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Volunteering for wellbeing through social prescribing
June 7, 2022 @ 9:30 am - 10:30 am
FreeGuidance to help support volunteering for wellbeing in social prescribing contexts
About this event
Join us as we launch our guide to Volunteering for Wellbeing through social prescribing!
We’ll talk about the wellbeing benefits associated with positive, well-managed volunteering through social prescribing, including:
- improved life satisfaction
- increased happiness and
- decreases in symptoms of depression.
This webinar brings together expertise and experience from those who support volunteering that works for the individuals to maximise wellbeing benefits.
What will you learn/hear?
- The evidence on volunteering for health and wellbeing, and how it fits with social prescribing
- Our new Volunteering and Wellbeing guidance based on 7 good practice principles to inform volunteering design
- How community groups and charities are supporting wellbeing through volunteering
Who is it for?
This webinar is aimed at organisations offering volunteering to support health and wellbeing, link workers who want to refer people to volunteering with confidence, and others who can support good volunteering in communities.
All our webinars have closed captions and live BSL interpretation as standard.
Who will be speaking?
- Ingrid Abreu Scherer, Head of Accelerating Innovation at the National Academy for Social Prescribing
- Gethyn Williams, Volunteering Strategist, non profit specialist
- Amanda Chambers, CVS, Nottingham, Green Social Prescribing programme manager
- Megan Pettit, Barnardo’s, Cumbria, Wellbeing focused volunteering
Find out more
Learn more about Accelerating Innovation in Social Prescribing on our website, or email us on innovation@nasp.info