compassionate Neighbour Compassionate Neighbours provide 1:1 social, emotional support and companionship to people who are experiencing loneliness or social isolation as a result of living with a life-limiting illness or bereavement.
Compassionate Community Group volunteer You'll be supporting people towards end of life and/or people who are suffering with a loss, in a group setting like a Compassionate Support Hub or Compassionate Café.
Community Engagement Ambassador Our Community Engagement Ambassadors help promote our work by delivering engaging presentations and talks to local groups and at events. You'll be helping us to make sure that as many people as possible can access our valuable services as early on in their diagnosis as possible.
"I signed up as a volunteer as I have personally experienced different loss and bereavement and feel I can emphasize with others. Since joining I have found it rewarding and have met a genuinely lovely group of people"
Why our volunteers love working with patients and those around them
As well as helping to make a huge difference to the running of our patient services, our incredible volunteers say they find working at Rennie Grove Peace both rewarding and sociable. Here are just some of the other benefits they listed:
Making connections Helping people who are going through a difficult time gives enormous personal satisfaction, and there is great value in meeting people and making a connection at this time of life.
Having a real impact Making a difference to our patients’ lives, and helping those around then, when they need it the most.
Working for the community Helping families in the local community who need specialist hospice care means your time and energy is harnessed for a good cause.
Hear from our volunteers
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Compassionate Neighbours
Fiona McGregor lives in St Albans and has been volunteering as a Compassionate Neighbour for around 18 months. Here is more of her story.
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Compassionate Communities
Community-based support to help beyond a patient's palliative, end-of-life care and bereavement needs
