Volunteering
How volunteering is important for good wellbeing
How volunteering is important for good wellbeing
This is positive as we know that volunteering can help build personal resilience. People who report a greater interest in helping others are also more likely to rate themselves as happy. Volunteering may not be possible or suitable for everyone, but it increases your skills and wellbeing, and improves social connections. And it helps bring communities together by developing our understanding of each other.
Here we outline some free resources to support you and others to support volunteering in your community.
Read Volunteering Matters’, with a wide range of guidance and videos on how to help others in your community while keeping yourself safe.
Supporting others can take its toll, explore a range of tools and resources to support your own wellbeing.
Explore Talk London’s online community and have your say on big issues and help shape London’s plans and policies.
Take the Zero Suicide Alliance’s online training on how to help someone who may be having suicidal thoughts or reaching a point of crisis.
Take an online Psychological First Aid (PFA) training course, aimed at all frontline and essential workers and volunteers. The course teaches the key principles of giving psychological first aid in emergencies.
Explore listening tips from Samaritans. Listening is an important skill. Ask open questions that start with "how", "what", "where" or "when". This can help people open up.
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