Volunteer
Volunteers play a vital role in helping people have their say on health and social care. Volunteering with Healthwatch can help you develop skills, gain experience and make a difference to your community.
Volunteer with us
There are plenty of opportunities for you to volunteer.
- Find out the needs, experiences and concerns of those who live, or use health and social care services, in Warwickshire
- Help raise awareness of what is going well and what needs improving
- Make a difference in your community
Help us make a difference.
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volunteers are helping us make a difference to local health and care services.
Meet our volunteers
Our volunteers play an important role in helping us to make a difference to your local health and social care services. Put simply, we couldn’t do what we do without them.
Healthwatch Warwickshire welcomes volunteers. We recognise the fantastic contribution volunteers make in helping us in our mission. Healthwatch Warwickshire seeks to involve volunteers to ensure our services meet the needs of the people of Warwickshire and increase our contact with the local community we serve. As a volunteer you can become part of:
- A reading panel who give a laypersons view on local strategies and information we produce for projects. Our volunteers have contributed feedback to the Coventry and Warwickshire Palliative and End of Life Care Strategy and the Carers Strategy.
- Enter and View. Our trained volunteer Authorised Representatives visit services that provide health and social care to get feedback from the people using the services. This includes care homes.
- Events. Our volunteers help us run stalls at events, which involves talking to people and listening to their experiences.
- The Board, acting as ambassadors and overseeing the work of the organisation.
What have our volunteers been doing?
Our Authorised Representatives have been visiting care homes, to talk to the people that live there. Read our latest Enter and View Reports:
Linden Grange Residential Home Enter and View Report
Canning Court Care Home Enter and View Report
United Through Diabetes
This year, the Diabetes Wellness and Research Foundation returned to Chesford Grange in Kenilworth, Warwickshire, on Saturday, 21st September, to bring together the whole diabetes community. Our volunteers help us run stalls at these events. You can learn more here
Warwickshire PRIDE
in August 2024, our volunteers joined us at PRIDE in Leamington Spa.
Volunteer Forum
In February 2025, our volunteers and staff attended our regular volunteer forum. You can read the minutes of the meeting here
I have been a Volunteer with Healthwatch for four years now and really enjoy our care home visits. Healthwatch is very supportive of its volunteers and the training is very good.
