As Volunteers Week 2022 draws to a close, we want to say thank you to the amazing volunteers who continue to provide invaluable support across Hackney. 

With over 800 charities and community groups such as Hackney Foodbank, Hackney Doorways and Hackney Playbus, there are 1000s of volunteers in Hackney who play an important role in supporting charities. 

Helping to match volunteers with placements, Volunteer Centre Hackney continues to support hundreds of local people into placements every year. Throughout the pandemic, they have recruited over 1000 Covid-19 vaccination centre stewards, 268 Community Supporters, who offer friendship to those socially isolated, as well as 250 public health champions who have worked tirelessly throughout the pandemic. 

In addition to the hundreds of other volunteers such as litter pickers, chairs and secretaries of TRAs and TMOs, gardeners, carers, playworkers and many more who have been an active part of the Hackney volunteering community. 

This year, as we continue to recover from the pandemic, and as volunteers return to their usual working patterns, volunteers are needed more than ever.