Volunteers' Week 2024

Join us as we celebrate 40 years of Volunteers’ Week and look to inspire more people to make a difference. During the week, we will be introducing you to some of the amazing volunteers from the 500 strong team!

On Tuesday we held a delightful lunch complete with games and a disco, funded by North West Anglia Hospitals' Charity!  In the afternoon, we awarded certificates and badges to our dedicated long-serving volunteers.

Thank you to all of our incredible volunteers for your incredible contributions!  #VolunteersWeek

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Ron and Mary Nash – Husband and wife team at PCH

Ron and Mary Nash – Husband and wife team at PCH

Ron: “I started volunteering in 1999 after being talked into it by a friend who was a volunteer at the time. I had been widowed and had time to spare and wanted to do something meaningful.”

Mary: “I started volunteering in 2007, having lost my husband. I was visiting a friend who was in as a patient at the old Edith Cavell. On my way to her ward I passed the volunteers office and thought, I could do that, so I knocked on the door and the rest is history.

“We both love meeting people and having lots of interaction. We work with a great team who are affectionately known as ‘Ron’s Angels’, and we all have a shared interest in helping the community and the patients of this hospital. One of the best things about becoming a volunteer, for us, was that we found each other and in 2009 we were married and will soon be celebrating our 15th wedding anniversary.

“When we’re not at the hospital we enjoy spending time together going to garden centres and making our garden grow. We also like doing crossword puzzles and enjoy going on cruises.”