Volunteers Week Toolkit 2025

Guidance - 19 May 2025

It’s Volunteers Week from 2nd to 8th June and this toolkit has resources you can use throughout the week on your website and social media.
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What's in this toolkit?

  1. About
  2. How to take part
  3. Resources
    1. Video
    2. Assets (including social media and thank you cards)
    3. Website content
  4. Ideas to thank your volunteers
  5. Further support

About

Volunteers' Week celebrates the amazing contributions volunteers make to communities across the UK.  

We want to dedicate the week to celebrate all of our local Healthwatch volunteers. We want to focus on long-term volunteers who have volunteered with us for longer than five years, but we will also celebrate the rest of our volunteers.  

Each day we will focus on a different area of how volunteers make a difference and how volunteering can help you.  

How to take part 

We have collated a number of resources for you to use this volunteers week, when posting don't forget to use the the #VolunteersWeek and tag us! 

If you are doing Volunteers Week celebrations with your volunteers, remember it is a great opportunity for content to show people what it is like to be a volunteer with you. Take photos and videos and post them on your social media. 

Thank to everyone who submitted blog and video content to help us make these resources. If you don’t spot your volunteers on there, we are sorry – unfortunately we weren’t able to include everyone, but we are very grateful for your time and contribution. Please feel free to use the longer versions of your own videos on your local social media as well as our edits!  

Resources

Video 

We have two ready made social videos available for you to download and post during the week.

  1. Why would you recommend volunteering for Healthwatch 

  2. What have you gained, a project you have worked on and why do you enjoy volunteering for Healthwatch

Please note that both of these links are only available as 'view only'. To edit the videos you will need to save a copy of the video - and edit your own copy. 

We also have a longer YouTube video including all the questions. This will be going on our own YouTube channel and will specifically highlight which Healthwatch each volunteer is from. If you want to use some or all of this video too - the template is available on Canva. This one is also available as 'view only' so you will need to save a copy to edit. 

Assets

Social media:

1:1 assets (Facebook / Twitter / BlueSky / LinkedIn)

4:5 assets (Instagram)

9:16 assets (Instagram story / reel)

Thank you cards:

Website:

Below is the copy you can use or adapt for your own website. Both of these blogs will be published on our website during volunteers week and promoted on our social channels.

How volunteering makes a difference
Download (OCX 25 KB)
Celebrating our long term volunteers
Download (OCX 25 KB)

Last year with your help we made a great resource with lots of ideas on how to celebrate and thank your volunteers.  

Want to talk to someone about Volunteers’ Week? Join our Workplace group or get in touch with andre.benham@healthwatch.co.uk.