Meet our volunteers
| Our volunteers come from all walks of life. Find out more about the amazing ways they help their communities as Red Cross volunteers and what they love most about volunteering with us. | |
 | | | After months of training with the fire and emergency support service, volunteer Salma Mumtaz found herself suddenly on the front line when an out-of-control bonfire gutted a block of flats.
Read Salma's story | |
 | | | Whenever full-time worker and mum of two Tracy gets a spare moment, she spends her time caring for vulnerable people with the British Red Cross.
Read Tracy's story | |
 | | | When Bill had a heart attack, British Red Cross volunteers helped him recover. To show his gratitude, he became a volunteer with the transport service.
Read Bill's story | |
 | | | A couple, whose home was destroyed by fire almost seven years ago, have become dedicated volunteers of the British Red Cross.
Read Robert and Sue's story | |
 | | | After about eighteen months of unemployment, Louise, a Red Cross charity shop volunteer, has found employment, thanks to the skills she developed as a volunteer.
Read Louise's story | |
 | | | Audrey Pritchard, a 78-year-old grandmother from Leyland, says volunteering for our therapeutic care service gave her a new lease of life.
How volunteering helped Audrey | |
 | | | Elizabeth has volunteered at a Red Cross charity shop for the past six years, driven by the desire to help the organisation that supported her family during the Second World War.
Read Elizabeth's story | |
 | | | Graeme Hay (19) and Lacine Cherif (16) were both named as winners at the Young Scot awards, which celebrate young people in Scotland who have made a positive difference.
Our award-winning volunteers | |
 | | | Mary Young is 91 and has spent more than 74 years of her life volunteering for the British Red Cross.
Why Mary's so dedicated | |
 | | | When Parjeet Rai found out we had opportunities to plan and deliver lessons on child soldiers and refugees to schoolchildren, she jumped at the chance.
Why Parjeet volunteers | |
 | | | John Paul has been volunteering at the British Red Cross charity shop in Wishaw, near Glasgow, for more than a year after his local Job Centre encouraged him to gain new skills.
Read John Paul's story | |
 | | | Think you’re too busy to volunteer? Try telling that to full-time nursery nurse and mum of four Yvonne Davies, who is also an active Red Cross first aider.
Why Yvonne makes time to volunteer | |
 | | | Matthew Tyldsley, 17, is an emergency response volunteer in the Swinton area. He thinks the UK has never needed the Red Cross more than it does today.
Read Matthew's story | |
 | | | While on first aid duty at the Britain's Got Talent TV show, volunteer Vanda George ended up in the spotlight herself – after rescuing an escape artist who got trapped in a duvet!
Vanda's brush with fame | |
 | | | Just weeks after arriving in the UK from Poland, big-hearted Agnieszka Janta-Lipinska was helping people respond to emergencies as a fire and emergency support service volunteer.
Read Agnieszka's story | |
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