Volunteer’s Week – 2nd – 8th June 2025

🌟 Join Us in Celebrating Volunteers Week! 🌟 At Volunteer Action, we’re proud to celebrate the incredible contributions of our volunteers – past, present, and those yet to come. 💛 As part of Volunteers Week, we’re hosting two informal coffee/tea drop-in sessions to say...

Thank you to Beat Route Radio!!

What a fantastic morning at Beat Route Radio! It was such a pleasure for our Chief Executive & Charity Manager, Rachel Dixon, to meet Ian and chat all about volunteering across North East Northants — and of course, to kick off our incredible 30th Anniversary...

Thank you to Oundle School

Many, many thanks for the loan of the Oundle School Minibus on 9th April 2025. We had a fabulous time, all made possible with the kind support of volunteers and Oundle School! We went to Bosworth’s Garden Centre in Burton Latimer after collecting people from...

Supporting Safer Travel in Our Community

Today, just over half of our amazing volunteer drivers joined us for a valuable training session titled “Driving Safer for Longer” — led by Keith from Kier in partnership with the Northamptonshire Safer Roads Alliance. A highlight of the event was the...

VA meets the Trefoil Guild

Photos of the wonderful ladies of the Oundle & Thrapston Trefoil Guild! Our CE, Rachel Dixon attended and presented the services and the fantastic work the volunteers do for the East Northants Community. A truly warm reception, with biscuits and a good old natter...

Christmas Meal for the Community

Here are some photos of the Annual Christmas meal for the Community that we hold at Volunteer Action. This year we were at Glapthorn Village Hall. Volunteers cooked an amazing 2 course Christmas meal for 40 people…we sang carols and everyone went home with a...