11 May 2021

Community-based volunteering in response to COVID-19: the COV-VOL project

Voluntary sector plays key role in delivering community services during lockdown
NIHR ARC Kent Surrey Sussex 11 May 2021
  • A study by a team of researchers from the University of Kent, Brighton and Sussex Medical School and Sussex University shows how voluntary community and social enterprise (VCSE) organisations have made a significant, positive impact on the well-being of older people self-isolating at home during the first COVID-19 lockdown. The pandemic has highlighted the importance of volunteers and community and the role VCSE organisations can play as key and essential partners in our health and social care systems.