EYV2011 - Health and Social Care update

Age UK held its first EYV 2011 conference last week, which looked at the benefits and the barriers to involving older volunteers and involving older people in the localism agenda through volunteering.

Continuing our programme of EYV2011 activity we now have details of our other work.

Firstly, on 2nd December we will be holding our second conference in Rotherham focussing on:

• The evidence of the value of volunteering in later life
• A Health Commissioner’s perspective on the opportunities volunteering provides
• Volunteering and our civic society

Secondly, we are compiling a guide to volunteer roles that support the health and social care needs of older people. The aim of the publication is to enable organisations to understand the many ways in which volunteers can support older people and how they can set up similar volunteering programmes.

To do this, we need examples of volunteer roles from across the volunteering sector, that reflect the wide diversity of volunteering that supports older people. Deadline for submission is 9th December.

And finally, we are holding an Awards scheme and Celebration event. The awards are recognising the excellence of volunteers’ contribution to the delivery of health and social care services for older people. Deadline for nominations are 5th December.

All the relevant documentation has been uploaded into the document section.

If you have any queries, please do contact Erin Tierney eyv2011@ageuk.org.uk