completed projects

Completed projects

ActionSpace

This project provided tools to help organisations working with people with learning disabilities

Vibe Project

This exciting project provided over 600 new volunteering opportunities for young people aged 16 -25, to help them gain an insight into the healthcare profession.

The Attend 500

Creating 600 new volunteering opportunities for young people in hospitals.

Five Hospitals project

As part of the Time for Health's Reaching Out grants programme, five projects in South London received funding to develop activities aimed at broadening the volunteer base by targeting Hard to Reach Groups.

Rights to Warmth project

This was a pilot project, consisting of a social marketing programme and a market research strategy, with the aim of increasing and assessing the awareness of the impact of cold on health.

 

No Limits

Exploring young peoples’ attitudes to volunteering in health settings

 

Health Month Roadshow survey

Survey into the attitude towards young people volunteering in health and social care.

 

Attend Thinking Ahead

Raising awereness and support for people with mental helath issues fromt he Black community in Manchester.

 

   
   

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