27th May 2025
This Volunteers' Week (2nd – 8th June), NHS Property Services (NHS PS) is highlighting the 1,135 colleagues who have volunteered their time to address local social and health inequalities to improve wellbeing in our communities.
Our volunteering programme gives all employees the opportunity to spend up to 15 hours of their working time, each year, to use their skills to help others. It also gives them the opportunity to learn new skills, meet new people, build relationships with colleagues and improve your own health and wellbeing.
Hilary Carter, Relationship Manager at NHS Property Services, is a volunteer at Chapter One, helping a child improve their reading for 30 minutes each week.
She said: "I enjoy an immersive change of pace for 30 minutes each week, when I am in the moment, listening carefully, nudging my reader along, and finally sharing her joy in a story that has sparked her imagination and rewarded her effort. I look forward to each session as much as I hope she does, and I know it's making a difference."
Through our CSR programme, NHS Property Services is committed to improving the health and wellbeing of the communities we operate in. We aim to support community-based health initiatives and address key social issues to improve long-term populations health, lessen health inequality and, ultimately pressure and demand on NHS Services.
Volunteers' Week runs in the first week of June every year. Launched in 1984, the initiative has been running for more than 40 years.
For more information visit: NHS Property Services | Corporate Social Responsibility
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