england east

Arthur Rank House (ARH)

Providing palliative care for terminally ill patients and support for their family

arthur rank house volunteers

The Hospice offers a wide range of services from a 16-bed specialist Palliative Care Unit to a Day Care Centre, which would not be as accessible without the help of Authur Rank House’s 200 volunteers. Volunteers help to staff ARH’s day care service, tea bar, and charity shop, and also do odd jobs such as gardening, baking cakes, and making sympathy cards for bereaved families. They also facilitate in driving patients and their families to and from the day care hospice, a service which is free to ARH clients.

Support is provided for volunteers who range from 17 to 75 by the Voluntary Services Manager, and continued training is given following an introductory course about the work of the hospice according to the volunteers work. This NAHCF member is showing all Friends Groups how to encourage more volunteers.
They recognise the power of encouraging people to develop their gifts and interests through volunteering while also benefiting others. Volunteering does not have to be seen
as the completion of mundane tasks that paid staff just don’t have time to do. Arthur Rank lifts the value of the volunteer by actively seeking people with skills such as photography, craft, secretarial and qualified complimentary therapists to give time from two hours a fortnight to one day per week. All these complimentary tasks, amongst others, enhance the atmosphere of caring and concern for patients, their relatives and friends.

Quotes

Pat Dalrymple, Fundraising Coordinator for Arthur Rank Hospice Charity said ‘It certainly would be a different place without our volunteers. They are completely accepted, and work right alongside our staff in a multidisciplinary way. There is practically no distinctionbetween our paid staff and volunteers.'

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Latest Attend News

Attend is setting up an All-Party Parliamentary Group on long Term Medical Conditions

Attend and Together4Health have joined forces to help improve the co-ordination, administration and representation of the issues in parliament with a single All-Party Parliamentary Group for Long Term Conditions.

Latest Attend Events

Training in Self-Advocacy skills for Carers. Two day workshop

This course aims to equip participants with an understanding of Self Advocacy and related issues. Throughout the training, participants will be presented with and given the opportunity to explore and discuss the issues around advocacy. They will also be encouraged throughout the programme, to identify and talk about their own feelings around advocacy issues. Participants will acquire skills required how to contact statutory services and present their issues in writing, over the telephone and by appointment. Certificate of Attendance will be issued.

06/09/2010 14:00:00

Attend South East: Building for the Future

Members are invited to join us for a day specifically designed to ensure everyone is up to date and “Building for the Future”
Please come along to the Countess Mountbatten Hospice on Wednesday 8th September at 10.00 am. David Wood, Chief Executive, and Steve Moreton, Attend Academy, will be leading discussions and workshops. There will be the opportunity to review the latest requirements for volunteers within the NHS, governance and other key areas for member groups as well as practical ideas for new services and projects.

08/09/2010 09:30:00

Making it personal.

To mark World Alzheimer's Day, Bradford District Council in collaboration with Bradford Dementia Group (University of Bradford) and Attend - a membership - based organisation supporting volunteering in health and social care, are hosting a showcase event.
The day promises to be engaging and informative and will showcase the work and views of those personally affected by the condition and those who support them, working in health and social care sectors. The day is for anybody who works or volunteers in the Bradford and Leeds District areas.

21/09/2010 09:00:00

Showcasing the Sector and Measuring our Impact

An Interagency Forum and AGM, celebrating Community First's Fifth Anniversay and showcasing the voluntary and community sector

06/10/2010 10:00:00

Attend AGM

The Attend AGM will take place on the 20th October 2010.
Stay tuned for more details which will be announced as we decide them!

Once again, the AGM will take place during Friends Week, which this year will be from the 18th-24th October.

All welcome to come along and share your knowledge and experience over lunch and a cuppa.

20/10/2010 00:00:00

Equalities and Diversity Conference

A conference to share the findings of recent research into the rural BME communities and to discuss and debate issues raised by the new Equalities Bill

17/11/2010 09:30:00