‘I definitely learnt much more than just English’
It’s not every day that VCES receives an email from Brazil! So, on a wintry morning in Eastbourne just prior to Christmas we were happy to receive an email from...
Volunteers
Action Group member in Hastings
Kim Kelly volunteered with Brighton Housing Trust at their Fulfilling Lives project in Hastings. “After being unemployed for about 13yrs, I felt I needed some purpose in life, to do something useful,...
New mum volunteering with Eastbourne Food Bank
Sarah is involved with and supports her local Food Bank in Eastbourne. She has began volunteering after she became a mum to her daughter Camille. With a new baby, I suddenly found constraints...
Volunteer Ranger, South Downs National Park Authority
My name is Sam Rush, I’m 31 and I’m a Volunteer Ranger with the South Downs National Park Authority. I started volunteering generally around November last year. Initially this was for entirely...
Volunteers at Little Gate Farm in Rother
Jeff (on the photo) used to work but had a bad motorcycle accident that led to 8 months in convalescence and then being cared for by his father. When he first started work...
Bexhill Dementia Action Alliance Volunteer
Caroline is a volunteer with the Bexhill Dementia Action Alliance(BDAA). She works for a Domiciliary Care Agency but as recently joined the BDAA committee as secretary. “I have done this for two...
Dog walking for The Cinnamon Trust
I live in Hastings and I have always lived in and around East Sussex. I used to be a chef, but twelve years ago I was diagnosed with chronic fatigue syndrome and...
PDSA charity shop volunteer
Niloufar Safari is a 20 year old student living in Eastbourne and studying Law at Oxford Brookes University. “This summer I decided to do something useful with my spare time by volunteering...
Contact the Elderly Voluntary Coordinator
We moved to Polegate in 2011 and, having enjoyed hosting tea parties for Contact the Elderly in Worcester Park in South West many years previously, we were delighted to discover that there...
Mobility Volunteer at ESAB
By 2011, I had been working full-time for more years than I care to remember and, sadly, the agency where I worked closed down. I wasn’t ready to completely stop working, so I...