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Volunteers are vital to the work of the Healthwatch network. Our new guide provides best practice advice on the recruitment, management and support of volunteers.

New resources to help you support your volunteers.

Find out more about the new guidance and support we have produced to help volunteers and their managers.

These templates will help to ensure that you have clear and robust volunteering policies available.

This training will help give a good overview of engagement techniques that can be used to help you gain insight from people who are not online.

Download this year's annual report template to showcase how your work has made a difference to services and your local communities.

We understand the time and funding constraints you face, which is why we’re here to step in and lend a hand. Here we highlight how we're doing this, resources available and key dates to be aware of.

Take a look at these role descriptions and amend or adapt based on the volunteering needs of your Healthwatch.

If we make a mistake, it’s important that we work quickly to put things right and learn from what has happened. This resource provides a template policy you can adapt to use in your work as a local Healthwatch.

Find out more about our plans to test and build new tools to help you better engage with people and share what people are telling us.

Find out more about why it’s important your conflict of interest policy is robust, how it can help you to demonstrate your independence to the public and support you in measuring your effectiveness within the Quality Framework.