Wednesday, June 25, 2025

Donate your time and make a difference to patients’ lives

Do you have time on your hands? Would you like to make a difference to patients’ lives?

As the country starts a week-long celebration of the UK’s 14.2 million people who volunteer monthly, why not sign up to be part of the amazing United Lincolnshire Hospitals Charity and give a few hours of your time and enthusiasm and make a real difference to the lives of patients and their families and the staff that take care of them? Charity volunteers can help in so many ways and offer as much or as little time as they like.

Jo Burgess, from Lincoln, volunteers once a month and runs a monthly book stall in aid of the charity at Lincoln County Hospital. She has been a patient at the hospital for a number of years and became a volunteer for the charity as she wanted to give something back to say thank you for the care she receives.

She said: “As a volunteer, you get to do lots of different things. The thing I enjoy about the bookstall is meeting people, staff and patients. Having my own bookstall combines my passion of books with meeting new faces.”

For nearly 30 years, the United Lincolnshire Hospitals Charity has been supporting staff to deliver outstanding care to patients and their families and carers at Lincolnshire hospitals, from funding high-tech equipment to investing in pioneering research, from improvements to hospitals’ environments to support for staff welfare, the charity funds those extras that the NHS cannot provide.

And as the charity continues to grow, there has never been a better time to get involved. Charity manager Ben Petts explained: “We’re a small team and cannot do it alone, we need volunteers to help us spread the word about what we do. There are lots of ways you could get involved including helping out at events, updating information about our work around our hospital sites and in the community, giving talks and replenishing our collections tins.”

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