Volunteer with Mountbatten Isle of Wight and your time, experience and knowledge could help our hospice charity make a huge difference, as well as changing YOUR life!

Volunteering is a great way to have fun, make new friends, learn new skills, enhance your CV, increase your self-confidence and give back to your community.

Feel a sense of fulfilment, knowing you are helping patients and their families, people living with life-limiting illnesses, those who are bereaved, and older people in our community, who are lonely or isolated. 

There is a volunteering opportunity to suit YOU and the flexibility to make sure it fits in with your current lifestyle and commitments. 

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Ways you can volunteer with Mountbatten Isle of Wight:

Become a Mountbatten Isle of Wight Mountbatten Neighbour 
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Photo: The first ever Mountbatten Neighbours
"I live on my own and was very lonely. Now I have something to look forward to each week." - Marie is supported by a volunteer Mountbatten Neighbour

Mountbatten Neighbours support older Islanders who are living with chronic life-limiting illnesses, and with frailty, and those feeling isolated.

Neighbours offer their time, companionship and support, and develop natural, mutual friendships. They are valued by those they visit. 

A Mountbatten Neighbour will usually visit or meet with someone for at least one hour a week, but it can be more if you choose.

Volunteer at one of Mountbatten Isle of Wight's shops

From receiving and sorting donations into stock, serving customers and getting creative with our window displays, our shops offer a fun and social environment where you will work alongside an enthusiastic team, meet lots of new people and be an integral part of your local community. 

Volunteer to help run a Mountbatten Isle of Wight event

Roles will vary but will include welcoming participants and spectators to event sites and locations, supporting the event manager with set-up and pack down, providing information to participants and spectators, registering or checking-in participants, collecting donations, supporting participants around the event, such as marshalling, cheering or handing out refreshments, celebrating participants who cross the finish line and giving out medals and water.

Join the Mountbatten Isle of Wight concert crew!
  • Every month, we run a concert at Mountbatten Isle of Wight. Join us to help make these events a success. Email [email protected] if you have a few hours a month, in the evening. Put concert crew in the subject.
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Volunteer in our cafe in the John Cheverton Centre

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Watch messages from some of our Mountbatten Isle of Wight volunteers

CLICK HERE to meet Amanda, Mary and Gloria and find out why they love volunteering in our Shanklin shop! 

Meet volunteers in a range of roles by CLICKING HERE

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