Compassionate Neighbours at Rennie Grove Peace is a social movement of local people enabled and supported to be more compassionate in their local communities. Trained volunteers provide social and emotional support to people towards the end of life due to age, or illness and people who have affected by bereavement. They also share their knowledge and experiences of end of life, death, dying and loss within their community and provoke engagement with these issues.

You don’t need any special qualifications — just empathy, reliability, and a willingness to be present. We’ll give you full training and ongoing support every step of the way. You need to be 18 or over.

We particularly need volunteers in the Bushey area.

We work really hard to make sure that we match you to the right volunteering role for you and want to make sure the process is straightforward and easy to access.

The process for applying will be:

• Initial chat with someone from the volunteering team to find out more about you and give you more information about the role
• A more detailed chat with the Compassionate Neighbours lead who will be able to answer your questions in more detail and explain exactly how it works
• You will attend a 1-day training course - these are held every 2 months and alternate between our offices in Watford and St Albans.
• Once you've been to the training and are happy to join us, we will ask you to fill in an online application form (we can help with this) and do an online DBS (Criminal records check). We also take up one personal reference.

All our potential volunteers attend a 1-day training course before starting the application process.
We ask you to read our Volunteer training book before you start.
Ongoing training and support will be given by the team.
There are also other training opportunities available to volunteers from our Learning & Development team

What’s in it for you?

- Make a real difference in someone’s life
- Be part of a supportive, caring community
- Learn new skills and grow in confidence