Expert Resources: volunteers


These are the items that relate to volunteers found on the AbilityNet website. They may be factsheets, webinars, news stories, blog posts or reports.

  • AbilityNet volunteer Shaun Bentley helps others despite his own arthritis pain

    Sarah Botterill | 11 Jul 2019
    Shaun Bentley began volunteering for AbilityNet after a life-changing motorbike accident led to a rare infection, and a diagnosis of osteomyelitis and arthritis.

  • AbilityNet and RNIB celebrate their volunteers

    Mark.Gaddes | 18 Jun 2019
    Across the UK AbilityNet has a network of 300+ friendly, disclosure checked volunteers who provide IT (information technology) support to older and disabled people through home visits and remote support. Last week, at an event organised by AbilityNet and the Royal National Institute of Blind People...

  • Support and independence: help yourself with My Computer My Way

    Jessica Doyle | 03 May 2019
    Here at AbilityNet our mission is to help to create a world in which digital services are equally accessible to all. An important part of achieving this mission is My Computer My Way, our online resource which provides easy to follow step by step instructions on how to turn on the inbuilt...

  • Help with your tech - an AbilityNet volunteer offers advice

    Mark.Gaddes | 01 May 2019
    When an AbilityNet volunteer arrives in your home to help you with your technology you can rest assured they will have extensive know-how. Many come from significant careers in the Information Technology (IT) sector, and bring with them years of experience, as is the case with Myles Pilling.

  • Empathy and experience: meet our hearing-impaired IT Volunteer

    Jessica Doyle | 18 Apr 2019
    AbilityNet caught up with Iain Wilson, one of our volunteers in the midlands, to get a first-hand perspective on how his own hearing impairment informs his experience helping others as an AbilityNet ITCanHelp Volunteer. 

  • Volunteering your IT skills to help others

    Mark.Gaddes | 27 Feb 2019
    AbilityNet has a network of volunteers that provide free IT support to older people and disabled people of any age. We recently sat down with one of our volunteers to get a first-hand perspective of what it’s like to be an AbilityNet ITCanHelp Volunteer.

  • AbilityNet and RNIB Volunteers Day during #VolunteersWeek 2018

    Mark.Gaddes | 05 Jun 2018
    Together with the Royal National Institute of Blind People (RNIB) we held an event for our volunteers at IBM Southbank in London on Friday 1 June - the start of Volunteers Week. There were around 120 attendees from across the two charities at the event, which was all about celebrating the great...

  • AbilityNet IT volunteer helps 80-year-old-Ruth trace long lost brother

    Claudia.Cahalane | 18 Apr 2016
    AbilityNet's IT Can Help has 230 volunteers who support older and disabled people to use technology at home. In February, the service was contacted by 80-year-old Ruth from Lincolnshire. Age UK had let her know that free computer help was available after she became more frail following an operation...