NHS Volunteering is a free platform from NHS England which helps people across England find and apply for volunteering roles in healthcare. The platform is quick and easy to use, and accessible for both recruiters and volunteers.

NHS organisations and charities, voluntary groups and social enterprises (VCSEs) can advertise volunteering roles on the platform. It extends your reach to a diverse pool of motivated volunteers actively seeking healthcare opportunities.

You can advertise your roles if:

As a community organisation, you can support someone in need in your community to apply for a device, by being their verifier for their application.

Praxis have recently published a new resource designed to help migrants and organisations that support them navigate complex UK systems. A Migrant's Guide is now available to order in English, Amharic, Arabic, Bengali, Spanish, Farsi, and Pashto from just £3.

Created by migrants, for migrants, this interactive guide connects people to essential services, offers practical advice, and helps them to take care of themselves before and after securing immigration status. 

Sistren Legal Collective is a community of lawyers working at the intersection of law, grassroots organising and movement-building.

Their new toolkit, published in July 2025, “Just Words: A Simple Guide to Common Legal Words used in the UK Charity & Non-Profit Sector” is designed to help community organisations, particularly those led by and for refugee and migrant communities in the UK, navigate complex legal language.

The toolkit includes a glossary of common terms used in the VCS, defined in their legal context.

Free new digital platform to help charities recruit the next generation of volunteers 

To help grow volunteer participation and mobilise the next generation of volunteers, Royal Voluntary Service has secured £5 million pounds of funding from players of People’s Postcode Lottery to develop a major new digital volunteering platform.  

City Bridge Foundation have announced a new 10 year funding policy, Standing with Londoners, accompanied by a report of the same name. The strategy will focus on "changing the systems that keep people marginalised, while also addressing the issues communities face right now".

The organisation, London's largest independent charitable funder, revealed that the new policy, coming into effect in Autumn 2025, will develop funding programmes around 4 main areas; 

A new programme of support has been launched for the next four years for the immediate community near Grenfell Tower. 

The support is specifically for residents who live within 500m of the Tower, or moved out since the tragedy.

The Care Quality Commission (CQC), in partnership with National Voices and the Point of Care Foundation, has developed a self-assessment and improvement framework.

The aim of the framework is to support integrated care systems (ICSs) to improve how they tackle health inequalities through honest conversations, gathering insights and developing practical actions through engagement linked to people and community strategies. The project was supported by funding from the Regulators’ Pioneer Fund (RPF).