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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.

  • Meet some of AbilityNet's volunteers around the UK

    Annie Mannion | 31 May 2022
    This Volunteers' Week (1-7 June), we'd like to introduce you to some of our fantastic Tech volunteers who support people in areas including London, Manchester, Scotland, Devon, Lincolnshire, Wiltshire and Wales.
  • Celebrating AbilityNet's long service volunteers!

    Annie Mannion | 26 May 2022
    This upcoming Volunteers' Week (1-7 June), we are delighted to highlight some of our amazing Tech volunteers who have recently received Long Service Awards, for 10 years of helping others via their AbilityNet volunteer roles.
  • AbilityNet goes the extra miles to help people during lockdown

    Sarah Botterill | 12 May 2020
    AbilityNet is working with others to keep older people connected during the COVID-19 lockdown
  • AbilityNet joins stroke conference

    Alex.Barker | 28 Oct 2019
    According to the Stroke Association, there are 1.2 million Stroke Survivors in the UK. AbilityNet have been lucky enough to attend events and meet people who have living lives after stroke.
  • 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.
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