Media Release
Everybody Health & Leisure Hits 50k Volunteering Hours
L-R: Susan Whitley & Christine Percival, Everybody Volunteers, Abby Jones Lead Sports Coach, Keith Rogers Sports Lead – Youth Participation & Volunteering at Everybody Health & Leisure
Everybody Health & Leisure [Everybody], have achieved their ambitious target of hitting 50k volunteering hours from 1st May 2014 to 12th February 2024 across 16 Leisure facilities, in Cheshire East.
Everybody provide volunteers with a safe, supportive and rewarding experience within a health, sporting and leisure environment. The amazing team of volunteers are dedicated to supporting their community to become more active and healthier.
Since the start of Everybody in May 2014 they have recorded the hours that people have volunteered to support the clubs, activities and members, which has totalled an impressive amount.
Here is a look back over the years as a health and leisure charity, recognising the key milestones of Everybody’s volunteers:
2014 – Congleton Queen’s Baton Relay, Commonwealth Games
2015 – Cheshire East Tour of Britain
2017 – 20,000 volunteering hours achieved
2020 – Everybody’s first health walks re-launched post-covid
2023 – Outstanding Contribution Award – CLUK Active Kindness Awards
Keith Rogers Sports Lead – Youth Participation & Volunteering at Everybody Health and Leisure shares:
“It’s a huge milestone to reach 50,000 hours given by our amazing volunteers, some of whom have been with the trust since its inception in 2014. Volunteers play a key role in helping us deliver our important services to as many people as possible. Through our passionate volunteers we have helped to get more people active and reduce social isolation of people within our communities, whilst also reducing isolation for the volunteer themselves. Our aim with all volunteer projects is to encourage people to come together, feeling safe to do so, and meet new friends in a social environment.”
The Everybody volunteer programme is the perfect place for you to make a difference in your community. Based in the heart of the community, Everybody Health & Leisure works with many partners to provide volunteer opportunities for local people.
Keith continued:
“We’ve seen an increase in volunteering this past 12 months of 90% increase on the previous year. We introduced the community connector role in partnership working with Community Leisure UK on the Active Kindness project, seeing the team recognised by the project as winners of the “Outstanding Contribution Award – Winner. We are really excited for what’s next to come with the introduction of a new volunteer management system giving us the tools to grow and develop”.
Volunteering has many benefits including, reduction in stress, reduces depression, keeps people mentally stimulated, provides career progression opportunities and also provides a sense of purpose. It has great benefits to the local community and all the individuals that these volunteers interact with.
If you would like to give something back to your community and find out more about volunteering opportunities with Everybody visit, www.everybody.org.uk/about/volunteer-opportunities/
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Notes to Editor
Everybody Health & Leisure are a registered charity which aims to provide ‘leisure for life’ by improving the health and wellbeing of local communities. The charity operates 16 leisure facilities including 9 swimming pools and 7 Taste for Life cafes across the Cheshire East region, and delivers a range of targeted health, sports and disability and inclusion programmes. For more information please visit: www.everybody.org.uk or follow on Facebook @EverybodyHealthLeisure and Instagram @ebleisure
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Organisation: Everybody Health & Leisure
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