Celebrating Surrey Heath’s incredible voluntary sector – Surrey Heath Awards 2023

A huge congratulations to the winners and nominees of the Surrey Heath Volunteer Awards. VSNS hosts these awards annually and, on 30th November, we celebrated the borough’s truly inspirational voluntary [...]

Campaign launched to encourage people to support charities through volunteering

A new campaign encouraging more people to volunteer launches in Surrey Heath today. The ‘Collect Smiles’ campaign, run by charity specialists Voluntary Support North Surrey (VSNS), with support from Surrey [...]

A new befriending service to help tackle loneliness in Runnymede officially launched today on Thursday 26th October. Time to Talk Runnymede connects volunteer befrienders with local people who feel isolated [...]

Surrey Heath Volunteer Awards 2023 – nominations now open

We are delighted to announce that nominations for this year’s Surrey Heath Volunteer Awards are now open! Nominating your volunteers for a Surrey Heath volunteer award is a wonderful way [...]

Celebrating International Day of Charity 

Tuesday 5th September is celebrate International Day of Charity, dedicated to recognising the contribution of charities of all sizes worldwide. Our CEO Solette Sheppardson writes about why this day is [...]

Celebrating volunteering in Runnymede and Spelthorne – Volunteer Awards 2023 

We had a fantastic night on Monday 5th June at this year’s Runnymede and Spelthorne Volunteer Awards which were hosted and jointly held with Royal Holloway University, with over 300 [...]

Local businesses brave the March weather to make a difference

It takes a brave team to commit to a day volunteering in March when you never quite know what the weather will throw at you, but brave teams were in [...]

Using corporate volunteering days flexibly

Salesforce is one of a number of local businesses that are active in our community, supporting local charities and community groups. They offer a particularly generous and flexible volunteering option [...]

Celebrating our Runnymede Civic Awards Winners

Voluntary Support North Surrey would like to congratulate all the worthy winners of Runnymede’s Civic Awards, run by Runnymede Borough Council, which were held on the evening of Wednesday 22nd [...]

The Big Help Out – marking King Charles III Coronation

The Big Help Out is a national day of volunteering to be held on Monday 8th May 2023 in celebration of the King’s coronation. Organised by The Together Coalition and [...]