26 Mar Volunteer for the NHS and local community
Your community needs you! Join the team today.
While amazingly the government target of 250,000 volunteers was exceeded (and indeed almost doubled) in less than 24 hours, local community volunteers are always needed and appreciated, so you can find different ways to get involved below.
Hammersmith & Fulham Council has launched a new Community Aid Network (CAN) to co-ordinate an army of volunteers to help during the coronavirus crisis.
The new network will see H&F create a taskforce of local community charities designed to help support vulnerable local residents. We’d like you to help.
We’re aware that many people in H&F are keen to volunteer and coordinate action during these challenging times.
Please complete the form on the linked page to register your interest.
This is a community response and you should continue to follow the advice being given by Public Health England.
Are you keen to help the community during the coronavirus outbreak?
If you’d like to volunteer and offer help then take a look at our volunteer page for ways to get involved, including grocery shopping, meal deliveries and phone calls.
Here is the link for the H&F branch, but you can find different branches around London.
NHS Volunteer Responders has been set up to support the NHS during the COVID-19 outbreak. To do this, an ‘army’ of volunteers are needed, who can support the 1.5m people in England who are at most risk from the virus to stay well. Our doctors, nurses and other professionals will be able to refer people in to NHS Volunteer Responders and be confident that they have been matched with a reliable, named volunteer.
This programme enables volunteers to provide care or to help a vulnerable person, which is permitted under the new rules announced by the Government on 23rd March 2020. Volunteers may be asked to show the active task they are responding to if asked.
Volunteers must be 18 or over, and fit and well with no symptoms. Those in higher-risk groups (including those over 70, those who are pregnant or with underlying medical conditions) will be able to offer support by telephone.
Your safety is our priority. The majority of tasks can be undertaken while social distancing and volunteers will receive guidance through the ‘getting started pack’.
Here are the ways you can support:
- Community Response volunteer: This role involves collecting shopping, medication or other essential supplies for someone who is self-isolating, and delivering these supplies to their home.
- Patient Transport volunteer: This role supports the NHS by providing transport to patients who are medically fit for discharge, and ensuring that they are settled safely back in to their home.
- NHS Transport volunteer: This role involves transporting equipment, supplies and/or medication between NHS services and sites, it may also involve assisting pharmacies with medication delivery.
- Check-in and Chat volunteer: This role provides short-term telephone support to individuals who are at risk of loneliness as a consequence of self-isolation.
Thank you for your help at this challenging time.