The unprecedented demands of the pandemic have highlighted how integral our volunteers are to NHSGGC. Volunteers have stepped forward in their hundreds to help us and we can never thank them enough for their support.
We are delighted to share our NHSGGC Volunteer Team annual report, which details the many wonderful ways volunteers have supported us over the past year.
Volunteer News Stories
2024
- Longest-serving NHSGGC volunteer spends 15 years supporting heart patients
- D-Day Veteran Is Guest Of Honour At Gartnavel
- NHSGGC Volunteer Says Singing With Patients Is The ‘Best Part’ Of Her Week
- NHS Volunteer Uses Personal Experience Of Speech Loss To Help Stroke Patients
- Volunteer Alison Swaps Hospitality for Hospital Welcome
- Why Volunteers’ Week at NHSGGC is Pure Poetry for David
2023
Longstanding Volunteer Tommy turns 89 – 1st February 2023
The QEUH Volunteering Service and the Welcome Guides would all like to wish Tommy Kerr a very happy 89th Birthday today!
Tommy has had a full and active life, doing national Service In Kenya, then working for the Post Office and BT until his retirement. Not ready to stop at that, he set up a business delivering throughout Britain and Ireland.
Tommy and his dear late wife reared three lovely daughters and Tommy is always keen to see his grand and great grandchildren in Scotland, Canada and London.
He has volunteered twice a week at QEUH Hospital since the Welcome Guide Service commenced in 2016. He never misses a shift… rain, hail or snow. He does sterling work assisting people to find their way around the site to their destination. He does this always with kindness and a smile. His particular humour enlivens every shift for his team, and remarkably he is still looking for other ways to volunteer in the community.
2022
- Caring Chevonne joins volunteer team at IRH
- Volunteer Margaret is the friend you haven’t met yet
- RAH Volunteer Chiara picks up top volunteering award
- VOLUNTEERING: TRIBUTE TO NHSGGC’S RED T SHIRTS
- Voluntary duo praised for helping patients at Inverclyde Royal Hospital
- QEUH volunteer’s tribute to NHS goes on show at hospital
- Third Time’s A Charm For Volunteer Peggy-Nan.