This #VolunteersWeek we would like to once again thank our army of volunteers who contribute so much to TouchPoint and our local community.
Did you know that we have more than 170 active volunteers who gave us 20,000 hours of their time last year? An incredible contribution.
Often this work is unseen and happens at all times of the day.
  • In a typical week 60 volunteers give us 175 hours of their time to enable us to deliver our Community Food Share project across the district. Between 7am and 10pm, whatever the weather, our drivers are out, as regular as clockwork, collecting from supermarkets, enabling our sorting team to get to work, often late into the evening. We are proud of the friendly and welcoming nature of all our Food Share volunteers. Their dedication and hard work helps our Food Share project directly impact 1,500 people a week.
  • Our café and activities team is also mainly staffed by volunteers. In the first three months of the year their combined efforts ensured that we were able to give away more than 1,200 free hot meals at our Kids Teatime and Friday Breakfast Sessions.
  • Our Kids Xmas Appeal volunteers worked tirelessly to help us raise £20,000 for Christmas 2024, enabling us to support 780 families and children in our area.
  • Our amazing Bereavement Café volunteers deliver a warm, thoughtful and compassionate space for those in our community who have experienced the pain of loss.
  • The TouchPoint garden team have transformed and nurtured our gardens and made them available to all.
  • The newly assembled and rapidly growing team of Community Radio volunteers are passionate about building something that will help to build a greater sense of belonging and connectedness in our community.
  • TouchPoint has a wonderful team who do great work with those in our community who have been displaced.
  • Our team of Volunteer Co-ordinators play a critical role in recruiting and onboarding volunteers. Their admin burden is huge!

Thank you to all our volunteers: we are so grateful for all you do. Your dedication, passion and commitment is absolutely incredible. You are responsible for everything that is good about the TouchPoint and our community well-being project.

If you would like to join our team, we would love to hear from you: just email volunteer@thetouchpoint.org to find out more.