40 Faces of Brendoncare – Doreen Antell
Our 40 Faces of Brendoncare celebrate the people who had made our organisation such a vibrant, friendly place over the past 40 years. Please meet Doreen Antell, who is one of our longest serving team members, who tells us why she loves working for Brendoncare. Pop into Brendoncare Otterbourne Hill’s Bradbury Café and you might […]
Get Online Week – What Does a Digital Champion Do?
Brendoncare is celebrating Get Online Week with a series of events and activities designed to help everyone feel safer and more confident when going online. Our volunteer Digital Champions will be on hand throughout to guide and support everybody with their digital issues. But who are they and what do they do? Meet Lorraine, one […]
40 Faces of Brendoncare – Pauline Sweetman
Our 40 Faces of Brendoncare to mark our 40th anniversary celebrates the people who make the organisation the vibrant, happy place it is. We would like to introduce you to Pauline Sweetman who tells us how she made the transition from being a volunteer to a part-time wellbeing coordinator at Brendoncare Knightwood. After a long, […]
Celebrating Brendoncare’s volunteers – Ami Talpallikar
To celebrate Volunteers’ Week this week (3rd – 9th June), we are sharing stories about our fantastic volunteers. Ami Talpallikar is one of the Wellbeing and Activities Volunteers at our Brendoncare Knightwood care home. Ami started volunteering with Brendoncare to improve her communication skills and confidence. She is also using this opportunity to gain experiences […]
40 Faces of Brendoncare – Sharon Green
To celebrate Volunteers’ Week (3rd – 9th June), our 40 Faces of Brendoncare is Sharon Green who explains how becoming a Brendoncare volunteer changed her life for the better. Sharon joined Brendoncare’s Saturday Club as a volunteer in 2018. During the pandemic, she supported Andover members with telephone calls then moved to become an in-person […]
Celebrating Brendoncare’s volunteers – Pauline Piper
To celebrate Volunteers’ Week, (3rd to 9th June), we will be sharing stories about our fantastic volunteers. Pauline Piper has been one of our club helper volunteers at the Portsmouth Good Companion Social since the club started 10 years ago. Pauline saw an advert in the local newspaper in 2014 about a new club opening […]
Brendoncare awarded Investing in Volunteers Quality Mark for fourth year
Brendoncare is proud to be an Investing in Volunteers achiever, having been awarded the Quality Mark for the fourth time in 2023. This shows that we value our volunteers and demonstrates our commitment to volunteering within the organisation. The Assessor said: “During the assessment there was a real sense of energy and ambition, more creativity […]
Going for gold while volunteering with Brendoncare
For two of Brendoncare’s team, volunteering has been very much a personal mission. As part of their work towards the Duke of Edinburgh Gold Award, Maya Exelby and Isi Murphy became Brendoncare volunteers for 12 months. This is an element in the activities programme that young people undertake towards attaining their Gold Awards. Maya and […]
Volunteering with Brendoncare
With today being the start of Volunteers Week (1st – 7th June), Brendoncare is celebrating and giving thanks to the wonderful people who give their time freely to help and support the work being carried out for older people in our care homes and community clubs. Two such people are retired married couple Mike and […]
The impact of volunteers on Brendoncare clubs and care homes
Volunteers are essential to our work at Brendoncare. We could not achieve what we do without them. They make such a difference, putting smiles on the faces of members and care home residents every day. Brendoncare’s volunteers are some of our most valued frontline workers. They enable us to combat loneliness directly. They also help […]
