Volunteers

Dalata Hotel Group volunteers with Air Ambulance NI mascot, Helimed Ed.

On average, the air ambulance service is needed twice a day

Lord Mayor of Belfast Councillor Ryan Murphy (left) and Chair of the Cave Hill Conservation Cormac Hamill at the recently refurbished Millennium maze at Belfast Castle

Lost and found: Volunteers restore castle’s millennium maze

Loch Ness Monster 2023: Volunteers wanted for biggest ‘monster hunt’ in 50 years - how to apply

Volunteers wanted for biggest Loch Ness Monster hunt in 50 years

Louis the Jack Russell with his owner after being rescued

Dog rescued after falling down one of UK’s biggest waterfalls

RSPB NI Volunteers bird watching at Belfast Window on Wildlife

Volunteer Week: Praise for those who give of their time to RSPB NI

PD Arnie has graduated as a police dog despite harsh conditions in his early life

Puppy graduates as police dog after being found during raid

People volunteering at a community kitchen.

As the coronation inspires people to help out – how volunteering can boost menta...

Metropolitan Police officers march along The Mall in London as they head to their positions for of the coronation processions of King Charles III and Queen Camilla.

Coronation: Street safety volunteers arrested over rape alarm concerns

Sally Field pictured with the late Paul OGrady

Britain's oldest dog walker crowned coronation champion by RSPCA

The cast for the highly anticipated Hunger Games prequel film The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes has been revealed. (Credit: Getty Images)

The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes - full cast

Thousands of volunteers are needed to offer their helping hands over the course of King Charles III’s coronation celebrations - Credit: Getty Images

King Charles III coronation looking for thousands of volunteers

James Caulfield, 4th Viscount Charlemont (Later 1st Earl of Charlemont) painted by Pompeo Batoni, c 1753–56. Picture: Google Art Project

News Letter extracts from editions of 1786

The NHS has re-launched its Check in and Chat service for isolated patients

NHS re-launches volunteer service for lonely and isolated patients

British National dies in Ukraine, Foreign Office confirms

British National dies in Ukraine, Foreign Office confirms

Just Stop Oil protesters guilty of conspiring to cause public nuisance at Silverstone British GP

Just Stop Oil guilty over British GP track invasion - watch protest

The common lizard

County Down town is becoming more lizard-friendly thanks to work of volunteers
Volunteers and conservationists have been fighting scrub in County Down to increase numbers of a small reptile not widely known to be a native of Ireland.

Dublin Lord Mayor Caroline Conroy presents the Pride of Place award to Terry McKeown from Sailortown. They won the Urban Neighbourhoods with a population under 3,000 category.

Belfast community projects win at all-Ireland awards

A dead 12ft whale was washed up on the banks of a British river last week.

Huge dead whale found washed up British river bank

Andrew Bagshaw, 48, and Christopher Parry, 28, have gone missing in Donetsk, Ukraine.

Two British men who volunteered in Ukraine go missing

A walrus called Thor was spotted having a rest at Scarborough Harbour ahead of the New Year

Walrus pays a visit to Scarborough harbour en route to the Arctic

Meet some of the volunteers at Trussell Trust food banks in the UK

April Jones went missing in October 2012 - her body was never found.

Mystery of April Jones as Channel 4 documentary revisits murder

Crates of food at a Trussell Trust food bank (Photo: Trussell Trust)

Trussell Trust foodbanks need people to donate these items

Flossie, pictured here with new owner Vicki, has been named the world’s oldest cat by the Guiness Book of World Records.

UK cat Flossie officially named world’s oldest moggie

Lindsey Stockton (far right, holding framed document) with food bank colleagues

National World campaign: A day in the life of a Trussell Trust worker

Crates of food at a Trussell Trust food bank (Photo: Trussell Trust)

National World launch Trussell Trust winter fundraiser

EasyJet is bringing its Fearless Flyer course back to Gatwick Airport on Sunday, November 27, to help nervous flyers take control and overcome their fears. Picture by PATRICIA DE MELO MOREIRA/AFP via Getty Images

Passenger dies during flight between Cyprus and London
easyJet issued a statement as a passenger dies en-route to the UK - “Staff did all possible”.

Dolphins spotted in UK waters as pod swim happily alongside RNLI boat - watch video taken of sighting

Dolphins spotted swimming alongside RNLI rescue boat

NI volunteer builders set to help bed-bound father of six

Heidi McIlvenny, Marine Conservation Manager at Ulster Wildlife, inspecting one of the 24 native oyster nurseries installed by the wildlife charity at Bangor Marina

Oysters may flourish once more in Belfast Lough thanks to restoration project

Randox managing director, Dr Peter FitzGerald

NI’s Randox to deliver £10m investment for major UK research project

Captain Terence O'Neill, Prime Minister, Northern Ireland. Picture: Victor Patterson
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What 1916 meant to NI PM Captain O’Neill (1966)

The RNLI has issued expert advice on how to stay safe while enjoying a swim in the water this winter. It is important to remain aware of the dangers and take precautions to prevent cold water shock

Stay safe in during cold water swims - RNLI warns

Volunteers bring Christmas cheer to the deprived and homeless of Belfast

A volunteer delivers a Christmas dinner from the East Coast Diner in Millisle and In the Name of Cod in Bangor last winter.

Volunteers rolling out community Christmas dinners once again

The first meeting of the Belfast branch of the Samaritans in the chapter house of St Anne's Cathedral, Belfast in 1961. The oldest branch of the Samaritans on the island of Ireland has marked its 60th anniversary.

Samaritans branch a light in dark times for past 60 years

The sports bag contained a number of dead racing pigeons

Volunteers find dead animals in sports bag in the River Bann

Pattersons Spademill need a Forge & Metalworker Volunteer. Picture: National Trust Images

From the quirky to the traditional, charity shares new volunteering opportunitie...

Volunteers at Ballyclare’s War Years Remembered museum are undertaking an arduous trek of 602 miles, using treadmills, to replicate the distance from Ballyclare to the beaches of Normandy.

Volunteers to ‘trek to Normandy’ to raise funds for Ballyclare museum

You could be paid £4,500 to contract Covid as part of a new research project (Photo: Shutterstock)

You could be paid £4,500 to contract Covid as part of a new research project

The new study will be conducted on over 800 participants (Photo: Jane Barlow - Pool/Getty Images)

A trial to confirm if Covid vaccine types can be mixed is underway - what we kno...

Sikh communities and a football team came together to feed stranded Dover lorry ...

Volunteer Tracey Brown with her children

Home-Start volunteers giving gift of time to NI families this Christmas

Pancho the cat

Pancho the cat gets clean bill of health after being rescued from car engine in ...

East Antrim MLA John Stewart assists with the crossing patrol at Carrickfergus Model Primary School.

Volunteers step in for school’s crossing patrol amid calls for education body to...

Mid and East Antrim flag tribute to emergency services

Digital Assist Text Help service

Digital helpers on hand to support people struggling with technology

Barbara Pinkerton and Karen Spratt preparing hot meals to be delivered by Orange volunteers

Coronavirus: Orange Order helping to bring hot meals to vulnerable people in rur...

This charity is looking for volunteers to befriend the elderly over the phone

Volunteers ‘enjoying giving to those in need’ in Mid Ulster

Education minister Peter Weir

Education minister: The call for volunteer teachers is a ‘contingency’ in case o...

How hearing loss charity is reaching out to those in need

As cases of coronavirus in the UK continue to rise, it is heartwarming to see communities coming together to look out for their most vulnerable members (Photo: Shutterstock)

Communities are forming ‘mutual aid groups’ to help people in need during the co...

People wearing masks to prevent coronavirus

UK Coronavirus cases increase to 273

People in China are abandoning their pets over coronavirus fears