Come along and celebrate health and care volunteering in your local area!

Voluntary Norfolk are inviting local residents living across Norfolk and Waveney to special volunteering “Wellfest” events to celebrate the difference volunteering activity makes across health and social care, this October.

Local volunteering teams from both the voluntary sector and health and social care organisations are looking forward to sharing their stories and successes with members of the public.

Volunteering can take many forms. It surprises many people about the range of activities local people undertake to help out. These events will feature interactive stands and displays with opportunities to speak to current volunteers about what they do in their own words, meet local PAT dogs or even take up the opportunity of having a therapeutic hand massage.

Information about the events

These events will happen on:

• Thursday 12 October at Norwich Quaker Meeting House, Upper Goat Lane, Norwich, NR2 1EW
• Tuesday 17 October at Duke’s Head Hotel, 5-6 Tuesday Market Place, King’s Lynn PE30 1JS

The event has been jointly organised in collaboration with Norfolk and Waveney Integrated Care Board, Voluntary Norfolk and Community Action Norfolk.

The public events will start at 11am until 2pm and all are welcome.

In Great Yarmouth an event to launch the new Volunteer to Career initiative will take place. Join us to find out about this new route in to health and care employment.

• Great Yarmouth Library, Tolhouse St, Great Yarmouth NR30 2SH on Tuesday 10^th October 11.30am-1.00pm

For more information about these events, please contact us.

To find out about volunteering in Norfolk have a look what opportunities there are with Voluntary Norfolk. We also advertise opportunities across the VCSE sector in Norfolk on our GetInVOLved website.